Community:Zelda Universe Community

This page is a collection of the miscellaneous content which has made itself a name throughout the Zelda Universe community.

Distribution of Power in the Community
On the Zelda Universe forums, a group of members known as Moderators (aka"mods") possess power and responsibility greater than those of regular members. Their main purpose is to reinforce the rules and improve the community. They act as police officers, jury and, to an extend, judges in their respective areas.

The following positions are arranged based on ascending power.

Forum Moderators
Each Forum Moderator (aka Forum mod) takes care of one or more subforums from the wider spectrum of forums (Zelda, Community, Clans HQ, Escapists' Haven, and the Restricted Forums). They are last in the power command and have the most fundamental abilities, namely the ability to edit, delete, move, and lock any thread inside their specific forums and the ability to warn or ban any member based on actions in the forum.

The Clan Moderators are a type of Forum Mod. They take care of the clans at Zelda Universe and usually show good leadership inside their own clan.

Current Forum Mods

 * Ameera Mae Laramie (Poetry and Originals, Zelda RPG)
 * Breeze (Community Central, General Chit-Chat, New Members Board) (aka Kasuto)
 * Dog Dog 123 (Community Central, New Members Board, The Clan Arena)
 * Dr. Guy Secretan (Serious Discussion) (aka AvalancheMike)
 * Fairess (Fan Fiction, Poetry and Originals)
 * Fruitbat (Community Central, General Chit-Chat, New Members Board) (aka Margar)
 * Hombre de Mundo (Future Zelda, Zelda Theorizing)
 * Jodd (General Gaming)
 * John (Serious Discussion)
 * Mattocks (Community Central, Everything Trains!, New Members Board)
 * Notsil (Feedback, Suggestions & Questions, General Chit-Chat, General Gaming)
 * SacredSturgeon (Feedback, Suggestions & Questions, General Chit-Chat, The Clan Arena, The Temple of Light and Dark, ZU Awards)
 * Sue White (Graphics Design) (aka. Ben)
 * Trico (Serious Discussion)

Current Clan Mods

 * Calliope (The Farore Clan)
 * Dog Dog 123 (The Clan Arena)
 * Marten (The Clan Arena, The Temple of Light and Dark)
 * SacredSturgeon (The Nayrulian Empire, The Clan Arena, The Temple of Light and Dark)

Section Moderators
Section Moderators (aka Section Mods) possess the same powers as Forum Mods, but have power over complete sections, namely the Zelda, Community, Clans HQ, Escapists' Haven, or the Restricted Forums. Section Moderators may also moderate subforums in unrelated sections if given the power to do so.

Current Section Mods

 * Altamira (The Escapists' Haven)
 * Calliope (Creativity Corner, The Farore Clan)
 * Gold (Creative Corner)
 * Insaney (The Escapists' Haven)
 * Melpomene (Zelda)
 * nolan (Community)
 * Radek (Community)
 * Triforce of the Gods (Zelda)
 * Veyrael (Creative Corner, Zelda)

Global Moderators
Global Moderators (aka Global Mods) were created in late 2005, during the moderator changes of Zelda Universe, originally under the name "Super Moderators". They have the same fundamental powers as Section Mods, but exercise control over the entire forums, being able to modify any thread in the community.

Current Global Mods

 * DK
 * Jehanne

Super Moderators
Super Moderators (aka Super Mods) possess the same abilities as Global Mods, but can perform basic administrator tasks, such as blocking users from seeing certain forums and placing people into clans.

Current Super Mods

 * Aeffles
 * beejay (aka. brokenjoker)
 * Lioness
 * Marco (aka. BigGoronSword)
 * Prof. Fish

Administrators
The Administrators (aka Admins) of Zelda Universe are one of the most vital parts of the community. The administrators are those select few users who show their extreme dedication to the site and/or the forums and go that extra step to ensure the site is kept in order.

Administrators have the same powers as Super Mods, which are editing, deleting, moving, and locking threads, as well as warning and banning any members who break the Rules of ZU. They also have the ability to alter any aspect of the forums, including layout, user names, bandwidth settings, IP bans, etc.

Current Administrators

 * Cody
 * Lozzie
 * Panique
 * ɹɐǝqıɹǝ (aka. sea)
 * Xeno

Webmaster
Webmasters of Zelda Universe are the most vital part of entire website. The webmasters are those select few who have access to the Zelda Universe web site and are able to edit all content of the web site. They also post news items and articles relating to Zelda. Webmasters are the highest on the power command of ZU.

Webmasters have the same powers as Admins but can also change any user's name and user profiles, create/lock/delete the forums shown on ZU, as well more stricter forms of banning.

Current Webmasters

 * Jason (Owner of ZU)
 * Cody

Becoming a Moderator / Administrator / Webmaster
When the forum requires new staff, a discussion is carried out in the moderator boards to select members fit for the position. Members are usually recruited based on their activeness in a specific forum or section, as well as their leadership qualities and dedication displayed inside those forums or sections. Moderators can be promoted to higher ranks if they continue to show dedication and ability over the forums. Asking to become a staff member is frowned upon and will significantly lower any chances there were of becoming part of the staff.

Site Staff
Site Staff on Zelda Universe are people who have been selected to write news articles on the main site, make decisions about the website and fulfill other tasks that may arise. These people receive a golden banner with the Hylian Crest printed on the left. They are the driving force behind the ever-changing main website.

News Correspondents
News Correspondents are mainly responsible for scouring the internet and posting news about Zelda and Nintendo’s other major franchises on the front page. They also participate in the comments system, fueling friendly discussions and moderating it.

Current News Correspondents

 * Bastian
 * Hombre de Mundo
 * silver-hero
 * sugar

Content Writers
Content Writers are responsible for for much of the content on the website and perform tasks such as spotlighting fan music and creating and updating game guides and other information pages.

Current Content Writers

 * Phantom Majora
 * Melissa
 * Zorathan

Current Article Writers

 * Hylian Dan
 * James
 * jwalraven
 * The Wolfess

Graphic Artists and Code Wizards
Graphic Artists help find the highest quality images and artwork to accompany the Content Writers’ guides and the News Correspondents’ posts. The also manage the image gallery and nearly all other artwork seen on the website.

