Written By Mikani
Nov. 11, 2018, 11:11 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Caspian
Caspian ... I am sorry.
Written By Caspian
Nov. 11, 2018, 11 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
Regret is something I don't often feel. Usually I just let things roll off my back. But with Bashira dying, I feel a lot of regret. I regret not spending more time with her, I regret leaving her when I went off to become a hired blade. I regret letting her move to Arx. She died valiently, but that is cold comfort to not having her here anymore.
Written By Draven
Nov. 11, 2018, 10:51 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Rowenova
Compacty people!
As of a few minutes ago, my Wolfy Nova and I are married! We wrote out promises to each other! She calls me her Mate, her Husband, and her Lover! I call her my Wife and my Nova! We've agreed we want babies too! Oh! And a ceremony! Fluffy people have ceremonies! We will have one too! We'll invite all of our friends to our ceremony! Sir Floppington is officially apart of our family too!
As of a few minutes ago, my Wolfy Nova and I are married! We wrote out promises to each other! She calls me her Mate, her Husband, and her Lover! I call her my Wife and my Nova! We've agreed we want babies too! Oh! And a ceremony! Fluffy people have ceremonies! We will have one too! We'll invite all of our friends to our ceremony! Sir Floppington is officially apart of our family too!
Written By Michael
Nov. 11, 2018, 10:37 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Delilah
You are spoken of with kind words in many parts of the city, Lady Delilah Whitehawk. And they are even true, so of course some know of you.
Written By Michael
Nov. 11, 2018, 10:32 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Lailah
The day has come that Lady Lailah Bisland, my sister, of all people has a suit of rubicund armor. May she never have to use it.
Written By Harper
Nov. 11, 2018, 9:59 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
I'm back in Arx for a few hours, so I'm stealing a few minutes just to record a few thoughts. So much is happening at the Lodge now. Everything is building and I know soon our time will come when we face some of what we are hearing about in the reports. I can't say that I'm ready. Not sure I ever will be, but I'll do my best.
I do know that I'm ready to spend time with my family again, more than a few quick hours here and there. I just hope we don't lose many more people in this. That's been the hardest thing to deal with so far in the reports coming in, I gotta admit.
I think I'll go spend some time at some of the shrines while I'm back, too.
I do know that I'm ready to spend time with my family again, more than a few quick hours here and there. I just hope we don't lose many more people in this. That's been the hardest thing to deal with so far in the reports coming in, I gotta admit.
I think I'll go spend some time at some of the shrines while I'm back, too.
Written By Jhond
Nov. 11, 2018, 9:11 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
To the next chapter of this story of mine. Should I ever put it to writing hopefully it will not be used as bedtime stories to lull children to sleep.
Written By Felicia
Nov. 11, 2018, 9:10 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
My heartfelt congratulations to Baron and Baroness Farwatch, a recognition most apt and a couple most deserving.
Written By Bliss
Nov. 11, 2018, 8:43 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
I hate it when I wait until Journal Day to get all my writings in. I should know better, this happens every week, and yet it's becoming more and more of a bad habit. I'll have to figure out a way to address it, as well as this lethargy that seems to have taken me. I blame the chill of winter - for all the time I spent among Northerners last year, I simply cannot understand why people so thrill in a time of year that makes you ache.
But that is perhaps secondary to my real concern right now: This city has become a study in monochrome. I know that umbra and aeterna are fantastic fabrics and you can do so many things with them, and I have so many ideas still for outfits to design, but the lack of color has become depressing. I want violets and carmines and emeralds, gilded brocade on azure, embroidery and light. Aeterna and umbra can be accents as well if we really want them, but I feel we are losing the true beauty of color in the world. I know I have contributed to this, but I'm going to get some life back very soon here.
But that is perhaps secondary to my real concern right now: This city has become a study in monochrome. I know that umbra and aeterna are fantastic fabrics and you can do so many things with them, and I have so many ideas still for outfits to design, but the lack of color has become depressing. I want violets and carmines and emeralds, gilded brocade on azure, embroidery and light. Aeterna and umbra can be accents as well if we really want them, but I feel we are losing the true beauty of color in the world. I know I have contributed to this, but I'm going to get some life back very soon here.
Written By Bliss
Nov. 11, 2018, 8:29 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
Why are we, as a race, so afraid of our own emotions?
Written By Draven
Nov. 11, 2018, 8:25 p.m.(12/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Ruslan
You're getting married! Yes! Good! Congratulations! I should write you more! I want to meet your Special Future Wife! If it's okay!
