Written By Serafine
April 23, 2017, 7:02 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Eleyna
Honestly? Yes. Now, more than ever.
Written By Driskell
April 23, 2017, 6:58 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
I've been contemplating the things of the world at Darkwater Reach, the tall cliffs and black ramparts of the estate providing an unmatched view of the Bay of Thrax as well as the troubles of the city. The Thirteenth will unmake all in the final reaping and from that his reflection, the Creator, will fashion a new world. The same heroes, villains, obstacles and challenges will be seen as fresh and new, summits will be seen as unclimbed and fathoms crossed to put a footprint on sandy beaches never touched before as the great wheel moves. The concept of eternity makes the wheel seem more like a grindstone.
Is our purpose here to postpone the inevitable reaping, to delay what we can't prevent? Do we act to speed it up?
Or is there a way to unseat the wheel?
Is our purpose here to postpone the inevitable reaping, to delay what we can't prevent? Do we act to speed it up?
Or is there a way to unseat the wheel?
Written By Aiden
April 23, 2017, 6:53 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Ariel
I do cherish our friendship, Lady Ariel, even though it can be nothing more than that.
Written By Aiden
April 23, 2017, 6:52 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Merek
Gifts by strangers are rare, but by heroes of Arx?? I'm honored.
I will treasure the craftsmanship. It will look good in my room.
I will treasure the craftsmanship. It will look good in my room.
Written By Aiden
April 23, 2017, 6:50 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Selene
Most awkward conversation.
Written By Joslyn
April 23, 2017, 6:43 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Calandra
Your voice was beautiful in the night, ringing out in a celebration of love. I was so enraptured by your radiance that I didn't even see the enemy approach. It wasn't until the moment their cover was blown, that they made their attempt on the Archduke, that I awoke from your trance, and I still remember that moment that you were attacked, hit hard and brought to your knees. I don't remember my dagger entering my fingers. I don't remember positioning myself between you and your attacker. What I do remember is that moment of rage. That moment that I struck back and drew the blood of the bringer as chaos erupted around us. My concern was for you, my worry and anger was for you.
All of that, everything that I saw and felt and when I stood over the fallen enemy, I immediately came to your side, took you away so that I could keep you safe. Those moments make us realize just how little time we really have, and I realized that holding back my love for you was a crime, and I want the world to be clear, so that there can be no mistaking this, so that I can stop wasting the time that I have. I love you Calandra. I love you and I want the whole world to know, which is why this is not sent as a missive but written for all to see, and for the archives to hold for all time. No hiding these thoughts in my black, no keeping them in. A record to last through the ages, to remain long after we're gone.
All of that, everything that I saw and felt and when I stood over the fallen enemy, I immediately came to your side, took you away so that I could keep you safe. Those moments make us realize just how little time we really have, and I realized that holding back my love for you was a crime, and I want the world to be clear, so that there can be no mistaking this, so that I can stop wasting the time that I have. I love you Calandra. I love you and I want the whole world to know, which is why this is not sent as a missive but written for all to see, and for the archives to hold for all time. No hiding these thoughts in my black, no keeping them in. A record to last through the ages, to remain long after we're gone.
Written By Aureth
April 23, 2017, 6:43 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Thoughts on love, duty and fealty:
Family is everything. My mother, my daughter, my brother, yes. My friends, close enough in heart to being family. They are everything to me. Soon I will leave my family behind to take oath to the Faith, because the gods must come first in the heart of a priest. I struggle with that. I know my family struggles with that. I know that it's been hardest on Hana. I know that Fortunato shows me is strongest face, but I think it's hard on him, too.
Yet I have come to understand the power -- the value -- of an oath. An oath that means a task of epic proportions. The heaviest oath is already made. It's done, and I know what it paid for, and I know what I will pay for it.
If you break oath lightly, if it is _possible_ for you to break faith lightly, then you never understood the power of your promise in the first place.
Or you're a faithless wretched coward, I suppose.
This is my prayer to Limerance. May I never forget the value of my oath. But may I never give way the love that sustains my heart, either. I pray that I may have the fortitude to be who and what I have sworn to be. I pray that I will not falter.
