Thursday 12 November 2020

Titanguard in the New Decade - Titanguard 2020

The Titanguard Festival began in 2016 when several Titan owners took pictures of their God-Machines guarding over Christmas gifts, wearing Santa hats, and other festive activities.  This proud tradition has continued in the Club every year since and the new decade sees this tradition live on.  Though 2020 has robbed us of many great moments and time with friends and loved ones, we aim to send this year out with a celebration of the Holidays.  

Titanguard Festival 2020 needs your help to bring the cheer! We'd love to see pictures of your Engines getting into the festivities and get them involved.  What will you send us?  

Shall your Warbringer blast the Elf on the Shelf?  The Warhound eating the Turkey?  Supporting Knights toppling the tree?  The sky is the limits. 

What is Titanguard?

Titanguard is, simply put, a quick celebration of the Holidays that involves your Titan(s) and Knight Banner(s) getting in the spirit.  All it involves is a picture of your Titan(s) or Knight Banner(s) doing Christmas (or whichever celebration you follow) things, such as guarding the tree, protecting the presents, dressing as Santa, and so much more.



Natus est Tempestas watches over the tree fruit.
And the name?

Don't let Shadow name events and festivals!  Titanguard is a playful riff on the Secutarii, the Titan Guard, of the Legios.  As they so guard the Titans we love, our Titans guard our Holiday tradition.

What started it?

One of the TOC members (Jonathan F, owner of Imperio Cruentissiumus and Frigora Mordent) is a madman.  He was experimenting with the idea of having playful fun and getting Christmas hats for his Titans in order to celebrate.  It snowballed from there when Drake and Shadow took the idea and ran with it.  It has since been a popular way to end the year and has seen many a collage put together and more besides.



Imperio Cruentissiumus and Frigora Mordent show their support for Santa.

How do I take part?

This is YOUR celebration and what you turn in to us is what makes the festival what it is.  The festival will be as big as you guys want it to be.  All you need to do is send us a single picture like those above (it MUST be a picture, we cannot add GIFs to the collage) and you'll be part of this. 

Simply:

1.) Take a single picture of your Titan(s) or Banner(s) in the holiday spirit.  They can be under the tree, wrapped up in Christmas lights, next to the presents, guarding over the decorating of the tree, pestering (read as annihilating) the Elf on the Shelf, or any other such Holiday related stuff.

2.) Avoid any overt advertising or suggestive imagery, or anything that is unsafe to you or your Titan.  Also, only Forge World/Citadel miniatures can be in the pictures.

3.) Email titan.owners.club.usa@gmail.com or titan.owners.club.moderati@gmail.com your image with the subject line of "Titanguard Festival- Titan Name"  While we know many of your Titans by look, we cannot always call the names up from memory and we want to make sure you get your chance in the spotlight.  If you have a special caption you'd like use, place it in the body of that email.  Use the two emails listed above, regardless of which portion of the world you're in.  Those two emails are the specific ones handling Titanguard and sending your emails to the other addresses will result in you missing out by accident (this happens every year).

All Titanguard Festival entries must be in by 20-12-18 in order to take part, especially since a friend is helping us make the final part of the celebration.




What's the end result?

Titanguard will show off your lovely engines and pictures.  We'll display the images in two rounds before Christmas day, culminating in a collage picture of all the images that we receive, bringing our Titans together to celebrate Christmas.  And this year we plan to roll out something in place of 'Twas the Night Before Titanguard.

Have fun, TOC, and enjoy the festival.

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