Thornwood Company

About Thornwood Company

House Thornwood was never among Lordaeron's great families, but it was old, respected for its lands and its bloodline rather than for wealth or court influence. When the Scourge swept the kingdom, the house fell with it. What survived was not a name with any power or wealth left to it, but a scattering of cousins and loyal retainers who fled south to Stormwind, only to find a city with little patience for refugees from a plague-ravaged land. 

Thornwood Company began not as a plan, but as necessity. A huntmaster and a household guard, neither of them born to the family, refused to let the cousins in their care simply wait out their own ruin. What started as a handful of desperate people surviving together slowly became something more deliberate: work taken on to keep the family fed, contracts accepted because a landless name had to trade on skill instead of standing.

This is a found-family guild as well as a mercenary company. Expect slice-of-life RP, found-family warmth, old grudges surfacing at the worst possible moments, and the particular texture of people who used to have very different lives learning to build one together. Combat and contract work exist and matter, but the Company's culture is closer to a traveling household than a company of soldiers, and it welcomes combat veterans and civilians alike. 

The world our characters live in has cost them a great deal, and the stories here are told with that weight in mind. There is plenty of room for laughter, banter, and lighthearted characters, but every character should feel like someone who truly belongs in Azeroth and could plausibly sit at the Company's fire.

Expectations

Basic courtesy and respect, always 

No god-modding or forcing outcomes on other players' characters without consent 

Keep OOC drama OOC; bring concerns to an officer rather than letting it spill into RP 

This is a mature-tone guild in places (grief, war, found-family trauma) but not a shock-value one; check with an officer if you're unsure whether something fits 

LGBTQ+ inclusive; hate speech or bullying of any kind will not be tolerated