Code Wizards create and modify scripts to implement new features and make existing code better, more stable and more compatible with multiple browsers. They have created everything from forum plugins to IRC bots to web layouts and work with the Graphic Artists to create web interfaces.

Current Graphic Artists and Code Wizards

 * Stεvε
 * healy
 * Derek

Becoming a Site Staff Member
Anyone can become a staff member as they are not obligated to participate in the Zelda Universe Forums. These people are selected for their prominent qualities that make them suitable for the job. Currently, members are being recruited to fill staff openings.

Community Groups
Members of the Zelda Universe Community may be placed in special groups by the moderators. Though their abilities are on par with regular members, each group has varying responsibilities, ranging from arranging special events to teaching members and even to doing nothing at all for the community. Members usually work together on a larger project.

B.A. Council
The B.A. (The Battle Arena) and The Escapists' Haven on Zelda Universe are run by the B.A. Council. The council decides all character approval guidelines and conducts approvals and runs BA-specific events, such as annual awards and tournaments. Some Councilors are also "teachers", working to improve members' writing abilities and role playing. They receive a gray banner with the Gerudo symbol.

Current B.A. Council Members

 * Altamira
 * Cookie
 * Ciroton
 * Insaney
 * Power Shot
 * Puck
 * Safer
 * Scott
 * Shrub
 * Zorolo

How do I become a member of the B.A. Council?
Additional Council members are elected by the current Councilors. Users are allowed to request to be councilors by contacting one of the current ones, but new Councilors are rare and must have shown lots of contributions to the Battle Arena.

Community Coordinators
Community Coordinators on Zelda Universe are in charge of community events within the community of Zelda Universe.They are given an orange banner with an encircled Triforce.

Current Community Coordinators

 * Bex
 * Bretski
 * Dog Dog 123
 * Elder Blizz
 * Jodd
 * Lady
 * Mattocks
 * Mrs. Kassi Aileron
 * Nolan
 * Nénuë
 * Risika
 * Shigeru
 * Steve
 * Zien

How do I become a Community Coordinator?
Community Coordinators are the people running a community project or those whom the lead webmaster feels do a good job controlling the community. If you are doing a big project for Zelda Universe, ask the head webmaster for a Community Coordinator banner. This banner is only kept whilst you are still running the community project. It is lost once the project is over.

Graphics Teacher
On Zelda Universe Graphics Teachers are the selected few who are chosen to help teach members how to make sprites, signatures, avatars and any other form of computer graphic. Graphic Teachers usually have their own "Homerooms", where they make challenges for members and help them understand basic and complex graphic tools and programs. Graphics Teachers receive a gray-green banner with the Sheikah symbol.

Graphics Teachers

 * -=Cobra=-
 * Coss
 * Davy Jones
 * DogDog123
 * GoldStud
 * Lord Ranil
 * Lurrrre!
 * Umi
 * William
 * =Zack=

Patrons
Patrons are people on Zelda Universe who donated money to the site. These donations were first announced when Jason needed $2000 (USD) for the new "Temple" forum skin. Another way that people got the banner was not to long ago when Jason needed money for "A new, shiny, silver server." Currently the new server is doing fine, but the time left to use it is under four months. People who donated received a golden banner with a purple rupee.

How do I become a Patron?
Donate at least one American dollar's worth ($1) of cash to Jason by Paypal, then send a copy of the receipt that you receive by email to Jason via private message (PM) on Zelda Universe.

Zelda Wiki.org Contributor
The Zelda Wiki.org Contributor Banner was suggested to Jason by Melchizedek, who was given the idea by Axiomist. Jason needed a simple way to confirm that these users made as many edits as they said they did. So Matt suggested to have the Edit Count extension installed. Contributors are given a light blue banner with an encircled Triforce.

How do I become a Zelda Wiki.org Contributor?
A Zelda Wiki.org Contributor at Zelda Universe is a member whom:
 * Has shown great dedication to contributing to the wiki.
 * Doesn't seem to be just in it for the banner.
 * Has made a reasonable amount of edits.

That's about it. So if you plan on just making a bunch of edits, getting the banner, and then leave the wiki, then think again. We'd be able to tell. You have to show true dedication to get this banner. And if we think you'd just quit editing once you get it, then we will not give it to you.

If you do receive a contributor banner and then decide you don't need to edit at all anymore, then the banner will be removed.

NOTE: Please do not ask me if I think you are ready for the banner. Asking that is like asking to be a forum mod. It will significantly reduce your chances of getting it.

Two parties are currently responsible for handing out the banners.
 * Zelda Wiki.org Admins confirm that the person in question owns both the Zelda Universe account and the Zelda Wiki.org account. They then report in to Aeffles.
 * Aeffles is the person that will add the banner to the Zelda Universe account.

Current Contributors

 * Ando
 * Axiomist
 * Jwalraven
 * Mandi
 * Matt
 * Melchizedek
 * Steve
 * The Goron Moron
 * Zien
 * Dany the Dot
 * Triforce of the Gods

Clans of the Goddesses
Members of Zelda Universe may join groups called "Clans" where they can participate in games and discussions. Although it is not mandatory, joining a clan is a common practice among Zelda Universe's members, partly due to the laid back, less strict atmosphere of the Clan Forums. There are three clans, namely the Din, Nayru and Farore clans. Analogous to the Goddesses the Clans are named after, Din stands for Power, Nayru for Wisdom and Farore for Courage and are represented by the colors red, blue and green respectively.

Each clan has a separate forum for conversations between its members. A combined forum exists where every clan member can post and play games together. One of the popular events is the Clan Wars, a series of games, writing competitions and art competitions played by the clans in an attempt to control each others' "planets". Posts in the clan forums do not add to the user's post count due to the nature of the threads.

