Written By Ian
March 22, 2019, 3:18 p.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Gailin
Oh. Um.
I guess you never really know a person.
I guess you never really know a person.
Written By Arianna
March 22, 2019, 2:42 p.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Gailin
So you're dead now. That shit happens and people tend to cry, sob, lament with their friends about the good times and how sad things are but that's just not me. You are a moron. Good god you've always been a moron. I used to despise you openly and the many, many fights we had were usually based around the way you were so controlling. Fuck man. Get a life. Well...now you can't but you get me.
Fuck you for telling me I couldn't become a sellsword because I was too young and soft.
Thanks for releasing me from my vows though so I could go home where I belong. You were vile in a lot of ways and I'm glad you're dead but getting mauled to death by a bear isn't the way I was hoping you'd go.
Say hello to Titania for me!!
Fuck you for telling me I couldn't become a sellsword because I was too young and soft.
Thanks for releasing me from my vows though so I could go home where I belong. You were vile in a lot of ways and I'm glad you're dead but getting mauled to death by a bear isn't the way I was hoping you'd go.
Say hello to Titania for me!!
Written By Niklas
March 22, 2019, 1:53 p.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Gailin
While you may have been a polarizing figure, I must say that that was a grizzly way to go out. When your paramour has fangs and fur that is generally ursine not to keep pawing at her. It should have been claws for alarm. This poor decision lead to your bruin. Fortunately you have no kids, so they will not miss their Paw. Anyway, I can't bear to keep thinking on this any longer. Fang you for all the memories.
Written By Ysabel
March 22, 2019, 1:39 p.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
I have been making baby steps to improve the fate of Gilden. Seems there maybe many exciting and prosprous endevors for us in the future. Between this and my work with the scholars, it has kept me fairly busy
Written By Radhilde
March 22, 2019, 1:12 p.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
Blood. Blood everywhere. Bleh.
Written By Arianna
March 22, 2019, 1:09 p.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Kaya
I've never seen someone so tiny. I have so many questions about how you go through life when everything is people sized and you're just so damn small.
Written By Amari
March 22, 2019, 12:15 p.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Cristoph
Duke Cristoph has been putting many of us to work to make a dream of his a reality. This has been a reprieve of sorts from the tragedy and conflict of late. It hasn't been easy, by any means. In fact some of the process has been quite harrowing and we've put our lives in peril. Still, it's a worthwhile endeavor and I've been glad to help wherever I've been able. The people I've met pursuing this have largely been decent and humble folk, as moved by duty as they are honor, and devoted to the Faith.
It makes me hopeful that the wrongs that have been done may be rectified with effort and the Oathlands made stronger for it.
It makes me hopeful that the wrongs that have been done may be rectified with effort and the Oathlands made stronger for it.
Written By Sparte
March 22, 2019, 12:08 p.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
Today I spent time at the Confessional of the Waves. Thinking on the battles behind me, and the battles ahead. I feel a sadness to know I'll need to lift up arms again, because it means diplomacy and reason have failed. I feel no anger or hate for those who I'll face, even knowing how terrible some of them are. The lack of fury doesn't waver my resolve, my hands are steady and my mind is set. There are things to be fought for. Lost friends and foes, may the wheel take them all somewhere better.
Written By Josephine
March 22, 2019, 11:36 a.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
You know that you have found success in the city when a lord pays your heftily just to take his letter, then again just to hear his request and then twice more to see what he wants made.
Flattering.
It worked.
I do hope the recipient enjoyed it. The poor northerner braved my forge in the heat of summer and sat near to the point of fainting to see it made. Well worth the commission.
Flattering.
It worked.
I do hope the recipient enjoyed it. The poor northerner braved my forge in the heat of summer and sat near to the point of fainting to see it made. Well worth the commission.
Written By Mirk
March 22, 2019, 11:05 a.m.(10/14/1010 AR)
As more news come in, most of it tragic, I have to wonder at the decision these people have made. Faced with real problems - threats along their borders, insults paid to them, at times tragedies that have already struck - they choose to escalate the situation, make the crisis more severe. A skirmish turns into a massacre, a religious backlash becomes full-blown heresy. They have enough reasons to tell themselves that it's the right choice, but the effects of their decisions ripple out and the consequences begin to become clear, and their problems have only increased.
This is a time that requires careful deliberation and thoughtful decisions. Both seem to be in short supply. But then, I suppose I have the luxury of perspective, here in Arx, learning of the worst of this crisis only through messengers and reports.
