Congrats to guild officer Azoll for achieving the guild’s first level 80!

From MoD guild member profiles writer Wen, her article is posted below (with some pictures in between text). This will be a new monthly feature by Wen on the MoD guild website!

Wen writes:

For the inaugural “MoD Profile,” here is our first interviewee/guinea pig: Telan! Telan had the unfortunate luck of having to talk to me for an hour. Fortunately, against all odds, he survived.

Telan hails from Holland, Michigan. Unlike the country Holland, there are no clogs to be seen. They share one thing in common: An abundance of Tulips. Some might be disappointed that Holland, MI did not choose another Danish staple to copy, like beer, cheese, and Very Tall People.

Telan has two corgis and a grandkitty at home. Unlike more famous corgi owners like the Queen of England and Raymond Holt, Telan does not rule a commonwealth or stomp out crime with his jaunty buddy Jake Peralta.

Telan’s current favorite tunes are Melinda by Galway Girl and Rose Bets’ Irish Eyes. I don’t know what either of these songs are about but if you mix them together it would seem that Melinda is a Galway Girl with Irish Eyes that enjoys betting on roses. This seems very niche to me, but I like Taylor Swift so I may not be allowed an opinion.

Telan’s only other hobby than WoW is leatherworking. He didn’t tell me his skill level, so I can only assume it’s 300/300 because his wallets and bracers are cool as heck. His adult spawn is going to get him going on Instagram, and he’ll be sure to let us know when that happens.

Telan has been playing WoW since opening week, but for some reason didn’t enjoy the endless grind for gold to repair your stuff that you probably damaged getting annihilated by boars and kobolds repeatedly. He largely skipped The Burning Crusade (solid call), Wrath of the Lich King, and Pandaria (not into gardening, I guess). In Legion he found Ministry of Defense with his daughter and from then on played fairly earnestly. To date, he’s played some 333 days of World of Warcraft, and unlike those of us who played classic, 110 of those days were not spent farming an Onyxia Scale Cloak.

If Blizzard shut down WoW forever and left one server up with only one activity available, Telan would choose raiding. He likes m+ (so many of us say this, I think masochism must be catching), but raiding is more sociable and the most fun to him. If he could fix one thing about WoW, he would fix the server lag that occurs when everyone is funneled into a singular event like Radiant Echoes. He’d rather they didn’t make that content because it’s not fun in the lag and then you lose out if you don’t do it if they can’t fix it.

No other games at this moment, but Telan figures Ashes of Creation might be interesting. His favorite ever video game character is Sonic the Hedgehog, which is fair for the generation that grew up on the original Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. His least favorite video game character is not Yrel (sigh) but rather Sylvanas, mostly because spite. It was tops on his list of least favorite encounters. His #1 crowning moment with MoD: downing mythic opulence.

Thanks, Telan!

On a final note, here are his month’s words of wisdom: It is important to be comfortable in your own skin because it’s illegal to wear someone else’s.

Sincerely,
Wen