"For several months, the juggernauts flourished, easily crushing anything in their paths. Their members were the best equipped, the most skilled, the most powerful of any players. Then something unexpected happened. The guilds that had built up membership so quickly were imploding. Members were leaving in unprecedented numbers. The collapse of the empires was imminent, and taking their place was the new reality; smaller guilds, held together by more than the mere promise of wealth and power. Rather, they were held together by bonds of friendship, of trust, of goodwill towards each other."