Written By Thorley
June 16, 2018, 4:17 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
You really are as dense as stone and your wit is as thick as this parchment I write upon.
Written By Orathy
June 16, 2018, 4:02 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aureth
Did ya read Edain's journal? I ain't so stupid ya jibberin shithead.
Written By Orathy
June 16, 2018, 4:01 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Thorley
I wish ya could hear me roarin with laughter.
Yer sayin children are demons? Fuck, they really be havin yer head twisted to believing their shit, don't they?
Shit, does that mean everyone better stop makin babies? They all be demons! RUN fer yer fuckin lives, the babies will get you!
Yer really cracked, ain't ya? If everyone who be doin a bad thing be a demon? Shit. How do ya live life? The thought of a shadow must make ya jump.
Yer sayin children are demons? Fuck, they really be havin yer head twisted to believing their shit, don't they?
Shit, does that mean everyone better stop makin babies? They all be demons! RUN fer yer fuckin lives, the babies will get you!
Yer really cracked, ain't ya? If everyone who be doin a bad thing be a demon? Shit. How do ya live life? The thought of a shadow must make ya jump.
Written By Aureth
June 16, 2018, 3:58 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
Why are so many otherwise intelligent people paying attention to Orathy Culler of all men? Stop feeding his ego. Don't you know the man earned a prize for being an idiot?
Written By Fortunato
June 16, 2018, 3:51 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
I try not to assume that anyone who does something I find reprehensible is a demon. And I can certainly feel pity for a person who was a traitor, certainly, but also a person, with his own complexities and terrors. We see each other but dimly. If expressing pity is darkness, then I question if we are forgetting the role of Lagoma's mercy, Mangata's light, and the cycles of the Queen of Beginnings and Endings. Of Jayus, the Prince of Stories. Even when we judge, and must judge, there is room to recognize that a person is not just the evils they caused.
Written By Sasha
June 16, 2018, 3:45 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aurelian
I feel so betrayed by him. I grew up with him. He would give me piggy back rides and play with my brothers. And now come to discover he is the one who murdered my brother Jacque. I do not think words and truly express my sadness and devastation to these details coming to light.
Written By Arik
June 16, 2018, 3:41 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
[Forwarded from Whitehold]
Marquis Cirroch Sanna, Lord of Giant's Reach and myself have returned from the further mountain of the Everwinter. There we found a castle, Bonespire that is clearly built long ago. Workmanship that I have not seen the like of. My Lord Cirroch was less impressed but then he does live in a mountain himself and is more astute in assessing such things. The people there are not my people. Some who know me know I have a strong opinion on those people and lands that fall under Halfshav's demense.
No these people are of the mountain, they are far from Whitehold's territory and in truth they are to small a people to warrant the Liege Lord of my Uncle Duke Vercyn Halfshav, Lord of Whitehold. Thus it was my decision to defer their fate to our first and oldest vassal whom we trust in all things. My Lord Cirroch Sanna has mas his decision but he has not placed his faith. As all lieges stand in elevated position to their vassals so to does Sanna stand above Stahlben. Faith is not eternal, trust is not a given, in the Northlands one must continually earn one's place.
House Halfshav supports House Sanna in giving House Stahlben that chance. Whatever their actions, we wait and judge.
Marquis Cirroch Sanna, Lord of Giant's Reach and myself have returned from the further mountain of the Everwinter. There we found a castle, Bonespire that is clearly built long ago. Workmanship that I have not seen the like of. My Lord Cirroch was less impressed but then he does live in a mountain himself and is more astute in assessing such things. The people there are not my people. Some who know me know I have a strong opinion on those people and lands that fall under Halfshav's demense.
No these people are of the mountain, they are far from Whitehold's territory and in truth they are to small a people to warrant the Liege Lord of my Uncle Duke Vercyn Halfshav, Lord of Whitehold. Thus it was my decision to defer their fate to our first and oldest vassal whom we trust in all things. My Lord Cirroch Sanna has mas his decision but he has not placed his faith. As all lieges stand in elevated position to their vassals so to does Sanna stand above Stahlben. Faith is not eternal, trust is not a given, in the Northlands one must continually earn one's place.
House Halfshav supports House Sanna in giving House Stahlben that chance. Whatever their actions, we wait and judge.
Written By Roran
June 16, 2018, 3:27 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Visiting shrine of Sentinel today proved fruitful. Not only I prayed for justice - we need it these days - but I got to meet a few interesting people. After having been terribly busy for so long time, it was good to talk with commoners again. Hearing about why they happened to visit just that shrine was certainly interesting, too.
Written By Thorley
June 16, 2018, 3:22 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
To make assumptions that this child that was rescued all these years ago was just that, a child. Darkness and the demons that dare to tear us down and rip our families apart take on all forms. There are stories I once heard of demons taking on the form of children to murder the parents. Of babies that were replaced. There is no proof that the thing that pretended to be the man was a man. To try to justify his supposed fear is to not take the proper precaution against such darkness and evil.
In my youth, I was married. It was turbulent on the best days and on the worst, we would spend weeks apart. It was during one of these times that my wife and young daughter were slaughtered by pirates in the Eventide Vast. Several months ago, I was delivered a message that suggested that my daughter may have survived this attack and is now known as the Sea Dancer of the Eventide Vast. In my heart, I want to believe that she is alive. I want to believe that she is still my blood.
Precaution and this recent lesson have taught me to consider otherwise. I would advise caution when you toss accusations on paper - for once they see that opening, darkness will try to take root in that doubt.
In my youth, I was married. It was turbulent on the best days and on the worst, we would spend weeks apart. It was during one of these times that my wife and young daughter were slaughtered by pirates in the Eventide Vast. Several months ago, I was delivered a message that suggested that my daughter may have survived this attack and is now known as the Sea Dancer of the Eventide Vast. In my heart, I want to believe that she is alive. I want to believe that she is still my blood.
Precaution and this recent lesson have taught me to consider otherwise. I would advise caution when you toss accusations on paper - for once they see that opening, darkness will try to take root in that doubt.
Written By Sorrel
June 16, 2018, 3:10 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Elara
Elara,
You are gone now, and I knew you were gone the moment I saw the stone fall. I ran to lift it, pregnant as I was, holding on to that little bit of hope that Marquis Ford and I could get you free in time. It was for naught. We wanted you to live but we knew you were gone.
I'm glad you enjoyed borrowing my leather armor, bright aubergine and lurid green, covered in musical notes. I know you loved music, just as I did. I sing prayers in your memory. May the Queen of Endings and Beginnings give you a new and harmonious beginning when your turn on the Wheel comes.
Sorrel
You are gone now, and I knew you were gone the moment I saw the stone fall. I ran to lift it, pregnant as I was, holding on to that little bit of hope that Marquis Ford and I could get you free in time. It was for naught. We wanted you to live but we knew you were gone.
I'm glad you enjoyed borrowing my leather armor, bright aubergine and lurid green, covered in musical notes. I know you loved music, just as I did. I sing prayers in your memory. May the Queen of Endings and Beginnings give you a new and harmonious beginning when your turn on the Wheel comes.
Sorrel
Written By Duarte
June 16, 2018, 3:03 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
It's just a shame all around: from every angle and no matter which way you cut it.
Written By Orathy
June 16, 2018, 2:48 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Shard
Aye, so if you were told to kill or be killed, yer choice would to be killed?
Or if ya were told yer best mate, lover, spouse, kid.. or whatever would be killed if ya didn't kill someone else... you'd do nothing 'n let yer family 'n friends die?
It all ain't so black 'n white as callin it merely choices.
Or if ya were told yer best mate, lover, spouse, kid.. or whatever would be killed if ya didn't kill someone else... you'd do nothing 'n let yer family 'n friends die?
It all ain't so black 'n white as callin it merely choices.
Written By Shard
June 16, 2018, 2:43 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
I don't have any cards in the game when it comes to Aurelian, but I'll say this anyway. Orathy does have a point when it comes to when the imposter first came to you as a child, even if he's making all the assumptions in the whole damned world about who he actually was.
That said? That was then, this is now, and people have died /recently/ because of him, apparently. We all have our choices. We all make our decisions. We all choose our sides. I don't know why he did what he did, or why he thought he should, or who put him up to it, but in the end, if that's the road he walked, that's the one he walked, and no amount of stupid bluster or assumed background changes that. Saying otherwise does everyone a disservice, him included.
That said? That was then, this is now, and people have died /recently/ because of him, apparently. We all have our choices. We all make our decisions. We all choose our sides. I don't know why he did what he did, or why he thought he should, or who put him up to it, but in the end, if that's the road he walked, that's the one he walked, and no amount of stupid bluster or assumed background changes that. Saying otherwise does everyone a disservice, him included.
Written By Orathy
June 16, 2018, 2:36 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edain
Aye. I shall say no more. Ya gave weight to me words 'n me point.
Find them fuckers, aye?
Reckon I even help ya.
But the cards at the casino are hot right now, on a damned winning streak here!
Find them fuckers, aye?
Reckon I even help ya.
But the cards at the casino are hot right now, on a damned winning streak here!
Written By Orathy
June 16, 2018, 2:33 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Martin
Found some shit on the boy... says he were kidnapped at 4? Aye, ya all ought to be proud of condemning a man who lived with fear in his heart his entire life. Imagine the paranoia and the fear of being found out? If ya ain't think those who put 'em there didn't ensure they kept 'em quiet, then ya ain't knowin the way the real world works. It ain't all fuckin honor and fresh rosey arseholes.
Aye, but there are some good dice to gamble with at the Casino. Hah.
Aye, but there are some good dice to gamble with at the Casino. Hah.
Written By Edain
June 16, 2018, 2:33 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aurelian
Justice is a virtue we must always aspire to. But it is not a virtue that can always bring us joy. When Prince Aurelian was kidnapped I was just a boy. I was really upset that a younger cousin that I played with often was taken and so I kept trying to steal a sword and sneak out to go look for him. It got to a point where my brother's had to tackle me and stuff me in a wardrobe to keep from continuing to try.
After he returned, we always had trouble relating to each other. He was so closed off, and this will surprise some of you, but I have been catergorized by some as 'ignorantly optimistic' so I sometimes did not understand why as time passed he just didn't put it behind him. I was a dumb kid at times. But I always loved him. I remember his rare smiles, like when he commissioned an unwieldy great sword named 'Furniturebane' for Princess Alis. It was rare, but we share our share of laughs and good memories, just as did arguments and disagreements about things.
I could say that man was not my cousin which is true. But while he was never my blood, he was my family, for almost 20 years since the real Prince Aurelian was taken and killed. I ordered his execution because he committed treason, because after weighing all facts, his death served justice and to protect my family and to protect the Oathlands from the danger he represented. But there is something we should never forget.
My cousin Prince Aurelian died when he was six. The victim of some sect that posed as bandits with a dangerous purpose. But my innocent cousin was not their only victim. They also took another six year old child and twisted and broke him and remolded him until he was their. Until he was their weapon. I wept when I knew that I had to deliver justice to the man that stole my cousins identity. When we find the monsters that killed my cousin, and turned another child into a broken shell to be their spy, when we bring them to justice, I will have no tears for them.
After he returned, we always had trouble relating to each other. He was so closed off, and this will surprise some of you, but I have been catergorized by some as 'ignorantly optimistic' so I sometimes did not understand why as time passed he just didn't put it behind him. I was a dumb kid at times. But I always loved him. I remember his rare smiles, like when he commissioned an unwieldy great sword named 'Furniturebane' for Princess Alis. It was rare, but we share our share of laughs and good memories, just as did arguments and disagreements about things.
I could say that man was not my cousin which is true. But while he was never my blood, he was my family, for almost 20 years since the real Prince Aurelian was taken and killed. I ordered his execution because he committed treason, because after weighing all facts, his death served justice and to protect my family and to protect the Oathlands from the danger he represented. But there is something we should never forget.
