The database.
The canonical home for competitive PvP guilds. Cross-game lineage, server history, the people who shaped the eras. Submissions are open.
When this all started.
What you are looking at is two decades of guild lineage rendered as one shape. The bars run by years active. The connections show predecessors and successors across games, where they exist. Click any node to read the profile.
Afterlife
Black Rose
Blood
Dissolved with the tapering of the Darktide population. Blood ran the longest peak of any PK monarchy on the server, roughly 2000 through 2003, before The Last Stand (Khao) rose to overtake it. Leadership scattered into Dark Age of Camelot, EVE Online, and Darkfall Online.
Bloodwinter Clan
Operational presence cooled with the broader DAoC population taper, but the leadership lineage remains identifiable in subsequent siege MMO communities.
Cairne
Children of the Corn
Members continued into Mortal Online 2 and the broader full-loot revival scene.
Combine
Conquest
Listed in TheMercs' archived 2012 site, suggesting active operation at that time. Current operational state pending research.
Conquest
Covetous Crew
Listed in TheMercs' September 2008 navigation sidebar as a contemporary organization; removed by February 2009. Operational state and detailed game-by-game record pending fuller research.
Death Row Gaming
Fires of Heaven
Fires of Heaven continues as an active community brand, with the leadership lineage carrying across more than two decades of continuous operation.
Gold Toof
Goonswarm Federation
Goonswarm Federation remains one of the dominant null sec coalitions in EVE Online, operating across multiple political cycles and major war eras.
Guild of Sun
Continued operations into Mortal Online 2 and the broader full-loot revival scene, with the original leadership lineage still identifiable in current rosters.
House of Sagacious
JARBO
Dissolved with the natural attrition of the Darktide population. Members carried into DAoC and EVE in identifiable clusters.
Knights of the Crystal
Lords of Death
Continuously active across more than two decades of open-world PvP MMOs, from Ultima Online in 1997 through Darkfall, Guild Wars 2, and Albion Online. The guild site and community remain standing. Per direct member accounts from TheMercs, LoD were long-running rivals and periodic allies, opponents in some games and campaigns and teammates in others across the years.
Myth
Northern Coalition
Northern Coalition continues as one of the recognized elite EVE alliances, with a roster lineage that has shaped multiple political cycles.
Pandemic Legion
Pandemic Legion continues as one of the recognized elite alliances in EVE Online, with a roster lineage that has shaped multiple political cycles of the game.
PaxLair
PaxLair continues as an active community on Ultima Online, one of the longest continuously running player organizations in any MMO.
SB
SiN
A long-running OG competitive PvP guild, remembered as one of TheMercs' most respected two-decade rivals. Per direct member accounts, SiN and the Mercs fought across many games from the late 1990s onward, rivals and periodic allies both.
Sinister PRX
Test Alliance Please Ignore
Test Alliance Please Ignore continues as one of the major EVE Online alliances, with a sustained operational presence and recognizable political identity.
The Afghan Alliance
Dissolved with the Darkfall Online sunset transition.
The Gimps
The Mercs
Actively retired. The original organization spans approximately twenty years of continuous operation across Yserbius, Dark Sun Online, Ultima Online, Asheron's Call Darktide, Dark Age of Camelot Merlin, World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, and Darkfall Online, plus shorter stints in many other titles in between. The guild website (archived 2012) shows the leadership and roster intact. The current operational state is dormant by editorial choice.
The Order
The Regulators
Listed in TheMercs' archived 2012 site. Current operational state pending research.
TLS / Khao
Vindication
Dissolved with the Shadowbane sunset transition.