Written By Isolde
June 10, 2017, 6:59 p.m.(8/17/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Talen
Can anyone repair the headache caused by caused by the balcony-high rapid descent of armor?
Prince Talen, I'm sick and our rooms are across the same hall.
If you don't stop being so clumsy, I'm going to have to see the champion's guild myself.
Prince Talen, I'm sick and our rooms are across the same hall.
If you don't stop being so clumsy, I'm going to have to see the champion's guild myself.
Written By Thena
June 10, 2017, 5:56 p.m.(8/17/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
Most likely being partially if not entirely at fault for the spectacular failure of Lieutenant Estardes' last attempt at finding a new hobby, I feel obliged to offer some alternative suggestions.
Rock skipping (Grandmaster Armel is quite good at it)
While we're on the topic, rock collecting.
Bull fighting
Beetle battles
Carving eggshells
Birdwatching
Hair jewelry
Rock skipping (Grandmaster Armel is quite good at it)
While we're on the topic, rock collecting.
Bull fighting
Beetle battles
Carving eggshells
Birdwatching
Hair jewelry
Written By Magpie
June 10, 2017, 4:19 p.m.(8/17/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
Threesomes.
Written By Magpie
June 10, 2017, 3:28 p.m.(8/17/1006 AR)
Just sent the money to Aiden. Us Magpies have to protect our own kind.
Got the shop stocked. Put the word out that it's stocked...
Who knew that running a shop was so much work? It's endless. I might have to take a break for while so I can actually enjoy myself again. I'm being entirely too productive and not nearly slacking off enough.
Maybe I'll take up some kind of charity project for the lowers to rebuild itself. Ha! Who am I kidding? I like the lowers just how it is. If the silks don't like it, that can stay out.
Got the shop stocked. Put the word out that it's stocked...
Who knew that running a shop was so much work? It's endless. I might have to take a break for while so I can actually enjoy myself again. I'm being entirely too productive and not nearly slacking off enough.
Maybe I'll take up some kind of charity project for the lowers to rebuild itself. Ha! Who am I kidding? I like the lowers just how it is. If the silks don't like it, that can stay out.
Written By Titania
June 10, 2017, 2:39 p.m.(8/17/1006 AR)
It has been a interesting time finding myself here in Arx, I have been discovering things out about myself that I did not think was ever in me. I have always had my nose in the books, always under the teachings of my cousins to become a diplomat. I find that slowly I am finding myself and even as scary as it maybe I find it exciting and interesting I am glad that Marquis Ford and Lady Octavia are here with me.
Written By Esoka
June 10, 2017, 2:07 p.m.(8/17/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
On the subject of First Office Estardes and his noble quest for hobbies, I have a few suggestions to submit to him and Vellichor.
I'm a grand fan of bare-knuckle fisticuffs. I'm out of practice now, but I've been meaning to get back into it. It's a very fine hobby, and the occasional black eye really gives the face character!
I also have a dog now, who I will allow you to walk if you want. He is time-consuming. That's like having a hobby, sort of.
I'm a grand fan of bare-knuckle fisticuffs. I'm out of practice now, but I've been meaning to get back into it. It's a very fine hobby, and the occasional black eye really gives the face character!
I also have a dog now, who I will allow you to walk if you want. He is time-consuming. That's like having a hobby, sort of.
Written By Dominic
June 10, 2017, 1:29 p.m.(8/16/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
A great hobby of mine is flaying.... fish. You can get great cuts with a good knife and skilled hand. Everyone loves fish.
Written By Joslyn
June 10, 2017, 1:18 p.m.(8/16/1006 AR)
I'm not sure if that was a threat or flirtation.
Inquiring minds need to know.
Inquiring minds need to know.
Written By Mirari
June 10, 2017, 1:13 p.m.(8/16/1006 AR)
Win or lose, I'll be drawing blood.
Written By Joslyn
June 10, 2017, 1:09 p.m.(8/16/1006 AR)
Today I will fight for Princess Eleyna's honor against Prince Talen's champion Mirari Corsetina. It is well that she looks forward to drawing blood, but I'm afraid that she's going to be disappointed, for that honor shall be mine.
