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Written By Leona

Dec. 26, 2017, 5:59 p.m.(11/6/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Eleanor

She's taking her first assignment where she's in command of other Knights on business of the King. I know in my heart of hearts I chose right when I let her join the King's Own - and while this first assignment is extremely dangerous, I believe she is going to acquit herself well. And come home safely. This is the most difficult part of command. But I know her father would be proud of the woman she has become. I am too.

Written By Lou

Dec. 26, 2017, 5:18 p.m.(11/6/1007 AR)

I held a public event in the Society of Explorers. And, I survived. That is all.

Written By Agnarr

Dec. 26, 2017, 4:50 p.m.(11/6/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Shard

It's untrue, but language's not oft accurate either is my point. People oft say they "sweat like pigs", too, sometimes. But we raised pigs at times, and I can tell you that pigs don't sweat at all. Doesn't matter how accurate it is, many will get what you mean.

Written By Kael

Dec. 26, 2017, 2:19 p.m.(11/6/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Khanne

My wife made me aware that there might be issues. Come by Keaton Hall sometime for a quick bite to eat and a drink if you like. I even have some of that Bloodrage left.

Written By Shard

Dec. 26, 2017, 1:42 p.m.(11/6/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Agnarr

But as I explained, it doesn't actually mean leader at all. If you thought a word meant sword and it didn't, and you kept using it to refer to dull chunks of metal that didn't resemble swords at all, that wouldn't actually turn those chunks of metal into swords no matter how much you insisted. It just makes you look a little dim.

Written By Reigna

Dec. 26, 2017, 1:29 p.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Logan

I feel sorry for anyone that cannot see how honorable, pure and devoted the Lady Khanne is to the betterment of all of the North, Arx and the Compact as a whole. I have not had the opportunity to meet the Duke of Halfshav, but I trust Lady Khanne implicitly in all things. A better friend I have never had. I have complete faith in her. To those seeking to diminish her, her name, or her honor, you will have to cross Keaton to do so.

Written By Belladonna

Dec. 26, 2017, 12:34 p.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Logan

Please do let me know how that works out for you. I point out that most prisons worth anything have foundations made of stone. I wish you the best of luck, tunneling through granite with your shovel.

Written By Victus

Dec. 26, 2017, 12:15 p.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Edain

D E E R

S Q U I R R E L

F O O D

R A B B I T

B A C O N

Written By Logan

Dec. 26, 2017, 12:01 p.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

The overbundance of support that I have received has greatly reduced my worry that I was abandoned by ALL of my family and friends. Perhaps that is why the spirits have given us two parents. When one line fails, the other provides. To those new friends that I did not know I had, thank you.

Written By Logan

Dec. 26, 2017, 11:57 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Sometimes you dig a hole to make a tunnel and escape the rethorical prison.

Written By Edain

Dec. 26, 2017, 11:40 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Wow, people know so much more about wolves than I do. All I know is you should avoid the toothy end and that they apparently know what D E E R spells.

Written By Belladonna

Dec. 26, 2017, 9:49 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

It would make my life so much easier if people would stop digging when they find themselves at the bottom of a hole with no ladder. Yes, the shovel is nice, and that is what one does to holes, but...

The further down you go, the harder it is to get you out.

Written By Agnarr

Dec. 26, 2017, 7:21 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Shard

Whether the connected concept's wrong or no, it means what it does. Aggressive leader's got a lot of terms for it, eh? Same way 'eat' and 'cut' have a dozen words for the same, and same way in armored combat, blows to the head are oft termed helmsplitters when it is impossible for any human to cut open a steel helm.

Written By Marian

Dec. 26, 2017, 6:47 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Shard

Concepts like alpha, beta and omega were developed by scholars who were wishing to understand the social dynamics of pack animals. Yes, the theory was originally created using wolves as an example. I have seen this flawed theory applied to other groupings. Interestingly enough, the creator of this theory came back and disavowed the theory because...and this is key...it only applied to pack animals in captivity.

You see when you capture an animal, force it to live outside of the wild, he or she changes. He or she becomes more aggressive like the alpha or on the other extreme seeks the protection from the aggressors, like the omega. Territories or 'safe' areas are smaller. Resources are limited. Fear is a mainstay. Understand social dynamics change based on context. Captivity is what brings out the 'asshole' alpha. Not species or even gender. Not being a member of a family or pack.

That's where these concepts come from Shard. From watching healthy wolf families fracture under the stress of living in cruel captivity where resources are limited. It is not a badge of honor. It is a brutal social status obtained in the face of horror.

Written By Shard

Dec. 26, 2017, 5:27 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Agnarr

I've only ever heard that used toward people when it was referencing the wolf concept, and it sounds even more ridiculous. Like a sentence that has been mistranslated several times over until it makes no sense in either language. If the original concept of a wolf 'alpha' doesn't even exist in wolves, why use it to refer to humans? You've got words that mean leader. You've got dozens of them, in fact, words for each type of leader and how important that leader is compared to other leaders and how that leader got his job. You've got so many words for leader I still forget some of them. 'Alpha' doesn't mean any of that. It usually means loud, obnoxious, and aggressive (and, for some reason, male? There are ideally always two pack leaders, a male and a female, this is why I had so much trouble figuring this damned word out originally), possibly likely to be filled with arrows, but it doesn't mean anything important or substantial enough to need its own word.

Written By Agnarr

Dec. 26, 2017, 4:17 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Shard

They use alpha about people too, sometimes.

Makes more sense there, the concept's easier to grasp.

Written By Logan

Dec. 26, 2017, 2:52 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Cirroch

Cousin,

Too late for warnings. If my health was your concern you wouldn't have abandoned your blood when I was unjustly treated. The only oath I owe, is to my cousin Prince Darren and the House of Redrain. Your Duke, proclaimed my denoblement and you cemented it with your cowardliness and silence. Look on to my fields of fucks and see how barren it is, when it comes to your opinion.

Written By Cirroch

Dec. 26, 2017, 2:19 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Logan

Logan, you are on a dark path. You dare invoke our ancestors.

No one has released you from your oaths. Proceed with caution, son.

Written By Logan

Dec. 26, 2017, 1:51 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Shard

Thank you for the insight.

Written By Shard

Dec. 26, 2017, 1:40 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Logan

You're referencing a feud I neither know the details of nor particularly care about; it's none of my business. But if you're going to style yourselves wolves, know what skin you're wrapping yourself with. Particularly since the Horned One and his master love to lie about it.

When I first learned the Arvani tongue, it took me some time to understand the word 'alpha', because it only ever seemed to be used in reference to wolves, and it never made any fucking sense in context. I had to pick out meaning bit by bit, but I'll admit it's still a little baffling at times. Let me try to paint this more clearly: when you talk about wolves, and you use the word 'alpha', what you mean is 'parent', and what you really mean is 'parents', because unless one has died, there are two, because each pack has a mated pair. The rest of the pack are their children. Wolf packs are families. That's it. Occasionally there are adopted members, or packs made up of unrelated members out of necessity, but this is rare. When the parents become too old and weak, they usually just die, sometimes in battle against other packs, sometimes in hunting, sometimes by simply wandering off into the winter, but their own children don't usually kill them any more than human children have a tradition of killing their own parents.

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