User blog comment:Samuel Swordsmythe/Top 20 best guilds/@comment-3112181-20120623060146

Co. Black Guard didn't start the EITC. There were a lot of EITC guilds years before the Co. Black Guard came along. It is arguable whether Co. Black Guard should be in here, but Black Mercenaries and Co. Empire definitely should. Those were some of the first most successful guilds, the latter of which is considered by most to be the EITC Golden Age.