I play on the Legends shard, my original reason for joining the shard is pretty simple. B4 my girlfriend and I got together I was a heavy EverQuest addict lol, then when I got with her she got me into playing UO. So the reason I chose Legends is cause that's the shard she was playing when she got me into it lol.
But all in all Legends is a well rounded shard of Generosity, Friendship, Love, Compassion, Loyalty, and Respect. Legends has done many many things for it's fellow man and that's pretty much what legends is about. Here are a few of the things that makes legends worth playing:
At one time when Sosaria Live was still on the air (For those that don't know who that is, if you know what Whispering Rose Radio is then it's pretty much the same thing) they teamed up with GamersCharity owned and operated by CrazyJoe at the time to do a charity event turning collecting and turning UO Gold into RL cash to be donated to the Hurricane Katrina relief fund. My GF and I are the owners of one of the most well known auction houses on legends and we didn't do our normal auction, instead of requesting submissions, we requested Donation lots. I know we personally raised over 60 Mil with our auction that 100% of that went to the charity and legends was able to raise the most gold out of every shard that was involved. Which included the more populated shards of Greatlakes, Atlantic, Sonoma, and many other shards. We were proud of ourselves that day that we were able to answer the call and compete with the more populated shards.
Luc has stated many members of Legends helped provide the funds to get Darlene's (Lady Phoenix of Legends) son to her when she was in the hospital preparing for her journey to the heavens
. A feat that wouldn't have been accomplished if it weren't for the level of compassion and love that we have for eachother on our shard.
At one point there was a gentalmen that in game went by the name of "Runes To Go" who owned an operated one of the best Rune Libraries on legends. He was struck with some RL hardship and was forced to quit the game and sell his stuff to try to come up with the funds to have to move. Legends once again stood up to the task, he came to Timeless Treasures (Our auction house) and let us know what was going on and requested that we assist him in selling off all his items. We did so and were able to raise upwards of 200 Mil in gold for him to sell off to assist him with his RL delima. People knew it was to help a friend and we saw a simple snow flake sell for 1 Mil
.
The people of legends have no problem assisting one another in game or out cause we all see eachother as an extended family. During times of my own hardship we've had our friends of legends offer to assist us with keeping our accounts up and everything else. Time we weren't able to be in game we've had friends that have spend their time collecting extras of an limited time available items to make sure we got some when we had the money to return and many other things like that.
There's a reason we're called the "Legends" of UO
