Written By Thena
Oct. 13, 2017, 4:24 p.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Quenia
I know someone with a banjo.
Written By Sparte
Oct. 13, 2017, 3:56 p.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
Tiny Tom has been going missing for days at a time lately. I don't know where she is going, but she is coming back with knicks and scratches. I'm worried what'll happen next time I leave her by herself so I can travel.
Written By Driskell
Oct. 13, 2017, 3:24 p.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
The single feast day of Tehom approaches with the signs in the celestial bodies above pointing to the event called the Eclipse of Mirrors and as Third Reflection of the Mirrormasks, I write this.
There have been much loss, sacrifice, pain, suffering and sadness since the last eclipse experienced by all people of the Compact. I'm reminded again of hundreds of young children of thralls that were sacrificed and perhaps forgotten when the wall of the Thraxan ward was blown up by the Bringers as that evil desired to take Arx. With the Abyssal nightmares whose single purpose and desire is to twist and corrupt all creation and having brought such travesty right to the doorstep here in Arx, I feel that all should be forgiven for their dark thoughts and look with suspicion to the Thirteenth.
Through all of these challenges we have faced, with some paying the ultimate price with their lives so that others might live, it is easy to lose ones self to feelings of hatred, anger, jealousy, grief and even apathy. Closing ones mind and heart to the world around them and shutting out the words of the Pantheon only will bring further harm to the world.
Take heart, reader. The Dark Reflection gives us the ability to identify and understand these dark passions so that we might master them before they become a yoke on our soul, burdening us down. By understanding that through our duality we are a whole person and recognize that just as we have hidden emotions and feelings that often make us lose ourselves to such things, we can can see that others too are the same as us. Tehom's teachings on duality allow us not just to master our own dark passions, but to choose when to react when others who are hurting inside try harming us. He is not the god of evil, the god to invoke when one desires to do wrong. He is the god that gives us truth and allows us to forgive, to seek forgiveness and seek stronger bonds between one another as we recognize that everyone is the same as ourself struggling with our passions.
Tehom's Eclipse of Mirrors is a time we should think heavily on all that has happened in the previously years and how we all have changed. To look for truth in the Mirror and reflect the truth towards all people we come in contact with. That truth is we all have the light and darkness within us, we all struggle to master our emotions, and that we all will fail from time to time. Use our failings as learning opportunities, use the failings of others as opportunities to forgive them and help them change.
Open your hearts and open your minds, accept truth and become agents of change.
There have been much loss, sacrifice, pain, suffering and sadness since the last eclipse experienced by all people of the Compact. I'm reminded again of hundreds of young children of thralls that were sacrificed and perhaps forgotten when the wall of the Thraxan ward was blown up by the Bringers as that evil desired to take Arx. With the Abyssal nightmares whose single purpose and desire is to twist and corrupt all creation and having brought such travesty right to the doorstep here in Arx, I feel that all should be forgiven for their dark thoughts and look with suspicion to the Thirteenth.
Through all of these challenges we have faced, with some paying the ultimate price with their lives so that others might live, it is easy to lose ones self to feelings of hatred, anger, jealousy, grief and even apathy. Closing ones mind and heart to the world around them and shutting out the words of the Pantheon only will bring further harm to the world.
Take heart, reader. The Dark Reflection gives us the ability to identify and understand these dark passions so that we might master them before they become a yoke on our soul, burdening us down. By understanding that through our duality we are a whole person and recognize that just as we have hidden emotions and feelings that often make us lose ourselves to such things, we can can see that others too are the same as us. Tehom's teachings on duality allow us not just to master our own dark passions, but to choose when to react when others who are hurting inside try harming us. He is not the god of evil, the god to invoke when one desires to do wrong. He is the god that gives us truth and allows us to forgive, to seek forgiveness and seek stronger bonds between one another as we recognize that everyone is the same as ourself struggling with our passions.
Tehom's Eclipse of Mirrors is a time we should think heavily on all that has happened in the previously years and how we all have changed. To look for truth in the Mirror and reflect the truth towards all people we come in contact with. That truth is we all have the light and darkness within us, we all struggle to master our emotions, and that we all will fail from time to time. Use our failings as learning opportunities, use the failings of others as opportunities to forgive them and help them change.
Open your hearts and open your minds, accept truth and become agents of change.
