Written By Joscelin
April 13, 2018, 2:40 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
I'm really too tired to go through the stack of whites given to me today by one of my shop assistants. Whomever handed them to her, I will find you and kick you in the shins.
What little energy I have at the moment will be for sleeping, even now someone is writing this for me because my current hand-writing would represent literal chicken scratch, and I'm not even looking into untangling the mess of entries on knighthood and cats.
I read that right, didn't I? Yes?
What little energy I have at the moment will be for sleeping, even now someone is writing this for me because my current hand-writing would represent literal chicken scratch, and I'm not even looking into untangling the mess of entries on knighthood and cats.
I read that right, didn't I? Yes?
Written By Calaudrin
April 13, 2018, 2:33 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orazio
At least we haven't licked anymore dubious liquids recently?
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Written By Aureth
April 13, 2018, 2:32 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Alarissa
Your jokes are unfunny. Learn not to punch down. Perhaps it will help you.
Written By Norwood
April 13, 2018, 2:30 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
I was born to parents of humble means. We were beekeepers and hunters as our means of making our way in the world. My brothers and I, we each followed their example. I was, and still am, proud of my heritage. However, circumstances as they were did not place my future on a path where I personally would be able to continue that tradition.
Approximately seventeen years ago, as I mourned the recent loss of my wife, I heard the cries of a child in the forest while hunting. The cries were of one very young Lady Jael Laurent who had found her way into the forest. A bear had likewise found her, and it became essential that someone step in to make sure that the young girl was uninjured. Luck was with me that day, and both Jael and I were able to escape without undue harm. Upon delivering her to Duke Edmund Laurent’s household, I found myself in a new situation, quite outside of the experiences that I thus forth was exposed to. I was knighted, and with my daughter Adalyn at my side, began my lifetime service to the Laurent family as a knight.
The honor of being knighted is one which I hold dear. To be knighted is to hold myself to a different level of conduct than others.
My actions should be without reproach in all things, and if I should fall to human weakness, my efforts should be immediately turned to reparation of those weaknesses. I should not lie, nor cheat, nor mislead those who surround me. The poorest beggar to the king should receive respect and be treated with dignity. I should care for those less fortunate than I whenever circumstances permit. Moreover I should be willing to lay down my life for my Duke, his vassals, and those to whom my Duke serves. I should not seek to build myself up but instead to build up those about me. When I should win glory it is with the understanding that this glory is not mine alone, but that of the family that has entrusted me with this position of knighthood. I do my best to refrain from boastful behavior in all matters. If I should give offense, even unmeaning, I should immediately seek out how I might fix and then avoid in the future that offense. My own stubbornness is less important as a knight than keeping the peace. If conflict should arise between myself and another, I do believe that it should be settled with words, less said conflict should reflect poorly upon Duke Laurent and his.
Knighthood is not simply an office which I have been given, nor a status. It defines the ways which I interact with those about me and the choices which I make daily. I hold my knighthood as a trust.
I only hope that as I continue to serve I will live up to these ideals which I feel underpin what makes a person a knight.
Approximately seventeen years ago, as I mourned the recent loss of my wife, I heard the cries of a child in the forest while hunting. The cries were of one very young Lady Jael Laurent who had found her way into the forest. A bear had likewise found her, and it became essential that someone step in to make sure that the young girl was uninjured. Luck was with me that day, and both Jael and I were able to escape without undue harm. Upon delivering her to Duke Edmund Laurent’s household, I found myself in a new situation, quite outside of the experiences that I thus forth was exposed to. I was knighted, and with my daughter Adalyn at my side, began my lifetime service to the Laurent family as a knight.
The honor of being knighted is one which I hold dear. To be knighted is to hold myself to a different level of conduct than others.
My actions should be without reproach in all things, and if I should fall to human weakness, my efforts should be immediately turned to reparation of those weaknesses. I should not lie, nor cheat, nor mislead those who surround me. The poorest beggar to the king should receive respect and be treated with dignity. I should care for those less fortunate than I whenever circumstances permit. Moreover I should be willing to lay down my life for my Duke, his vassals, and those to whom my Duke serves. I should not seek to build myself up but instead to build up those about me. When I should win glory it is with the understanding that this glory is not mine alone, but that of the family that has entrusted me with this position of knighthood. I do my best to refrain from boastful behavior in all matters. If I should give offense, even unmeaning, I should immediately seek out how I might fix and then avoid in the future that offense. My own stubbornness is less important as a knight than keeping the peace. If conflict should arise between myself and another, I do believe that it should be settled with words, less said conflict should reflect poorly upon Duke Laurent and his.