Family is everything. My mother, my daughter, my brother, yes. My friends, close enough in heart to being family. They are everything to me. Soon I will leave my family behind to take oath to the Faith, because the gods must come first in the heart of a priest. I struggle with that. I know my family struggles with that. I know that it's been hardest on Hana. I know that Fortunato shows me is strongest face, but I think it's hard on him, too.
Yet I have come to understand the power -- the value -- of an oath. An oath that means a task of epic proportions. The heaviest oath is already made. It's done, and I know what it paid for, and I know what I will pay for it.
If you break oath lightly, if it is _possible_ for you to break faith lightly, then you never understood the power of your promise in the first place.
Or you're a faithless wretched coward, I suppose.
This is my prayer to Limerance. May I never forget the value of my oath. But may I never give way the love that sustains my heart, either. I pray that I may have the fortitude to be who and what I have sworn to be. I pray that I will not falter.
Written By Rowan
April 23, 2017, 6:30 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
When the unwelcomed guests within our walls and without are dispatched and done with, when this seige lifts, the very first thing I will do is take Stormhoof for a long ride until I can't see any manner of wall on the horizon in any direction. I have never felt so bloody stir-crazy and trapped in all my life. I can feel the breath of Spring and any other year before, I would have spent the months wandering and searching. Now the pull only draws me to a guarded gate. Evenings spent on roofs and walls only remind me that there is no leaving. Soon. Let it be soon. In the mean time...Whiskey. Let there be whiskey.
Written By Joslyn
April 23, 2017, 6:25 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
The chaos that's erupted around us is seemingly coming to a close. I know that this means that the bulk of their forces are gathering and they're just done trying to harass us. The moment of the end is coming soon at hand. The last stand will be here soon, whether we're ready or not. All of my training will come to that moment, ready to fight alongside the men and women of the compact, to keep everything safe.
Written By Rowan
April 23, 2017, 6:20 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
I believe the most unsettling realization that I've had about what my life has become is that now, with parts of me walking around beyond my perception...My world could come crumbling down while I read by a fire, or drank with companions, or ventured out for a look at the horizon and I might not know it. Not until far too late to do anything about it.
Written By Rowan
April 23, 2017, 6:20 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
At the peak of the season, on a vineyard, Fox strolled among the vines. Overhead, the grapes were ready to burst with juice and shone like jewels in the sunlight, and Fox's mouth watered while staring at them. It was too early in the season for any of the grapes to have dropped or been knocked off, though, as Fox had tasted them in seasons before.
A particularly enticing bunch hung from a high branch, and Fox couldn't help but to jump for it. Fox missed by a long ways. So Fox walked off a few steps, and then took a running jump, and still, Fox fell short. Again and again, Fox tried, and each time it was in vain.
In frustration, Fox sat and looked at the grapes in disgust. 'I must be a fool,' Fox said. 'Here I am, jumping myself ragged, for a bunch of grapes hardly worth looking at, probably sour on the vine.'
Abandoning the endeavor, Fox skulked off to nurse its scorn.
A particularly enticing bunch hung from a high branch, and Fox couldn't help but to jump for it. Fox missed by a long ways. So Fox walked off a few steps, and then took a running jump, and still, Fox fell short. Again and again, Fox tried, and each time it was in vain.
In frustration, Fox sat and looked at the grapes in disgust. 'I must be a fool,' Fox said. 'Here I am, jumping myself ragged, for a bunch of grapes hardly worth looking at, probably sour on the vine.'
Abandoning the endeavor, Fox skulked off to nurse its scorn.
Written By Sameera
April 23, 2017, 6:12 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Donella
Interesting. she is not so weird. I would not turn her, were I into women and liked touching more than I do, were she to ask me to share her bed. I rarely find women appealing. Her company is not as intolerable as most.
Written By Eleyna
April 23, 2017, 6 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Serafine
That description is not convincing me to become a mother. At all.
Besides, do you really think the world is ready for whatever might spawn from Talen and I?
Besides, do you really think the world is ready for whatever might spawn from Talen and I?
Written By Serafine
April 23, 2017, 5:52 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Eleyna
Did you know that, with enough lubricant and force, you can push enormous things through tiny, tiny holes?
Like babies.
When am I becoming an auntie, wench?
Like babies.
When am I becoming an auntie, wench?