The Din Clan
Also known as the Clan of Power, the Din Clan has a reputation for pyromania and a love of blowing stuff up. The fact that several of its members have been known to loudly proclaim their apparent lack of sanity has added to this reputation, although there is some speculation that Nayrulian propaganda is at the heart of its harsher aspects. However, many members of the Clan itself - commonly referred to as Dinnies - would be quick to belittle any efforts made by the "jellyfish," otherwise known as Clan Nayru.

The second defining characteristic of Clan Din is its friendly rivalry with the jellyfish. This rivalry stretches back far enough that few, if any, can remember its origins, or even if there was any origin as such - as far as most members are concerned, the two Clans clash simply because it's what they do.

Din is ruled over by Lord Tiroth and Pani, while past moderators have included the Great Lioness and her predecessor, Tristann Velorei.

The Nayru Clan


The Nayrulian Empire, also known as the Nayru Clan, the Imperium of Nayru, or just Nayru for short, is known for its tight-knit yet welcoming community, friendly rivalry with Din, and megalomaniac Clan mod (Emperor SacredSturgeon of Nayru), as well as being the Clan that all three of ZU's Webmasters are from (thus, technically, making it more powerful than its rival Din, something the Emperor is fond of pointing out). Nayru was known for a long time as "The Clan of Pervyness" or "the Pervy Clan", because sexual topics would often pop up, and Nayru's moderation when it comes to such topics is more liberal than that of the other two Clans. Nayru has cut back significantly on such topics in more recent times however, following complaints from members, though Nayru's moderation stance towards these topics is still more lenient than that of the other Clans.

Nayru contains many members that have been with the Clan for ages, and several of them hardly (if ever) leave the blessed grounds of the Imperium because they love their Clan so much. Despite being closely knit, the Children of the Empire are generally welcoming to both new members and visiting members that aren't from Nayru. For example, the Nayrulians generally regretted it when Site Staff members could no longer access Clans, because they enjoyed visits from such members as Rew.

Nayru has a proud history, having grown from a small group of rag-tag members to a full-fledged Empire. In its early days, it was looked over by various mods, including Lozzie (Now known as James), Jason (now known as Jason), and Malony. Lady Miniblin the Great officially took over the reigns on August 28, 2005, and has been the beloved leader of the Clan for a long time, until finally stepping down on April 21, 2007, to the collective grief of the Clan. Her reign saw Nayru grow strong and proud and become an active and tight-knit community, and she will be remembered as a great mod and considered an awesome member by her former subjects. The next day heralded the announcement of who was to succeed her. Her legacy being impressive as it is, it was decided that she needed not one, but two successors, and these successors were SacredSturgeon and Awkin.

Nayru has, at various points, gone through rough spots, troubles, as well as periods of inactivity, but the dedication and spirit of its members have ensured that Nayru has always pulled through, and the Clan continues going strong to this very day. Nayru also seems to have the biggest variety and talent of digital artists.

The Farore Clan


The Farore Clan is known for holding popular/"cool" members. The Farore Clan has an environment of its own. It is not as different as Nayru, but also not as hot-headed as Din. Most of the members of this clan enjoy hanging out in the safety of the Utopia for many reasons, the main one being the many 'interesting' conversations that take place daily. Each year, the Farorians have been known to throw a party to celebrate Christmas, as well as many other occasions, such as this year, in which they threw a newbie party for all new Farore members. Of all the clans, you are most likely to find that Farore has the kindest members on ZU. They are a wonderful, friendly bunch, but do not be alarmed if you are greeted with something...well, alarming. Farorean/Farorians tend to be quite unpredictable. Of course, if you're a Dinnie visiting, you may not live long until you come face-to-face with Poe Black's flame thrower... Farore's moderator is DK.

Farore generally has Pepsi everyday and members of the clan are nice to each other, but if you try to invade Farore, watch your back. Farore is fun loving and always active, with its RPG thread and a thread dedicated to spam. It is full of love and kindness - in the Utopia, Farorians like to share what they've been through. Farore holds very talented people, amusing people, caring people and all other sorts.

Joining a Clan and Leaving
Before joining a clan, members must meet two requirements:  Once the conditions have been met, a member may send a Private Message to a Super Mod requesting the Clan Test. The mod will then send them the Clan Test, a questionnaire comprising of five multiple-choice questions, five short answer questions and three long answer questions. Depending on the member's response, the Super Mod will place them into a clan, giving them access to the clan forums and new banner. If the Super Mod feels the score is even between two clans, the member may be asked which clan they'd prefer to be in.
 * The user must have been a member of Zelda Universe for at least one month
 * The user must have made a minimum of 50 posts in the forums

Members may request to be moved to another clan after spending at least one month in their current clan. Swapping is generally frowned upon and will only be permitted for good reasons, although the moderating team can deny any request. Members must retake the clan test before being moved to another clan. Only one switch is allowed per user.

A member may request to be removed from the clans entirely, but like switching clans, no second chances will be given.

Arcade
The Zelda Universe Arcade is a project led by GoldStud. The project is still being worked on. Power Shot said that if five games are made, and are at least in their demo mode, then the arcade will become official. The link to the arcade will be on Zelda Universe's home page, under "Interactive". Zelda Universe has a social Group for anyone who wants to help. Goldstud is looking for anyone who has a demo of a game to put on ZU. So, if anyone has such a demo, or demos, send a message or PM to GoldStud (done so here).

How Can I Help
The Zelda Universe Arcade needs more games, and more support. Anyone can give such things by visiting the social group. Even if you are not a game designer, you can still provide suggestions for a game designer to put in the game.

Arcade Games

 * Majora's Mask 2d Demo by 10n3r
 * Super Mario War by GoldStud
 * Bad Cop by Hero
 * Bronze V by GoldStud and Lurrrre
 * Hero's Rpg Demo Download Page by Hero
 * The Legend of Zelda: Petrified Realm by Tokos
 * The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 2d by Ahmio
 * ZU Arcade's Cucco-Rupee Bonanza

1337 Admin Panel
The 1337 Admin Panel was made by KokiriKid for Peefy. It's an actual quote from the chat where Peefy pretended that he was one of the admins (as he often does due to his arrogant attitude). The page was mostly created for the joke, but was also suggested to be used if anyone else wanted access to the admin panel.

