From Eldre’thalas With Love
One of the most significant highlights of the PCU/Anti-PCU thread has been the appearance of Wrall, once a close confidant of Perroy and leader of the well known Highborne guild.
As someone who was intimately involved in the creation of the PCU itself, Wrall’s insights are staggeringly eye opening to the real reason Perroy decided to make the PCU in the first place. While in the past Wrall has made dubious statements and problematic comments, it appears that reality has made itself stronger upon him than Dear Leader and his officers of the PCU.
After eviscerating Tehya/Tehyani/Dorn for being exactly what they are, a wheeled in alt-poster troll, Wrall continues to explain how the PCU was created deliberately with the name in mind, a vanity project as correctly described.
Morsteth and Sathrynn however team up with the attempt to discredit Wrall’s insights. Sathrynn in true blundering fashion makes a truly gamer statement by claiming you need to have been inside the PCU to have an opinion, which is false, but tremendous amount of evidence we have had given to us has come from former PCU members themselves who have left. A clownish statement at best.
Wrall however retaliates with yet more damning insights into the PCU’s true origins. While acknowledging that Perroy’s grasp these days has started to slip (for reasons we are still debating in the CoAD team), Wrall explains plainly that the PCU was a creation out of the crippling need to bolster Perroy’s desire to control all RP around him. An inorganic and artificial creation designed to maximise the power one person could have over others.
Despite the attempts of PCU members trying to justify that “things are different now”, Wrall accurately states that the PCU for a considerable period, up until last year by our accounts, was almost exclusively controlled by Perroy with the main exception of Grim Gest with Morsteth. He also reasonably states that by Perroy sticking his name to the collective community it will only give an impression that he is taking undue credit and shows unbelievable arrogance. More interestingly though not surprisingly, Wrall was hauled in to be barked at and admonished for daring to criticise Perroy, a frequent commonality we have heard from many former members of the PCU. We can only thank Wrall for these insights into the true nature and origin of the PCU. Many of these things were already suspected by some of our team members but to have written confirmation is only vindicating our position. If the PCU as a collective wishes to move forward, as has been suggested several times, a re-branding would be the most logical solution. There is even less reason to have the P in the PCU, as Perroy has seemingly abandoned his community. A true collective of equals without the overbearing and authoritarian tendencies of its Dear Leader would be in the eyes of the CoAD team at least, a good progress for reconciliation. As Wrall made it very clear in his post, the server suffers because of Perroy’s ego, removing references to someone with a clearly problematic history, may help in rejuvenating and healing the already starved nature of Argent Dawn. One suggestion we can offer up as a replacement term is “ACU” or “Argent Cinematic Universe” for a more open and inclusive brand.