Written By Estil
March 27, 2018, 8:55 a.m.(6/9/1008 AR)
Responsibilities continue to mount, and I feel my shoulders slowly buckling beneath the weight. Why do the days seem to hang heavier around me when they should be light as can be?
Written By Wynna
March 27, 2018, 8:46 a.m.(6/9/1008 AR)
This morning, I could swear one of the Reflections said something to me, as he passed in the reflective hall by the shrine to the Thirteenth. The maniac compulsion to demand he show his tongue was one I successfully repelled. Perhaps he merely tried to say something. Perhaps I'm only going mad, a slightly easier tonic to swallow when one has spent a great deal of time in a hall full of mirrors and the deformed repentant.
I suppose it's a difference between protecting a secret as sacrosanct and jealously stealing it away from all eyes. We assemble the combined secrets of the Compact within that Archive, but some are more secure than others, even if they would lead to astounding revelations. Yet we believe, and cherish the idea, that most knowledge should be spread to better us all. Are we to merely be patient and wait for these things to crop up naturally before all eyes, knowing in the back of our heads that important information could be mere feet beneath our shoes in that Archive?
I suppose it's all relative. Annoying. I see stonework, a ruined building, and wish to extrapolate on what its objective purpose was. The truth is important. I read incomplete history and wish to amend it to be accurate. With joy do I put a quill to a page, praying for as few future revisions as possible, taking pride in my work, unafraid to correct myself if need be.
Perhaps this compact of secrets is to keep us humble.
"Do not be fooled," is what I think he might have said. Perhaps it was just a Mirrormask. It's hard to tell sometimes in that place.
After all, it could have just been, "Do you have any food," instead. But that seems less interesting.
I suppose it's a difference between protecting a secret as sacrosanct and jealously stealing it away from all eyes. We assemble the combined secrets of the Compact within that Archive, but some are more secure than others, even if they would lead to astounding revelations. Yet we believe, and cherish the idea, that most knowledge should be spread to better us all. Are we to merely be patient and wait for these things to crop up naturally before all eyes, knowing in the back of our heads that important information could be mere feet beneath our shoes in that Archive?
I suppose it's all relative. Annoying. I see stonework, a ruined building, and wish to extrapolate on what its objective purpose was. The truth is important. I read incomplete history and wish to amend it to be accurate. With joy do I put a quill to a page, praying for as few future revisions as possible, taking pride in my work, unafraid to correct myself if need be.
Perhaps this compact of secrets is to keep us humble.
"Do not be fooled," is what I think he might have said. Perhaps it was just a Mirrormask. It's hard to tell sometimes in that place.
After all, it could have just been, "Do you have any food," instead. But that seems less interesting.
Written By Ysbail
March 27, 2018, 7:55 a.m.(6/8/1008 AR)
I'm back in Arx.
I've missed so much. There is so much pain and now Stormwall lies in ruins.
Yet, I cannot forget what drew me so far from home in the firt place. I pray the Spirits will guide me to the right peoplee...
I've missed so much. There is so much pain and now Stormwall lies in ruins.
Yet, I cannot forget what drew me so far from home in the firt place. I pray the Spirits will guide me to the right peoplee...
Written By Duarte
March 27, 2018, 12:47 a.m.(6/8/1008 AR)
Tonight I attended an autopsy. A brief exploration of a dead man, for educational purposes.
It was quite informative!
Also very humbling to know we will all one day smell so putrid, no matter our station.
It was quite informative!
Also very humbling to know we will all one day smell so putrid, no matter our station.
Written By Lisebet
March 26, 2018, 11:54 p.m.(6/8/1008 AR)
Today there was court. It was a lot more casual than I expected it to be, but perhaps it was just because it was the first one after the pirate king and the battles faced so bravely by all the knights and soldiers. I shall have to attend another to be sure.
Written By Kaldur
March 26, 2018, 11:49 p.m.(6/8/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orrin
My father expects much and more from me and my sister. And from himself.
