Written By Arn
April 18, 2016, 1:51 a.m.(4/5/1003 AR)
Relationship Note on Gabriel
Ask anyone on the streets of Arx who's the greatest knight in the land now that Dayne's dead and chances are they will tell you it is Duke Gabriel Bisland. Gabriel! Squire Gabby! That boy that looked like he was twelve the first time I met him, bright eyed and so green he could have been a hedge! But I guess he's a big damned hero now after all the work he did with the shavs. To me though? Hard to think of him as anything but that kid, that young bright squire, so I might let that slip. Repeatedly. Something I take great delight in referring to him as, or sometimes I make it even more casual and just call him 'son.' It makes the Graysons mad as hell and so it's one of the few guilty pleasures I refuse to give up. Gabriel himself? It doesn't seem to bother him. Seems to appreciate keeping him grounded. I figure helping to keep him humble is the least I can do for a battle brother that I've fought alongside over the course of three decades. He's welcome.
Written By Arn
April 18, 2016, 1:37 a.m.(4/5/1003 AR)
Relationship Note on Alis
The knight-princess reminds me entirely too damned much of my daughter, and I find myself speaking far too frankly around her or being a sentimental old fool. And just like my daughter she has is determined to drive me mad by insisting that 'deep down' I am a good person, despite knowing full well I handle problems in a way no knight should ever approve of. I told Prince Radley, her and Edain's father, not to encourage her path to Knighthood. And then I told her brother the same. It'd only lead to sorrow. Now she's the knight and he's stuck wearing the crown and making the decisions that'll send men off to die while he has to sit in safety and miss all the glory. She's too damned young, she's too talented, and like every idiotic child with a sword she thinks she's immortal. She'll be the bold hero that begs to ride at the head of the column. It is going to get her killed, and I am not ready for that. Not so soon after losing Radley and far too many others. I've warned her of this now a half a hundred times. I see it coming, so I try to push her away, but somehow I fail at this and find myself in the ridiculous situation of offering fatherly advice now that Prince Radley's gone, which I know will only end poorly for both of us.
Written By Edain
April 18, 2016, 12:43 a.m.(4/5/1003 AR)
Relationship Note on Alis
I love my sister. I saw the all-too-familiar fierce passion she had burning inside her to be a knight, and I encouraged her to walk the same path I felt destined to walk. I helped her train, arguing on her behalf, when Father and our elder brothers attempted to dissuade her. As her brother, I could not be more proud of her. At the same time, I am ashamed to admit that I seethe with envy that she is now going to be able to live the life I always wanted for myself. That I need to hide how bitterly unfair I find it that she is the one that gets to be the golden champion, while I am tethered as a ruler. She will be the bold shining example of what Valardin knights should be. I will have to ask much of her, and I know she will aid me how she can, but in the end she will be free in a way I cannot be. I love her, even as she reminds me what I've had to set aside.
Written By Jacinthe
March 24, 2016, 7:31 p.m.(1/16/1003 AR)
The nuptials of King Alaric and Queen Genevieve were all I had hoped them to be. A spectacle worthy of the event, truly. How rare it is to see a groom so enthusiastically greeting his bride. The men of Arx have quite the role model in our noble King.
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