Holy Roman Empire.

[Neptjunoue]

Whatever happened to Griegor and the Holy Roman Empire? I haven't heard from them in a while though I still see the capital being maintained.

[joojoo1975]

Look to Jeebus(HRE Recruitment thread). he'll be able to answer that.

[Dusk]

Griegor and Jeebus have both quit.

The Holy Roman Empire is still around, we just aren't as vocal as when Griegor was the leader.

[DatOneGuy]

HRE isn't dead, but go check their forums or whatnot.

[Breuner]

Yes some of us are still here. If you need anything from us, you can pm both i and Dusk and we'll figure something out.

[Griegor]

I had to quit because running any sort of political organization in Haven and Hearth tends to suck the life out of your free time. I previously had a lot of free time but now I am going back to a regular line combat unit and I don't have time to play video games for more than an hour or two a day. There are still some fine people in Holy Roman Empire and I still pay for them to use my ventrillo server to talk to each other. Jeebus quit because he was unable to continue maintaining deephold and he didn't feel like rebuilding in the capital. I may return for the next world if I have time but right now I am taking a break.

I believe Rewb still uses my account in my absense so those folks are not deprived of the skills my character had if they are still useful.

[Neptjunoue]

I suspected as much as happened. You did a decent job at creating what exist so far. Perhaps next time if you were planning such a task, maybe you can delegate some of the things needed to those you trust most.

[Griegor]

It was never a matter of lack of ability to delegate. Running an empire or part of one in any sort of capacity is very time consuming and you could easily spend long hours walking in circles while you solve this dispute with one village or get another village to produce this for that village. It's the time consuming aspect of leadership even in a virtual world that puts people off. There are plenty of people out there with the ability to lead or make things happen in Haven and Hearth but very few with the desire to actually devote time to something other than developing their characters and doing what they want to do. Maybe if I come back in World 4 with and some of my original crew comes with me we will see what happens but I probably won't have more than one or two villages because I will still be doing my real life work which is significantly more time consuming than it was when I first started playing.

But as Dusk said, the HRE is still around and I believe they are still running at least more than one city. The capital is still well maintained and most of the people are a friendly sort. If you know where to find them and how to contact them it shouldn't be hard to get in on the Empire and help it grow. They just avoid the forums because it tends to draw unwanted attention to your village unless you are good at not irritating people.

Oh yes and to all my old friends in Soddom, Killville, The Goons, Legion/Thurrok, New Brodgar, Barashiou the Russian, all the HRE crew past and present, and even those asshole russians who kept raiding us, and anyone else I met in my travels but can't remember right now, I hope to see you all in World 4 in some sort of form or fashion.

[Potjeh]

The key to leading is knowing how to delegate

[Breakneck9]

The key to leading is knowing how to delegate

And

"The key to leading is by example"