Written By Lumen
March 26, 2018, 9:50 p.m.(6/8/1008 AR)
A month or more has passed since coming here and the expression of childlike wonder has hardly left my face. I expected to be disenchanted by now. For all its flaws, and there are a great many, this city is dense with life and love even when it's at its cruelest. My greatest pleasure has come not from rubbing elbows with the great and powerful, rather from doing so with kindred spirits in every unexpected form.
Though the opportunity to put names to even half the beautiful faces that come and go from this house has scantly presented itself, from the very highest position to the lowliest attendant, I remain recklessly optimistic that I'll finally meet and get a smile out of every last one.
Though the opportunity to put names to even half the beautiful faces that come and go from this house has scantly presented itself, from the very highest position to the lowliest attendant, I remain recklessly optimistic that I'll finally meet and get a smile out of every last one.
Written By Itzal
March 26, 2018, 9:17 p.m.(6/8/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Thena
Don't listen to her, she's secretly pleased and is looking forward to hearing it said by any and all.
*In significantly smaller script*
Itzal Culler is not responsible for any harm or injury caused by using this nickname in the general vicinity of Thena.
*In significantly smaller script*
Itzal Culler is not responsible for any harm or injury caused by using this nickname in the general vicinity of Thena.
Written By Thena
March 26, 2018, 9:14 p.m.(6/8/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Itzal
No, don't. Really, don't.
Written By Thena
March 26, 2018, 9:12 p.m.(6/8/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Mia
Thank you for your kind words, Countess. I'm glad I could be of some help, especially in the midst of so much chaos. I hope you are recovering well.
Written By Itzal
March 26, 2018, 9:02 p.m.(6/8/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Thena
Thena parade, everyone. Thena parade. Don't ask why, or how, just add it to the ever growing list of assorted nicknames our favourite Grandmaster of the Knights of Solace collects!
Written By Kia
March 26, 2018, 8:12 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Jeffeth
One of the first people I met in the city. Earnest and tall, I think I've made a new friend.
Written By Kia
March 26, 2018, 8:12 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Artorius
My lord. I will serve him to the best of my ability for the benefit of my people.
Written By Samantha
March 26, 2018, 6:01 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Abbas
I cannot speak to how I feel about Abbas in the wake of his death. I don't believe that his kindness toward me outweighs the darker choices he made by any stretch of the information. I can't even garuntee for certain that his motives for being kind to me were entirely for the sake of being so, and not ulterior motives.
But I do want to recall some what I remember of him. That he told me with a frank honesty that he had seen activity in the Gray Forest - Brand's monsters, and the havoc they had wrought, and that it chilled his soul. He asked me to consider him as a husband, and at the time I was baffled as to why he'd want to marry down. I remember writing to Dawn and Cara, and their wise advice of caution. And I remember when he gifted Deepwood, with no expectation of recompense, with a pack of war dogs to incorporate into our kennels.
I will never know the truth of his heart. I will never know what prompted him to make the choices he made.
I can and will hope that his next life will give him an opportunity for betterment.
But I do want to recall some what I remember of him. That he told me with a frank honesty that he had seen activity in the Gray Forest - Brand's monsters, and the havoc they had wrought, and that it chilled his soul. He asked me to consider him as a husband, and at the time I was baffled as to why he'd want to marry down. I remember writing to Dawn and Cara, and their wise advice of caution. And I remember when he gifted Deepwood, with no expectation of recompense, with a pack of war dogs to incorporate into our kennels.
I will never know the truth of his heart. I will never know what prompted him to make the choices he made.
I can and will hope that his next life will give him an opportunity for betterment.
Written By Fianna
March 26, 2018, 5:17 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Eirene
But you're a healer, right? If you break something, then who better to fix it again!
Written By Eirene
March 26, 2018, 4:52 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
The problem with having a sledgehammer personality is sometimes you break things.
Written By Wynna
March 26, 2018, 4:42 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Rinel
We're not exactly fooling anyone with this friend thing, are we?
Written By Monique
March 26, 2018, 3:54 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Aleksei
Your beard was impeccable, Archlector. IMPECCABLE.
Written By Aleksei
March 26, 2018, 1:50 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Monique
My hair _did_ look very good last night, thank you for noticing!
Written By Monique
March 26, 2018, 1:36 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Aleksei
I've a new appreciation for the Archlector.
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