This page is not commonly known, although Peefy links to it in his signature and talks about it now and then. There is no reason it still exists outside of novelty purposes.

Some members in the past have rumoured that Kokiri Kid is going to add some features to the panel in the future.

Functions
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Adoption (ZU)
Zelda Universe's adoption system, originally started by Lioness and currently located in the Adoption Cottage thread in the New Members Board, gives new members the opportunity to have a personal mentor and friend. These "adopters" give advice when their "adoptees" make mistakes, help them feel more comfortable being in a large forum if need be, answer their adoptees' questions (this is great if an adoptee is too shy to ask someone else), as well as be one of their first friends on ZU.

How do I become an adopter
To become an approved adopter on ZU, the following must all apply to you:


 * You must have a minimum of 50 posts in your post count (posts in forums that do not add to your post count, such as clan boards, do not count)
 * You must have been a member of ZU for at least 3 full months
 * You must have adequate conventions (spelling, punctuation, and grammar) throughout your posts
 * Your posts must be detailed and not spammy

Once you think you apply to adopter's guidelines, PM Kasuto, The Bex Express, or Margar stating why you believe you would make a good adopter.

List of Approved Adopters

 * 13th
 * Bex
 * BigGoronSword
 * Brokenjoker
 * Cody
 * Commissioner Postman
 * Dog Dog 123
 * EzloSpirit
 * I Luv Linkers
 * Jimes
 * jwalraven
 * Kasuto
 * Link the Mini
 * Lord Golgoth
 * Margar
 * Moronic Rascal
 * Mr. Okami
 * Myuufasa
 * Nintend06
 * Notsil
 * PyroShadow
 * Rew
 * Saber
 * Shadow Samus
 * Sotiris
 * SpartaLink2008
 * Twilight Wolf
 * Valhalla
 * Wolf O Donnell
 * xlr8
 * Zien

Cap'n vs. Jew
In March 24th 2008 ZeldaInformer's owner and webmaster Captain Cornflake posted a challenge of epic proportions to the Zelda Universe forums, daring ZU owner and webmaster Jason to face him in a game of Super Smash Bros. Brawl to settle their differences once and for all. The challenge was accepted and soon people from both sites started pouring into the thread posting various questions, rumors, propaganda and taking sides on the fight. To make matters more interesting they set a bet of $100 $250! $450!! $4750!!!  CAPN'S CAR!!!!!  $10,000!!!!!!! ZI and ZU.

Excitement was in the air as their debate in the thread (soon dubbed the greatest in ZU's history) progressed towards the final settlement of date (March 29th) and the actual bet of both ZI and ZU.

Cap'n won.

The initial challenge from Cap'n
"The time has come Jason. Your time has come.

I am absolutely sick and tired of your condescending additude towards ZeldaInformer and myself. I was hoping we could perhaps patch up ties after you took over ZU from Yusuf and put behind us this petty rivalry, but I think it's quite apparent by your behavior as of late that this will never be able to happen. I've now realized that the commercial priorities from the days of Yusuf are just as alive and well as ever under your management, Jason. And Zelda Universe will always remain a joke to the rest of the community because of that.

And you're afraid. Afraid an upstart is going to take your glory. Well, we don't need to wait for that to happen, I can solve that issue right now. It's time we settle this once and for all.

You. Me. 1 on 1. Smash Bros. Brawl. The only way we'll ever be able to settle who is the best webmaster and who has the better site is by me wiping your ass across the floor. I'll even let you pick the stage, I'm that confident I can take you."

Best ZU thread ever? Oh the DRAMA!
Many users awarded the thread "greatest ever" despite the fact that a certain member constantly attempted to stir up unwanted drama over petty matters. The community kindly asked him to leave and eventually to GTFO. The mod team did the right thing and removed all of the unwanted posts from the otherwise epic thread.

"THE BET - $10,000. Ten thousand dollars. A big bag of jewmoney."

- Jason

"I'm placing my bets. Capn's SO going to put this Jew in the oven!"

- Link

"I think, deep down all of us want Capn to take over ZU."

- Hazz

"Gah! My alliances are tied in this battle... Jewson, one who shares the pain of jewnoses! Or Captain Cornflake, the one who opened my eyes to the internets!"

- Kikz

"The Capn' will win. That's a no-brainer."

- Blizzaga

"I'm an idiot."

- God of Butthurt

"If anyone even TRIES to run the 8ball command asking about this one, I will propagate through the internets and DESTROY EVERYTHING. I HATE YOU ALL"

- UB2R-B0T

Chat Room
The Zelda Universe chat room is an IRC room connected to the ZU community. It can be found on the Bored-IRC network on #zelda.

Despite being connected to the ZU community, Zelda is actually very rarely discussed. Instead, the topics will vary from anything, such as general gaming to music to forum drama to, well... whatever, really.

Along with the ZeldaInformer chat (whom #zelda folk are often intermingled with) the Zelda Universe chat room is one of the largest Zelda-related chat rooms on the internet.

History
The Zelda Universe chatroom/IRC channel was created in July 2003 by Lozzie, originally residing on EFNet. Eventually, it was moved to Gnug-IRC in 2004. In April 2009, when Gnug-IRC was shut down, #vgrc migrated to Bored-IRC, and #zelda followed suit.

Connecting
If you'd like to connect, Google for an IRC client. And yes, for the mac/linuxtards, there are clients for almost every OS. Hell, if you have 'telnet' you can connect.

Once you'd downloaded your IRC client, follow these steps:

1) In the main window, click in the text box. Type "/server irc.zangaroa.com" (without the quotes.) 2) If you haven't chosen a nickname/other details, type "/nick yournick", without the quotes. yournick would be the nickname you want. 3) You'll get a flood of text. Sometimes, you may get a prompt showing channels. Type "#zelda". If not, type "/join #zelda". 4) Voila!

