A rebuttal - the Rise of the Metagame

RSV is fucking alone in its kind, powerful NPC crimcode, shady backstories, rejects the culture of the rest of the known world.

I once twinked up a magicker tailor in RSV, all the way to half-elemental.  RSV is awesome for magickers.

I have heard that Samos was absolutely NOT a staff member and that he was absolutely was.  Both 100% certain.  Either way, because he was a Templar at the End of the World times, it looked like he got treated very differently from any templar since.

I'm fairly certain that Samos' player was not on staff when her PC became a red robe templar. I don't know if she's joined staff since. I can confirm with 100% certainty that Garrick's player was not on staff when his PC became a red robe, but after Garrick's death (one of the most hilarious on Arm of all time, IMO) he did join the staff for a brief while.

You're confirming exactly what I said. I'll break it down:
Samos was played by a normal non-staff player, at least until Samos became a red-robe. (..."he started out played by a regular player")
At some point after that, (..."after he became a red") to my knowledge, Samos ceased to be played by that player, and was turned into an NPC and played by someone on staff (..."was taken over by staff and became an NPC").

What you said was...

Samos was played by a normal non-staff player (..."The player was mortal.")

I'm saying that Samos was NPC'ed eventually and from what I heard Alesix no longer had control of the character at that point. It's not "total fiction." I might have heard wrong on the last part, but we agree 100% on the first.

Then my memory is faulty. I was pretty sure someone dusted him off and took him out after the player stopped playing him for a couple of "cameo appearances."