Written By Amund
July 27, 2019, 7:08 p.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Julian
July 27, 2019, 6:59 p.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Valdemar
July 27, 2019, 5:13 p.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
I have, and will do so again in the future, written here to advise you of the things you are likely to face. The trials and tests that life will undoubtedly put in your path. That is not my purpose here today, though. Instead, I'm going to tell you what I want for you, because holding on to your goals is how, ultimately, you will overcome those obstacles. Of course I want you to have the things that any parent will tell you they wish for their children: love, success, loyal friends...these things are an important part of life, vital experiences that you will need in order to give you strength against the unpleasant aspects of it that we all face.
But you will have responsibilities that go beyond the personal, and so there is more that I wish for you. Though I have had my issues with the Compact as a whole in the past, I've never failed to understand its necessity. Thus I desire for you, and the people you will rule over when I am gone, to have a greater place in it. Some of the hardest choices I have made since becoming Duke have been with this in mind, only made worth it when I look at you. Likewise, there are enemies out there that, at the moment, we as a whole are woefully unequipped to combat, and it is one of my greatest wishes to see you with the tools necessary to fight those battles on even ground. So much knowledge lost over the centuries, that I would see restored for you. That is the legacy I dream of leaving you, no matter how difficult it becomes.
Written By Rysen
July 27, 2019, 2:44 p.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Since my brother has had his attention on suppressing the White Raven clan in the west, and I have been on campaign with Princess Marian Redrain, it may be that something is amiss in the dales. Than again, every bandit, once captured, has only turned to lawlessness in order to save his or her starving family. I've sent Deor to Twilight Dale to find out the truth of the matter.
Written By Reigna
July 27, 2019, 1:15 p.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Acantha
July 27, 2019, 1:11 p.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Cambria
July 27, 2019, 1:11 p.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Cambria
July 27, 2019, 1:04 p.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Lora
July 27, 2019, 12:51 p.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Josephine
I will always remember sitting with you at the forge when the world changed, when we lost something and gained something. Perhaps we might've become friends under some other circumstances but that brief moment, that fracture of darkness and despair like the occlusion in some splendid gem, created something unique. Though it may've been forged in sorrow it has become an effulgence of joy.
You are an excellent protege, an incredible guildmaster, but a far better friend.
((The lower half of the page is criss-crossed in little black bird footprints, which become increasingly lighter as the ink runs out.))
Written By Mabelle
July 27, 2019, 11:14 a.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Tescelina
Written By Norwood
July 27, 2019, 10:47 a.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Kenna
July 27, 2019, 10:45 a.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Thea
July 27, 2019, 10:25 a.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Thea
July 27, 2019, 10:23 a.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Written By Hadrian
July 27, 2019, 9:49 a.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Dianna
The big kid table awaits.
Written By Hadrian
July 27, 2019, 8:54 a.m.(7/16/1011 AR)
The composer will no doubt sweep me off my feet with their song. I will clutch at my chest, feeling my heart thundering so heavily behind my ribs. As I stand before them, awash in their words and feel the imagery they seek to wrap me in.
Just make absolutely certain that it includes a prominent mention of Peggy with this one, please? She is truly underrepresented in my life story.
Written By Shard
July 27, 2019, 6:23 a.m.(7/15/1011 AR)
But if you're asking stupid questions to try to teach, then there actually has to be a lesson in there somewhere. If you're asking, for instance, 'why is slavery wrong?' then I'd assume what you're actually looking for, what you want the person you're asking to think about, are solid reasons as to why slavery IS wrong. Maybe you want them to be able to back up knee-jerk reactions with well reasoned opinions. Maybe you just want to reinforce what they already believe. Who knows? I'm not a very good teacher, I've never really taught that way. I've had a few teachers who did, though, and they always had some kind of point. Some reason. Some purpose. Sometimes they would have to slap me across the face with it a few times before it sunk in, but it was always there.
If you lay out a long, detailed argument as to why slavery is, in fact, good, and specifically who should be enslaved, and why, and how that would benefit all of us, and--and this is important--these are not only arguments that other people are making, right now, with no exaggeration and in all seriousness, they're at least close to the justification for the incident that set off this topic in the first place, well, then it just sounds like you're advocating for the fucking thing. And slavery of one kind or another has a lot of fucking advocates. It doesn't need another one chiming in solely because they just want to ask questions. That kind've thing doesn't teach any lessons, it just pisses people off. And I suppose if pissing people off is the actual goal, then mission fucking accomplished, but don't try to dress it up as something to learn from, because it's not. The only lesson that comes out of that is to stop paying attention to anything you have to say.
Written By Gaspar
July 27, 2019, 5:48 a.m.(7/15/1011 AR)
It was a gathering of some of my favorite people, however. It would be pleasant to have them all together with their wits about them next time.
Written By Preston
July 27, 2019, 3:44 a.m.(7/15/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Brianna
Where it becomes a matter of absolutes are questions that may suggest paths that go to heresy. If one answer continues us on our path to serve the Gods and the other answer separates us from them, then the question can only do harm. This can happen even if the asker is simply musing, but also when the one asking seeks to provoke that separation. So. It is why there is a line at a point, in how far one may tread that path. And why the mirrormasks are so well trained under Blessed Vayne. I do not share his style of worship, but I can recognise the skill involved in his art.
Written By Brigida
July 27, 2019, 2:33 a.m.(7/15/1011 AR)
I might as well make a thing of it and see how many people would actually attend.
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