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# The Vanguard Challenge

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### The most popular event

Created by [<mark style="color:red;">**Namarus**</mark>](/vyder-lore-book/species/midasis/namarus.md), and produced by his company Clash Productions, the Vanguard Challenge is an extremely popular annual event in the [<mark style="color:red;">**Nodus**</mark>](/vyder-lore-book/the-universe/the-nodus.md).

**It allows participants to face the most difficult and dangerous tests to prove their worth.**

Of course, strength is not everything and cunning, technique and betrayal are often used as weapons.

### Stick to your values

Namarus boasts to be a Vanguard creator but this event has no value with the VYDER that remains the only judge.

**A participant can very well win the challenge without becoming a** [<mark style="color:red;">**Vanguard**</mark>](/vyder-lore-book/the-universe/the-vanguards.md)**.**

On the other hand, he can also become a [<mark style="color:red;">**Vanguard**</mark>](/vyder-lore-book/the-universe/the-vanguards.md) without winning the challenge.

**What counts is how much he has surpassed himself and proved that he is ready to do anything to defend his values.**

But Namarus is careful not to reveal this in order to keep the myth around his event alive and to continue to absorb all the attention of the [<mark style="color:red;">**Midasis**</mark>](/vyder-lore-book/species/midasis.md), but also of some [<mark style="color:red;">**Eclerays**</mark>](/vyder-lore-book/species/eclerays.md).