Hey community of Shadow Era! Over the past few years since I joined Shadow Era (according to the forums it was on January 7th, 2012) I have served as a Moderator and eventually became the Community Manager for this community. Unfortunately it has come to the point where, I must bid farewell to the role. There are several reasons why, but a major one is similar to Nachyo's reason(s).
For some time now I've always dreamt of creating and designing my own game to bring entertainment and enjoyment to other lives, much how many games have done with mine. Outside of my college classes, I've tried a few times but something always fell through, be it my own personal issues or the team members having to drop the project to support their family members (which I never was upset about even though we did ultimately drop the project because of it). Becoming a Moderator and entering into the PFG for Dark Prophecies gave me a chance to participate in the creation of content that would actually be released. Even though it was never quite the role I dream about, it was a great opportunity to see how other designer's approached various things. When I did finally get hired, I did get to see closer into the process even if I couldn't touch any of it still.
Ultimately what I'm getting at is I've learned a lot from my time here, however I feel its time to try my hand at designing my own game once more. I feel the time is right to take a leap into progressing my dream career, which unfortunately means I'll be dropping this job to do so. There are reasons to why I will not be doing both at the same time, but they are both professional and personal so I won't mention them here. I aim to make a board game (since they are much cheaper to design and test) to hone my skills and hopefully one day will make it to the digital space with a game worth forming its own community around.
I want to thank you guys for being such an awesome community (most of the time
I also want to thank the DT for being awesome people to pal around and play games with, the PFG was probably one of my favorite parts about the job! I also want to thank AnAdolt for giving me the chance to become a moderator and Kyle for giving me a job when I really was in need of one (and a thank you to those of you who pushed for it).
At any rate, I don't plan to stop playing Shadow Era all together. I still think its one of the better card games out there and I personally feel Shattered Fates has a lot of potential that people have yet to unearth (you're all too busy focusing on Aetherborn Wispor Zaladar
As for whom will be taking over my role, according to Kyle, it is Muriah (and other mods such as Danae). She is the person who has been managing our Social Media side and she's done a pretty good job. I hope you'll give her a warm welcome to this side of the community and not cause too much trouble.
Well, I guess I'll be seeing you guys later. Thanks again for being so awesome, its been quite the experience. (^_^)-b
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...I wont forget you. Do hope you succeed 
good luck.
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