Written By Quenia
Oct. 13, 2017, 2:51 p.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
Another batch of wine has been delivered to Lady Monique Greenmarch for the Spring Soiree. I hope that the batch turns out as well as I hoped, and that people enjoy it. This is the second time we've supplied wine for an event under my watch - the first was for one of our own events.
Lucita and I are planning a concert event very soon, where we will be serving some new wines - and some old familiar wines. We'll be encouraging people to come with a picnic luncheon of their own. We've dubbed it a "Picnic and a Concert". Or, something along those lines. Now, we need only find the entertainment and post the event to the boards so people know about it.
Lucita and I are planning a concert event very soon, where we will be serving some new wines - and some old familiar wines. We'll be encouraging people to come with a picnic luncheon of their own. We've dubbed it a "Picnic and a Concert". Or, something along those lines. Now, we need only find the entertainment and post the event to the boards so people know about it.
Written By Sameera
Oct. 13, 2017, 2:33 p.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Sivard
You are kind of irritating. Be less irritating. I don't entirely dislike you, at least.
Written By Rymarr
Oct. 13, 2017, 2:05 p.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
A griffon. Something I've only previously seen depicted on a banner. Well, banners don't do them justice. Majestic, noble, deadly. It plucked ambushers from treetops and took them for a short trip before they reached their rapid destinations. All in the matter of a few short moments. Definitely deadly.
Countess Mia and Dame Felicia of course should receive the credit for releasing the magnificent creature from captivity. To think the cultists were going to sacrifice it. Well, the rest of the team performed splendidly in providing the distraction; Lord Killian, Lord Corban, Dame Paloma, and myself all threw ourselves into the fray, in our own ways. We kept the attention of the would-be sacrificers overall. Countess Mia was able to both release it and do battle, while Dame Felicia watched over her back - which ended up being need, so thankfully I kept them paired together.
Overall the mission was a success with those present and representing the Compact in their unique capacities, comporting themselves with both honor and dignity.
Still. A griffon. Despite being bloodied and enraged within it's cage, it still had the look of something that could have torn ten men apart on a whim.
Countess Mia and Dame Felicia of course should receive the credit for releasing the magnificent creature from captivity. To think the cultists were going to sacrifice it. Well, the rest of the team performed splendidly in providing the distraction; Lord Killian, Lord Corban, Dame Paloma, and myself all threw ourselves into the fray, in our own ways. We kept the attention of the would-be sacrificers overall. Countess Mia was able to both release it and do battle, while Dame Felicia watched over her back - which ended up being need, so thankfully I kept them paired together.
Overall the mission was a success with those present and representing the Compact in their unique capacities, comporting themselves with both honor and dignity.
Still. A griffon. Despite being bloodied and enraged within it's cage, it still had the look of something that could have torn ten men apart on a whim.
Written By Rymarr
Oct. 13, 2017, 1:24 p.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Corban
On a recent foray the good lord of House Telmar provided me a service. He, much to my chagrin, took a blow on my behalf. I had foolishly sprang a counter-ambush on some would-be ambushers and for a brief period of time weathered the assault of a whole group of wild-eyed cultists. While I held out for what I felt was a considerable amount of time, inevitably a lucky blow or two will prevail; and they did. Lord Corban came hurtling into the mix after he and those in the other fight had eliminated their threats.
There were many heroic moments in our patrol, but that one stood out intimately for me. Likely because it involved my own safety and wellbeing.
There were many heroic moments in our patrol, but that one stood out intimately for me. Likely because it involved my own safety and wellbeing.
Written By Orazio
Oct. 13, 2017, 1:23 p.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
To the Faithful Reader:
Astronomical readings indicate that the Eclipse of Mirrors approaches. This event often causes consternation and concern among some of the Faithful, as it honors Tehom, the Thirteenth. In the Lyceum, this time is one of celebration and revelry, a feast and festival offered up to the god of the Reflection. It can seem odd, for those not raised in the culture, to venerate the Reflection. However, the worship of Tehom comes down not to the veneration of wickedness or of the opposite of virtue, but rather to the acknowledgement that each of us carries darkness inside, and to deny that is to risk letting it grow wild, untended and unknown. A man who claims of himself nothing but righteousness is certainly a man who is lying to himself - and once one lies to themselves about their own innate goodness, other lies are quick to follow. A woman who believes that what she does MUST be just because she is just, or because books tell her what 'justice' is, is one who doomed to commit injustice after injustice. If you do not acknowledge your flaws, the possibility of your own corruption, then you will be ruled by those flaws, and led down the path of corruption.
