There is no dirty story or anything.
Serenity story starts looong loong time ago. Serenity is one of the oldest guilds on server and it was there even before current Serenity core has even started to play.
Some of us (Frung, Midran, Ristotal) started in Cro legion - guild made of Croat players. After some time we had some disputes with current GM and almost all left and joined that old Serenity. At that time we recruited Mikah also (that is we recruited rogue Eleana, level 60 with absolutely no XP in instances)
In that Serenity where some nice players that are in Serenity now (like Hinsur, but correct me if I'm wrong).
Serenity was about to progress nicely when GM left for Mexico. Then all went wrong, and some who wanted progress left (some for other servers, some for other guilds > Driven, AfH and Chimera).
Those where the days of combined raids with some other guilds and after some time we chose best partner and decided to merge with them. It was Focus.
It was nice there, all officers from Serenity where officers there also, and I was really enjoying it >I was officer without position - one that points on problems but doesn't need to do anything:D (However, I suspect that they didn't want me as mage CL because I was fire at that time.
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We where progressing, and again, when we did get some sort of rhythm TBC came out. We knew that instance cap was lower now and we (old Serenity core) decided to start again from scratch. We had no problems with anyone in Focus, and there is no bad blood, it is just that we wanted it to be different. In TBC they wanted hard core approach to conquer it all, and we wanted it more casually. For example Focus used DKP in Kara, while we decided to go with common sense on Kara loot.
It took us some time go build up good raiding core, but I think that right now we are on good way. Soon after we got back to Serenity, one man band Mjoelnir (he and his 98 alts) joined us and it was start of Serenity as it is now. Next group was Cliffor and guys from old UP and later Ral with Aiwendel, Tusw0r and JJ.
That is story in short. I'm sorry if I forgot anybody. If you have something to add put it down, and we can write our official history..
As in every guild, we had few bad apples over time, but I guess you can't avoid that.