Blessing of Grand

The Blessing of Grand is a recent phenomenon on various servers, in which heroic, epic and improved epic XP stones are handed out to characters.

1st level characters claiming to be Acolytes or missionaries of the word of Grand approach and send tells to characters in various public areas. Usually starting with "Hail Friend" or Hail Mylady". The Acolytes then ask if the character has heard the word of Grand, or that they have come to give the blessing of Grand to the character, and then open up a trade window. The trade window will contain any number of XP stones, the most reported thus far being 9 heroic stones, and the "Acolytes" sends another form-written tell that always say:

''Greetings friend!

Please accept this stone of experience as a gift from Grand, known as many names including the Magnificent Fiery Foot, Master of Hags, Forest Lord, Spanker of Harharhar, Destroyer of LGS systems and Vault Nader.

''Grand is not only the secret lover of Arkat, but also a man of Peace and wisdom that wishes for you to grow powerful and spread his name and peace with all those you adventure with! ''

Yours faithfully ReRemi!

The number of follow up tells can vary but usually include various versions of encouragement to use the Blessings of Grand to become more powerful until the character is "GRAND" as well and tells the recipient that they are now a "Grand Fellow".

It appears this is some form of underground marketing in advance of the U47, which indicates SSG is really making an effort to hold onto the player base they picked up via the Pandemic promotions.


 * Cordovan confirmed on 7/9/2020 that this is not an official SSG campaign. He goes on further to say only that it is possible that it MAY involve violations of TOS by those involved but does not state categorically, receivers be warned.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/517851-Blessings-of-(removed)-are-these-SSG-PR-event?p=6357663#post6357663