Alternatively, you can use ZU's webchat applet (located here).

Couples of ZU
Some of the most influential people in the Zelda Universe community are no doubt the pairs of members who have fallen in love with each other. There are a number of active ZU couples today, and below is a list of the current pairs of ZU lovers. Read about them to find out how they met and how they fell in love. All are devoted Zelda fans and gamers as well.

Buzz and Sugarpoultry
More than likely the most well-known ZU couple, Buzz and Sugarpoultry are also notable for being the first ZU couple who actually have gotten married in real life. They met in their college years in band class and were friends for awhile. Although Buzz had a girlfriend at the time, he was slowly developing feelings for Sugarpoultry. Eventually, he broke up with his old girlfriend and Sugarpoultry became his. A nice note about this is that Buzz was Sugarpoultry's first and only boyfriend. Years went by and the two were eventually married! Now, they have a child, a lovely little girl named Kadree. They have shown pictures of both them and Kadree many times for us to see!

Darius Andreas and Lady Ranny
There's an interesting story behind what brought these two together. One of the Farore Clan's three couples (Kassi and Lex and Deku Queen and Shigeru being the other two), Darius Andreas and Lady Ranny had known one another for quite a long time until they officially became bf/gf. They did not meet in ZU, rather in another Zelda forum, around 2.75 years ago (this is just an estimate, as neither Darius nor Ranny remember exactly when they met). Over time they became best friends and continued as such for the past couple of years. When Ranny met another member, Raddy, she grew close to him and they began to fall in love just a couple months or so after meeting. As a result, Darius grew a bit...well, jealous, and proclaimed his love for Ranny. Prior to this, however, Ranny learned that another girl was in love with Raddy and that he also liked her quite a lot. Later, when Darius asked Ranny to be his girlfriend, Ranny realized she also loved him, and soon accepted. She has known Darius much longer than Raddy, and knew she loved him first; she simply didn't realize it until then. Ranny and Darius both continue to greatly thank Raddy for indirectly "playing cupid." The two now have a fanclub for all DariusxRanny supporters to join!

Lex and Kassi
Although Mr. Lexxi Aileron and Mrs. Kassi Aileron are a Farorian couple like Darius Andreas and Lady Ranny as well as Shigeru and Deku Queen, the story behind them is almost opposite. The two met only a month before Lex asked Kassi to marry him. The official date of their marriage is not yet known, but they're working on it! Like Darius Andreas and Lord Ranny, these two also have a fanclub for their supporters. Lex's favorite game series just so happens to be Zelda as well. The page creator will be editing this section.

Ja-kun and Liah
Hehe, these two are probably best known as ZU's graphics couple. Both are good sig makers who are active in Graphics Design. Liah and Ja-kun have known each other for quite some time, and they both met in person. The page creator will be editing this section.

Blind Swordsman and Sarah
These two have not been seen for awhile, but they're still a couple worth remembering. They met quite sometime ago (like Darius Andreas and Lord Ranny), and after falling in love, they eventually met in person for a good week. Sarah made a thread for the pictures they took. Not much more is known now that neither of these two members have been active lately.

Fox McCloud and Nenue
Fox McCloud and Nenue were the second couple to marry after Buzz and Sugarpoultry. They, however, had started as an on-off relationship. They met in ZU's chatroom in 03, where they quickly bonded. But, due to heavily interwined emotions and overlooking differences between themselves, the two broke and parted ways. After this, they were never talking for awhile and eventually Fox McCloud decided to leave ZU completely. Turns out that he wasn't gone for good, however, and returned in 07, though he was reluctant to do so. While he was back, he still did not speak to Nenue and she did not speak to him. When August came along, however, the two had met in person during one of ZU's meetups. During this time, it was then they realized they had changed, and they started feeling their connection again. Following these events, they began to speak for hours and hours and hours. They weren't sure why they were speaking again, but their desire to continue to do so only stuck. The feelings between Fox McCloud and Nenue only grew after this, and they decided they had to spend their lives together. They were then married in September of 08.

Shigeru and Deku Queen
Ah, the third of Farore's couples. Shigeru and Deku Queen are one heck of a couple to learn about. Not only have they met in person as well, but the Farore scrapbook has lots of their pictures. They've even shown after-shower images, unusually enough. These two have cracked up the Farorians for a long time and continue to do so today in the Farore Utopia (as well as the rest of the clan, of course).

WilliamZelda4ever and Eternal Legend
Wow, how can we forget the artistic Eternal Legend and her man, WilliamZelda4ever? While they're not the most well-known couple, it is clear that they've been together for some time and are mostly known by EL's art as well as the drawing she's done of Will and herself.

Failtality
A term used immediately after a member is kick-banned from the irc channel. The first time it was used was when KWSN decided to imitate this quote from bash.org when a ZUChat was kick-banned. Yami took it a step futher and declared the failtality.

[05:09:54 PM] * Remus sets mode: +b *!*@gnug-A0258050.client.mchsi.com [05:10:08 PM] <Remus> .. *pokes* [05:10:11 PM] <Remus> it didn't kick. o_o; [05:10:11 PM] FINISH HIM [05:10:15 PM] * user_name was kicked by Remus (Remus) [05:10:19 PM] FAILTALITY

Give me a sex
A long time ago, when #zelda was still on the EFnet IRC network, a member named Fox McCloud made what is considered the most famous typo in the chatroom's history.

<_McCloud_> Gimme a sex

Obviously he meant "Gimme a sec," but the typo, for some reason, has lived on and been referenced countless times. Most oldbies were around to see this, and it will probably be the most famous #zelda typo ever.

McCloud was briefly known as Focs due to his typo (an obvious pun), and some even still call him by that name.

Going Kedsy
A term that was coined by Nox in #Zangaroa. To say, 'going Kedsy' is to say that you will troll and belittle community members purely for the purpose of generating 'jollies' and to disrupt the alleged 'already ruined discussion'. This is the exact same thing Kedsy (Mr. Hands), who was a member of ZU, did and was banned for after he left.

