Written By Rymarr
April 16, 2017, 10:41 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Katarina
She was seated on a stool near a vendor, selling pots of ink or dyes. She claimed that they would provide one with the means to receive a tattoo that would be temporary and was often utilized in her homeland for ceremonial purposes or special occasions. I found it to be fairly intriguing to say the least. I've never felt the need to tattoo my flesh, it is a peculiar practice. I will admit though that I was very curious about these temporary means of placing ink on the canvas that is skin, likely a result of some sort of appeal to the adventurous side of my mind.
The princess did mention a few interesting facts, including some of her activities within the western Oathlands and on behalf of House Valardin which were of great interest to me. She apparently seeks to someday become a citizen of the Compact and, in my humble opinion, it is a certain sign that she would be accepted with open arms due to the fact that without citizen she's already began to throw herself into spreading charity among the people who took her in and understands the core concept of what makes the Compact strong: when someone helps you, you help them back. We rely upon one another, even now, for a great deal. She understands this already and I believe it will make her inclusion to the Compact a certainty.
It's my sincere hope that I did not offend the visiting dignitary. I may have over-enunciated my words and spoken too slowly in an effort to be perfectly understood, that I may have sounded foolish. Perhaps not, perhaps so. What's done is done.
Written By Mae
April 16, 2017, 10:26 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
*Beneath the rather neat-but-boring script is a heart, a few inches wide, done in varying shades of watercolor. It starts a faint pink on the perimeter and moves to a dark red at the center.*
Written By Alis
April 16, 2017, 10:22 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Written By Ansel
April 16, 2017, 10:14 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Arn
Will it ever be?
Written By Sparte
April 16, 2017, 10:10 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Written By Tikva
April 16, 2017, 9:59 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Luca
The Winged Fox and the Pink Griffon, of course!
Written By Luca
April 16, 2017, 9:47 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Orazio
Written By Luca
April 16, 2017, 9:44 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Reese
I do think I'll need some nice sobriquet like Val got when she went Redrain.
The Lazy Gray Fox maybe? Now I've ruined it and no one will call me that since I made it up myself.
Written By Tristan
April 16, 2017, 9:32 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
I'm no stranger to blood. It happens when you care for animals. A pasture accident, a bad step, a poorly-positioned foal--and the result can be more blood than you ever dreamt of, sticky scarlet, and all you can do is try to hold life together or gently let it go, all in the battle against death and suffering and chaos, the fight we fight every day even when there aren't Bringers at our gates.
Bringer blood is different. There's no life to it. It's dark and goo-y and sluggish, and it reeks of death. I scrubbed until I could scrub no more, until I scrubbed off at least a layer of skin are more. I don't think I've ever been so clean in my life. And still it haunts me: the reek of Bringer blood; the girl screaming for her near-brother who was no longer human; broken bits and bodies in a swordshop; bodies tossed around like dolls at the docks, in the Lower Borroughs, at the Seawatch Gate; the warriors who went to defend their people disappearing into nothing and leaving those who loved them behind, all the animals--cats, dogs, horses, goats, hedgehogs, what have you--rummaging in ruins because their caretakers are gone, not comprehending how they have lost their world, dying slowly or slaughtered for food.
Children crying in the night as they perish from plague, murdered because a big bad reaver was _afraid_ of them and what they could represent.
This used to be a simpler world. I used to be a simpler man.
But that's nothing else to do. When the world is dark and hope recedes, all you can do is live, to go forward step by step. And when monsters are at your gate, the only thing you can do is fight.
I was just a horseman.
But that's it. I fight.
Written By Anze
April 16, 2017, 9:32 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Written By Anze
April 16, 2017, 9:20 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Written By Joscelin
April 16, 2017, 9:10 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Written By Percephon
April 16, 2017, 8:51 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Leola
Written By Rowan
April 16, 2017, 8:43 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Lianne
Written By Rowan
April 16, 2017, 8:41 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Beware an angry stablehand - Tristan took the things arm off. I'd hate to see what he did if you touched anything in his tackroom. Princess Peregrine was quick to see to the wounded girl, the sort of head you'd like to have with you in battle if you're unlucky enough to fall. Likewise, Lady Tikva's songs are a powerful thing. Lady Khanne and Lady Niamh - each trial alongside them makes me glad they're the ones at my back.
Pour a drink for Tomas, may what was left of his spirit find peace.
Written By Sudara
April 16, 2017, 8:26 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Written By Tobias
April 16, 2017, 8:15 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
You have to admit, the lack of self-awareness would be almost hilarious, if you didn't know the thing was insane to begin with.
Surrender and be unmade, or continue fighting and suffer cruelly.
Like this siege isn't causing us all to suffer already.
Written By Armel
April 16, 2017, 7:49 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
I cannot speak for the rest of the Faith or the Compact, but the response for the Knights of Solace is this:
We are the Knights of Solace
Vellichor guides our minds
Gloria powers our arms
Lagoma lights our hearts
Gild shows us the true path
Death is only the next step in the Wheel
We are the shield of the Compact
We do not bend
We do not break
We do not fear the Darkness
For We bring the Light
Come now, and face the judgment of the Gods.
Written By Darren
April 16, 2017, 7:47 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Rook
Written By Eleyna
April 16, 2017, 7:31 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)
Ugh. Amateurs.
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