Written By Mydas
Sept. 25, 2018, 5:55 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Non-Godsworn knights are of course free to voice their own opinions, I am genuinely curious.
Written By Cirroch
Sept. 25, 2018, 5:42 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Written By Preston
Sept. 25, 2018, 5:12 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
But, I digress. A new siege engine, and one I fear will soon see use. After some discussion I think we will name this one Skald. The Liberator seems like a fitting namesake for a device designed to free people quite literally of the walls they place between themselves and the Faith.
Written By Preston
Sept. 25, 2018, 5:07 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
I think of discussion as different to questioning however- perhaps it is distinction without difference though. But to me, questioning has that implication of doubt, of uncertainty. Even when I disagree with my brothers, I do not doubt their motives nor their sincerity. What I seek is simple understanding of their view. As I have said before, I think this is where it is clear that the differences between the paths of the Faith are ones of nuance. They seem major in their discussion, but are nothing in reality. Each sits alongside the other, and the Faith endures.
Written By Alarissa
Sept. 25, 2018, 4 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
He needs to stop handing them things made of metal. Really.
This is why we have nursemaids.
Written By Reigna
Sept. 25, 2018, 3:34 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aleksei
So... you're welcome Aleksei?
Written By Victus
Sept. 25, 2018, 3:17 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Written By Aonghus
Sept. 25, 2018, 2:53 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Written By Amari
Sept. 25, 2018, 2:18 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
OR IS THIS A LIE? I'm going to make this very difficult. Dame Irama Wildhawk will be a confusing riot of maladies. Which will be the one actually causing her toes to fall off?
It's probably not a curse or frostbite.
Written By Amari
Sept. 25, 2018, 1:55 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
My character will be Dame Irama Wildhawk, and I'd have been jousting to settle a bet while improperly attired for frigid winter weather and very drunk, when I accidentally shot myself with an arrow and I fell off my horse and hit my head, but my foot got stuck in the stirrup and I was also trampled on for a considerable distance through the snow. Then I caught a terrible cold and my toes fell off.
I'll need a costume and spare toes.
Written By Niklas
Sept. 25, 2018, 1:49 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Of course, I'm not the one carrying around a baby in his belly, so I may not be the best one to ask.
I am glad we're over the part where Sabella was only able to eat extremely greasy sausages.
Though we may never again be past the part where getting between her and cake is a death sentence.
Written By Thena
Sept. 25, 2018, 1:41 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Tikva
Written By Reigna
Sept. 25, 2018, 1:28 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Corban
I maintain, however, that there is a certain culture associated with such a code that makes it... uncomfortable to be questioned. I am glad if this is not your experience, and I am not, in anyway, trying to say that this is everyone's experience. But I have seen instances in which questioning is seen as something that is almost insulting. As if there is some implication that by simply asking, the questioner is casting doubt on the due diligence of the questioned. As if they are implying those questions have not already been asked.
Perhaps I am not being particularly coherent this morning. I did apparently not read agreement in Prince Mydas' words, so.
Written By Mydas
Sept. 25, 2018, 1:26 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Corban
But there lies part of being human. We walk between extremes in a constant balancing act.
Written By Reigna
Sept. 25, 2018, 1:19 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Tikva
Written By Tikva
Sept. 25, 2018, 1 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Thena
Written By Thena
Sept. 25, 2018, 12:55 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Written By Corban
Sept. 25, 2018, 12:51 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Mydas
I see no conflict between chivalry and questioning. The chivalrous are guided not solely by obedience, but by righteousness. To pursue the right requires questioning, for it requires the knight to judge her actions against the good, not just one's orders. Nor is chivalry an obstacle to considering a matter from each angle. I am a Knight Lieutenant. But each one of the hundred Silver Swords has not just the right, but the duty, to carefully examine my plans and to raise a question or concern if a material flaw is identified.
Of course, the chivalrous must keep their oaths and it is generally right to obey one's superiors. Thus, when a decision is taken, the chivalrous must carry the order out to the best of their ability, even if they were previously opposed. The role of Tehom's advocate is ill taken when it extends beyond planning and infects the time for action.
But even then.
Our history is dotted with instances where those who I believe were true to chivalry defied orders in pursuit of the right and protection of innocent. The paladins at Eastguard, who refused to withdraw to Arx so that they might protect the refugees fleeing from the coast. The Paladins of the Wood and the knights that rode with them -- and became oathbreakers -- to to fight alongside the Sylv'alfar.
I leave to others Tehom's nature and His proper role in the Pantheon. But -- at least when it comes to critical inquiry -- I should rather like to leave chivalry out of it.
Written By Jasher
Sept. 25, 2018, 12:51 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Written By Aleksei
Sept. 25, 2018, 12:44 p.m.(9/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
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