Written By Carita
June 10, 2017, 12:21 p.m.(8/16/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Mirari
You have enabled yourself to become even more dangerous.
Written By Mirari
June 10, 2017, 12:20 p.m.(8/16/1006 AR)
I've started learning how to make weapons. I'm honestly not sure why I haven't before. Given my love of sharp objects. I made a dagger of high quality steel last night, but I didn't care for it so I melted it back down. Perhaps I'll work on a sword next.
Written By Mirari
June 10, 2017, 12:11 p.m.(8/16/1006 AR)
Today I will fight for the Dark Prince's honor as his champion against the Ice Princess' champion, Joslyn Manicelli. I look forward to drawing blood.
Written By Harper
June 10, 2017, 11:17 a.m.(8/16/1006 AR)
Let's geeeeeet ready to watch a duel today, guys.
Written By Ilvin
June 10, 2017, 1:35 a.m.(8/15/1006 AR)
Ah, sweet Limerance. I am no politician, no diplomat- and yet I am drawn to such duties, in the interest of peace, of love, and in faithfulness to you and to the people of the Compact. And so I must speak on the matter of House Thrax and the tensions that have arisen of late. I pray to you, sweet Limerance, to grant me strength and wisdom, so that your light may shine upon all of the faithful.
There has been much darkness in the past of House Thrax and its people, it is true- and they have taken actions that the Faith cannot accept or condone, and that is as unescapable a fact as any other. This has led to much resentment, and resentment can cloud and poison the hearts of even the most devout. But I have spoken to some in Thrax, and seen glimpses of their hearts, and I find myself overjoyed and heartened: among them are people who seek redemption, who seek the light, and to move past the horrors of days gone, and towards a future in peace and security for all within the Compact. For as long as this light shines, I will fight to keep it alive, and to let it spread among all the households and lands of House Thrax, and all the Faithful of the Compact.
Note that I do not say we should forget the horrors of the past- they should be remembered, but also risen above. For those who would mock and doubt that House Thrax is taking its first steps into a world of light and enlightenment, I ask: will you move forward, as the proud people of Thrax are already moving, as allies? Open your hearts to them. Choose to see the actions taken, to accept them with an open heart, and be willing to believe in the transformation of so many centuries in the dark into the light of the gods.
I know I, for one, believe in their sincerity, and will continue to work with them as long as it takes.
There has been much darkness in the past of House Thrax and its people, it is true- and they have taken actions that the Faith cannot accept or condone, and that is as unescapable a fact as any other. This has led to much resentment, and resentment can cloud and poison the hearts of even the most devout. But I have spoken to some in Thrax, and seen glimpses of their hearts, and I find myself overjoyed and heartened: among them are people who seek redemption, who seek the light, and to move past the horrors of days gone, and towards a future in peace and security for all within the Compact. For as long as this light shines, I will fight to keep it alive, and to let it spread among all the households and lands of House Thrax, and all the Faithful of the Compact.
Note that I do not say we should forget the horrors of the past- they should be remembered, but also risen above. For those who would mock and doubt that House Thrax is taking its first steps into a world of light and enlightenment, I ask: will you move forward, as the proud people of Thrax are already moving, as allies? Open your hearts to them. Choose to see the actions taken, to accept them with an open heart, and be willing to believe in the transformation of so many centuries in the dark into the light of the gods.
I know I, for one, believe in their sincerity, and will continue to work with them as long as it takes.
Written By Silas
June 10, 2017, 1:09 a.m.(8/15/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
Take up a craft. Make bank!
Written By Turo
June 10, 2017, 12:27 a.m.(8/15/1006 AR)
I have to keep reminding myself that being polite and being fair sometimes isn't worth a damn.
Still, better to be that than anything else.
Still, better to be that than anything else.
Written By Esoka
June 10, 2017, 12:18 a.m.(8/15/1006 AR)
I've been reflecting on the virtues of Lagoma recently. And trying to embrace them, though that is hard. As someone wiser than me said recently, she is a demanding goddess. Perhaps more than any of the others. For me, at least. There is no struggle in aspiring to courage, or charity, or justice. They are a struggle to attain, but not to want.
