Written By Preston
May 28, 2018, 2:17 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Eleyna
I am also a Knight - so I am in that sense simple. I see direct solutions. Straight paths. And there, the doubts you think are essential in the polite world - the world of Arx, the world of politics, the world of society - they are death on the field. One man falters, and so the wall is broken, the line is lost. One man decides the command of Gloria to be brave, to be honourable, to hold until you can hold no more, to think of your fellow soldiers and care for them, one man who decides all that is nothing and he seeks to save his life by running without need? So the rout begins. Perhaps this is why the Orthodoxy holds such strength in the Faith Militant. We live in a world that touches the polite realm of Arx as through a hazy curtain, parallel but not the same.
Still, I would not think me or my people slaves because of our choice of belief. Nor am I one who would say you are heretic or even misguided in your worship and beliefs. I would say that within the boundaries of the faith there are many voices. A choir that sings only one note is dull indeed, after all. We all share a purpose, and in 99 out of every hundred things we all agree. It is the balance in those voices that is important. So it is important the Orthodoxy is heard, and its view considered. Even as the Orthodoxy itself has considered and mellowed in its majority over the issues of public worship of the Thirteenth in the manner of the Lycene.
Written By Archeron
May 28, 2018, 1:56 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Amari
What she did make me think of with her questions about Thrax, is the view that we are scary. As I wrote about Victus, he can seem scary yet I have no fear because he is a man who is trying to be just. For my part, I wonder if I try to - if not be scary - if I cultivate a stand off nature? I do like to observe, even within social situations. I like to provoke others to emotional reaction, so I can understand them at their most honest, least guarded. Does that make me a bad person? Perhaps. I could say I am just a product of my past - that I avoid people because people are unreliable. They will say they are there to protect you, and then they will die. Everyone has these secrets they hold, and the dangers of those secrets are played out on everyone. I could say it is because the woods are my home. But in truth it is because I do not know my place, or how I relate to others. I am voice of a house I spent most of my life hiding my heritage to. I am an archer and woodsman of a fealty that values personal combat and the sea over the land.
Perhaps the secret to finding myself isn't in withdrawing into myself, but in seeking to expand my thoughts by meeting with others. Perhaps. It is worth a try.
Written By Mydas
May 28, 2018, 1:54 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Eleyna
Written By Eleyna
May 28, 2018, 1:46 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Preston
It's just the moment that we fall into complacency in the assumption that we know all the answers that we are the most prone to that corruption. Most often the will of the Gods is filtered through the mouths and actions of men. Without thorough questioning of the will and of oneself, how are we to trust that we speak for the Gods and not for our own desires being hidden behind those of the Gods?
I encourage everyone to question. Themselves. Others. Gods.
Blind obedience without careful inspection is a betrayal of those that fought to give us the ability to question.
Written By Reigna
May 28, 2018, 1:23 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Sparte
Written By Preston
May 28, 2018, 1:19 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Questions and doubt have their place, where there is genuine uncertainty. But to interpose them into certainty, to have doubt for doubt's sake? That weakens us all. And for that weakness, at the wrong moment, entire bastions could collapse and fall like rocks into the sea.
Written By Signe
May 28, 2018, 12:29 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
That will be a goal for myself, to meet someone new every day.
Written By Sparte
May 28, 2018, 11:48 a.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
I was recently accused of being an optimist to the point of foolishness, because I believe the efforts of The Salon were achieving their better self. That we were empowering people to ask questions, to seek answers, to recognize that the absence of an easy answer is not the same as there being no answer. Just not an answer we yet have, something worthy of more questions. Perhaps better questions.
Instead what was cited to me were events where people were shouted down for daring to disagree, where people declared 'winners' rather than acknowledging the value of the questions and perspectives posed. A notion that the results of the debates shouldn't be shared.
I find this troubling. I want to see The Salon be a force for the betterment of discussion in Arx and abroad, something that draws us together and pushes us forward.
I have not succeeded by myself at achieving those ends. I openly seek the help of others, both directly and through advice and guidance. I do not promise to follow the ideas of others, but I promise to listen.
Written By Thena
May 28, 2018, 11:45 a.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Dame Thena, Grandmaster
Knights of Solace
Written By Aslaug
May 28, 2018, 8:20 a.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Kieran
Written By Signe
May 28, 2018, 4:51 a.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
I do.
Written By Elgana
May 28, 2018, 12:44 a.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Seax
I admit, as childish as it sounds, I have a soft spot in my heart for stuffed toys usually given to children. He was kind enough to gift me with a beautiful stuffed bear with a blue ribbon for my birthday, which is still weeks away.
Written By Eshra
May 28, 2018, 12:06 a.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Lavinia
Written By Selene
May 28, 2018, 12:05 a.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Bliss
Written By Olivia
May 28, 2018, 12:04 a.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Written By Eshra
May 28, 2018, 12:03 a.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Written By Giulio
May 27, 2018, 11:55 p.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
I hope the various new drinks are appropriate for the various palette's. I think the apricot brandy, as well as the various cordials will prove interesting. And of course, the new herbal liquor. I wonder if I should hold contests to name the new beverages.
Written By Aonghus
May 27, 2018, 11:50 p.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Found a pub called the Black Fox, good ale, may have to come back to try there other booze. Also met a Prince, well he said he was a Prince but many people say many things. But he seemed a good sort, introduced me to another Smith. This town is looking up as far as business goes, need to go and see the Craftersguild Master soon don't want to be in trouble for not being polite.
Written By Torian
May 27, 2018, 11:49 p.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Whatever Furen Culler was, I am a humble leatherwork and teacher. I care for dozens upon dozens of orphans, providing them shelter and an education that will allow them the same possibilities my training offered me.
As for my family, we can't control who you're related to can you? Down here in the lowers we don't have the burden of political marriages and so there's probably three figures worth of Cullers if I had to reckon it. Some of us serve the faith, some the crown. Dozens of us fought at The Pit in the war of silence. I don't have no legal power to force my kin to do nothing, but I can continue to set a good example and do right by our king, who I think is a fine fellow.
Don't think I haven't been asked to swear my oath to another, but I swore to the Crown and I intend to continue to honor our king by doing what I can for the common folk what need help.
Written By Aonghus
May 27, 2018, 11:48 p.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Finally found house Seliki, it is a nice place though I am kind of glad I don't have to live such a big manor. To many rooms for my taste, need to work on finding a place for my own shop.
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