Written By Joscelin
Nov. 16, 2018, 7:32 p.m.(1/4/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Adora
Written By Silas
Nov. 16, 2018, 7:29 p.m.(1/4/1010 AR)
They are likely among these number of "cretins".
Written By Aureth
Nov. 16, 2018, 6:34 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Grief is not moral superiority. I myself have often remarked upon the way a nitwit will become a noble paragon as soon as you start to write the eulogy. Ultimately, we crush failings into shadow and place our dead upon a plinth. Who cares? They're not listening anymore. You can't correct their flaws or persuade them to change or coax an apology or shame or humiliation from their bones.
Nitwits have friends and families too. Does it bother you?
One day, it will be your lover, your sister, your father, your child whose body is laid to rest because their soul is fled to the Mother of Beginnings.
Have a little human empathy. It helps.
Or don't. The gods grant us the freedom of our own paths as well as our own hearts. Skald would never tell anyone not to be an asshole.
Written By Thena
Nov. 16, 2018, 6:27 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Daemon
The Solace took losses. I knew we would. We always do. Whenever you have a group like us, men and women sworn to protect, to stand unyielding in the face of evil, we take losses.
I learned today that I lost my second in command, Sir Daemon Dracone. He died in the night, of a poisoned wound.
He was one of those people who was always just...there. The very picture of an Oathlands knight. He wasn't flashy or boastful, he just knew when something needed to be done and did it. Sometimes he did things whether they needed to be done or not. And that damned duck...
I made him my second, in part, because he had this amazing knack for knowing when I was getting too riled up and he would remind me, in the most polite and unmistakable of ways, that I needed to take a step back and consider my actions. Often, when I was getting too heated in the white journals, I would come back to my office to find a tall glass of milk on my desk. That was the sign.
If that didn't work, he'd sit on my back while I did pushups.
I did a lot of pushups.
He could have been Godsworn, but I never asked him about it. To take the vows is often a burden, and he seemed like a man who already had a burden.
I didn't know any of his family, but if there's anyone out there who knows what his final wishes were, pleased get in touch with me. Otherwise there's a place for him in the grand mausoleum for the Faith Militant. Anyone who objects can kiss my ass.
Written By Cambria
Nov. 16, 2018, 6:20 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
I have born a second son.
Written By Jyri
Nov. 16, 2018, 5:49 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
You really treasure those simple things when having faced true horror.
Written By Delilah
Nov. 16, 2018, 5 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
When the night was hushed and the streets were wet,
I'd replay when we danced for stars above,
And I learned what it means to be in love.
Together we found the secret of life,
Wisdom ablaze in your dusky eyes.
I know you like the sun knows the sky,
You give me wings and teach me to fly.
Adrift in the vastness of the world,
I'll lie back to watch the cosmos twirl.
Feeling my way without your guiding light,
I invoke your name in a prayer to the night.
1010
Written By Lisebet
Nov. 16, 2018, 4:44 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Jordan
And how does that lead to conflict? Well. Truthfully? I am very glad that his liege still lives.
Written By Solange
Nov. 16, 2018, 4:36 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Neither do I.
Written By Isabeau
Nov. 16, 2018, 3:46 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
These last few weeks have been strange in many ways, but I would be remiss if I did not offer House Telmar my sincere praise and thanks for how warm and welcoming that they've been to me. I confess that one of the little stumbling blocks that married life has thrown into my path is the inability to correctly sign my own name. As with many things, it will take some time to adjust to my new circumstances.
Written By Lance
Nov. 16, 2018, 3:26 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Artur
Written By Lance
Nov. 16, 2018, 3:24 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Written By Lance
Nov. 16, 2018, 3:22 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Yet, this is why I became a knight, right? To do something worth doing, rather than being a sleepy knight from a little barony nobody's ever heard of?
The more I learn, the harder I've been training. I think I actually pulled a muscle yesterday. Maybe I'm just sore. Either way, I hope I'm ready.
Written By Perronne
Nov. 16, 2018, 3:13 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Jordan
In my travels through the city for work, I've run across far too many casualty trains and funeral marches. May the end of the year bring with it the end of this conflict, and peace well earned!
Written By Vercyn
Nov. 16, 2018, 3:07 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Bliss
Do you only consider a man or woman a hero if they are enshrined? Do you truly turn up your nose at an individual's own reckoning? Is that what it means to be a Whisper; to force a person to go by your standards rather than their own personal feelings? You spoke of duty. Each and every one of us who defended the Lodge did so not just out of duty, but out of love, out of respect, out of a desire to see something important protected. Many fell in the line of those. I lost over six hundred of my personal army. Six hundred families lost sons and daughters. Six hundred stories cut short. Six hundred brothers and sisters. Six hundred friends. Six hundred who may have been husbands, wives, mothers, fathers. Letters I am penning. Families I am entertaining as I recover from my own injuries. Arrangements I am, with my lieutenants and captains, aiding in overseeing.
Men and women who, in the eyes of their families, are heroes. And I will be damned if you sneer simply because they are not enshrined.
You are not the end-all-be-all of who is or isn't a hero. Nor are you the end-all-be-all of who is or isn't worthy. Please re-read my original statement: even your greatest enemy is a mother's child and has friends. You may hate those he is associated with. It does not mean they also hate him because, again, you do not control other's emotions.
Stop trying to.
Written By Calaudrin
Nov. 16, 2018, 3:02 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Written By Galen
Nov. 16, 2018, 2:44 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Written By Ida
Nov. 16, 2018, 2:35 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Daemon
Written By Jeffeth
Nov. 16, 2018, 2:08 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Daemon
Written By Edward
Nov. 16, 2018, 2:02 p.m.(1/3/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Brianna
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