Knighthood is not simply an office which I have been given, nor a status. It defines the ways which I interact with those about me and the choices which I make daily. I hold my knighthood as a trust.
I only hope that as I continue to serve I will live up to these ideals which I feel underpin what makes a person a knight.
Written By Alarissa
April 13, 2018, 2:22 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
I shall remark upon what indignities I put the thralls through in my home. Of which, no, I do not approve of Thralldom. Not in the least.
I moved in and was disgusted by their living conditions. Things had not changed under Donrai's callous and indifferent reign. So I saved my personal funds and renovated their quarters to bring them in line with that of household servants everywhere across the compact. They are no longer dressed nor treated in our household as less than furniture or animals. You can walk through the estate and Maelstrom and you'll be hard pressed to tell the difference between either. I talk to them, I encourage others in the house to talk to them and get to know them. When their debts are done, I offer them paid service in the house or they are welcome to relocate at our expense and start their life as freedmen elsewhere. Genaile, Marchande, Chessa. Three who were former Thralls who take care of my daughter and tend to looking into matters worth looking into.
The shackles, that central room within the estate is being renovated and again, from my own funds, into a room that all in the house, thrall and freedman alike may take enjoyment of. Changes are happening, likely not anywhere near fast enough for the like of others who deign to read my whites. Changes are happening that are not fast enough for even my own liking.
The singular indignity that seem to be constantly referenced by one, is a couch. Made from gods alone knows how many squirrels pelts and by Magpie GRayhope. In one of the rooms. A couch that is used, often. That they take delight in and laugh at, use, sit on. I've gone past the doors and looked in. Oh the humiliation of that. A unique couch that they like and use.
More change comes. Soon I will be reaching out to others for assistance in a significant project regarding the Thralls. Till then I thoroughly invite others to come visit Thrax if they wish to see the indignities that I am inflicting upon the men and women - besides that actual thralldom itself.
And no. I didn't approve of the boon being used on the demon as I call her. But it's not my boon to use.
I moved in and was disgusted by their living conditions. Things had not changed under Donrai's callous and indifferent reign. So I saved my personal funds and renovated their quarters to bring them in line with that of household servants everywhere across the compact. They are no longer dressed nor treated in our household as less than furniture or animals. You can walk through the estate and Maelstrom and you'll be hard pressed to tell the difference between either. I talk to them, I encourage others in the house to talk to them and get to know them. When their debts are done, I offer them paid service in the house or they are welcome to relocate at our expense and start their life as freedmen elsewhere. Genaile, Marchande, Chessa. Three who were former Thralls who take care of my daughter and tend to looking into matters worth looking into.
The shackles, that central room within the estate is being renovated and again, from my own funds, into a room that all in the house, thrall and freedman alike may take enjoyment of. Changes are happening, likely not anywhere near fast enough for the like of others who deign to read my whites. Changes are happening that are not fast enough for even my own liking.
The singular indignity that seem to be constantly referenced by one, is a couch. Made from gods alone knows how many squirrels pelts and by Magpie GRayhope. In one of the rooms. A couch that is used, often. That they take delight in and laugh at, use, sit on. I've gone past the doors and looked in. Oh the humiliation of that. A unique couch that they like and use.
More change comes. Soon I will be reaching out to others for assistance in a significant project regarding the Thralls. Till then I thoroughly invite others to come visit Thrax if they wish to see the indignities that I am inflicting upon the men and women - besides that actual thralldom itself.
And no. I didn't approve of the boon being used on the demon as I call her. But it's not my boon to use.
Written By Itzal
April 13, 2018, 2:20 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Talen
We are ever glad Your Highness is so quick to offer himself as exemple. The rewarding of a pet is nothing new, as Archlector Aureth remarked, for, after all, did Velenosa not give one of their dogs the title of Prince? And now look where it took him!
Written By Thena
April 13, 2018, 2:11 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
I did ask if there was a knighting. Until this point, no one clarified it. I was unable to make the time to attend the...ceremony. Whatever.
So I’m not as delighted as apparently many are by a cat getting an empty title, but that doesn’t diminish my own efforts or those of my compatriots and I can live with that. It sounds like a cat I’d get on with, honestly.
Happy birthday Orazio?
So I’m not as delighted as apparently many are by a cat getting an empty title, but that doesn’t diminish my own efforts or those of my compatriots and I can live with that. It sounds like a cat I’d get on with, honestly.
