Written By Adora
Nov. 16, 2018, 12:12 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Seems relevant.
Written By Morrighan
Nov. 16, 2018, 11:38 a.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Bliss
As Duke Vercyn has said, those who may be viewed as heroes, they don't go around boasting or grandstanding to garner attention for themselves. They don't go around and shout at the top of their lungs what they've done and demand that people oooh and aah over them or slather them with praise for how spectacular and amazing they are. It is duty, to do what must be done, regardless of the danger. It is selflessness and sacrifice. It isn't about glory. What wars have you fought in? What have you done besides complain and berate others, going into a harangue because they have said or done something that you don't personally agree with? It doesn't matter if YOU believe so and so isn't deserving of being committed to memory as a hero. Mind your own matters and let people honor the fallen and grieve how they will, it is no concern of yours.
You do yourself a disservice by speaking ill of the dead. Who cares whether you liked them or not? It doesn't exclude them from being remembered fondly by those that knew them. There were some that fell that I didn't particularly hold warm feelings for, but I can honor and respect them for the sacrifices they made, for facing the abyss, for knowingly going into danger, at good or bad odds, knowing they might not make it out alive. Doesn't matter what I may have thought of them personally, they're still deserving of respect and recognition for their bravery. It is because of their efforts, and everyone else involved, that we have been successful so far.
You might have missed heroism while playing at it on the Champions stage, glamoured up like a doll, basking in the applause and attention of the crowd to further inflate your ego and misplaced sense of self-importance.
Written By Leona
Nov. 16, 2018, 11:22 a.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Alarice the Great wanted nothing more than to see what was over the horizon. She liked throwing vases, especially at her husband's head. She was, by all accounts, argumentative and occasionally pig-headed. None of that is on her statue in the Hall of Heroes.
We remember what we value. In the Hall of Heroes go to each individual Hall. In the Lyceum, those immortalized there were canny, crafty - snatching victory from the jaws of defeat by machinations and manipulation. Go to Grayson and you'll find the great diplomats - those who were willing to put Compact above self. Who were willing to sacrifice much in a practical attempt to save their people. Go on - each one will tell you what those people prize.
The only purpose a hero can serve is an inspiration to hold a specific value dear. Their flaws fall away, their quirks and idiosyncracies forgotten in lieu of the story that remains to be told. The inspiration to a thought, an emotion, a response.
But talk of heroes is not for the moment of mourning. The moment of mourning is a time to remember the person - with all their flaws and failures, all their dreams and successes. Heroes are not mourned, they are frozen in time. But they are not real. In this moment, as people fall in defense of the Compact take a moment to mourn, to grieve, and to remember the lives that were lived. Don't turn your dead into heroes too soon, lest you forget all the individual uniqueness that made them so loved.
Written By Sparte
Nov. 16, 2018, 10:11 a.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Written By Valdemar
Nov. 16, 2018, 9:12 a.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Written By Soren
Nov. 16, 2018, 8:29 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Macda
Or that's what a scholar told me years ago.
Unless you're looking to draw attention to yourself, in which case, have at it.
Written By Bliss
Nov. 16, 2018, 8:16 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Vercyn
As for the matter of my worst enemy?
If anyone thinks positively of Everard Telmar after everything that has come out, I think those people are rather scum, as well.
Even if you mean my living ones? The same thing applies. There are true monsters in this world.
Written By Miranda
Nov. 16, 2018, 8:12 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
I do wear it.
Silk is smooth and beautiful and feels divine.
All things considered, it is quite the compliment.
Written By Brigida
Nov. 16, 2018, 7:01 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
But I suppose these things happen when your journal while drunk.
Written By Brigida
Nov. 16, 2018, 6:55 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Well, name names, dear.
You offered a brief list of heroes, and so generously offered to acknowledge the soldier's sacrifice, but I do believe the people of Arx deserve A Whisper's List of Cretins.
I will say, I don't believe anyone other than perhaps Grandmaster Caspian has said that Sable was a hero, but she was a soldier who did her duty. Of course, some of those heroes you named, some of the heroes in the Hall of Heroes, were simply people who did their duty on a grand scale. Sir Erec Redhill was doing his duty. His life saved a city, but does history even say who was in that city? Sable saved one life, but what's to say what that one life might do that he wouldn't have otherwise?
The problem isn't that people turn their loved ones into heroes. The problem is people, wonderful, musical, theatrical people, who think being a hero matters so much (and you may wish to revisit your list and see what each of those heroes listed think about heroes) that they draw a hard line between hero and cretin.
My friend died saving someone she barely knew in defense of a Compact she barely trusted. I am not about to call on Prince Edain to nominate her for a place in the Hall of Heroes, but knowing of her sacrifice makes me keenly disinterested in some random Champion's thought on why our dead friends just aren't quite up to snuff.
Written By Audric
Nov. 16, 2018, 6:47 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Gareth
Written By Audric
Nov. 16, 2018, 6:44 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Bliss
Written By Preston
Nov. 16, 2018, 5:01 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
The bodies will be taken to the harlequins for preparation, before the remains go to the ossury at the Grand Maosoleum of the Faith. I will have to speak with Dame Thena once she is up and organise a Solace escort for that on the road.
Each time it feels we come closer to the point of defeat, each defense is one step closer to a defeat we cannot recover from. I am tired of it. It is time to restore the Faith Militant to what it was in the time of the great eras of the past, to the force that held against the darkest times in the Elven Wars and since. It is time.
Written By Shard
Nov. 16, 2018, 2:52 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Bliss
Written By Vercyn
Nov. 16, 2018, 2:09 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Bliss
Do not begrudge others in how they mourn. It is unbecoming. If you do not have anything good to say about the deceased, it is best to say nothing at all. Even your most foul enemy is someone's dearest friend and a mother's child.
Written By Kenna
Nov. 16, 2018, 12:35 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Arrows hurt.
I mean, I knew this.
I just didn't realize //how// much it would hurt.
Written By Orathy
Nov. 15, 2018, 11:24 p.m.(1/2/1010 AR)
Written By Bliss
Nov. 15, 2018, 7:49 p.m.(1/1/1010 AR)
Many of the recent dead, I never met. Some, only briefly - those ones, I actually have an awful lot of good to say about, and wish I had made more of an effort to speak with more often.
But let us not make every dead person into a hero, claim that their deeds match those of Dame Sugan or Steel or Queen Valeria or Duke Orlando. We do our past a disservice when we add cretins to those ranks. We diminish ourselves, because our stories of our heroes are aspirational, tales of who we could be when we are the best that we could be. We all have different concepts of what that means, but on the base idea, I think, we all agree. On the importance of these figures.
To all of the common soldiers who have died in these fights, who aren't having long, lengthy journals written about them: I see you, I see your sacrifices, and I recognize they are the equal of the others. Lack of a title does not mean that you did not honor Gloria, or that the Queen loves you any less. It does not mean that your family isn't suffering as well, that our streets aren't full of more orphans, that there are husbands and wives out there faced with the grim prospect of how to survive this winter with half the money they once had.
May all the dead have a better go of it on their next Turn, or find Elysia everything they dreamed it to be and more.
Written By Riagnon
Nov. 15, 2018, 7:27 p.m.(1/1/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Sabine
Written By Soren
Nov. 15, 2018, 6:59 p.m.(1/1/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Cybele
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