Written By Iseulet
Oct. 4, 2022, 11:27 a.m.(7/2/1018 AR)
Yes, yes many rumors coming from every direction on the mess with the Iron Guards but not a /single/ person to tell me where the queue is to get my frisking.
Written By Briseis
Oct. 3, 2022, 9:16 p.m.(7/1/1018 AR)
Relationship Note on Raymesin
Some might wonder - do you know how the real villains operate? Are you so wise into the inner workings of the Iron Guard and the Inquisition that you are confident in the words you say? Or, have you simply decided that your position is right because of some inflated sense of self-righteous indignation? If you can't open your eyes to SEE, then I certainly can't make you, but let's get some things straight.
As an Inquisition, I can attest that it is most assuredly ABOUT Justice, about security and stability, about helping - not about APPEARING to help. We don't risk our lives because we think it makes us LOOK GOOD. As a commoner, it isn't about making anyone feel small, or pushed around, or lesser. If anyone is posturing here, it is you, as a martyr without a cause, against organizations that are working tirelessly to improve, eradicate villainy inside and out, and bring some sense of comfort to the citizens of Arx.
Spreading ignorance and malice towards the Iron Guard helps no one.
And, for anyone who truly feels they have been -wronged-, truly and maliciously subjected to horrors because of these checkpoints, reach out to me, and I promise to investigate the matter fully.
As an Inquisition, I can attest that it is most assuredly ABOUT Justice, about security and stability, about helping - not about APPEARING to help. We don't risk our lives because we think it makes us LOOK GOOD. As a commoner, it isn't about making anyone feel small, or pushed around, or lesser. If anyone is posturing here, it is you, as a martyr without a cause, against organizations that are working tirelessly to improve, eradicate villainy inside and out, and bring some sense of comfort to the citizens of Arx.
Spreading ignorance and malice towards the Iron Guard helps no one.
And, for anyone who truly feels they have been -wronged-, truly and maliciously subjected to horrors because of these checkpoints, reach out to me, and I promise to investigate the matter fully.
Written By Sen'azala
Oct. 3, 2022, 7 a.m.(6/28/1018 AR)
I've made no secret of my opinions on thralldom, and I don't intend to pretend otherwise. I'll argue about it until I'm ash on the wind. In fact, I'll find a way to argue about it afterward too, just you watch. We're all well past arguments now, though. There's little for me to say that I haven't filled up my Whites with repeatedly. I also recognize that it's not exactly good politics - or so I presume - for a Prima of Nefer'khat to remind anyone who happens to read this of just how much I despise the practice while a bloody civil war is raging over it.
Oh well.
I've been there. I've seen it. I know how the bullshitting goes, every time, all the excuses made, every time, the way the debts are tallied and tracked, the looks on the faces of second generation thralls, third generation thralls, *fourth* generation thralls that have never, not for a single moment, been out from under their owners' boots. Slavery is slavery regardless of what the people holding the chains choose to call it, and there's no need for me to say so, because the rebels themselves said as much when they allied with the slavetakers of Skal'daja. The slavetakers of Skal'daja said as much when they allied with the rebels. There is not a single soul on Arvum that will truthfully argue that the Skal'dajans are not slavers, and yet the rebels chose them over their own people. One might wonder why that was so comfortable. One might wonder why rebelling thralls were the ones fighting Skal'dajan slavers while Helianthus' men cut them down. One might wonder, but the answer's obvious. Like recognizes like. Their actions are their testimony, then as now. They'll drown the Mourning Isles in blood before they let it go.
Who am I to write any of this? I don't know. Me. It's my journal to rant in.
Oh well.
I've been there. I've seen it. I know how the bullshitting goes, every time, all the excuses made, every time, the way the debts are tallied and tracked, the looks on the faces of second generation thralls, third generation thralls, *fourth* generation thralls that have never, not for a single moment, been out from under their owners' boots. Slavery is slavery regardless of what the people holding the chains choose to call it, and there's no need for me to say so, because the rebels themselves said as much when they allied with the slavetakers of Skal'daja. The slavetakers of Skal'daja said as much when they allied with the rebels. There is not a single soul on Arvum that will truthfully argue that the Skal'dajans are not slavers, and yet the rebels chose them over their own people. One might wonder why that was so comfortable. One might wonder why rebelling thralls were the ones fighting Skal'dajan slavers while Helianthus' men cut them down. One might wonder, but the answer's obvious. Like recognizes like. Their actions are their testimony, then as now. They'll drown the Mourning Isles in blood before they let it go.