The essence of the worship of the Thirteenth is to remind us that sometimes the mirror shows us a truth that we would rather shy away from. We must face it, squarely, and manage it - even the darkness and the temptation. If you are prideful, admit that, and find a place to spend that pride which will improve the world around you, rather than denying it until it sabotages your relationships. If you are envious, use that envy to motivate yourself to do better, rather than tearing others down. None of us is without flaw - do not shy away from your flaws, but channel and rule them in the pursuit of virtue and the gods' wills.
Thus, the worship of Tehom is best understood and conducted in the thoughtful worship of all the gods. Ultimately, we are to aspire to the virtues the Pantheon shows us: Truth, Justice, Fidelity, Wisdom, Courage, Honor, Hope, Life, Change, Healing, Respectful Dominion, Choice, Rebirth, etc. One cannot worship Tehom outside the context of the Pantheon; to do so invites the idolization of the reflection, rather than understanding it in its context. Tehom - and every god - is one god among many, and none of them stands alone or above; our call and charge as Faithful is to live as close to all the gods, and to the guidance of the Faith, as we can. But we cannot do that if we deny the existence of temptation, and those things that would steer us off the path. As the Eclipse draws near, I challenge every person to look within themselves, and not to flinch or avert their eyes from their own darkness - rather, how to control and channel that darkness to better journey towards the virtues of the Pantheon.
Astronomical readings indicate that the Eclipse of Mirrors approaches. This event often causes consternation and concern among some of the Faithful, as it honors Tehom, the Thirteenth. In the Lyceum, this time is one of celebration and revelry, a feast and festival offered up to the god of the Reflection. It can seem odd, for those not raised in the culture, to venerate the Reflection. However, the worship of Tehom comes down not to the veneration of wickedness or of the opposite of virtue, but rather to the acknowledgement that each of us carries darkness inside, and to deny that is to risk letting it grow wild, untended and unknown. A man who claims of himself nothing but righteousness is certainly a man who is lying to himself - and once one lies to themselves about their own innate goodness, other lies are quick to follow. A woman who believes that what she does MUST be just because she is just, or because books tell her what 'justice' is, is one who doomed to commit injustice after injustice. If you do not acknowledge your flaws, the possibility of your own corruption, then you will be ruled by those flaws, and led down the path of corruption.
The essence of the worship of the Thirteenth is to remind us that sometimes the mirror shows us a truth that we would rather shy away from. We must face it, squarely, and manage it - even the darkness and the temptation. If you are prideful, admit that, and find a place to spend that pride which will improve the world around you, rather than denying it until it sabotages your relationships. If you are envious, use that envy to motivate yourself to do better, rather than tearing others down. None of us is without flaw - do not shy away from your flaws, but channel and rule them in the pursuit of virtue and the gods' wills.
Thus, the worship of Tehom is best understood and conducted in the thoughtful worship of all the gods. Ultimately, we are to aspire to the virtues the Pantheon shows us: Truth, Justice, Fidelity, Wisdom, Courage, Honor, Hope, Life, Change, Healing, Respectful Dominion, Choice, Rebirth, etc. One cannot worship Tehom outside the context of the Pantheon; to do so invites the idolization of the reflection, rather than understanding it in its context. Tehom - and every god - is one god among many, and none of them stands alone or above; our call and charge as Faithful is to live as close to all the gods, and to the guidance of the Faith, as we can. But we cannot do that if we deny the existence of temptation, and those things that would steer us off the path. As the Eclipse draws near, I challenge every person to look within themselves, and not to flinch or avert their eyes from their own darkness - rather, how to control and channel that darkness to better journey towards the virtues of the Pantheon.
Written By Eirene
Oct. 13, 2017, 12:16 p.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
I can't believe I have to write this.
Do not attempt to 'pet' mythical beasties and First Children.
It's like giving pinching the cheeks of your sharp as a dagger grandfather and going 'Ain't you cute'.
Do not attempt to 'pet' mythical beasties and First Children.
It's like giving pinching the cheeks of your sharp as a dagger grandfather and going 'Ain't you cute'.
