Written By Preston
Feb. 19, 2018, 5:59 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cristoph
And I regret that - but I make my choice all the same, Duke Laurent. If you feel strongly, it is easy to protest - I answer only to four. My grandmaster, the Blessed Cassandra, His Most Holy and his voices, and to the Gods.
Written By Cristoph
Feb. 19, 2018, 5:14 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Preston
It's not my Faith in the Pantheon or the Faith of the Oathlanders that you're making me question, Sir Preston. It's you.
Written By Aiden
Feb. 19, 2018, 5:08 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Artur
I'm sure my squeals of delight were heard all throughout the manor!! I'm over the moon!
Artur, you're an amazing wonderful marvelous tremendous friend!
For those of you that missed it, I had a birthday. You know what Artur did?
He went and painted me something so superb I had to ask the scholars of Vellichor to do their very best in replicating the details into text, so it could be preserved forever in my whites and in my memories! What a brilliant day!
Here it is:
Vaulted skies painted in a palette of brilliant, crystalline
blue stretch untold miles across a patchwork canvas of woods
and fields and tiny hidden valleys. Here and there, slender
ribbons of sapphire slice through an ocean of golden yellows
and verdant, forest greens, marking the branching courses of
rivers and streams. The subject of the painting, is perhaps
made rather more fantastic by contrast with the somewhat hum
drum pastoral setting agains which it is set. Soaring out of
legend, the majestic form of a Gryphon with Leonine body and
an Eagle's head glides with a regal bearing, talons and beak
glinting like daggers in the summer sun. Vast wings extended
the creature bears a single rider with dignity. Sheathed all
in shining steel, the form of Prince Aiden Grayson is seated
astride the noble beast, the sun of a cloudless sky glinting
upon the plates of the armor he wears. The piece captures a
sense of swift motion, the winds whipping through dark curls
and ruffling feathers of burnished gold. Held firmly in his
left hand, Aiden carries a spear, six feet long with a shaft
of ash, its razor-edged, leaf shaped tip glints in the light
of the sun that hangs, heavy and golden, behind the pair and
backlights them dramatically. A kite-shaped shield, blazoned
with the crest and colors of House Grayson - gray and green.
Artur, you're an amazing wonderful marvelous tremendous friend!
For those of you that missed it, I had a birthday. You know what Artur did?
He went and painted me something so superb I had to ask the scholars of Vellichor to do their very best in replicating the details into text, so it could be preserved forever in my whites and in my memories! What a brilliant day!
Here it is:
Vaulted skies painted in a palette of brilliant, crystalline
blue stretch untold miles across a patchwork canvas of woods
and fields and tiny hidden valleys. Here and there, slender
ribbons of sapphire slice through an ocean of golden yellows
and verdant, forest greens, marking the branching courses of
rivers and streams. The subject of the painting, is perhaps
made rather more fantastic by contrast with the somewhat hum
drum pastoral setting agains which it is set. Soaring out of
legend, the majestic form of a Gryphon with Leonine body and
an Eagle's head glides with a regal bearing, talons and beak
glinting like daggers in the summer sun. Vast wings extended
the creature bears a single rider with dignity. Sheathed all
in shining steel, the form of Prince Aiden Grayson is seated
astride the noble beast, the sun of a cloudless sky glinting
upon the plates of the armor he wears. The piece captures a
sense of swift motion, the winds whipping through dark curls
and ruffling feathers of burnished gold. Held firmly in his
left hand, Aiden carries a spear, six feet long with a shaft
of ash, its razor-edged, leaf shaped tip glints in the light
of the sun that hangs, heavy and golden, behind the pair and
backlights them dramatically. A kite-shaped shield, blazoned
with the crest and colors of House Grayson - gray and green.
Written By Preston
Feb. 19, 2018, 5:01 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cristoph
If people think that an observation that some have lost their Faith could apply to them, I would suggest that if it causes them to seek discussion and affirmation of their faith with their holding's Seraph, with the Godsworn, and perhaps in your case with your former sister, then that is for the good - though I cannot say I have ever seen any member of House Laurent ever doubt the deep affection I hold for their lost Duchess for the choice she made to join the Faith. While teasing me to get the info works I am sure with many others, I fear I must disappoint. I chose not to name the individuals, because even if I disagree with their choice as to their attitude to the Faith, I can at the same time still respect them for other parts of their life. You can believe or not whether I have affinity for the Oathlands or surprise at such a reaction - but I have never hid my Orthodoxy, nor my attention and appreciation to the words of the Seraph of Sanctum.
As I say, if nobles dislike me for it - then I do regret that, but I love them still. But if a single noble asks a question of their Seraph from this, and through it dialogue? I see my discomfort and regret as happy payment.
As I say, if nobles dislike me for it - then I do regret that, but I love them still. But if a single noble asks a question of their Seraph from this, and through it dialogue? I see my discomfort and regret as happy payment.
