"In Homer's Odyssey, Mentor was the teacher of Telemachus, the son of Odysseus. But Mentor was more than a teacher. Mentor was half-God and half-man, half-male and half-female, believable and yet unreachable. Mentor was the union of both goal and path, wisdom personified." - Daloz, 1983
Currently a mentor is considered to be a teacher, a guide and a role model.
It is someone we look up to for their knowledge and experience.
We turn to them for a guidance, for precious advices and most importantly to learn and improve ourselves.
Mentor might, but doesn't necessarily need to be a friend to a one seeking an advice.
In WOD we have a group of people called Mentors.
They are responsible for guiding all people in game, answering their questions and helping as much as they can.
Mentors should have a wide knowledge about game rules, chat rules, forum and forum rules as well as all the quests, items, interface and basically anything else that can be known about the game.
Take in mind that mentors in game are more of a 3/4 human and only 1/4 of a God, don't expect them to jump right away with the answer to your complex question. Very often they need some time to look for an answer, just be patient.
Here is a link for all mentors online along with their status: (don't hesitate to use it whenever you need a mentor)
Mentors http://legend.urlov.net/mentors_online?race=M
Mentors have one more important responsibility which is maintaining the chats, whenver the chat rules are broken and you complain the messages -> Mentors make a judgment and according to rules punish the outlaw, usually by awarding them a silence ban
That's what mentors should do and what they are given awards for, so if you ever meet with mentor not taking care of their duties feel free to report it to Head Mentor or to a special thread on forum:
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