People often see the admin team - those who run the Tower - as a little group unto themselves, sometimes separated from the rest of the Tower. So we thought we'd make a page to let you know a bit about ourselves, so you can see just who you're dealing with when you're writing to greytower1@yahoo.com ;)

IC Name: Crysthia Faedryn Sedai
OOC name: Jennifer
Nicknames: Crys
Hails from: Florida
"Age" of player: 27
"Age" of the character: Several Decades
Main occupations: Collateral Analyst
Adores: Reading, Computers, my fiancee, and my three wonderful cats.
Hates: people who assume they can call me jenn or jenny, people who use chatspeak, especially in a professional environment.
Extra stuff: I'm exceedingly short, and wish I were tall, blond haired, and blue eyed, so i compensate by dying my hair black (makes sense doesn't it?) and playing a character that is blond haired and blue eyed, but I did make her as short as I am.
Story: I joined the GT several years ago when a friend told me about it. I rose through the ranks quickly and achieved both my ambitions, first by becoming First Reasoner and then Keeper of the Chronicles fairly quickly. After several happy months of Keeper-hood real life came crashing in as well as a terrible case of writers-block and I had to flee the GT, unsure when I'd be able to return though positive I wanted to. During by time away I lurked occasionally keeping up with general news and changes, waiting until I felt I was ready to rejoin and continue with my characters. Finally I felt I was ready, my work was stable, and I felt a nice itch to write again. Crysthia returned after a rather traumatic experience obtaining an item significant to winning the last battle. A few short months after my return I was called upon again to take up the Keepers Stole and intend to keep it for a long time to come.
Contact info: I have Trillian Astra, so I can be reached via just about any IM you can think of. AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google, MyspaceIM, and even Facebook. If you don't have IM or I'm not on, my E-mail is Maharet83@yahoo.com and i check this many times a day.

IC Name: Durent Antian Asha'man
OOC name: Trent
Nicknames: He's, um, TRENT.
Hails from: BYU Idaho
"Age" of player: ?
"Age" of the character: ?
Main occupations: Star Trek!
Adores: Star Trek...
Hates: We don't know.
Extra stuff: We don't know that either, but we know he likes Star Trek...
Story: Hopefully has nothing to do with Star Trek.
Contact info: tmenssen@gmail.com.

IC Name: Zarishka (And also Catieri, Jelena, Ysolde, and Mielli)
OOC Name: Elizabeth
Nicknames: Belle, Liz, Beth, Lizbeth, Cat, Kitten
Hails from: Oregon originally, and BC these days.
Age of Player: 28
Age of Character: Zarishka is an Aes Sedai of middle age (which is what, like 80 for an Aes sedai?) inhabiting the body of a 20-something Saldaean farmgirl. She also spent 60 years dead, but she doesn't recall any of it.
Occupation: SAHM (That is, Stay-at-Home Mom)
Adores: Tragic endings, violent storms, and LUSH sex bombs.
Loathes: Bees, ranch dressing, and poor grammar.
Extra Stuff: I was hiding under your porch because I love you. Can I stay?
Story: Once upon a time, in a faraway land that was far, far away, there lived a princess. She kissed a frog, who turned into a prince in a puff of sparkly pink magic mist, and they got married and lived happily ever after. The end. Note that this has nothing to do with my life or my time at the Grey Tower or anything else. On a more serious note, I joined the Grey Tower in 1999 just before what we affectionately refer to as The Breaking, and wandered back in 2001 as Chialla. I left sometime in 2004, came back in 2008, and here I am.
Contact Info: dustkitty(at)gmail(dot)com for email, lachattefatale(at)hotmail(dot)com for MSN, and lachattefatale for both Y! and AIM. I'm also in the GT chatroom quite often.

IC Name: Jerid Walker
OOC Name: Jack
Nicknames: Cupcake
Hails from: California
Age of Player: 26
Age of Character: 115 or so
Occupation: Photographerish
Adores: Stargate, Admin work, and Cat.
Loathes: Scrubbing pots, ill-timed network outages, and public decency laws.
Extra Stuff: Jack has the amazing ability to burn vegetables during the prep stage.
Story: Once upon a time, Jack didn't write his own admin profile thingy, so Elizabeth did it for him.
Contact Info: mageborn12@yahoo.com

IC Name: Zaephra Liadan Wyrd
OOC Name: Misty
Nicknames: Koi
Hails from: Washington State, by way of Oregon and Texas.
"Age" of player:I'm 30. And you had better not be laughing. It will happen to you, too, someday.
"Age" of the character: Zaephra is nearing her forties.
Likes:I knit, crochet, and participate in largescale crayon art. I enjoy cooking and dramatic movies, especially indie ones.
Hates: Hot dogs, rude people, and bullies, particularly the ones who pick on the mentally challenged.
Story: I joined the Grey Tower in the summer of 1999 when I broke my ankle as Annaudra Damodred. (What, I wasn't big on original then, either.) The Tower had just/was then Breaking, and I was the first (and only) Novice for a bit. It recovered. So did I. Then I left after having a stillbirth, returned after daughter number 2 (autistic, Adia) and left for some maladministration, returned in 2006 pregnant with twins (Alaina and Patience, 3) and left because nothing survives twins. Then they got independent and I got bored. IC story? Well, for all you Novices saying it now, yes, your Mistress of Novices really was conceived on the slopes of Shayol Ghul. By an ex-dreadlord, no less. WTG Aeric! Zaephra was fostered by the Grey sister Annaudra, who had another daughter at the time by her own husband. The girls diverged after the death of their mother (when I wasn't permitted to play both after killing my PC to have two characters) and Annaudra's bond to Sylantry Latremaine passed to her foster child, Zaephra. Zae is an Indigo Sister and retains a huge interest in tapping Talents and teaching them.
Contact info: My email is koifish@comcast.net. My MSN addy is kallalillie@hotmail.com.

IC Name: Deek Mythis (Neclon Zantoo)
OOC Name: James
Nicknames: JJ, J, Nice guy...lol. (I don't really like that one.)
Hails from: KCMO, live in Korea right now.
"Age" of player: 22
"Age" of the character: Almost 40
Main Occupation: US Army
Adores: Playing video games. Surfing the net. Working on cars. Talking to my gf.
Hates: Fake people.
Extra Stuff: I secretly love my job. lol. I made Deek because my first character got denied. Neclon is the first character that I was going to make for the Tower. I made Neclon to look just like me with the difference being his hair and eyes. Mine are brown and brown. I never make characters to have the same hair and eyes as me. Not to sure why that is. lol.
Story: For those people that have been at the Tower for some time I was recruited by Daivon Sydias Caspian. I loved his style of writing and wanted to see how he would write on a spermatic base. By the time that I came up with something to challenge him he had already left the Tower. I still seek for that thrill. Lucan/Caden gave me that. He then left not to long after. I have left the Tower twice. It was a bad way to go but it happened. I got writers block and work hit hard. Both times were without warning. I did not say that I was leaving or anything. I just stopped posting. Until now I have left at each rank. Left as a Soldier and then again as a Dedicated. Both times that I left the Tower my return was joined with a fanfic. I have always loved writing. I am using the help of the Tower to further my ability to write so that I might write my own navel. When I first joined I never wanted any high position or admin spot. I was given the rank of First Scholar once fully raised. I did my best with the time that I had. Then I moved up to MoS. I plan to keep this one for some time. I applaud all the higher admin for their skill and knowledge of online site maintenance and the ability to run this community. I am a very easy going person. Easy to approach about anything. I love to answer question. If I don't know the answer I will do my best to find it for you or refer you to someone else that might know it.
Contact info: mcnally_2006@hotmail.com for both email and MSN.

IC Name: Kailitha d'ra Din
OOC Name: Melonie
Nicknames: Mel, Kai.
Hails from: Utah. That's the little state in America that has all those weirdos in it. Including me!
"Age" of player:I'm 28
"Age" of the character: Uh... this one's tricky because technically she should have aged the same rate as the drin'far'ji she entered the same time as but... he hasn't done as much as I have so it's weird. So for the sake of argument I'd say she's 25-ish...
Likes: Anime, reading. writing, drawing, and chatting with folk online. Oh and being with friends...
Hates: > Migraines, having the drive to only do one creative outlet (i.e. drawing instead of writing or vice versa), being unemployed
Story:IRL was dragged kicking and screaming into the Grey Tower by Dwillon and Janwill, fought them off for a good eight months too. Until finally I caved and joined the Tower as a drin'far'ji after peppering them with questions about channeling. To make that up to them I made my SC a Novice... (lol). IC story? Kailitha or Kai to her friends was a simple carpenter's daughter who was born and raised in Altara. She came to the Grey Tower because her father thought that it would be open minded about a female Warder than the White would. She raised quickly to the rank of Ji'alantin and then stayed there for about five years until she was made Gaidar. She became bonded her good friend Zander Kilgas and after a fall out with his lover Isabel the two became lovers and decided to get married.
Contact info: My email and MSN are the same kailithadradin@hotmail.com. I like meeting new people and chatting with them so don't hesitate to get ahold of me.

IC Name: Storm, Poppy
OOC Name: Tawni
Nicknames: Mulan
Hails from: Oklahoma
Age of Player: 20
Age of Character: Well Storm has the ageless thing going for her, which is good so I don't have to keep track. And Poppy is young, but will always act like she's about 7.
Occupation: Stargate
Adores: My fiance, playing WoW, Gears of War, watching Stargate, 4-wheeling, snow skiing, jet-skiing, reading, rain, and planning the sexy man party with Elizabeth.
Loathes: Spicy food, cats, bad drivers, and the cone of shame
Extra Stuff: I want three children, like driving anything with four wheels extremely fast, occasionally chase cows, and when I am married I will get a dog and name it Cho so its name will be Cho Chang.
Story: No one wants to hear that long debacle. Let's suffice it to say that I've been at the Tower off and on for 8 years and I've been many different adminish things and three different characters. Also, you want to RP with Poppy. Trust me.
Contact Info: elerrina13@hotmail.com for email and MSN, and elerrina13 for AIM.