Through a few friends from grade school back in May of 2006. Those days were amazing, in my opinion. The wilderness was filled with tons of players to kill and the entrance of the wilderness of Varrock were heavily packed. I remember the day I first stumbled upon the wilderness as a level 15. Wearing full iron thinking I could take these kids on and get instantly rekt by a random player. I had an adrenaline rush to get back into action, I trained numerous combat levels and this time I went back in full adamant armour. I killed several players before getting lured in a multi-way combat zone and they trashed me. Made a few friends during my venture of pking, lead a pking group, and started trashing people. Then the unfortunate event of Jagex deciding to take away the pking ability in the wilderness was very unsettling and heartbreaking.
I went off to explore the rest of Gielinor. Training my skills up and questing. Feel in love with some of the lore that was provided within the quests. I even tried those so-called "pvp worlds", it didn't feel the same as before, it was saddening. Then one of my friends mentioned role-playing on W31 and thought I would give it a try with him. I was sucked in right away, I went off to join a family-clan called Syvians runned by Isurs and DM. I was new to the whole role-playing aspect of the game and realized it was filled with "RP godmodders", which I didn't mind at the time. The experience was really great, pretending to raid each other's POHs or "meeting room" and killing characters off so they had to remake their RP character. During my time in the Syvians, I joined a group called The Shadow Knights. At the time, I didn't know it was a revolt group against the Syvians lead by one of its member but he was a good friend of mine. Soon after the Syvians were starting to split into factions after a wedding between Isurs and King. Through the Mist of Chaos is where I stumbled upon The Empire of Zaros and meet the leader, Waffle667. I finally joined the clan days later in October of 2009.
I felt pretty lost in the beginning, didn't know what it felt like to be in an actual clan. I later joined the East Kingdom which was basically all of Morytania for RP purposes. During this time the clan had an on-going feud with the guy named Term2ui(I think that's what his name was spelled) and his clan called Imperial Runescape Empire(IRE). Which later was destroyed and got rebranded to Kingdom of France and the feud continued. This is where I attempted my shot at the barrow brothers and started joining clan events for GWD. A succession lead by Chaos taking half of the clan with him and created his own clan happened during this time as well. Waffle went zerk on this guy and declared a full-out war against his clan. So 2 on-going wars happening and only one of which meet the battlefield. I remember as a clan we went into the Clan leader's POH during their clan meeting and spammed them, this would be a regular thing to do till later Chao's clan disbanded.
During the day of the clan leader's birthday in 2009, Erey took up upon himself to attempt to sabotage the clan. He was a gold star and access to the shared account for the friend chat account. He literally kicked and banned all the members from the FC. This threw the entire clan into a complete panic mode until Archie(Another gold star) came on and realized what has happened and pmed all of the members to join his FC, which ultimately saved the clan. Erey was later exiled from the clan and claimed it was the syvians doing because he was of them. This was proved false in attempting to frame the current EOZ members who were proved to be in the syvians at the time. The Kazans later defeated the Syvians at the clan wars to end the syvians once in for all, it was said that Big Guy and/or EOZ aided to end them but cannot be too sure due to missing this event. Big Guy created "The Republic of W31", Black Knights of W31, White Knights of W31, The Empire of Zaros, Kazans, The Royal Empire, and some others were a part of it in the beginning. EOZ entered into a cold war with The Roman Empire to see who has the most members with the best gear, an arms race as you will for a couple of years(To be cont..in another post).