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 Also, when creating new pages, feel free to go back to older, related pages and create any links that may seem appropriate.
+==Adventurers of Note==
+Occasionally, the need will arise to link to and talk about adventurers who have contributed significantly to the world. This is a somewhat grey area, but we have a few rules of thumb to indicate when an adventurer warrants a page and when it doesn't:
+* The person must be a ''major'' contributor in some '''verifiable''' historical event.
+ * Verifiable means included  in an event post or otherwise endorsed/approved by an immortal. Character backgrounds and made up fiction are ''not'' verifiable.
+ * Simply participating in an event is not enough to warrant a separate article. However, being the catalyst to a major world event can be. (E.g. "opening the box that destroyed Hashan")
+* Becoming a guildmaster (or house master) is not enough to warrant an article, but being the ''first'' (founding) one probably is.
+* Being on the old HELP NOTABLES is not enough to warrant an article.
+'''When in doubt, always err on the side of not creating an adventurer article.''' It is (and should be) a major achievement to be written into the pages of history and is not for everyone.