Share stories about your journey in Elvenar

Dear Humans and Elves,

As we approach another anniversary, we would like to invite you to share stories about your journey in Elvenar over the last 10 years so that we can include them in our communications around the anniversary, for example, in a blog post.

Perhaps you've met someone extraordinarily helpful, organized meetings with your guild, made new friends, or even found the love of your life.

So, if you have an interesting or funny real-life story related to Elvenar, let us know before April 3rd!

We'd love to read it in this comment thread.

Share stories about your journey...

Best regards,
Your Elvenar Team.  

Dear Humans and Elves,

Please use this thread to share your stories about your journey in Elvenar, what has been extra special for you? Has something been lifechanging for you that without Elvenar would not have been possible?

We look forward to reading your stories!

Best regards,
Your Elvenar team.  

I will start us off, as it seems people are being a little shy....
Once upon a time I was merrily playing a game called Forge of Empires, and was approached to become a volunteer moderator for the game. I figured I had some spare time to do this so happily signed up to what I now understand is the InnoGames family.
Fast-forward a few months and I attended an InnoGames meeting, this was open to the volunteers of all of the games, that also included several Community Managers and some of the in-house team (these are the full time employees of the company).
I found myself surrounded by other passionate gamers, all with a deep love of the games they volunteered or worked for. The weekend meeting went far too quickly, but within two weeks I had signed up to volunteer here at Elvenar too, taking the steps towards becoming the Community Manager, and sharing my deep love of all things Elvenar.
Now talking about deep love....along the way I have met a lot of our players, volunteers and Community Managers, we have made really deep and profound connections, with one of these now being my awesome husband! Without our love of the game, we would never have met!
Elvenar has enriched my life in so many amazing ways; the wonderful community, incredible team of volunteers and the fabulous gameplay makes my day - every day!
Thank you Elvenar, from the very bottom of my heart.