Written By Caspian
Sept. 12, 2018, 1:03 a.m.(8/1/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Cambria
Written By Lucilia
Sept. 12, 2018, 12:25 a.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Written By Cambria
Sept. 11, 2018, 11:58 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
If one wishes to debate the validity of the statue of Koraj Marin remaining in the Hall of Heroes, then I believe such would be more appropriate than a call for the statue to be demolished.
Written By Sina
Sept. 11, 2018, 11:47 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Written By Caspian
Sept. 11, 2018, 11:16 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
If no one can figure out how to remove it, give me a sledge hammer and an afternoon and I'll get rid of it for you.
Written By Aureth
Sept. 11, 2018, 6:53 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Written By Shard
Sept. 11, 2018, 6:24 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Written By Samantha
Sept. 11, 2018, 6:23 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
What have you done today?
Written By Samantha
Sept. 11, 2018, 6:22 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Gabriel
Forever and always.
Written By Gabriel
Sept. 11, 2018, 6:07 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
I do not, and have never, felt like a hero. I am a mortal man. I have, perhaps, done more in my life than most, but I do not think that makes me any more or less than another. I have things that bring me great joy and pride. I have many, many things that I regret. I have not always made the 'right' choice, but I have always striven to do what I believe is best. Not every act has been cloaked in glory. There is most certainly never any music playing when I take to the field of battle, though bards and playwrights are fond of making it seem as such.
This isn't to say it is wrong to look up to others, or to suggest Highlord Edain's own feelings aren't valid. I suppose what I would like to say is that heroes are ideals. The best of us. Perhaps that is why so many of our heroes are dead, though others have suggested their own opinions in that vein. The living can demur, the living can hunch their shoulders and duck their heads and say, 'no, not me.' The living have a hard time filling a hero's shoes. If the person isn't an utter dog, this sort of appellation will leave them feeling inadequate, rather than full of themselves.
Because being a hero...
Being a hero takes everything.
Written By Miranda
Sept. 11, 2018, 5:58 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Domonico
Never forgotten, either.
And don't worry, we younger siblings stick together.
Written By Miranda
Sept. 11, 2018, 5:50 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Fecundo
Whenever I need to cry, you hug me.
Whenever I need to scream, you let me.
Whenever I need to talk, you hear me.
Whenever I need to spar, you kick my ass.
Whenever I need to take you down a peg, you let me.
You never fail me, Brother.
Written By Delilah
Sept. 11, 2018, 5:06 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Calista
Written By Victus
Sept. 11, 2018, 4:18 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Niklas
Written By Niklas
Sept. 11, 2018, 4:03 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Written By Perronne
Sept. 11, 2018, 3:58 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
I think we'll never know most of the real heroes in the world. Not the ones with titles, who have noble families willing to spend enough silver to save a hundred towns from starving for the next decade so that they can have a statue built in the Hall. Those people may be perfectly nice, and brave, and kind, and all of that. But there are thousands of people like that in the Compact, and some just have...more resources to devote to being better known than others.
But I think most heroes don't have that. Because I think that one of the things that defines a hero, for me, is the person who realizes that they are all alone, in the dark, where there is no one to see what they do, and no one to remember their name. And while in that long dark, they realize that if they do the right thing, they will die alone, and no one will ever know. Or people WILL know, but they will disapprove because sometimes the popular thing, the thing that makes people cheer your name and build monuments to you, isn't actually all that right. Or they could walk away, and live a long and happy life. And maybe get called a hero for other things.
And they do the right thing anyway. And they die, without fanfare or reward or the expectation of either. They die so that others might live and never know their name - or need to know it.
We'll never see statues or memorials to most of the heroes of the Compact, I think. Sometimes, I stand in ruins, though, and I find something that tells a story that lets me see them, just for a moment. Standing and holding the line so that others might thrive, with no expectation of survival. I don't know that I could ever do something like that. It terrifies me. I'm not cut out for it. But I say a prayer for them, the forgotten defenders, whenever I visit the Shrines.
Written By Gerard
Sept. 11, 2018, 3:49 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Ida
Written By Ida
Sept. 11, 2018, 3:03 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edain
Really, I'm reminded that it's maybe been too long since Sir Daemon and I had occasion to ride into danger on the back of a war elk. Maybe.
Written By Niklas
Sept. 11, 2018, 1:19 p.m.(7/28/1009 AR)
I have three more things to have made, and then I'm done.
I am not good at patience.
Written By Thena
Sept. 11, 2018, 12:23 p.m.(7/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aleksei
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