NKA
What is the NKA, you ask? Well, it differs from D3PyroGS club, Newbie Kumquat Association as our general goal is to track down and kill n00bs (basicly, the club is an offshoot of the N00b Slaying Organization, or NSO), thus the name, N00b Killing Association. Vets and newbs alike are sick of the n00b invasion that has swept ZU in the past few months. Differing from the mod team, we generaly like to kill n00bs right on the spot, rather than try and change them as there are too many of them now to try and convert. The mod team is having trouble also and that is why we need you to join our organization. The only rules for our club is to follow ZU's rules (which the n00bs break) and to not be a n00b. If you were one, thats fine as it can help to know a n00b if you were one as to track them down easier.

The NKA was founded on May 1st, 2005, by used-to-be n00b, Nox.

Newbie's Guide to the Universe
The Newbie's Guide to the Universe is an extensive guide to the rules and ways of the Zelda Universe forums. The name is play on the famous novel and book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The guide was written by Scott, when he was still known as Kokiri Kid. The guide mentions all the rules of Zelda Universe in an easier to read manner. The guide is located in the New Members Board of Zelda Universe.

Onebie
The term, 'Onebie' was coined by Nox in #zelda. A onebie is like an oldbie, only a onebie has been at ZU for a year or more. Onebies are a bit lower on the food chain, but still know ZU pretty well.

The term is met with contention from some, who consider the classification of members to this degree devisive and counterproductive.

Some famous onebies: Alonely Jason Altamira Nox Kazan RenaKunisaki PyroMyrmidon Gerudo

Original Intarweb Moments
List of past moments brought from the #zelda chat to the Wiki.

An Intarweb Moment of the Day is one that shows the randomness of the Internet. Sometimes in the form of humor, sometimes in the form of something that shows the true beauty of the Internet.

If you would like to submit new Intarweb Moments, leave some discussion on Lozzie's talk page.

April 2005
April 26, 2005: The true definition of goth. Submitted by Shetani.

April 27, 2005: The AOL Age: Submitted by Yami. OMGWTFBBQ.

April 28, 2005: Don't be so emo. Thanks to Sear.

April 29, 2005: Emo Server: Submitted by Asci.

April 30, 2005: Mario On Ice: Thanks to Sadida for the link.

May 2005
May 6, 2005: Fight Club, public service announcement: Brought to our attention by Darktachyon.

May 8, 2005: The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist: Fetched by uno.

May 16, 2005: I've got a brand new combine harvester: Yet again, fetched by uno.

May 18, 2005: 101 Rules of Black Metal: Thanks to Gjervan in IRC.

May 21, 2005: Dork-B-Gone: Thanks to Gjervan again in IRC.

May 22, 2005: Yet another EMO comic. : Props to Nox in #zelda.

June 2005
June 04, 2005: It speaks for itself. : Thanks to Yami in #zelda.

June 06, 2005: Rooms upon Rooms Thanks to user:Lemmings.

June 25, 2005: Xbox Live Brat Found at Hooligans of the Night

July 2005
July 02, 2005: Sams Archive - How to Destroy the Earth Special thanks to Yami in #zelda.

July 03, 2005: Unsuccessful Terrorist Bombing VW Commercial Thanks to Bobslob.

July 07, 2005: Meanwhile, in Nintendo's Porn Department... Thankies to Wolfie.

July 13, 2005: Soviet Slogan Generator Found by Captain Cornflake.

July 15, 2005: Fail Comics, name says all Found by KWSN and Davidius

July 16 2005: The Rules of Metal Props go to Bobslob, in #zelda

August 2005
August 08, 2005: Katamari Simpsonique Found by Captain Cornflake.

August 10, 2005: Google English! - Why do I list it here? Easy. When have you seen Google identify the language you're using is English? Never, because English is the default, so it just says "Google." OK, it's lame, but is there seriously anything better to put here today? --Captain Cornflake 13:31, 10 Aug 2005 (CDT)

August 18, 2005: Fox & CNN on Canada - Yes, the title just says Fox, but the video is a mesh of clips from both Fox & CNN; two extreme news sources (right and left wing) with talkers making some hilarious points about Canada. (Found by PyroMyrmidon in #zelda)

March 2006
March 4, 2006: Temple of Time: Safety Not Included - Hopefully this comes back to full force. This is just a ytmnd. Simple as that.

March 12, 2006: Real Life Simpsons - This has been floating around the net for a while. It's a british video of a "family" doing the infamous introduction of The Simpsons.

How it started
Phaptastical started in the ZU IRC Chatroom. Nox and Jason were having a discussion as to how awesome PhatMan (Gecko) was. Of course both had different opinions. Nox said he was the most awesome person, and that no one was more awesomely awesome. But, GC had a very different opinion. His thought was PhatMan was not that awesome, and some people were more awesomely awesome, such as Peefy for example. After a long debate, Jason coined the word Phaptastical for PhatMan's "awesome" ranking.

What it means.
But wait! What does it mean? That is the question you are most likely asking. In fact. You are asking it. Phaptastical simply means, you are awesome enough to phap. But you are not awesome enough to do other things, for example: Be Peefy. Phaptastical has only been awarded to one person. Gecko. It is his current Custom Rank on the ZU forums.

To get the awesome rank.
You may be asking yourself, "How do I get this rank?". Well, you can't. It is only permitted to people who can Phap. And the only one that can do that is Gecko. So don't ask.

Serious Discussion
Around June 2004, the Serious Discussion Board was created so that ZU members could freely discuss serious topics such as politics, religion, and what not.

However, despite the amazing moderating efforts of Big Bro Davidia, (whose skill is rumored to come from the Lord himself) the board moderators, n00bs and oldies alike began flaming other users for their opinions. Then, people started preaching their religion, flaming whole groups of people, and being general dumbasses.

The forum was finally closed in April 2005, and went under total reconstruction. It opened on May 5th 2005 for a short while until finaly being shut down for good in about late May.

The Serious Discussion Board was finally brought back on August 17 of 2005.

