The Scimitar of Lord Hoth is a competition for the members of House Hoth in the Clan Odan-Urr as a way for the House summit to give back to the members a award grand enough to reflect their dedication and loyalty over a full year. It was designed to promote all forms of activity in the club and give the members a fun way to compete among each other.
At the end of the year a title is awarded to the most active member in House Hoth for the entire year. Plus they are able to display and fictional use the physical Scimitar on their person. This honorary title is the “Scimitar of Lord Hoth 20xx” and the Scimitar design and artwork was created by Ozosi Vym. Both the title and the sword are both fictional in nature and will not appear on their dossier. Also the sword can only be used in a ceremonial nature in any fiction written by that year’s champion. It can not be used in any fictional combat situation especially in the ACC.
Competition Details and Purpose
The Scimitar competition was created by Edgar Drachen with the help of Yuki Suoh aka Zoso Quinn in 2017 to find away to not only reward the members of House Hoth but also promote all the different types of activities the DJB as a club offers to them. The intent of this competition was to enable members to do anything the club offers with as little bias as possible and still have a fair chance at becoming the overall Champion and the wielder of the Scimitar.
This competition is broken into two parts -
- The Annual Champion - The one earns the Title and the Scimitar for the next year.
- The Monthly winner - Those who are selected as winners for a specific month.
The competition point system was only changed twice thus far, once to add Novae for the GJW XII and when the 2018 competition was started. This was to increase points for lesser used activities and bring fiction/art activities more in line with gaming activities. Future changes should be minimal and only used to add new activities the current setup doesn’t account for and to correct any imbalances between activities.
Rules
There are some rules that are not subject to change:
- The Sitting Quaestor and Aedile are not eligible to earn points or win the competition. If a sitting Qua or Aed resign their position and reenter the House proper than they will start earning points as of that day.
- Any New member by joining the the Club or transfers into Hoth will only have their points counted from the day they entered the House.
- No one from outside the House/Clan may earn Scimitar Points, but if a Member that does transfer out of House Hoth and remains the top point earner at the end of the Month or Yearly comp they can still win the competition.
- The previous year’s Annual Champion has the right to request for their points discounted in the following Scimitar contest. To confirm this, an e-mail must be sent to the competition organizers and clan summit before the third month of that year’s competition.
The creation of the Scimitar
Following the establishment of House Hoth’s home on Solyiat, the world’s most skilled bladesmiths were commissioned by Edgar Drachen and Yuki Suoh to forge a new weapon. Rather than a sword intended wholly for war, it was to instead serve as a symbol to the House and those who held it. Its meaning was to serve both as a means to honour the House’s patron along with those who lost their lives in the New Tython atrocity.
The Scimitar’s was forged from a combination of materials both from the Clan’s lost homeworld and their new base of operations. The primary materials of its core and hilt were formed from metals taken from the now destroyed Fort Penicar, while the the durasteel exterior of the blade was formed from metals native to Solyiat.
At the base of the blade itself, the symbol of Hoth has been branded to the metal. This has been further decorated with sapphires taken from New Tython and rubies recovered from across Solyiat. These serve as its sole ornamentation.
History of the Scimitar
The role of the Scimitar itself was largely ceremonial, and served as a symbol of unity and a prize in the honorific competitions within House Hoth. This was intended to foster good relations and unity between the disparate groups which had survived New Tython and the varied factions who had come to join the House in its war against the Brotherhood. This was only further emphasised as the first two victors of such competitions consisted of an outsider who had sworn himself to the Clan’s service, and a Mandalorian of a clan who had come to ally themselves with the Jedi.
As the Scimitar rarely leaves Solyiat, it has yet to be risked in open battle against an opposing army.
Monthly Winners
Listed below are the number of times a members have won a monthly Scimitar competition:
Wielders of the Scimitar
| The Order of the Scimitar of Lord Hoth
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| Name
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Points Earned
|
Year earned
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| Ka Tarvitz
|
2079.75
|
2017
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| Turel Sorenn
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2381.65
|
2018
|
Notes
- The First Scimitar competition was created in February 2017 and therefore only ran for 11 months in that year.
- The option to exempt members from the overall score was introduced following a request by Ka Tarvitz, who did not wish to discourage competition by having a single name dominating the event directly following its creation.