As of yesterday the Nightshade class needs a new leader. Cougar Pak announced on Camelot Vault's Hibernia Stalker Professions forums that he has been offered a job from Mythic Entertainment to be a Product Quality Tester for DAoC. Since he has accepted the offer he can no longer serve as team leader for the Nightshade class. Below is an excerpt from his post on the Vault forums, you can read the rest here:

I have loved my job as a TL, more than I've been able to show a large portion of the community due to the flammable nature that people as passionate of their class as the assassin community are. I don't blame any of you for that, I myself am as passionate as you all, else I never would have gotten this job in the first place. I have even enjoyed the debates on the more … hostile issues of our combined history together, even when some of you failed to take the time to read what I was writing hehe.

In other TL related news, Friar team leader Predian has been removed from his position after a Mythic investigation determined him to be the source for the leaked information of the Master Abilities list, that surfaced on several forums last week. You can read a little bit about it in this thread on the Camelot Vault and this one over on the Drunken Friar forums. Here is a quote from Predian concerning this on the Drunken Friar forums:

I deeply wish that I could say you are right in defending me, Renault, etc. I fucked up. Plain and simple. Mythic did the right thing.