Written By Sorrel
March 9, 2018, 2:56 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Derovai
Another commoner has said that he loves his (potential or real) children too much to sacrifice his parental rights to make them noble. I would hazard those children are granted an edge in being raised by parents who love them. Is that edge greater than the socioeconomic privilege?
Written By Calaudrin
March 9, 2018, 2:40 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Sorrel
Just to note, I am a commoner. And I can tell you for a fact there is a rich and wonderful life out there beyond seasilk and piles of silver.
I wouldn't send my children away for the wealth and privilege of the nobility. However, I don't dare judge someone who has.
I sincerely hope the mother is comfortable with this decision and it was made freely.
Written By Thena
March 9, 2018, 2:36 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Sorrel
Written By Jeffeth
March 9, 2018, 2:35 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Written By Alarissa
March 9, 2018, 2:33 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
That is fine. For I was wrong.
But he now owes me a new dress before he sails to war.
And his daughter one as well.
She likes white like her mother.
Written By Derovai
March 9, 2018, 2:28 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Sorrel
Why?
Please, tell us more about what specific criteria might be involved here. I note I say nothing on this particular situation -- not my place, not my interest. But I am curious what criteria you have in mind.
Written By Sorrel
March 9, 2018, 2:23 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
If you were common, you might give up your parental rights to have your children become noble, after all.
Written By Ainsley
March 9, 2018, 2:23 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Aniyah has been with the mercies for sometime for her shattered legs. I check in on her, and I have taken her-- despite her arguing about it --as my ward. She is not a princess, she has not been adopted nor ennobled. (Note: This young girl would have laughed in my face had I offered and argued even harder. Because at fifteen she is wiser than myself and some of the Peerage.)
Aniyah, as my ward; will be well educated, well taken care of, given all of the things she needs, and treated kindly.
I'm given to believe that this is the typical arrangement between a noble and a commoner, when a noble comes to be the guardian of a commoner under the age of majority.
Written By Driskell
March 9, 2018, 2:21 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Written By Victus
March 9, 2018, 2:19 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Abbas Crownsworn's children were not acknowledged while he was in Thrax. They were bastards that were not given any official titles of the peerage. With Abbas Crownsworn now no longer being welcome in our family, I had no intention of acknowledging they were offspring of Thrax at any point.
That's it. I don't have any opinions about who House Pravus adopts, they are offspring of a man I no longer call kin. Arguments about common-born being ennobled and such and such is nowhere near my knowledge.
Written By Thena
March 9, 2018, 2:07 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Written By Alarissa
March 9, 2018, 2:05 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Written By Reigna
March 9, 2018, 2:05 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cassima
Written By Calaudrin
March 9, 2018, 2:03 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Sorrel
Written By Tikva
March 9, 2018, 2:02 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
I did in fact make off with your banjo. I am very sorry. I shall return this inadvertently stolen property posthaste.
Written By Reigna
March 9, 2018, 2:01 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Alarissa
We do not have to agree. We do not have to listen to one another. But no one should be denied the right to express their thoughts. It is my choice. I accept the consequences for doing so.
Written By Cassima
March 9, 2018, 1:59 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
I do not know your husband but from a single meeting, and certainly I have never inquired as to his background. I know him only as Count Kael Keaton, and have been impressed with him upon our meeting. To be as intellectually consistent in my own arguments as I can, I have never thought nor cared to question him in that regard.
If he fits the descriptions I wrote in my previous entry, that is his business and absolutely not mine, in much the same way the children's' ennoblement is the business of Pravus and not ours.
Written By Sorrel
March 9, 2018, 1:57 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Their mother assures me that she will have the opportunity to spend time with her children, but she is truly troubled by their separation from their father. Mistress Zaina and Master Abbas ask for support for their children in this time and in the time ahead. That I can grant them. I am willing to support innocent children. I do not condone the actions of their father nor the fact that the mother's parental rights were essentially removed. These children are not orphans in any sense, however, and I offer them the same sort of support I would show any other child in a similar situation.
According to the children's mother, it is the wish of their father that they live ennobled by the Pravus household. While clearly this is a better social situation for the children than being common Thrax wards with little chance of being ennobled by the Thrax household, this doesn't mean the children were treated poorly or were uneducated while living as Thrax wards. It is merely convenient that Pravus is sympathetic to Abbas Crownsworn, who has been excommunicated and removed from his family for war crimes.
Written By Reigna
March 9, 2018, 1:52 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cassima
Are you referring to my husband, Princess Cassima of Thrax?
Written By Alarissa
March 9, 2018, 1:50 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
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