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Written By Soren

Dec. 29, 2018, 6:56 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

Wish I could give a shit about all these fuckoffs coming in to say how wonderful they both are and how we're better off with them.

You know what that tells me? We got something they want. Either that, or we're a threat to something. Everybody always wants something and more often than not, it's usually self-serving. So these yahoos roll in an start swinging their dicks around. If you ask me, I'd also wager they're looking for some more meat shields in what spat they got against each other.

Fuck if I know what any of this really means. But the way I figure it? We've done alright on our own.

So thanks but no thanks.

Written By Domonico

Dec. 29, 2018, 5:37 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

So I have now encountered a Nox'alfar, and his giant, purple spider.

I just wrote that sentence and have looked at it again and it feels wrong to have written that.

Written By Sanya

Dec. 29, 2018, 5:07 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Petal

A sweet, talented young woman who invited me to the Spring Lodge Planting. It was wonderful to have gotten to know her and I look forward to the event.

Written By Daniella

Dec. 29, 2018, 4:52 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

This was a lovely gathering, the hostess put together a simple but still engaging game. I was slightly disappointed that nothing actually caught fire and nobody fought a duel to settle a lifelong feud, but you can't have everything. Also I was able to slip out before all that rapid drinking caught up with anyone in an unpleasant way.

Written By Alrec

Dec. 29, 2018, 4:46 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

Sure, they got big fancy ships but can their ship do J turns? Oh, it can...

Written By Domonico

Dec. 29, 2018, 4:23 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

So we have Emissaries from differing Empires approaching the Compact and making various offers of 'protection'. As far as I am concerned the Compact does not need the protection of other powers. With that in mind I will do what Malvici always do... prepare for war.

Written By Mikani

Dec. 29, 2018, 3:32 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

I am looking into adding to Sparte's list of alcohol of Arx. I have already added to the list but I am looking for more. If you have a vintage, rum, whiskey, vodka anything that is in your collection let me know so I can update the list.

Working with Sparte and Macda on this. Thank you!

Written By Shard

Dec. 29, 2018, 3:28 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

If you approach that ship and you are not a messenger delivering a reply straight from the King, you are an impossible idiot. Stay away from it. Stay away from both of them. These people do not play around, and you aren't going to gain some advantage by being the first moron to try to make friends.

Written By Fairen

Dec. 29, 2018, 2:49 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

"As Arx endures, we remember"

These are particularly 'interesting' times we find ourselves in. Keep these words in mind as both history and future unravels itself to us.

Written By Daniella

Dec. 29, 2018, 2:40 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

I don't know anything about the Undying Emperor, but I have a hunch that his name is Phillip and he began life as the son of a simple tanner in a small village far to the South of the Lyceum. There the young boy led a happy and simple life until one day when exploring with his friends, he fell into a deep cave and came across a strange, glowing green stone.

The stone was unpleasant to the touch and so the boy simply hid it away and all but forgot about it until the next year when a vicious tribe of Shavs swept through, pillaging and killing. His father died and his childhood sweetheart was carried off with the tribe. Distraught and without hope, Phillip ran to where he had hid the stone and clutched it tight, the experience grew steadily more and more unpleasant until his whole body shook with tremors but still he clutched it.

Then all of a sudden it came to him, the power, the deepest and darkest of powers, that with which life and death itself could be controlled. With his stone he could call the dead back into service as warriors and restore life to those afflicted by sickness or even age. So he raised up the body of a long dead steed and rode out after the Shav tribe with preternatural speed.

In a few days he caught up to them, and raising the bodies of all the fallen animals from the forest in a dozen miles he attacked the camp, what tribal warriors came near to him he touched with his hand which was wreathed in emerald fire and the life went instantly out of them. He found his childhood sweetheart but he was to her eyes an unliving monster wreathed in emerald flame and she fled screaming, he ran after her but as he caught her the life too left her body and she fell limp in his embrace.

He used his power to return her to life, but what came back just a creature. So he moved on, driven by nothing now but the hollow desire for power he used his great army to conquer an empire, and to sustain his own youth indefinitely. Today he sit eternal on a throne of bone, with nothing but the husk of his childhood love beside him for company.

Written By Alrec

Dec. 29, 2018, 1:49 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

Cardia? I wonder if I can get me one them snake boots for cheap.

Written By Theodoric

Dec. 29, 2018, 1:46 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

The boot heels darkening the weak stone of the Lowers is draped in such finery these past days.

Written By Sina

Dec. 29, 2018, 1:27 p.m.(4/7/1010 AR)

Such curious wonders that I have only until now read about find their way to our shores. Representatives of the Undying Emperor and of Cardia. As a Scholar, I find this fascinating. To see ships from lands we have so rarely heard of. It is a Scholar's dream to record such a moment in history. I will be watching closely.

Written By Aleksei

Dec. 29, 2018, 12:41 p.m.(4/6/1010 AR)

Fuck your chains.

Written By Delilah

Dec. 29, 2018, 12:29 p.m.(4/6/1010 AR)

I suspect that there will be a run on liquor and wine this spring. Just a thought.

Written By Preston

Dec. 29, 2018, 11:12 a.m.(4/6/1010 AR)

So. Ambassadors with an offer. It is for the Dominus to respond for the Faith, I speak only as a simple man. But I am inclined to suggest that people only tell you that everything is lost when in truth there are still options other than the one they offer. Otherwise they would force the issue and let it move to its natural resolution.

The Gods and the Compact have seen us through over a thousand years - and the Gods gave us our greatest gift in our freedom. I would not be minded to give that away - I would die a freeman, even on my knees at the headman's block, rather than a long life as a slave.

But, the Gods also gave us guides to our conduct, and these people as long as they act with honour should be viewed as our guests. And people should behave appropriately.

Written By Alrec

Dec. 29, 2018, 10:51 a.m.(4/6/1010 AR)

Truth will never reveal themselves unless you take risks.

Written By Sparte

Dec. 29, 2018, 10:50 a.m.(4/6/1010 AR)

An addendum to Officer Kenna's missive:

Please do not throw ANYTHING at ANY ship.

Written By Sparte

Dec. 29, 2018, 10:49 a.m.(4/6/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Ysabel

I have seen your journal describing a sense of connection between things. You're in an exciting and frightening place, the cusp of putting something new together. I don't know what you're learning, or where it will bring you, but I wish you only courage and success.

Written By Lisebet

Dec. 29, 2018, 10:46 a.m.(4/6/1010 AR)

Given my feelings earlier, I went to the Hall of Heroes, and sat by Copper's statue there. I made sure to read all the inscriptions in the main hall, spending some time reflecting on these Heroes and their sacrifices, and then went over to the statue of Copper.

They believed in us, and in return all we can do is remember them.

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