Happy birthday Orazio?
Written By Aureth
April 13, 2018, 2:04 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
I apologize to Orazio for giving him a headache on his birthday. He deserves better subordinates than I.
Written By Orazio
April 13, 2018, 2:02 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
To the Faithful Reader:
Regarding the concern about the knighting of cats - speaking with certain Scholars who were present at the ceremony, recording it for posterity as is their wont seems to reveal that the High Lord did not ask for his cat to be knighted, nor did His Majesty knight a cat. Instead, a playful ceremonial title was created to honor a beloved pet of a High Lord, a much smaller expenditure of Crown or Thrax resources or time than creating a rose barony, for example. While I do understand the concerns raised regarding the value of knighthood, I urge everyone - but particularly those of my brothers and sisters in the Faith - to exercise due diligence regarding rumors before spreading them.
Please. For my birthday, if nothing else.
Regarding the concern about the knighting of cats - speaking with certain Scholars who were present at the ceremony, recording it for posterity as is their wont seems to reveal that the High Lord did not ask for his cat to be knighted, nor did His Majesty knight a cat. Instead, a playful ceremonial title was created to honor a beloved pet of a High Lord, a much smaller expenditure of Crown or Thrax resources or time than creating a rose barony, for example. While I do understand the concerns raised regarding the value of knighthood, I urge everyone - but particularly those of my brothers and sisters in the Faith - to exercise due diligence regarding rumors before spreading them.
Please. For my birthday, if nothing else.
Written By Talen
April 13, 2018, 1:54 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
A Boon in the hands of a High Lord already raised enough of a fuss. Using it for a ceremonial psoition is far better than wasting the resources of the Crown. A little levity in these times should be appreciated.
Grow up and respect your King.
Grow up and respect your King.
Written By Dominique
April 13, 2018, 1:50 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Apparently a cat was made a knight. I am still mulling it over, but I fear my father would be turning in his grave. It seems distasteful especially to those of us who have spent our entire lives living up to ideals of knighthood, chivalry, and spent hours training in numerous subjects to be considered a knight.
Written By Leta
April 13, 2018, 1:40 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
I don't rightly understand knighthood, to write the truth. I was never much of a knight. Some folk drink knighthood with their mother's milk and that's what their whole life's about. I was made a knight for just one reason, only reason I ever did anything worthy of the title, and that reason's gone now. I'm no knight, I always told her, but I tried my best not to shame the House that knighted me.
I was the last person to fall during the Tournament of the Roses, and I was the one who knocked the High Lord Victus out of the fight. I can't claim it all came down to skill, much less anything loftier, and I don't know what that's got to do with anything, but I'm told this means I got the right to speak on the matter.
I'd write up a proclamation, but I still got half a bottle of wine to finish and I'm thinking I know a lot less about knighthood than I thought I did, which isn't much. Our Meowlarice would make a fine Baroness or something if anyone's keen on it.
I was the last person to fall during the Tournament of the Roses, and I was the one who knocked the High Lord Victus out of the fight. I can't claim it all came down to skill, much less anything loftier, and I don't know what that's got to do with anything, but I'm told this means I got the right to speak on the matter.
I'd write up a proclamation, but I still got half a bottle of wine to finish and I'm thinking I know a lot less about knighthood than I thought I did, which isn't much. Our Meowlarice would make a fine Baroness or something if anyone's keen on it.
Written By Bastien
April 13, 2018, 1:10 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Cats are more honest and worthy creatures than humans, anyways.
Written By Mae
April 13, 2018, 1:10 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Derovai
I think, Derovai Moss, you might have missed my point. We try our best to move toward justice, but I think any understanding we have of the greater concept is, at best, a human understanding. An educated guess. A good idea that we want to be right.
Unless you're so confident you know the whole of the will of the Gods. Then you can move toward your fixed point. You can tell us the true intentions of the Sentinel, and maybe along the way, the true intentions of the other Gods? Though something tells me even you are not willing to admit you know such things.
Unless you're so confident you know the whole of the will of the Gods. Then you can move toward your fixed point. You can tell us the true intentions of the Sentinel, and maybe along the way, the true intentions of the other Gods? Though something tells me even you are not willing to admit you know such things.
Written By Reigna
April 13, 2018, 12:46 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Aureth
Thank you.
