Written By Isidora
Jan. 11, 2019, 12:57 p.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Lagoma, Our Lady.
Your will is often unclear to us mortals.
Please be with us as we seek your guidance.
Written By Mikani
Jan. 11, 2019, 12:54 p.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
For me, and I am speaking as me and not as my position as Voice within Redreef, this saddens me. As a Compact we are stronger together. We must remember that through this there are larger more shadowy things looking to wreck our connections. We must, now more than ever, remember what makes us similar. What brings us together. What binds us as a society.
Hold on to these truths as we go through this. I urge those that are far more influential than I to remember that. There is always another option to war.
Written By Orathy
Jan. 11, 2019, 11:56 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Feel older today. Shit.
Aye, but not too old to do some proper work.
Feels good to be gettin back to me roots. Hold onto yer baubles.
Written By Lorenzo
Jan. 11, 2019, 11:06 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Written By Daniella
Jan. 11, 2019, 10:35 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Written By Gilroy
Jan. 11, 2019, 10:08 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Acantha
Written By Lucita
Jan. 11, 2019, 9:05 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Written By Lucita
Jan. 11, 2019, 9:05 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Written By Corban
Jan. 11, 2019, 8:55 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Sorrel
As Arx endures, we will remember.
Written By Shard
Jan. 11, 2019, 7:49 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
You went into battle as a healer. You saw war. Would you bend the knee to Cardia? To the Undying Empire? All of these great powers believe they know the best way. That their ways are right and true, and your ways are stupid and inferior and, in some cases, dangerous to yourself and others. At least one of them sounds as though they already believe Arvum is theirs. Another might lay a claim. What would you say to them, if they did? Would it matter to them if you told them the land was yours, and you and your people had been living on it for generations? What would you do if they brought armies instead of emissaries? Would you resist? Would you fight back? Why wouldn't you just bend the knee and accept their changes, instead of fighting for your people and your traditions and your beliefs?
I doubt any of those questions are hard to answer. They were never hard to answer for any of the people I used to know.
Written By Sabine
Jan. 11, 2019, 5:02 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Karadoc
There's satisfaction in knowing the weave and hues of someone's dreams.
Written By Evangelina
Jan. 11, 2019, 4:59 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
Written By Sabine
Jan. 11, 2019, 4:49 a.m.(5/4/1010 AR)
A first impression may never be made again and my darlings, you are doing their work for them.
Written By Mirk
Jan. 11, 2019, 1:06 a.m.(5/3/1010 AR)
The Halfshavs have ruled one of the most remote lands in the Compact. Our lands border the Everwinter, and some of our vassals are so difficult to reach that I would consider hiring a skilled guide if I made the trip. Though I do not speak for my House, I speak from that perspective. The Great Road has brought us closer to the rest of the Compact, and I can only hope that our people will reap the rewards of the trade and communication that entails. Frankly, if Lord Kaldur hadn't approached me about this road, I was planning to do something much like it myself. My plans were for something far more modest, which would never have never been a tenth of the scope of this Great Road, and so I commend Lord Kaldur for his vision.
The Great Road is everything that I hoped for when I offered my support. Yes, there are difficulties that I did not foresee. But that means that it is not the completion of a project, but the beginning of a longer process of resolving our border disputes, untangling the delicate political situations, and reaching an accommodation or enforcing a peace on those Shav tribes that continue to raid along the road even now. All of that will involve problems and complications, some of which I'm sure I still haven't thought of. Those are problems I am willing to address, because the goal is worthwhile.
That is what the road is: the means to an end. Some people didn't have the same ends I did. Some are using it as the excuse to perpetrate massacres, or to start pointless wars. I don't blame the road for that, I blame the people. They have their reasons, I'm sure, but for the life of me I can't understand them.
I can't control their actions. All I can do is work to make the most of this opportunity, and try to realize the potential in what we have built, so that this road continues to be a boon to my House and my people. And maybe a boon to everyone else, too. But that's out of my hands.
Written By Thesarin
Jan. 11, 2019, 12:10 a.m.(5/3/1010 AR)
Riven is home to thousands of Prodigals who've come seeking shelter from these storms.
Any fucker, in the Compact or out, who does harm to them under my protection will spend their last hours wishing they'd done elsewise.
And that's all.
Written By Lisebet
Jan. 10, 2019, 11:13 p.m.(5/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Aleksei
Written By Sparte
Jan. 10, 2019, 10:02 p.m.(5/3/1010 AR)
It also reminds me of how very easily words can have many meanings. How context can be unclear. We find it in the archives regularly, accounts from distant eras that seem to mean one thing to some but something wildly different when properly understood.
But I can not pretend my words are taken out of context because they come from some dusty tome, or that the word had a different meaning when I wrote it. I must acknowledge the truth that others see things clearly that I don't, and that I have been guilty of choosing my words poorly. I strive to change for the better, but it has been shown that the intent of change is not always what is achieved. I will continue to try, while realizing stubborness is not a virtue but a trait I share with goats and donkeys.
When I wrote those words, it was while I looked at the current events. Two foreign powers have sought us out to speak, a third has come to spectate. With the snow so recently passed, and a clocktower broken. As if all of that was not enough, a grand road with grand vision for the compact's impact was felt suddenly and unexpectedly, good news that quickly soured. I felt anger and rage at the news of dead children and godsworn. That anger did not last, being replaced with sorrow. Then in turn, I felt numbness. Crawling away from that I found hope. Hope that we would face the challenges ahead of us together, because we are stronger together, and the challenges will be great.
But that hope has since chipped, and I see behind it the fear for more lives lost and injustices done. It was a fragile, blinding dream. I sought the positive because I hid from the truth of how bad things became so quickly. I should learn to stay away from the whites while I am still processing tragedy.
Written By Acantha
Jan. 10, 2019, 10 p.m.(5/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Gilroy
Written By Brady
Jan. 10, 2019, 9:53 p.m.(5/3/1010 AR)
There's somethin about being poor I only recently learned. You can adapt without 'losing' what you've got, which is basically nothing, when you're poor. If you're one of the Abandoned, and you've got a vested interest in, say, land, them you probably think you can't afford to lose it. If you're, I don't know, heavily invested in your opinion, or some great project, you probably think you can't afford to lose that, either.
Even at the cost of someone else's life.
Everyone's got their reasons for doing something. Their beliefs, their family, their money, their honor. I don't judge, I've got no room to. I'm glad I'm only heavily invested in my family, and the Lowers. I'm glad I'm not responsible for anyone's death. Not yet, anyway, thank the Gods. I wouldn't wanna have that kinda weight on my shoulders, or have to make those kinda decisions.
Written By Andry
Jan. 10, 2019, 7:09 p.m.(5/3/1010 AR)
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