This is a time that requires careful deliberation and thoughtful decisions. Both seem to be in short supply. But then, I suppose I have the luxury of perspective, here in Arx, learning of the worst of this crisis only through messengers and reports.
Written By Jace
March 22, 2019, 9:55 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Calypso
Watched a contest down on the beach just after sunset between the Duchess Malvici and another member of her family. It was a curious thing as I was not sure where the competition started or what the winner hoped to gain. The ending was even more interesting as the Lord was wiling to concede the victory to his Duchess. It is a sentiment and gesture I understand well, but one, perhaps, for a less trivial occasion...maybe. I do not know the family well....it could have been a bonding thing I walked in on.
Written By Anabelle
March 22, 2019, 9:10 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Ruslan
Who knew opposites could so attract? I was ready to be reserved to do my part dutifully for the cause of the greater good of my House. Then I actually got to know you, and now it seems much less like a duty. I hope we can make our plans public soon. I know you are troubled and upset by everything going on, but we will see the end of these troubles...together, I am sure of that.
Written By Silas
March 22, 2019, 6:16 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Rinel
I'm sensing a distinct lack of self-awareness here...
Written By Kaya
March 22, 2019, 5:31 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
Do you ever feel like you are free falling and you decide to embrace it knowing you may not survive when you hit the bottom where ever it is because you just loose all sense of yourself so it does not seem to matter that your existance is at risk. And the whole time you are watching your life in slow motion able to see the end but not control it.
Written By Avary
March 22, 2019, 4:18 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
A few incomplete notes here just to record some thoughts over the news of the past week.
Let us not confuse Sentinel's Justice with our own mechanisms of justice. And let us not also lose sight of the intent behind those mechanisms: the protection of innocents.
The Sentinel sees all. The aspect of Justice has no need for drawn out procedures of jurisprudence- which are in fact mortal constructs. Because It sees all there is no need for 'innocent until /proven/ guilty', there is only 'Innocent' or 'Guilty'. Mortals, being frail and faulted and of limited perception, require procedures to make these determinations. The Sentinel has no use Itself for investigatory procedure, interrogation, grand juries... These are our own devices. Do not attribute the crutches we invent and use to overcome our mortal limitations to the God of Justice, for they are frail by their very nature.
BUT the determination of guilt is not the only trait of Justice, even if we tend to highlight its importance above the others.
Sentinel's Judgment is also immediate. It sees. It judges. Speed, immediacy, are part of It's Justice. This is why we condone no indefinite or lengthy sentences of imprisonment. This is why trial by combat is encouraged. It is why trial by courts is to be swift and decisive. And it is why in so many instances Church canon, Dominus decretal, orthodoxy and, yes, dogma, are superior in honoring Justice than some slow mortal construct of procedure or investigation that seeks to transcend facts in misguided compassion to 'find out why' or 'understand' - all the while merely delaying justice itself.
Such an example is violating Church sanctuary. There is no excuse. There is no mitigation. There are no extenuating circumstances. The only question is who did it, at whose behest did they do it, and what will be done with them.
Another example is organizing a heretical splinter group that challenges the veracity and authority of our Dominus, the breaking of one's Godsworn vows, and inciting others to do same. Here there is no question of who. There is only a question of when will justice be served. For what is there to understand and unify in the face of mutiny? Ask any naval officer: nothing.
Yet another example is the sanctity of Vellichor's archives and the writings entrusted to the Blacks. There is no excuse for violation of penitent privileges. The commission of the sin costs your tongue and a hand.
But the gravest injustice is the killing of innocents in the name of Justice Itself: whether they are compact-born, prodigal or abandoned. Whether high or low born.
The Sentinel is the patron of the righteous and the innocent and it matters not where they were born or to whom they've bent a knee. If any of the peerage believe membership in the Compact bestows upon them some special consideration under the Sentinel, they are sorely mistaken. It cares not what cards you hold or for your birthrights. Rather, the opposite is true. It is your birthright and duty to approximate the ideals we worship in your governance. Your only birthright as regards the Pantheon is the privilege of proximity to shrines and establishments, and the foundation of a society that allows you to more easily access the wisdom of the Thirteen. As such, you are not judged more laxly: you are scrutinized more heavily.
Calling upon the Sentinel as Justification for the murder of innocents is purest blasphemy. Any House or tribe of honest and righteous disposition victimized by such murders has not only sanction but a divine mandate to defend themselves and call upon their allies to rally forces - whether military or diplomatic - and combat the unwarranted persecution and slaughter of their innocents be any means necessary: be it waggling tongues across a table, or waggling spears on the battlefield. Justice is not done until the murder of innocents is halted and those responsible duly sentenced.
Let us not confuse Sentinel's Justice with our own mechanisms of justice. And let us not also lose sight of the intent behind those mechanisms: the protection of innocents.
The Sentinel sees all. The aspect of Justice has no need for drawn out procedures of jurisprudence- which are in fact mortal constructs. Because It sees all there is no need for 'innocent until /proven/ guilty', there is only 'Innocent' or 'Guilty'. Mortals, being frail and faulted and of limited perception, require procedures to make these determinations. The Sentinel has no use Itself for investigatory procedure, interrogation, grand juries... These are our own devices. Do not attribute the crutches we invent and use to overcome our mortal limitations to the God of Justice, for they are frail by their very nature.
BUT the determination of guilt is not the only trait of Justice, even if we tend to highlight its importance above the others.
Sentinel's Judgment is also immediate. It sees. It judges. Speed, immediacy, are part of It's Justice. This is why we condone no indefinite or lengthy sentences of imprisonment. This is why trial by combat is encouraged. It is why trial by courts is to be swift and decisive. And it is why in so many instances Church canon, Dominus decretal, orthodoxy and, yes, dogma, are superior in honoring Justice than some slow mortal construct of procedure or investigation that seeks to transcend facts in misguided compassion to 'find out why' or 'understand' - all the while merely delaying justice itself.
Such an example is violating Church sanctuary. There is no excuse. There is no mitigation. There are no extenuating circumstances. The only question is who did it, at whose behest did they do it, and what will be done with them.
Another example is organizing a heretical splinter group that challenges the veracity and authority of our Dominus, the breaking of one's Godsworn vows, and inciting others to do same. Here there is no question of who. There is only a question of when will justice be served. For what is there to understand and unify in the face of mutiny? Ask any naval officer: nothing.
Yet another example is the sanctity of Vellichor's archives and the writings entrusted to the Blacks. There is no excuse for violation of penitent privileges. The commission of the sin costs your tongue and a hand.
But the gravest injustice is the killing of innocents in the name of Justice Itself: whether they are compact-born, prodigal or abandoned. Whether high or low born.
The Sentinel is the patron of the righteous and the innocent and it matters not where they were born or to whom they've bent a knee. If any of the peerage believe membership in the Compact bestows upon them some special consideration under the Sentinel, they are sorely mistaken. It cares not what cards you hold or for your birthrights. Rather, the opposite is true. It is your birthright and duty to approximate the ideals we worship in your governance. Your only birthright as regards the Pantheon is the privilege of proximity to shrines and establishments, and the foundation of a society that allows you to more easily access the wisdom of the Thirteen. As such, you are not judged more laxly: you are scrutinized more heavily.
Calling upon the Sentinel as Justification for the murder of innocents is purest blasphemy. Any House or tribe of honest and righteous disposition victimized by such murders has not only sanction but a divine mandate to defend themselves and call upon their allies to rally forces - whether military or diplomatic - and combat the unwarranted persecution and slaughter of their innocents be any means necessary: be it waggling tongues across a table, or waggling spears on the battlefield. Justice is not done until the murder of innocents is halted and those responsible duly sentenced.
Written By Bliss
March 22, 2019, 3:15 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Calista
Do remind them all that I have stories.
Written By Martino
March 22, 2019, 3:13 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Venturo
Your hosting skills, and the brewery you have worked developed in the city, are quite something. Truly, while I was not sure initially on the different ales - the surprise journey through ciders was quite appreciated.
The first tap and third, has my full recommendation. I look forward to seeing what comes next good Master Brewer.
The first tap and third, has my full recommendation. I look forward to seeing what comes next good Master Brewer.
Written By Kaya
March 22, 2019, 3:03 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
Looking in the mirror, the image morphs into the image of the demons I carry inside. Afraid everyone can see, I try to fake a smile as silent tears fall behind the mask I wear.
Written By Kaya
March 22, 2019, 2:34 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
There I go putting my foot in my mouth again. The words getting twisted around my tongue as I am awkwardly trying to tell you how I feel
Written By Arianna
March 22, 2019, 2:16 a.m.(10/13/1010 AR)
So many soapboxes. So little time.
Ahhhh. The travesty.
Ahhhh. The travesty.
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