Wanting change is harder for me. I do not think all change is for the better. Forests burn and do not grow back swiftly, and sometimes their old beauty is lost forever. People you love die, or are gone from your life forever in other ways beyond reclaiming. Wounds heal but turn to scars that will never fade. The lives of good friends move farther and farther from yours. These are changes that are life, and I accept them, but I don't do it happily.
The demand of Lagoma is to take all changes, good and bad, and make yourself something better from them. Be greater. Accept the life you have, and do something vital with it. It is very hard. I feel the need to weep sometimes, for how hard it is.
Being prodigal is many things to me. But more than anything else it is, I think, the decision to change. I was one thing when I was just a daughter of the Greenwood tribes. I bent the knee to Riven fifteen years ago and became something else. I was just a girl then and did not understand the full weight of what I was doing. I know it better now. When I meet those who have recently bent the knee, they are wild and untamed and fierce in the ways and traditions of their tribes, in ways I am not anymore. I am not what I was then, and I miss that girl sometimes.
On the whole, though, I think I have changed for the better. I am proud to be a citizen of the Compact. There is respect for law here, for order, a unity of many peoples who've come together to make something better and stronger than they are apart. The things built here endure after those that made them are gone. I am part of that, and it is a good life.
I do wonder how much I've changed. How much the girl I was at fifteen would even recognize who I am today. The things I find myself wanting now, the things I think might make me happy, are different than what she thought she wanted.
I feel this place, and the people I meet in it, changing me still the more. I'm not sure what I will be at the end of summer, or autumn or winter beyond them. Something greater, I pray to Our Lady of Change. I will try not to fight against what the future would make of me.
Wanting change is harder for me. I do not think all change is for the better. Forests burn and do not grow back swiftly, and sometimes their old beauty is lost forever. People you love die, or are gone from your life forever in other ways beyond reclaiming. Wounds heal but turn to scars that will never fade. The lives of good friends move farther and farther from yours. These are changes that are life, and I accept them, but I don't do it happily.
The demand of Lagoma is to take all changes, good and bad, and make yourself something better from them. Be greater. Accept the life you have, and do something vital with it. It is very hard. I feel the need to weep sometimes, for how hard it is.
Being prodigal is many things to me. But more than anything else it is, I think, the decision to change. I was one thing when I was just a daughter of the Greenwood tribes. I bent the knee to Riven fifteen years ago and became something else. I was just a girl then and did not understand the full weight of what I was doing. I know it better now. When I meet those who have recently bent the knee, they are wild and untamed and fierce in the ways and traditions of their tribes, in ways I am not anymore. I am not what I was then, and I miss that girl sometimes.
On the whole, though, I think I have changed for the better. I am proud to be a citizen of the Compact. There is respect for law here, for order, a unity of many peoples who've come together to make something better and stronger than they are apart. The things built here endure after those that made them are gone. I am part of that, and it is a good life.
I do wonder how much I've changed. How much the girl I was at fifteen would even recognize who I am today. The things I find myself wanting now, the things I think might make me happy, are different than what she thought she wanted.
I feel this place, and the people I meet in it, changing me still the more. I'm not sure what I will be at the end of summer, or autumn or winter beyond them. Something greater, I pray to Our Lady of Change. I will try not to fight against what the future would make of me.
Written By Calaudrin
June 9, 2017, 10:34 p.m.(8/15/1006 AR)
I need some hobbies. Taking suggestions.
Written By Rymarr
June 9, 2017, 10:20 p.m.(8/15/1006 AR)
I've joined with the Iron Guard. Mostly I realized that I'd become bored. The life of the King's Own is greatly regimented and exacting, so a lack of any real direction caused me to realize why I was having trouble sleeping at night. While my daily activities to my House keep me busy, it was a different sort of busy than I am accustomed. The Iron Guard presents a number of opportunities that I look forward to encountering and I think that it will provide me with something great to focus my attention and efforts toward. Aside from the internal workings of our own House, of course.
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