Who am I to write any of this? I don't know. Me. It's my journal to rant in.
Written By Mabelle
Oct. 3, 2022, 6:05 a.m.(6/28/1018 AR)
Relationship Note on Savio
I'm certain they will be the finest dressed children in the entire city.
Until mine are born... at least.
Until mine are born... at least.
Written By Ilira
Oct. 3, 2022, 1:01 a.m.(6/28/1018 AR)
What is it about summer? It's like the season dictates our emotion.
Written By Caspian
Oct. 2, 2022, 10:34 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
Relationship Note on Savio
I cant imagine the joy of you as a father. Im so very very happy for you and for Orland! no children could as for better parents!
P.S. when is old enough to start knife training?
P.S. when is old enough to start knife training?
Written By Cassiopeia
Oct. 2, 2022, 10:32 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
I went on quite an incredible climb on a small island in the Lyceum. It was invigorating (mud puddle included). I met lovely people and we were able to find the flowers we were searching for. I hope that Dame Dagmar enjoys the violets, that it brings her some peace and joy in her final days. It was a memorable experience, one which I am grateful for.
Written By Octavia
Oct. 2, 2022, 10:18 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
Relationship Note on Ford
Anyone who claims that time heals all wounds is a damn fool. I'm just as angry at you today as I was the day you died. Leave it to a little brother to be dead when he's needed
Written By Octavia
Oct. 2, 2022, 10:09 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
Relationship Note on Turo
It pains me deeply to have the warrant for your arrest and execution on my desk. Perhaps Darion didn't understand the words you spoke when you knelt before him, but you and I did. A conservative, a traditionalist, and a stubborn old fool... those are all words I'd have called you.But an oathbreaker? I could never have imagined that, Turo.
If you survive your arrest, please do me the courtesy of explaining yourself before you are presented to the sea. There must be a reason for this madness.
If you survive your arrest, please do me the courtesy of explaining yourself before you are presented to the sea. There must be a reason for this madness.
Written By Thea
Oct. 2, 2022, 8:13 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
I truly wish there were more of me to go around. More hours in a day. More of everything so that I could get everything that needed to get done...done. Do the things that needed to be accomplished finished. Spend the time how I wish it...
Written By Thea
Oct. 2, 2022, 8:08 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
I've kept myself holed up in my studies these days, scholar. I've basically hid myself away, which isn't something new I suppose. I take breaks here and there to spend time with the children and really...that's about it. I should really work on that.
Written By Rosalind
Oct. 2, 2022, 7:56 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
The best way to take down a large situation is to...work together. It's so much easier. I don't understand why others haven't grasped that.
Written By Gaspard
Oct. 2, 2022, 7:13 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
I don't know if we can be ready, but we must prepare.
Written By Gaspard
Oct. 2, 2022, 7:13 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
The Hills are alive. Dark times are ahead.
Written By Rosalind
Oct. 2, 2022, 6:54 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
It's been...intense feelings everywhere.
Written By Amari
Oct. 2, 2022, 6:50 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
Weather could always be better, but the cabbages are growing well. The carrots are sparse, but parsnips thick. Beets are abundant. Beans and peas are in full flower. The pear trees are white with blossoms, and the bees very busy.
Written By Cambria
Oct. 2, 2022, 6:34 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
We are none of us very far from paranoia. If you doubt this, go into a social gathering in which people are speaking a language that you do not understand; and if, as you enter, there is an outburst of laughter, you will probably think, before you can stop yourself thinking, that they are laughing at you.
Written By Rosalind
Oct. 2, 2022, 6:30 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
That was quite the frost that we had....
Written By Thea
Oct. 2, 2022, 6:18 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
Relationship Note on Neilda
It was like she was never gone....
Written By Cambria
Oct. 2, 2022, 6:12 p.m.(6/27/1018 AR)
Imprecision of language means either imprecision of thought, or that the employer of such language has something to hide.
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