The Celestial Dragons

The Celestial Dragons
A Non-Game Specific group formed between 2008 and 2010 comprised of members of several guilds. The Celestial Dragons serves as the core of what came to be now known as the modern day Serenial. TCD is mostly known externally for it's gaming videos and livestreams, it's members having collectively reached millions of viewers around the world with various creative projects.

Formation
The Celestial Dragons formed as a hub for the guilds Celestial, Nekkid Knights, Fierce, Chaotic Dragons and Dreamers which allowed organization for raids and world-bosses in the Aeria games release of Dream of Mirror Online. TCD first manifested as a ventrilo server, then eventually a Skype group. When the main group of players decided to move on from Dream of Mirror Online they wanted maintain their contact and cohesion so a group identity was formed and formally given the name The Celestial Dragons.

A Non-Game Specific Guild
As players moved on from DOMO to other games the group remained mostly intact through various means. There was an era of "game jumping" which is well documented on the groups Youtube page. The first upload is dated April 2011 and is a "teamplay" video of the then popular game League of Legends. Other early games on the channel include Minecraft, Portal 2, Mythos, and Wakfu among many others..

A YouTube channel documented a lot of the groups early exploits which includes games like Minecraft and League of Legends. There were several online events like TCD arena and TCD and the Temple of Doom are available via archive on YouTube.

During this time the group began recruiting members based on the YouTube platform and various forms for content creation. There was video and music as well as various forms of artistic expression.

The Wakfu War
By late 2011 the group had adopted the open-beta of wakfu as the groups main replacement for Dream of Mirror Online. During the beta the group became heavily involved in the games political system acting as a guard guild for the nation of Bonta. TCD ensured protection from player killers in a similar way to the Dragon Alliance, this time working with members of the in-game Bonta government to ensure protection and compliance with the nations laws.

Word of the groups deeds spread quickly, garnering praise from the players of the Bonta nation and earned the scorn of it's various assorted would-be murders, harassers and ecological terrorists.

In early 2012 Brakmar informally declared war on Bonta as a result of TCD activity. TCD stood on the front-line in decimating the Brakmar forces from a defensive position beating them back to the sulphur pits from whence they came. At least for a moment.



The next day the Brakmar army regrouped and returned in full force, and again were beaten back and demoralized by TCD forces. At the end of the beta and upon the games release; TCD decided not to continue with Wakfu as their main game, mostly due to the heavy restrictions placed on free to play players. The group felt that it left some of their members in the cold and the quality of the game was not high enough to warrant a subscription for most of the group.

The group jumped games for a bit. They tried Diablo 3, Terraria, DayZ and many other games but returned mostly to their core games at the time Minecraft and League of Legends.

Guild Wars, Airships and Starships
The group began playing Guns Of Icarus Online. They became very involved in the competitive scene, hosting and competing in tournaments and generally being part of the community at large.

TCD's preferred strategy for 2v2 was to have a brawler ship for close range engagements backed by a heavy volley of lumberjack fire. The brawler ship would aggressively ram the enemy taking them out.



Around this time the group also began playing Guild Wars 2 and Space Engineers fairly steadily which lasted until 2014 when the group re-branded into Serenial.