Written By Octavia
Nov. 11, 2018, 8 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
I really do need to spend more time with my nephew. Perhaps if the court was less chaotically busy, I'd have the time.
Written By Duarte
Nov. 11, 2018, 8 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
I have been remiss in training my steed - the tiniest donkey in all of Arvum - in preparation for the upcoming Donkey Knights tournament.
I so nearly won last time, and with no prior experience. I am sure if my donkey is more properly disciplined I can win!
So a I shall sit here and drink whiskey while I watch the animal trainer make sure of it.
I so nearly won last time, and with no prior experience. I am sure if my donkey is more properly disciplined I can win!
So a I shall sit here and drink whiskey while I watch the animal trainer make sure of it.
Written By Sabine
Nov. 11, 2018, 7:42 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
Note to the staff:
Replace the pillows. I believe these have a tear, I've found loose feathers in my chambers.
Replace the pillows. I believe these have a tear, I've found loose feathers in my chambers.
Written By Faruq
Nov. 11, 2018, 7:33 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
Things could have gone worse, they really could have. Nobody died at least. There is that. For that I am grateful. Not so much that my words have less reach. It is what it is, I will carry on and persevere. Nothing comes to those who do not struggle to see their dreams come true.
Written By Malesh
Nov. 11, 2018, 7:21 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
Took one of the clerks with me to do some shopping. Or perhaps scouting it more the word for it. No purchases were executed, but a great deal of ink was spent making notes about what might be made mine in the future.
Written By Torian
Nov. 11, 2018, 7:14 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
It looks like the latest fad is to avoid mushrooms. Who knows what drives the peerage to favor or disfavor one thing or another. If a man could sort that out, he'd make a fortune staying ahead of the trends.
Written By Ida
Nov. 11, 2018, 6:57 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Rymarr
I get a diverse assortment of visitors to the shop, both of the two and four legged kind. There is always coffee about, sometimes hot chocolate, and a couple of baskets I keep on the worktable with snacks. One of the baskets I visit Matron Teldra in the Valardin kitchens for, which she'll fill with some muffins or biscuits that I think bring more people to the shop than the promise of a weapon. Those, obviously, for the two-leggers. The other basket is for Runty and Quill - some biscuits made from berries or I really don't even know. They like them, so I don't really question it. I can't say I haven't reached into the wrong basket on a late night of work and realized my mistake too late. I have to agree, though. Once you get past that pine flavor, they aren't so bad.
Written By Victus
Nov. 11, 2018, 6:48 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
I took my time back home to reflect. The 13th is not a being I can ever recommend the worship of, but to not acknowledge the darker parts of one's self is to invite much worse things. I bowed my head to acknowledge them while I sat inside the Maelstrom's walls.
I've four children now. Four of them. That should be more than enough to ensure at least one is worthy of the Thrax bloodline. I'd like to say that I was ready for at least one, you know. Truthfully, I don't think I was ready for any of them. I never looked at myself as the fatherly type. Never one who would settle down and raise a family. Merely an extension of my own House's will.
In my reflection I've seen how I still struggle, between the pull of my station and the pull of my past. What I've come to realize is that I no longer possess the time to delay.
It feels as though yesterday, Astrid was just a lump that slept the months away. Now, she walks. She talks. Sometimes anyway. Perhaps teaching her to use a weapon is just a day away. Perhaps her first decree as Princess of the Maelstrom is just next week. If I blink, I may miss it.
Time will not wait up for me. It's time I stopped dallying and started acting on what my House will need of me.
I've four children now. Four of them. That should be more than enough to ensure at least one is worthy of the Thrax bloodline. I'd like to say that I was ready for at least one, you know. Truthfully, I don't think I was ready for any of them. I never looked at myself as the fatherly type. Never one who would settle down and raise a family. Merely an extension of my own House's will.
In my reflection I've seen how I still struggle, between the pull of my station and the pull of my past. What I've come to realize is that I no longer possess the time to delay.
It feels as though yesterday, Astrid was just a lump that slept the months away. Now, she walks. She talks. Sometimes anyway. Perhaps teaching her to use a weapon is just a day away. Perhaps her first decree as Princess of the Maelstrom is just next week. If I blink, I may miss it.
Time will not wait up for me. It's time I stopped dallying and started acting on what my House will need of me.
Written By Cristoph
Nov. 11, 2018, 5:53 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
With the winter season coming, I'm frustrated to hear that there's been some banditry in our holdings. We'll no doubt need to increase troop movements along the roads until it ceases. House Laurent's first duty is of course, to the people under our charge.
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