Written By Aiden
Dec. 1, 2017, 1:06 p.m.(9/10/1007 AR)
The relationships I have with my family I strongly value and among them there are the few that I feel I can fully confide in. I don't think there is anything wrong with confiding in someone that shares blood with you, especially when done so in private. I certainly wouldn't call it an extremely dramatic response, especially when one of those family members can draw on many more years of experience than what one currently has.
These last few days have been illuminating.
These last few days have been illuminating.
Written By Edward
Dec. 1, 2017, 12:26 p.m.(9/10/1007 AR)
Laughter locks in the moist memory juices.
Written By Madeleine
Dec. 1, 2017, 10:35 a.m.(9/10/1007 AR)
Oh dearest Gods - I am saddened by what I witness at the statue of my beloved Mangata. Her beauty so tarnished by her enemies and their insidious evils. But I am so blessed as to receive an outpouring of help and love from all corners so we may find a way to combat this latest attack against Her by her enemies. May all of the Faith be so blessed and admired.
Please, for your own safety, do not attempt to touch the blight on the statue. It is wicked and beyond natural. The guards are a necessity because I know how people are curious and while you may want to help, I'd rather not have more injuries on my hands. Or your hands to be honest, my beloved children.
Please, for your own safety, do not attempt to touch the blight on the statue. It is wicked and beyond natural. The guards are a necessity because I know how people are curious and while you may want to help, I'd rather not have more injuries on my hands. Or your hands to be honest, my beloved children.
Written By Alarissa
Dec. 1, 2017, 9:39 a.m.(9/10/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Quenia
I wholeheartedly agree with the Archduchess. We should all have tea sometime.
Written By Eleyna
Dec. 1, 2017, 8:35 a.m.(9/10/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Quenia
I've been called a suspected 'black widow' and they let me become Archduchess. If someone cares about whatever your mother did, they aren't worth marrying anyway.
Written By Quenia
Dec. 1, 2017, 7:57 a.m.(9/10/1007 AR)
My family is pressuring me once more to find a husband, and I haven't the faintest idea where to even begin looking. I suppose I shall start attending more functions - soon. Lucita seems certain this will at least allow me to meet people out there.
But, well, would anyone really want to marry a woman who's mother is a suspected black widow? I have my sincerest doubts. There. I've put that out in the world and said it. Maybe there is someone out there brave enough to try and convince me they'd take a chance on a sincere alliance between houses.
But, well, would anyone really want to marry a woman who's mother is a suspected black widow? I have my sincerest doubts. There. I've put that out in the world and said it. Maybe there is someone out there brave enough to try and convince me they'd take a chance on a sincere alliance between houses.
Written By Luis
Dec. 1, 2017, 1 a.m.(9/9/1007 AR)
It has been far too long since I've seen the scribes and shared with them words that I feel are worthy of being recorded. For now I think I shall keep it short. For the past months I have I set my feet in places where I have never walked before and finally, just now, do I feel like I belong. I shall continue to walk where the path opens before me, though I shall finally take steps with a sureness that did not previously exist.
Salut Arx, I am Lord Luis Igniseri.
Salut Arx, I am Lord Luis Igniseri.
Written By Harald
Nov. 30, 2017, 11:25 p.m.(9/9/1007 AR)
As darkness looms, brave hearts find opportunity to give praise and gratitude even for strife and adversity.
The sea is mighty and vast, if provides great bounty in calm, and terrible wrath in storm. The same sky that gives sun and water rages with lightning and heavenly fire. Such is Mangata: she is the calm and the storm, the peace and the strife. We give thanks for calm, as it brings life and prosperity. But so too do we love the storm, for it is there we grow strong; it is in the storm we learn courage.
Blow, winds; come, lightning. The storms have made mighty we sons of Mangata. If this coming storm is to be the greatest for a thousand years, I praise our Goddess for it, and I yearn to see the greatness to which my people will rise for having faced it.
The sea is mighty and vast, if provides great bounty in calm, and terrible wrath in storm. The same sky that gives sun and water rages with lightning and heavenly fire. Such is Mangata: she is the calm and the storm, the peace and the strife. We give thanks for calm, as it brings life and prosperity. But so too do we love the storm, for it is there we grow strong; it is in the storm we learn courage.
Blow, winds; come, lightning. The storms have made mighty we sons of Mangata. If this coming storm is to be the greatest for a thousand years, I praise our Goddess for it, and I yearn to see the greatness to which my people will rise for having faced it.
Written By Audric
Nov. 30, 2017, 8:54 p.m.(9/9/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Driskell
The trick to having a good sense of balance is to get really drunk a lot. That way, when you're sober, you've got all this experience from staying upright while wobbling around!
Written By Driskell
Nov. 30, 2017, 8:18 p.m.(9/9/1007 AR)
Balance is desired although difficult to maintain> For every action taken, one should expect a reaction.
Written By Valery
Nov. 30, 2017, 5:10 p.m.(9/8/1007 AR)
It's being such an uneventful week... I've barely seen anyone...
And when I did, it was a bit scary, so I guess it's better this way.