Written By Violet
Feb. 19, 2018, 4:56 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Tobias
The Lord General of the Crimson Blades took me on after the decimation of my home. He and his blades taught me to be the person I am now. I owe him much. While he is strict it makes for some of the most well-trained and disciplined troupes one can hire in the Compact. It is my hope that I will continue to bring a good name to the Blades. With Lord Tobias to lead us, though, that is not hard.
Written By Cristoph
Feb. 19, 2018, 4:40 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Preston
Yet when you claim that it is multiple members of the nobility within a region, you create a situation in which people will think you're pointing them out specifically. And while you claim this is only because you're so "surprised", I can't help but feel you're attempting to cover your tracks. If you don't wish to create this kind of discourse in the Whites, I'd suggest you not dip your toe into those kinds of waters.
Written By Violet
Feb. 19, 2018, 4:38 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Thorley
You surprise me, dear knight. Make me question the things I've held too, to protect others. How simple it seemed only a short while ago. The future was something that was there, but I didn't worry about it. I'm young yet after all. But you make me think about potential futures beyond the next contract, the next fight, the next drink. I think this is a good thing, this door you have opened. I suppose we shall walk through and see.
Written By Preston
Feb. 19, 2018, 4:30 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cristoph
I would suggest you inquire with your fellow nobles and royals as to their faith in, well, the Faith and her armies, Duke Laurent. I mention Valardin only because that any there should feel this way surprises me because of the known piety, and my own personal affections for the lands. But it is not Valardin alone that faces this, so naming individuals will do little but occupy all of us in duels until Gloria herself grows weary of us. Especially as I do not know if it is their fault or some fashion - or indeed perhaps some fault of our own that may have caused them to drift and doubt. I will say though that Prince Victus is a paragon of sorts for how to combat this attitude, and has by deed shown others a way to dialogue with the Faith and how to construct a relationship, and his work with the Seraph Ailith made me question many of my own pre-judgements on what I should expect of others.
Written By Cristoph
Feb. 19, 2018, 4:14 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Preston
I'm curious, Sir Preston, which Oathlands lords (in the plural) you speak of that are indifferent to the Faith?
Written By Preston
Feb. 19, 2018, 3:56 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Increasingly I grow concerned at the dedication of the nobility to the Faith. When the Faith Militant is met with indifference from even Oathlander lords, how should we think? There is no obligation on the Faith to come to war, to die in the field with levied troops of the compact - even though many may indeed be disciples. We do so because we think it just, because we think it right, and because if it is the fate of some to die - and it shall be - then we would not have them alone at the end, we would give them comfort and company such as we can. A way to the shining lands and that which awaits. If you truly do not wish us, then we will go elsewhere - that is no problem. There are pious enough lords who will have us. But consider the impact on your armies and their morale if you turn from the Faith and the Faith from you. This is not the time for division. But unity. And you shall only find that in, and with, the Faith.
Written By Sigurd
Feb. 19, 2018, 3:12 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Brogan
My uncle, drinking partner, confidante and drinking partner. (That needs to be said twice) I am glad to have you at my elbow, as steady as the oak tree in time. I hope you don't choke on mud when you lose.
Written By Sigurd
Feb. 19, 2018, 3:10 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
These days that have me in Arx are different from the ones that came before. I step with the support of family and friends.
Written By Cadenza
Feb. 19, 2018, 12:30 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Derovai
I could have sworn it was the Foolsbane. You looked like absolute hell last night.
Written By Cadenza
Feb. 19, 2018, 12:28 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Caspian
There you go again....trying to make me blush. You know that it's a rare occurrence....and yet you seem to continue to push do so. You're not a quitter that's for sure....and that's one of the many things I love about you.
Written By Derovai
Feb. 19, 2018, 12:27 p.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cadenza
I was referring to the relationship, not the Foolsbane. But take it as you will!
Written By Orathy
Feb. 19, 2018, 11:53 a.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Caspian
Oy, Thrall Boy, you disgust me.
Written By Cadenza
Feb. 19, 2018, 11:09 a.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Derovai
Why did I even take take a sip...yet two of that foul stuff. I blame you somehow.
Written By Derovai
Feb. 19, 2018, 10:55 a.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Caspian
I feel ill. I should never have made this happen.
Written By Edain
Feb. 19, 2018, 10:48 a.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Personally when I am lost in the woods I follow the squirrels. Those devious little tree rats always seem to know the way back to civilization and how to being the biggest pests possible.
Though one of the best things you can do is invest in a Blanchard trained courser. I can promise such a horse will remember it's way home better than you will the vast majority of the time.
Though one of the best things you can do is invest in a Blanchard trained courser. I can promise such a horse will remember it's way home better than you will the vast majority of the time.
Written By Edain
Feb. 19, 2018, 10:48 a.m.(3/21/1008 AR)
Personally when I am lost in the woods I follow the squirrels. Those devious little tree rats always seem to know the way back to civilization and how to being the biggest pests possible.
Though one of the best things you can do is invest in a Blanchard trained courser. I can promise such a horse will remember it's way home better than you will the vast majority of the time.
Though one of the best things you can do is invest in a Blanchard trained courser. I can promise such a horse will remember it's way home better than you will the vast majority of the time.
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