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SiN

also known as Sinister

A long-running OG competitive PvP guild, remembered as one of TheMercs' most respected two-decade rivals. Per direct member accounts, SiN and the Mercs fought across many games from the late 1990s onward, rivals and periodic allies both.

SiN, also carried as Sinister, is remembered as one of TheMercs' most respected long-term rivals, a competitive PvP guild the Mercs met and fought across many games over roughly two decades. Per direct member accounts from the Mercs side, the relationship was the kind that only forms between organizations that stay in the arena for twenty years: rivals game after game, enemies in some wars and allies in others, with a mutual respect that outlasted any single title.

On Asheron's Call Darktide, SiN operated as one of the earlier organized PK monarchies during the formative political era of the server, cited alongside JARBO and Blood in retrospectives of that scene. From there the rivalry with TheMercs carried forward through the games that defined the following two decades of open-world and competitive PvP, the same long arc TheMercs themselves ran.

The human core of that story is the part worth getting right. SenDog was a central figure in SiN through the long rivalry with the Mercs. He passed away in recent years. He is remembered with respect on both sides of a rivalry that ran for two decades, which is the highest thing one OG guild tends to say about another: that the fighting was real, and the respect was too.

Editorial note: SiN's fuller multi-game history is being reconciled against the record. Several distinct guilds have carried the Sinister name across the years, and PVPWire is verifying which chapters belong to this SiN before committing them to the profile. The relational detail here reflects direct member testimony from TheMercs. Firsthand memory, specific games and campaigns, rosters, and footage are welcome through the submission form, and corrections are held to the same standard as any other account.

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Notable moments

  1. circa 2000

    Early Darktide political entry

    Operated as one of the earlier organized PK monarchies on Asheron's Call Darktide, contributing to the initial political layer that defined the server's identity. SiN is cited alongside JARBO and Blood in discussions of the formative period of the AC PvP scene.

    Sources: [1]
  2. 2000s-2020s

    Two decades against TheMercs

    Per direct member accounts, SiN and TheMercs traded fire game after game for roughly twenty years, an intertwined rivalry that moved from title to title. The two guilds fought as enemies in some campaigns and stood together in others. The through-line was mutual respect between two organizations that took competitive PvP seriously across an era most guilds never survived.

Notable members

  • SenDog
    Longtime core member

    Per direct member accounts from TheMercs, SenDog was a central figure in SiN across the guild's long rivalry with the Mercs. He passed away in recent years, around 2024. He is remembered with respect on both sides of a rivalry that ran for two decades. Rivals in the field, but the respect outlasted the games.