But having so many people in the garden was so nice.
I probably should try to get more events going on in it...
And when I did, it was a bit scary, so I guess it's better this way.
But having so many people in the garden was so nice.
I probably should try to get more events going on in it...
Written By Brianna
Nov. 30, 2017, 2:56 p.m.(9/8/1007 AR)
The smell of white hot steel being forged and shaped by the clanging sound of the hammer as sparks flash like lightning in acrid dark clouds of soot. The sound of hundreds of troops rushing to meet the enemy on the battlefield. The sight of friends and the touch of loved ones when you return from battles and kiss them fiercely. That feeling when your muscles burn hot and sweat beads off your body.
These are a few of my favorite things.
These are a few of my favorite things.
Written By Carita
Nov. 30, 2017, 12:37 p.m.(9/8/1007 AR)
I am not your home. I am not a place for you to rest your weary head and leave a mess so that you may leave in pursuit of new adventures. With the vaguest of answers and explanations that leave me wanting more honesty. You are a shut door. I cannot even hope to pick the locks - constantly wondering what are the right things to ask. Questioning. Uncertain. You said I was the one that wore masks. That I was the one with many faces. So are you. Either too caught up in your own grandiose sense of self-worth to notice, or, so fueled by your ambition that you don't see it. I know what I am. But, you don't. I do not like myself like this - I would rather be my own sanctuary. I am a home for myself. Not for you. For myself alone.
Written By Aiden
Nov. 30, 2017, 10:54 a.m.(9/8/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Samael
I finally had time to really sit and talk with my Uncle. It was worth every minute to do so. He remains one of my idols.
Written By Clover
Nov. 30, 2017, 3:17 a.m.(9/7/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Ryhalt
I feel like I should write something in the journals for archival and historical purposes about my lord husband. I find myself at a loss for words, however. He is so much more than I first expected. I have known him only a short time but it feels like longer. It feels as if I have always come home to find him at his desk writing some missive, balancing some ledger, tending to his business. Perhaps another time I will have more words to write other than:
Duke Ryhalt Farshaw is an excellent, honorable man, and I am luckily to be his duchess.
Duke Ryhalt Farshaw is an excellent, honorable man, and I am luckily to be his duchess.
Written By Caelis
Nov. 29, 2017, 11:13 p.m.(9/7/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Artorius
How does one not feel better after a long talk with my brother? He's the most supportive and cheerful man. I struggle some days to understand how he's a Malvici. He's so generous with his affection and joy. Hardly as grim faced and quick with a flask like the rest of us. It must be raising his daughter that did it. Is that my future? Let us pray it is not. I don't think the city can handle two hugging and forehead kissing Malvici.
Written By Neve
Nov. 29, 2017, 8:55 p.m.(9/7/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Archeron
An unexpected meeting in the forest. Interesting words exchanged, and a new friendship forged. I hope that we can have a fun adventure sometime soon!
Written By Neve
Nov. 29, 2017, 8:49 a.m.(9/6/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
Had a nice chat with Lord Victus and he gave me some sound fashion advice. He is actually a pretty good conversationalist. You just have to look past the scowling and the grunts is all. He has some pretty solid insights. Hmmn. I will have to get him a gift. Bacon is always good. Maybe something stabbier though. He seems like he would enjoy stabbing things. I shall have to look for a dagger or something like that.
Thank you for a brief, if wonderful evening.
Thank you for a brief, if wonderful evening.
Written By Victus
Nov. 29, 2017, 12:41 a.m.(9/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Neve
What a girl.
...
No really, what the fuck?
...
No really, what the fuck?
Written By Alis
Nov. 28, 2017, 5:30 p.m.(9/4/1007 AR)
Being underestimated in any capacity used to be such an incredible source of frustration for me. It often resulted in screaming matches with my father, or devious traps laid out for my older brothers to stumble upon during their training exercises (I have no regrets! Older brothers must be taught lessons).
But, training with Lord Commander Dayne took some of the wind out of my sails, as it would any new squire or Knight in training. He did not go easy on me because he was my Uncle. In fact, I am rather certain that he was twice as hard on me knowing I had a physical deficit to make up for and he would be doing me a disservice otherwise. And I worked. I worked harder at everything he set me to then anything I had ever done in my life, and then I sought out more. Because I was absolutely not going to fail when I had been so adamant about my life's path.
So now, when I am underestimated about anything at all... it is a challenge that I relish. Because I am just too stubborn not to work at it until I prove them wrong.
But, training with Lord Commander Dayne took some of the wind out of my sails, as it would any new squire or Knight in training. He did not go easy on me because he was my Uncle. In fact, I am rather certain that he was twice as hard on me knowing I had a physical deficit to make up for and he would be doing me a disservice otherwise. And I worked. I worked harder at everything he set me to then anything I had ever done in my life, and then I sought out more. Because I was absolutely not going to fail when I had been so adamant about my life's path.
So now, when I am underestimated about anything at all... it is a challenge that I relish. Because I am just too stubborn not to work at it until I prove them wrong.
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