#ffgf

Before we started making darkwave ethereal music, and way before we were indulging in mythology deep-dives, The Undead Association had a different, fanciful and rather ... pixelated life.

The Undead Association was born in the mid-90s, amid the screech of dial-up internet, and the absolute cultural reset that was reading Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire for the first time.

You might know the feeling. You read about Louis and Lestat wandering through New Orleans, draped in velvet and existential dread, and suddenly your brain chemistry is permanently altered. We looked at that dramatic, tragic (toxic?), deeply codependent immortal lifestyle, shivered, and thought, "Yes. We need to organize these people."

(Thanks to our sister-in-law Anne for introducing us to Louis and Lestat.)

Thus, The Undead Association was born. But not as a band. As a roleplaying guild.

If you are an internet elder of a certain age, please bow your head in respect for the AOL Free Form Gaming Forum (FFGF). The freeform, text-based roleplaying in Red Dragon Inn is where UdA took its first breaths. We were out there typing paragraphs of gothic prose in chat rooms and rolling 2d20 in deathmatches while someone's mom yelled to get off the computer so they could use the landline. It was a chaotic time to explore edgy creativity.

Over the decades, as the internet evolved, so did the Undead Association. UdA packed up its metaphorical coffins and migrated through the digital ether, setting up shop in basically every major MMORPG that would tolerate antiheroes.

And honestly? We never really stopped.

If you happen to wander the roads of Azeroth in World of Warcraft today—specifically on the Wyrmrest Accord server—keep an eye out. The Undead Association guild is still active, still heavily invested in the lore, and still wearing too much transmog black.