Written By Aureth
April 13, 2018, 12:32 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
If you can't see beyond your own life, your own loves, your own personal choices, your own personal dignity, your own personal sacrifices, how can the personal toil or dignity of others matter to you? It doesn't. They aren't people to you; those who are close to you matter with the passion and power of your whole heart, but everyone else is a vague person shape on your horizon or a figure in your ledger, to be discounted or ignored.
The only thing that surprises me is that anyone has any surprise that cats are more important to the leaders of the Mourning Isles than commoners. Haven't you read what Princess Alarissa has to say about the humorous indignities to which she puts her thralls?
The value of oaths of Knighthood is not a price cheaply bought. Service in honor of Limerance is not a joke.
Yet is this the first knighthood that has been bought or spent cheaply? Is this the first time that someone has thought this was funny? Is this the first time that the sacred weight of the relationship between liege and liegeman has been an afterthought? Anyone who thinks the answer is yes just hasn't been paying attention. The Faith is here for you when you wish to be educated about the value of an oath. In the meantime, Victus's cat probably isn't hurting you any more than any other public nonsense.
The only thing that surprises me is that anyone has any surprise that cats are more important to the leaders of the Mourning Isles than commoners. Haven't you read what Princess Alarissa has to say about the humorous indignities to which she puts her thralls?
The value of oaths of Knighthood is not a price cheaply bought. Service in honor of Limerance is not a joke.
Yet is this the first knighthood that has been bought or spent cheaply? Is this the first time that someone has thought this was funny? Is this the first time that the sacred weight of the relationship between liege and liegeman has been an afterthought? Anyone who thinks the answer is yes just hasn't been paying attention. The Faith is here for you when you wish to be educated about the value of an oath. In the meantime, Victus's cat probably isn't hurting you any more than any other public nonsense.
Written By Reigna
April 13, 2018, 12:19 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
So, we are granting status to pets now? Untrained and violent ones as well. That is quite interesting, and I am sure rather despiriting to those souls who spent years of toil and training to attain that status, rather than survive a shipwreck out of necessity, being too violent and stubborn to be saved.
Also of note is the fact that in order to be able to lodge complaint or differing opinion, one must be able to best a High Lord in personal combat, during a tournament with some of the fiercest warriors in the Compact. Sorry to all of those whose skills lie elsewhere. Apparently because we cannot wield a weapon our voices do not matter.
Also of note is the fact that in order to be able to lodge complaint or differing opinion, one must be able to best a High Lord in personal combat, during a tournament with some of the fiercest warriors in the Compact. Sorry to all of those whose skills lie elsewhere. Apparently because we cannot wield a weapon our voices do not matter.
Written By Wynna
April 13, 2018, 11:47 a.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
A slightly more solemn, contemporary tome to arrive soon. Watch for it, dear reader.
Written By Derovai
April 13, 2018, 11:47 a.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Mae
Mistress Culler: that same example, of the man stealing bread (to feed his family, and so forth; you know the cliche) was the one we discussed. I said that justice would have that man fed, whereas the law might not, and might see him arrested. In my mind, justice -- the ideal of it under the Sentinel -- never changes. Our application of it in law does.
The Templar saw the application of it as ever-changing, because we all see justice differently, and in that perception lay the changes. It was an interesting conversation, but I think justice, real justice, whatever you might term it, does not depend on a person's perception, now that I am writing this in my Whites (it was a brief meeting, and we did not get so far in the discussion). If you'll forgive me for saying so, I think that the Legate has it right, wherein justice is a fixed point, and one's perception needs to evolve, not the concept itself.
Still, an interesting discussion, I'll admit, and worth thought, certainly more so than many I've had recently.
The Templar saw the application of it as ever-changing, because we all see justice differently, and in that perception lay the changes. It was an interesting conversation, but I think justice, real justice, whatever you might term it, does not depend on a person's perception, now that I am writing this in my Whites (it was a brief meeting, and we did not get so far in the discussion). If you'll forgive me for saying so, I think that the Legate has it right, wherein justice is a fixed point, and one's perception needs to evolve, not the concept itself.
Still, an interesting discussion, I'll admit, and worth thought, certainly more so than many I've had recently.
Written By Itzal
April 13, 2018, 11:33 a.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Thena
It does seem like a slap in the face of all knights, past, present, and future. And makes in turn a mockery of the title.
But you heard the king! All those unhappy with the result just had to work harder in defeating Prince Victus! Probably should too, before he has the king knight his various bits.
But you heard the king! All those unhappy with the result just had to work harder in defeating Prince Victus! Probably should too, before he has the king knight his various bits.
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