Wow I was actually just coming here to ask if NecroLyte was still around, need to get in touch with him.. but it doesn't look like it.
The best RPers of all time on Sonoma, from my point of view, were without a doubt The Blood Clan. I never got to know a lot of the Rpers on this shard outside Harlequin, The Warlords, Damien Creel, Dor and BLD.. so my scope is very narrow. But I did fight against BLD for many years, and then alongside on SP. I don't think I ever saw Grunk break character in game, he would even find time during a fight to throw out the occasional comment. Ruknar the Orc was also a strong element of BLD, but he had a bit more of an angry side
Llew and Glendor rounded out a human side to the guild and were both great guys that I enjoyed talking to after fights.
Glendors stories were a great addition to the server, anyone who has not viewed them should go here now and read on:
http://www.pusateri.org/blood/pictures.htm
This is my favourite, this was week one of the first BLD/SAS war, and Rivan decided to gate us into the middle of about 10-15 BLD + healers in Vesper bank
As you can see, we didn't to well.. but if you look closely, we made sure we took Grunk down with us
This would have been around June? 98.. I can't remember exactly when rep patch came in.
The FOA stories are the best done on Sonoma, that was a pretty cool story line to follow as well. I wish that we would have had more time to declare war on each other, then battles would have been even more epic.. back in those days you had to either search through a guild listing, in random order, of every guild on the server to declare, or target a member of the opposing guild.