Sometimes referred to as INTERNET: Serious Business

The Escapists' Haven
The Escapists' Haven, formerly known as the Amphitheater, and before that as the Battle Arena, is the role-playing section of Zelda Universe. It often goes by the its original name, the Battle Arena, or "BA," which is now also the name of its main forum. It was revamped when the Temple skin was introduced to Zelda Universe on July 11, 2008. This revamp introduced the Village, which allowed for Out of Character threads to be made; something almost impossible to do before the revamp, with all the Out of Character threads being in the Battle Arena.

Characters
This is the forum where role-players make characters and submit them to the approval process. These characters will be used in all of the other forums in the Escapists' Haven excluding The Village. This forum includes the Character Fiction sub-forum, where role-players write stories about their characters without any interaction in the work with the readers.

Battle Arena and The Crossroads
The role playing forums of the Escapists' Haven. The Battle Arena, sometimes referred to as the "BA", is the main role playing forum. The BA focuses on battle related role plays. The Crossroads, however, focus on more general role plays.

The Dome
The place where most role players go with their new characters after creation. This is the place where a character can be enrolled in a class, and a training thread can be made for them. The role player will accept various assignments from their teacher, and write about their character whilst fulfilling those assignments. Then the teacher, or one of their aides, will come and critique the student's writing, and ask him to change it for the better. The student will do this, and then the teacher (or helper) will write a post using their character, and give the student a new assignment.

This process is then repeated until a character's individual graduation, at which time a new graduation thread for the character will be made. This is usually the character's last involvement with the dome, unless their creator becomes a teacher or teacher's helper and uses their character to role play with their students.

The Village
The place where all the out of character discussion is held. The thread with the most activity in here is the "OOC thread". This used to be one of the very few non-Council created discussion threads (this incarnation was created by a Council member, although some past incarnations weren't).

The Out of Character Thread
The main thread of the Escapists' Haven is the Out of Character thread. This is one of the few non-council member created discussion threads, although most incarnations are made by council members. The oldest one found dates 08/23/2004 through 07/21/2005. The Out of Character thread is always in danger of having it's title changed, with one role player stating "It's part of the EH culture." Most of the Out of Character threads were posted in the Battle Arena before The Village was made. Now, since the Village is the only Escapists' Haven forum for out of character activity, it will be posted there.

The BA council
The BA council was the main council of members for the Escapists' Haven. They approved characters, and could create homerooms and teach in the dome, if they wished. They were not moderators, contrary to some belief. There were not many BA council members, but, unlike moderators, one could request to become a BA council member. New council members were rare, however.

On Tuesday, March 31, 2009, a decision was made by the Moderaters of Zelda Universe to disband the BA council. All of the council related duties were taken over by the moderaters of The Escapists' Haven, which were, at the time, Ciroton and Altamira. This caused much outrage and a good deal of spam to be created in the Village section of the Escapists' Haven. These led to a few bans and a few more temporary 'REVOLUTION' accounts. It was later revealed that this was an April Fool's Joke, and all bans, infractions, and warnings were lifted, and everything went back to normal within the EH.

ZUBC
ZUBC, short for Zelda Universe Broadcasting Corporation, is the umbrella term used to describe a series of podcasts which are devised and created by a team of dedicated staff at Zelda Universe.

History
The idea of a podcast was initially brought up by Nolan MacDonald on the Zelda Universe forum, and was quickly supported by user Anime_Queen. The idea was approved by Jason Rappaport, the current owner of the website, and a pilot podcast was ordered. Initial staffing problems pushed the pilot back two months, confusing listeners as the community news was out of date. This problem also affected the second podcast, as a large scale reorganization took place within the podcast staff forums that prohibited the podcast from timely reporting news.

ZUBC was originally concentrated within the podcast, called "ZCast" (short for "ZeldaCast") until staff member Domanic Calleja devised that the podcast should be part of a larger media group. He jokingly referred to it as the 'ZUBC' (in homage to the British Broadcasting Corporation) which, to his great amusement, was accepted by Jason and Asia, becoming the site-wide identity of the team dedicated to creating both podcasts and all other forms of ZU-related media.

Current Format
Originally, there was a single podcast which, by popular demand, catered towards the community aspects of the site; however, the podcast was quickly criticized by members for it's lack of Zelda-specific coverage. It was eventually decided that the podcast would be split into two parts - "ZCast", the Zelda podcast, and "CCast", the community podcast. Both would be released simultaneously and downloadable separately to cater to listeners' preferences. Upon Anime_Queen's departure in early 2009, however, this idea was scrapped, and the ZUCast continues to be a single podcast to this day. At the same time the decision to continue a single ZUCast was made, it was also decided that, as a replacement compromise, the ZUCast would now be a lot more Zelda-related and a lot less community-related, about a 70-to-30 ratio.

Zelda Universe TV
On January 23, 2010, the ZUBC, along with ZU webmasters Jason Rappaport and Cody Davies, started ZU's official YouTube channel, Zelda Universe TV (or "ZUTV"). Some examples of videos posted to ZUTV are the all-new video mailbags, complete official ZU visual walkthroughs, special site announcements, and more.

Projects In Development
The ZUBC currently has two projects in development: A third podcast secretly referred to as the "DCast," the content of which is also kept secret by the staff. However, it is known that the format of the DCast will be radically different than the ZUCast.