Written By Ferrando
April 23, 2017, 5:47 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Caprice
In the interest of holding myself to the promise I made (and at the risk of potential spectators taking note) I am publicly recording my commitment to go to my little big sister's shop and let her work her spectacular skill at silk to dress me up in an actual, fashionable, not-to-be-worn-beneath-armor set of clothes, the particulars of which are entirely up to her whim and discretion.
Written By Joscelin
April 23, 2017, 5:32 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
I've said it often and I will say it again: The Guildmaster serves her Guild, it isn't the other way around, not for me. I will work my fingers to the bone to make sure they all have what they need, homes, shops, supplies, food.
I watch them work with pride, I watch as they laugh and joke, praise each other and offer support. Someone asked me about the competitive nature of the crafters and I laughed openly. There's little in the way of it, we're more apt to share techniques than we are to be competitive over such things. Maybe over being the first to discover something but that's the only thing I can recall.
They are all so -different- from each other. Do they know how talented they are, how special it is that even those of the same profession have completely different tastes and styles? That I can spot, generally, who made what by the nature of their hands, the experience they put into their work?
I am so proud, so very proud, that they are all unique and yet cohesive. They never hesitate to step forward for help, they don't look at me like a boss, but as someone they know will help them. It's a trust I find sacred and feel absolutely honored to have.
Forgive the tears, scholar. The Crafters Guild has become my family and I cannot thank the gods enough for them.
I watch them work with pride, I watch as they laugh and joke, praise each other and offer support. Someone asked me about the competitive nature of the crafters and I laughed openly. There's little in the way of it, we're more apt to share techniques than we are to be competitive over such things. Maybe over being the first to discover something but that's the only thing I can recall.
They are all so -different- from each other. Do they know how talented they are, how special it is that even those of the same profession have completely different tastes and styles? That I can spot, generally, who made what by the nature of their hands, the experience they put into their work?
I am so proud, so very proud, that they are all unique and yet cohesive. They never hesitate to step forward for help, they don't look at me like a boss, but as someone they know will help them. It's a trust I find sacred and feel absolutely honored to have.
Forgive the tears, scholar. The Crafters Guild has become my family and I cannot thank the gods enough for them.
Written By Ferrando
April 23, 2017, 5:23 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Mira
My cousin and I were born one week apart (I am the older, wiser, and more worldly experienced one, of course) but apart from that just about everything else about us is completely dissimilar, to the ongoing amusement of the Artiglio family at large.
Still, it's nice to see her around and about in Arx now starting up her new law practice and everything! Our youthful spats are just water under the Sovereign Bridge now and it's up to me to make sure she doesn't lead a completely boring life barricaded in by textbooks and whatever in her office.
Speaking of, I need to get her a good officewarming present after the siege is over.
Still, it's nice to see her around and about in Arx now starting up her new law practice and everything! Our youthful spats are just water under the Sovereign Bridge now and it's up to me to make sure she doesn't lead a completely boring life barricaded in by textbooks and whatever in her office.
Speaking of, I need to get her a good officewarming present after the siege is over.
Written By Joscelin
April 23, 2017, 5:15 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Alis
Even if no one else says it, it makes me happy that someone as esteemed as you sees how hard my Guild works, as best as they are able, with repairs and defenses in the city. I know what it's like to feel useless while the word around you picks up and takes care of things, if I've alleviated any of that for the Crafters with the purpose put before us by Calypso, I'll take that small success. With pleasure.
Don't you forget to take care of yourself as well, my friend. Does no good if we're the last ones we see to, yes?
Don't you forget to take care of yourself as well, my friend. Does no good if we're the last ones we see to, yes?
Written By Mae
April 23, 2017, 5:12 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
I'm supposed to wear a dress. I am very anxious.
Written By Aleksei
April 23, 2017, 4:42 p.m.(5/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Rymarr
It's my understanding that Marquis Rymarr is attempting to spread false rumors that he was not, in fact, giddy at his wedding.
As the man standing closest to him while he gave his vows, I will stake my honor on his giddiness.
But he's welcome to call for a champion if he likes.
As the man standing closest to him while he gave his vows, I will stake my honor on his giddiness.
But he's welcome to call for a champion if he likes.
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