Written By Carita
Oct. 13, 2017, 10:51 a.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Vercyn
Old Northern Wolf with excellent taste in whiskey. He has a way with compliments that make a lady blush.
Written By Eirene
Oct. 13, 2017, 10:11 a.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
You have to admit though, the Siren of Southport is a pretty damn cool title.
Written By Corban
Oct. 13, 2017, 8:55 a.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
A griffin. In person. I had heard of the myths and legends about these Grayson mounts. But to see one in person. It is so strange to call an animal, especially one that some crazed cultists were looking to sacrifice to the dark gods, "regal." But he was. Noble. Bloodied but unbowed. Majestic.
I only wish I could talk to him, to encourage him to join us, to tell him how there is one that wished to see him more than anything else. But he is alive somewhere to the North. Maybe some day we will meet again.
I only wish I could talk to him, to encourage him to join us, to tell him how there is one that wished to see him more than anything else. But he is alive somewhere to the North. Maybe some day we will meet again.
Written By Thena
Oct. 13, 2017, 8:45 a.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Audric
While I can't agree with Baron de Lire's entire assessment of unicorns, I can verify that they are perfectly capable of fucking you up but good if you trifle with them. So don't.
Written By Daemon
Oct. 13, 2017, 8:17 a.m.(5/22/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Audric
"Pro unicorn propaganda".
Now those are words I never expected to hear, but I'm glad I did.
Now those are words I never expected to hear, but I'm glad I did.
Written By Audric
Oct. 13, 2017, 12:55 a.m.(5/21/1007 AR)
I've been hearing more and more praise for unicorns. People calling them lovely, majestic creatures, that sort of thing. Some who want to play with them, or have one, or pet one or the like.
They're not. Unicorns are foul beasts. One of their ilk killed one of my best men, before I took up the Captain-General's chair. Filthy scales and long, curling horns meant not only to impale, but to disembowel as they shake you about on it.
Awful creatures, and the type that'll kill you as soon as piss on you, and take my word that they can do that from quite the distance too. Mark my words, someone's going to get themselves killed because of this rush of pro-unicorn propaganda.
They're not. Unicorns are foul beasts. One of their ilk killed one of my best men, before I took up the Captain-General's chair. Filthy scales and long, curling horns meant not only to impale, but to disembowel as they shake you about on it.
Awful creatures, and the type that'll kill you as soon as piss on you, and take my word that they can do that from quite the distance too. Mark my words, someone's going to get themselves killed because of this rush of pro-unicorn propaganda.
Written By Tessa
Oct. 13, 2017, 12:29 a.m.(5/21/1007 AR)
New goal: Pet a Unicorn.
Written By Caelis
Oct. 13, 2017, 12:10 a.m.(5/21/1007 AR)
I will say this on sirens, coming home to my husband with tales of sirens certainly led to a very warm homecoming indeed. If I ever see that siren again and manage to resist the allure of her song, I think I shall have to thank her for inspiring such a devoted welcome. Admittedly, it was thinking of dear prince that carried my feet home. No wonder sailors are so drawn, her song called to mind all my favorite memories of the sea at it's most radiant. I can say for sure should I ever have to chose, I would chose Edain over the sea I've learned. It could have been the fear of Aunt Eirene slapping the back of my head and calling me a wanton idiot that kept me in check as well, admittedly.
May your hopes find safe harbors.
May your hopes find safe harbors.
Written By Eleyna
Oct. 12, 2017, 10:34 p.m.(5/21/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Talen
I'm surprised that you aren't complaining about Victus having a Serpent when all you have is a Viper.
Here I can help: Something something so unfair something something need to make something bleed.
That sounds about right.
Here I can help: Something something so unfair something something need to make something bleed.
That sounds about right.
Written By Alarissa
Oct. 12, 2017, 9:28 p.m.(5/21/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Talen
Prince Talen.
Not a single word I spoke was mis-truth. Would you care to take a ride? You can bring the Princess Eleyna and join me. It would be quite a memorable experience, I am sure.
Not a single word I spoke was mis-truth. Would you care to take a ride? You can bring the Princess Eleyna and join me. It would be quite a memorable experience, I am sure.
Written By Talen
Oct. 12, 2017, 9:25 p.m.(5/21/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Alarissa
Did you lose a bet?
I'm reporting you to the etiquette police.
I'm reporting you to the etiquette police.
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