Members of the Podcast Staff

 * Cody Davies (Cody): ZUCast Host/Segment Host "Cody Davies is Zelda Universe’s newest Webmaster, dabbling in a bit of everything. He has written content, provided news, coded code, found images, provided segments for the ZU Podcast and manages the site polls."
 * Connor Sullivan (Link/"Lunk"): ZUCast Host "I am that crazy guy with the microphone who does segments whenever they want me. I’m never paid, but so far, the pay is good."
 * Daniel Åkerman (Hombre de Mundo): Segment Host/Former Producer
 *  Domanic Calleja (Dom): Public Relations "'Knock knock, delivery!' Dom is in charge of the outer image of the podcast. His job includes getting the podcast to you, the listeners, by updating the Headquarters page and posting threads on the forums. He also does a lot of the visual work, providing graphics and images for use with the podcast."
 * Eric (EzloSpirit): Production Assistant/Segment Host "I get to write and host my own little segments! Plus, I offer ideas and just generally help out the rest of the team in making the ZUCast as best it can be for all of you listeners! Although, I guess I'm partially just along for the ride. Don't tell anyone!"
 * Jordan Burnett (Aniday): Head Editor "I edit the ZU Cast and, on behalf of the ZUBC, I edit other things when people beg me. I also perform the occasional epic-movie-voice cameo in the Podcast."
 * Malia Fa’auma (Liah): Executive Producer "I pretend to do work so my name gets announced in the credits. It works."
 * Margaret Barile (Margar): Executive Producer/Editor "Cracker of whips, bestower of knowledge, jack of all communications trades."
 * Matt Bowman (Mattocks): ZUCast Host "Awesome."

Former ZUBC Staff Members

 * Asia Alfasi (Anime_Queen): ZUBC Founder/Former Executive Producer "Content Manager, director, occasional base editor and slave driver - overseeing the whole production process from start to finish." (February 2008-December 2008)
 * Bret Lockerbie (Asci): Former ZUCast Host "Speaks on behalf of the Zelda Universe Community so that others may hear it." (February 2008-December 2008)
 * Selah: Former Segment Host of "Beneath the ZU Spotlight" (March/April 2008-May/June 2008)

Recurring Segments and Members Who Host Them

 * Rosco Rhodes: Does the commnuity news, which covers recent happenings in the ZU community.
 * Nathanial Rumphol-Janc: Does the Zelda news, which covers recent news about the Legend of Zelda series.
 * Cody Davies: Does "Cody's Rant", a segment in which he rants about, well, just about anything he feels like!

How do I become a member of the ZUBC?
The ZUBC has recently redone its system. According to Margar, the ZUBC will no longer (if ever, very rarely) be hiring any more permanent staff members. The new system has most of the podcast segments being member-created. Any member, as long as they own the right equipment and software, can record their own segments and submit it to the ZUBC for review and possible airing. If a member has an idea for a segment but does not have the necessary equipment and/or software, he or she can submit his/her idea to the ZUBC. There are many ways to get involved with the ZUBC.

ZUChat
The term "ZUChat" may refer to one of three things:

#zuchat
The original name for the Zelda Universe chat room. Created by Lozzie, it was located on a random IRC server back in July 2003 for ZUers to talk while the forums were down. Eventually, it morphed into the ZU chat room we all know today.

After the move of the chat to Gnug-IRC, the room was renamed to #zelda, with #zuchat being recommissioned as a veterans hangout. Today, it is largely empty, with chat vets having moved onto a handful of other channels to serve the purpose of a hangout away from #zelda.

Starship ZUChat
A loose trolling group that grew out of #zuchat. See Starship ZUChat for more info.

ZUChat, the person
When the Java-based webchat was introduced to ZU, the default name for anybody joining was named "ZUChat." As most of the channel regulars used a program such as mIRC or X-Chat to connect to the chat, 95% of the time anybody joining as a ZUChat was usually a N00b, and 99% of the time the ZUChats got picked on by the regular chat members and usually is ran out of the chat room.

Example: [12:08]ZUChat has entered #zelda [12:09]Lars: OMFG, IT'S A ZUCHAT!! [12:09]*Phatman hugs the ZUChat [12:10]ZUChat has left #zelda

Sentiments of the name ZUChat: [12:58:11 AM] <AutoMatt> kwsn: Zuchat is another name for fail.

In February 2008, the infamous Java chat was replaced with a new Java applet integrated to the ZU forums. Anybody joining the chat would then automatically join as their forum name, with unregistered users and those not logged in joining as Unregistered, thus effectively limiting the fun of ZUChat to those old enough to remember it.

ZU Chat Staff
These selected members are like forum moderators, but for the IRC chat. These members can change the subject of thier chat channel, or kick/ban a member from the chat. Chat Admins control who is a normal member, and who has staff powers.

ZUHC
The ZUHC is short for Zelda Universe Holiday Cards. The project is leaded by manger, Zien, and was made to help spread multi-holiday cheer throughout the year. The cards are drawn by ZU's very own members, and the designs are based off of suggestions made by other members.

The Beginning
The ZUHC was based off of another project, called the HAHC. The HAHC is short for Humulation Army Holiday Cards. The project was introduced by Zien to ZU in October, 2008. The project was shut down because it got little to no support from other Humulation Army members. In November, 2008, Zien tried again, but this time made the project focus of Zelda Universe.net. Again, the thread got little to no support, so the project was shut down. Zien, now almost hopeless, came across the Plaza thread in ZU. He read it, and noticed that he could get support if he was to post there first. Margar, a forum mod, came across the thread, and was the first to support the project. Zien made many advertisements of member profiles, but only five replied back with support. Afterwards, Zien made the new ZUHC project thread in the community section, and the ZUHC HQ thread in the hidden Community Coordinators (ZU) section. Later, Steve arrive to give the project support, and was made a ZUHC card designer. A little later, the team discovered it needed one last person, someone to color the card by using computer programs. Zien the picked Ŧim to join the team, and become the final ZUHC staffer.

Projects In Development
The ZUHC is currently working on a Valentines Day card for Zelda Universe. The card will hopefully be posted in a thread in ZU, and will also have an ad for members to go to the thread from a post on the main site.

Members of the ZUHC Staff

 * Zien-Manager
 * Margar-Co Manager/Card Desinger
 * Steve-Card Designer
 * Ŧim-Logo Maker/Card Colorer

Zelda Encyclopedia
Zelda Encyclopedia: This was the predecessor to the Zelda Universe Wiki, contained a fine array of data, but was limited in the information offered. Its listing went from Aches to Zora, and was a useful tool to so many Zelda Universe users, unfortunately its data was limited, and because of this the Zelda Wiki looks to be a major improvement as it will be constantly updated by site users.