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~The warriors of ancient India would blow the conch shells to announce battle, such as is described in the beginning of the war of Kurukshetra..~
-wikipedia.org
The story of the conch is not really that amazing. It is just one of those things that randomly occurred and for some reason stuck. However, it has played an effective part in the clan history and lore.. dating back to June of 2008. It was just an idea hatched up by r3v3rend, on the fly one evening, when he found himself playing alone on XBL. Occasionally, if that were the situation, he would utilize the marvel that was his mobile phone, and text T4nk to join him.
Not happy with simply texting the usual, "halo?" to T4nk, he instead went through the clutter of random images on his cell, and found the
Thundercats® logo. But r3v3rend did not stop there. Being a fan of all things Halo related, his mobile had a large collection of Halo themed
ringtones, and music. So, along with the logo, the opening operatic of the Halo theme was included. And when T4nk opened his cell phone
to read his newly arrived message, the choral voices sang, calling him to battle.
In his words, "It was glorious, I saw it, and it made me want to immediately get out of bed and fire up the XBOX."
And so, with that initial random text, it has become the official Conch call of Divine Wrath. Which of course then made it a necessity to have every members cell phone number, so that they too could bathe in the glory of the conch.
I feel the need to point out that the clan has made it their mission to abuse the english language by making the word, conch, a verb instead
of the proud noun that it used to be.
i.e. r3v3rend: Dude, we need more people to play Big Team ranked Battle.
T4nk: Hold on, let me conch some peeps.
r3v3rend: Word.
You can say that the birth of Divine Wrath came about back in 2002. After the introduction of the XBOX gaming console, alongside the greatest FPS known to man, many college
hopefuls lost themselves to explosive gun toting madness. Which altogether isn't a bad thing.
The founders, r3v3rend and T4nk, met each other early that college semester and immediately felt a strong bond.
The urge to destroy each other.....
Failing to do away with one or the other, over the course of countless titanic struggles, (which often involved the destruction of some piece of furniture), they realized that they both
had a similar love interest in gaming.
Over the next few years, beginning first with Halo: Combat Evolved, a group of friends was formed.
But it wasn't until the release of Halo 2, that this group of young men would find an outlet for their collective need for boom-boom joy.
With Halo 2 came the introduction of Clans. And after a night of heavy drinking, in the cold climes of upstate New York, r3v3rend and T4nk founded DIVINE WRATH.