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It depends what you mean by eventually. From what it looks like, Only Mountain spent the first few posts engaged in banter with Erestor Arcamen concerning his name. Immediately after that, he claimed the authorship of Nardor. It wasn't some sort of pressing ordeal to ascertain his identity, as "eventually" implies.
P.S. To Erestor Arcamen, my staff member friend - any luck on the creation of the thread grouping?
EA seems to think Bardmight have been here recently, on "Tuesday at 8:27 PM" according to his "last seen" reference as of today, no month or year at the moment -- but even if that's due to his being banned, maybe he'll be back someday. I'm guessing one can still read posts, even after being banned.
And yeah "eventually" could give the wrong impression. That said, Only Mountain could have freely admitted that he was Bard right away, before his banter -- although maybe the banning had something to do with it -- I can't recall the exact sequence of banning versus multiple accounts.
I'll admit, I probably was a bit impatient with him towards the end of his membership. I was sarcastic when I probably should have been nicer. My goal is to always try and stay positive and keep TTF as a good environment for everyone. I'm not perfect and have made mistakes too, and I probably would apologise to Bard as maybe he just needed someone to be more open to his writing.
I'm definitely happy to help. Looking through the 'Only Mountain' account post history I don't see any new threads that they started. The main threads I could find regarding Nardor that Bard created are this one and the two I linked to in a previous reply. If you want, I can move them all here to the Golden Perch forum if you're interested.
Re-reading through this now, I was probably harsh in calling this writing "tripe" as it definitely isn't that bad really just not something I'm personally interested in but if you are SOF, that's great and I'd say feel free to continue on with it. Maybe start a new thread here in Golden Perch since this one's gone kind of off the rails 😁?
And yeah "eventually" could give the wrong impression. That said, Only Mountain could have freely admitted that he was Bard right away, before his banter -- although maybe the banning had something to do with it -- I can't recall the exact sequence of banning versus multiple accounts.
I mean, what would the purpose be of claiming right away if you were to be banned right away? It doesn't look like there was any attempt to hide it, but it would seem weird to make that a declaratory introduction.
I'm definitely happy to help. Looking through the 'Only Mountain' account post history I don't see any new threads that they started. The main threads I could find regarding Nardor that Bard created are this one and the two I linked to in a previous reply. If you want, I can move them all here to the Golden Perch forum if you're interested.
That would be cool, the links are helpful but I foresee there may be some challenges sifting through it. Maybe all the threads could exist as a sub-forum?
I mean, what would the purpose be of claiming right away if you were to be banned right away? It doesn't look like there was any attempt to hide it, but it would seem weird to make that a declaratory introduction.
Anything trying at a side story for Middle-earth would need a map, I would feel, just out of tradition.
As quite a bit of the history is way south, perhaps something like this: