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 (though I prefer Crys)
Nicknames: Crys
Hails from: Florida
"Age" of player: 27
"Age" of the character: Several Decades
Main occupations: Collateral Analyst
Adores: Reading, Computers, 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 after a long while of holding that post I took up the mantle of Amyrlin Seat
Contact info: 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: None that have stuck very long
Hails from: Currently BYU Idaho, though home is Kansas City, KS
"Age" of player: 24
"Age" of the character: Near a century...ish?
Main occupations: Full-time student, majoring in Information Systems
Adores:Reading, movies & tv(including Star Trek... :) ), singing, music, computers, writing, and others.
Hates: People who can't drive, those who don't consider the ramifications of their actions, those who can't speak or write their own language well...and many many others.
Extra stuff: I consider friendships and family the most important thing in my life, and will go to great lengths to fix things if I know I've unknowingly offended someone I care about.
Story: Funny enough, does have something to do with Star Trek. My first online role-playing experience was on a Star Trek SIMM called Upsilon Fleet. I wrote there with who was known here at the Tower as T'Kari al'Kun. He isn't around anymore, but when the Star Trek SIMM collapsed he told me about this place and so I went to the bookstore the next day and bought Eye of the World. Been here ever since, on and off here and there.
Contact info: tmenssen@gmail.com.

IC Name: Caden Ives Gaidin
OOC name: Kenneth Edberg
Nicknames: Kenito, Keed.
Hails from: Sweden.
"Age" of player: Born the 9th of October, 1981.
"Age" of the character: Harrumph.....
Main occupations: Writer, Father, Salesman and Purchaser.
Likes: My girlfriend Marie, martial arts, writing, reading and fashion.
Hates: Insubordinate god-moders, inefficent people, inconvinient writer's-block and insufferable customers.
Story: Caden grew up lifting cargo in the Bandar Eban docks. When he escaped from his uncle, he got recruited as a squire for a High Lord of Tear. Lord Varcan, which was his name, schooled him in the art of warfare and history. When Varcan’s convoy left for Illian many years back, it was attacked by brigands. Varcan was lethally injured, and with his dying breath he bid Caden to take his long sabre, and honour it. Henceforth, Caden is both Domani and Tairen in a sense, but it was later revealed that he was of Arafelin blood. He travelled and worked as a sell-sword for a long time before he found a purpose in his sad life. Leaving his questionable occupation at the age of 28, he joined the Tower. After years in service he attained the rank of Gaidin, was bonded to Leanna Sedai - who later became the Amyrlin Seat - and was soon after that promoted to Gaidin Captain. A few years later, following the Ripples of Shadow RP, he was appointed to Master of Training and disciplined the Trainees in the Warder Yards. Leanna and Caden parted because of the man he became after his face was burned. He was later Bonded to Mialaha Sha'hal Sedai. After learning that he was the true heir to the High Seat of House Ives in Arafel, he left the Tower to reclaim his birthright. He was away for 15 years, but he returned after being bonded to Miahala Sha'hal Sedai for the second time. In time, he was elected as the new Master of Arms after Sigmund von Danzig. After the events surrounding the Battle of Lights (the Sevenfold Conflict), he and Miahala killed the current M'Hael after discovering that he was a Darkfriend. They had to keep the truth from the Tower populace to prevent a political crisis, so they left the Tower ignorant of the real circumstances of the murder, and only returned once the Shadow again theatened the Light.

Contact info: Email me at edberg.k@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
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.
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: 27
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: 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 husband, WoW, Gears of War, Starthings, UP, 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 one day I will get a dog and name it Cho so its name will be Cho Chang.
Story: I joined the Tower when I was 12 years old with character-that-shall-not-be-named. I was a sitter for the Green and then Mistress of Novices until I left the in 2005-ish. I rejoined as Storm in 2007, had to take another GT break while I lived in Hawaii, and came back and got Storm raised to First Selector and WCR. Then, another break. (Why do I keep coming back?) I came back early 2010, Storm was First Selector and WCR again, and I made the monstrosity that is Poppy because Storm's angst was slowly killing me. Now I run around frantically trying to keep up with my duties and those of whatever admin are on shara at the moment.
Contact Info: tawni.chang@gmail.com for email, elerrina13@hotmail.com for MSN, and elerrina13 for AIM.

IC Name: Jip, Nesir, Adala
OOC Name: Katy
Nicknames: None that I care to repeat :D
Hails from: Cumbria
Age of Player: 21
Age of Character: Jip's about mid to late 30's (Ok hes older but I age him slowly) Nesir is 18 and Adala is 17
Occupation: I study German and Arabic at the University of Exeter
Adores: Writing, reading, traveling and my family
Loathes: The AU (athletic union at my uni), writersblock, thats about it really, I'm quite easy going :)
Extra Stuff: I am teeny (4 foot 11 and Zaephra's six year old is bigger than me!) oh and I'm a ninja :P Really!
Story:*My* Story is that I joined in 2007 when I was 18 and have been here ever since. Jip was created in a storm of emotion when my sister was in hospital, Nesir was created because Jip hated Syria and refused to talk to me while I lived there, Adala was created just because I wanted to - so perhaps there is hope for her yet!
Contact Info: Jipaltara@yahoo.co.uk and Chestnut_Kantya@hotmail.com for msn

IC Name: Tukal, Nelune (Jessica) and Thoia
OOC Name: Jess
Nicknames: Pretty much just Jess.
Hails from: Canada, specifically Ontario, more specifically Waterloo
Age of Player: 25
Age of Character: Tukal has got to be 70 or so. He considers himself old compared to everyone else, that's for sure. Nelune looks 18, and has a 30 year old Aes Sedai in her head. Thoia's probably 17 by now?
Occupation: Tech support
Adores: Writing, roleplaying, dancing, gaming
Loathes: Intolerance, olives, and people who are huge jerks.
Extra Stuff: I'm gay, trans and proud of it.
Story:I remember joining in 2001, or maybe it was late 2000. Ok, my memory isn't that good. Jessica was created because I was in high school and trying to figure out what being a girl in a boys body meant. Tukal was just a secondary character because I felt I should have at least one boy character to keep up apperances. I went to university in 2002, and in 2004 I had to leave the tower for personal reasons. Yay for Personal reasons. Came back in 2010, killed off Jessica and put her in the body of Nelune, then created a new more normal thoia. I've been around the block, through writers block, character malaise, extreme RP exuberance, and now I'm just finding out me. Hope that's cool with you guys.
Contact Info: thepain_thepain@hotmail.com is my MSN. I use pidgin, so I can use pretty much any IM if you need it. I just don't regularly post them for everyone to see. :)

IC Name: Miahala, Lysira, Gareth, Nykkolaia & Seira
OOC Name: Bella
Nicknames: Bella
Hails from: New England, Sadly
Age of Player: Born November of 1983
Age of Character: Mia is older than dirt, well over a hundred. Lysira and Gareth are in their 30s. Nykk is in her latter teen years. Seira is a few years younger than Nykk.
Occupation: Stay-at-Home Wife & Mother, Author-Wannabe, Online Work for Family Business
Adores: Husband, Son, Family, Friends, Writing/Role-playing, Reading, Dancing
Loathes: Mean People, Stupid People, Brussel Sprouts
Extra Stuff: I've now created a version of Miahala in four different RPGs: WoT, Star Trek, WoW and RoH. How's that for nuts and obsessive?
Story: I've been around this place forever. I joined in June of 1999 and faded away over 2004 for major life changes, officially retired for a year from March of 2009 to February of 2010 and am now back. This place is like a person who feeds stray cats, and I'm a stray cat. Fed me once, and I keep coming back. The IC? Takes too much space...
Contact Info: Email is your best bet with me: boom.baby83@gmail.com