My cousin Prince Aurelian died when he was six. The victim of some sect that posed as bandits with a dangerous purpose. But my innocent cousin was not their only victim. They also took another six year old child and twisted and broke him and remolded him until he was their. Until he was their weapon. I wept when I knew that I had to deliver justice to the man that stole my cousins identity. When we find the monsters that killed my cousin, and turned another child into a broken shell to be their spy, when we bring them to justice, I will have no tears for them.
Written By Orathy
June 16, 2018, 2:25 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Martin
Fearin to lose all that ya had, to be exposed ... reckon that would drive a man to do as he needed to, to protect it. Looks like he were dead either way. If he confessed, well, aye, we saw he got executed by the others for bein found out. And if he did confess his lies before doin hateful things, if them people showed him mercy... do ya think the ones that put 'em there would've showed him any?
Written By Martin
June 16, 2018, 2:19 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
While it is true that the choice of children is severely limited when compared to that of adults, it is a fallacy to conflate the helplessness of a child with that of a man or woman grown. To whit, your argument that this impostor of the original Aurelian had no choice loses its emotional potency when you consider House Valardin itself. I doubt not at all that this once-boy was raised with love and affection, and was taught right from wrong. I believe he had every chance as he grew into a man to confess his wretched predicament to those who genuinely believed him to be their flesh and blood.
He had the choice to come forward. He had the choice, as he became an adult, to do either right or wrong. He chose to do wrong, and has since suffered the terrible repercussions of that. While it is fair to mourn the child he once was, to openly attack others, especially those who were close to the impostor, and then use as a shield circumstances which few can argue with only shows you in a mean-spirited light which does nothing to honor the ideals the gods have left us with, or our fellow man.
He had the choice to come forward. He had the choice, as he became an adult, to do either right or wrong. He chose to do wrong, and has since suffered the terrible repercussions of that. While it is fair to mourn the child he once was, to openly attack others, especially those who were close to the impostor, and then use as a shield circumstances which few can argue with only shows you in a mean-spirited light which does nothing to honor the ideals the gods have left us with, or our fellow man.
Written By Orathy
June 16, 2018, 2:14 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aurelian
Ain't knowin if ye be a gutter rat or not, befer you became a Prince eh. Orphan supposing so, t'would make sense. Aye, whatever boy ya were before ya became a prince, least wise you got to live well instead of dyin cold 'n hungry, eh? I be knowin the choices that poverty leaves ya with, what sort of rewards comes with promises of rising above the life ya born into. Reckon it were nothing ya could turn away from, to be told ya could have everythin ya couldn't have if ya remained as you are. Would have been hard to say no.
Reckon I feel pity for ya. 'N that is all I got left to say bout ya.
Reckon I feel pity for ya. 'N that is all I got left to say bout ya.
Written By Orathy
June 16, 2018, 1:53 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Quenia
Aye, it be cruel to speak the truth, ain't it?
Reckon ya outta pause fer a moment 'n think of this: if them Valardin people thought they rescued the boy Aurelian from kidnappin all those years back, then man who was just put to death was a boy himself to reasonably pass as the boy kidnapped when they changed names... cause he would have to be lookin the same at the very least the same age... So quick to judge you lot are. But what bout the boy who likely had no other choice but to pretend to be Aurelian, so he be surviving. Who ever put 'em there, should have been the ones ya outta be mad bout.
Neither boy had a choice from what I be readin of that proclamation. Aye so PRAISE yerselves for doin justice.
But aye, I ain't knowin nothing bout the case. Yer right.
Reckon ya outta pause fer a moment 'n think of this: if them Valardin people thought they rescued the boy Aurelian from kidnappin all those years back, then man who was just put to death was a boy himself to reasonably pass as the boy kidnapped when they changed names... cause he would have to be lookin the same at the very least the same age... So quick to judge you lot are. But what bout the boy who likely had no other choice but to pretend to be Aurelian, so he be surviving. Who ever put 'em there, should have been the ones ya outta be mad bout.
Neither boy had a choice from what I be readin of that proclamation. Aye so PRAISE yerselves for doin justice.
But aye, I ain't knowin nothing bout the case. Yer right.
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