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Written By Octavia

July 16, 2017, 10:22 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Amusing to read all of the grumbling about weddings while I'm working with my brother on negotiating them. I suppose I have no grounds to lecture others on not getting married, but I have my reasons, and Kennex has no shortage of young unmarried men and women.

Written By Tarik

July 16, 2017, 10:12 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

I have decided double efforts in the next month in achieving my goals. I have also made the promise to myself to spend what little time I do have to myself in the company of the people that come to enjoy the city. What is a life if there is not just a bit of joy in it? I might even attend some of these parties and gatherings that seem to be happening in the city.

Written By Victus

July 16, 2017, 10:12 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Reese

She can take a hit and dish it out with the best. Princess warriors aren't something I've seen a lot of, but if they were all like her we'd be getting shit done left and right.

Written By Barric

July 16, 2017, 10:05 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

It has been a wonderful week. Many things reveal themselves over time and I am not worth even half of them. Yet I could not be happier to have discovered it all and with the best company, there ever was.

Written By Reese

July 16, 2017, 9:49 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

I was bested by High Lord Victus in our Duel.

Gloria be praised.

He is a great warrior.

Written By Barric

July 16, 2017, 9:45 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Antonio

A man with some guff and someone I wish to know better. He does like to spar and I shall have to see if he is any good.

Written By Kael

July 16, 2017, 9:41 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

I have just recently returned from looking over the pedigrees of far too many dogs from Oakhaven. Each of them was special and wonderful in their own way. How could I select two? Not only that, how was I supposed to select two that would make for strong offspring and lead our Keaton line of hounds forward? It struck me then of the irony. I was putting everything that I had in making certain that I had the perfect pair for our flagship Arx pair. Would they like one another? Would they produce solid offspring? Would they be in demand? I can only imagine the difficulty that my Aunt Margerie had in selecting my bride. I must write her immediately and thank her for her choice.

Written By Luca

July 16, 2017, 9:34 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Victus

Well, he beat me once before in duel and now he's beaten my wife, though it was a wonderfully close match and I'd love to see them spar to the bitter end to see if she could outlast the ferocity of that axe of his. Well done Vic.

Written By Luca

July 16, 2017, 9:33 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

The shrine of the Queen of Endings was not unlike what I expected. Funny how I almost feel comfortable there where I don't at most. Then again, she's a goddess with a sense of humor. I just hope that sense of humor doesn't inflict me with curse to speak in nothing but puns for the rest of my days for mistake of initially turning down the red wine I didn't know was sacred to her.

Written By Darren

July 16, 2017, 9:32 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

I'm not surprised Prince Victus won in his fight against Princess Reese. Though I do think given a few more rounds, Princess Reese would've found herself the victor. Assuming, of course, she could've kept standing.

Written By Eilonwy

July 16, 2017, 8:41 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Scents are a trend? Well I suppose it makes a much sense as girls getting excited over the latest color for dresses. I think my favorite scents then are those that remind me of the trees, and the forest. I miss the smell of damp earth, wood smoke, the tang of fresh cut wood.

Written By Caelis

July 16, 2017, 8:26 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Anze

Soon to be Lord Anze Malvici. I cannot express how honored I felt to be included in the signing of your contract and how much I look forward to your vows being exchanged with those of my cousin. I know others have said it, but I'll say it anyway. The love he shares with my cousin is so strong. There cannot be a soul in Arvum who would doubt that the two of them are so well matched in friendship and love. The Hall certainly would be so much more quiet with out him joining us here. At least he's finally seemed to figure out where his shirts vanished to.

Written By Caelis

July 16, 2017, 8:20 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Only a couple months till my birthday comes around again. It's odd to think how different things feel in the city this year. That the siege was weighting upon us and we'd been preparing for the Battle of Giant's fall. Now my cousins are all marrying one by one and a giant skull sits in the Square as a reminder of what the people of Arvum can do. I think it's a wonderful symbol, of occasionally jarring to spy out the windows on early mornings or late at night.

May your hopes find safe harbors.

Written By Malik

July 16, 2017, 7:27 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

I have many favored scents. Most of them, you cannot smell here in Arx, not fully. Eurusian spices, the strong smell of the sea all around you, the fragrant tropical flowers of Petrioch. Then of course, there is the paints that I use, or the scent of freshly cut wood.

But my favorite scent of all of them is the one I can be smelling every day. And that smells like home.

Written By Sebastian

July 16, 2017, 6:47 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

I am unaccustomed to sailing seas on which I do not know how to navigate. My time on the ocean has been enough so that it is a familiar ebb and flow. Even the storms that pull one out and drag one free from sight of land are not without their appeal, perhaps especially appealing. But at times I find myself adrift. Maybe that, in and of itself, holds a certain appeal. At least the stars are beautiful from the midst of an uncertain sea.

Written By Alarissa

July 16, 2017, 5:50 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

And thus, it is done. The arduous process that I will have to keep up if I like it and prefer to keep it looking like such. But a change is good, a change is necessary and I think that I quite needed it. If I don't, then it will just be another arduous process to revert it.

The pallid princess of Valardin is no longer sporting flaxen locks. We shall see how this shall be received. I think I will like it. I had better, for it is my own hair.

Written By Alexis

July 16, 2017, 5:35 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Abbas

I spoke to the Warlord of the Mourning Isles this week. Shared rum with him. I also spoke to the High Lord of Thrax when he visited the Gauntlet.

Warlord Abbas and High Lord Victus are more similar than not, I suspect. And while I do not know that I will ever understand the hardscrabble life of the Mourning Isles, there's mutual respect to be had for the core of who we are and what we do.

Written By Alexis

July 16, 2017, 5:33 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

I think that Lord Ansel did me a great favour by making me an official record keeper of the Gauntlet. The number of fine people with an interest in bettering themselves physically that I've met as a direct result is delightful.

My own personal record is dwarfed by several of the people visiting. Which means I can only keep trying.

Written By Ainsley

July 16, 2017, 5:32 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Sometimes I get performance anxiety.

Written By Valencia

July 16, 2017, 5:20 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

Change seem to be in the air with the turning of the leaves. Though there is much more than I bargained for.

Some so very good. Some I am not so sure of. I suppose we shall see.

But my heart is open and, as always, I am hopeful for very good things.

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