Written By Curran
Dec. 16, 2016, 7:19 p.m.(5/26/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Jeremiah
Written By Curran
Dec. 16, 2016, 7:14 p.m.(5/26/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Bethany
Written By Curran
Dec. 16, 2016, 6:48 p.m.(5/26/1005 AR)
Written By Bethany
Dec. 16, 2016, 5:50 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Garza
I will definitely not disagree with a mercenary on subjects I know nothing of.
Written By Jaenelle
Dec. 16, 2016, 5:35 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Written By Mirari
Dec. 16, 2016, 3:24 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Cassius
Written By Mirari
Dec. 16, 2016, 3:16 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Juliet
Written By Mirari
Dec. 16, 2016, 3:10 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Benjamin
Written By Leta
Dec. 16, 2016, 3:07 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Lost a good six months of writing crossing a lake, so unless there's scholars that dig up frozen muck for knowledge, that's all gone. Here I'm wringing out my head to remember how it went. Not going to use as many words.
Boat journey to near Pride Hall. Nothing happened on the river. Met Jenna, a boatwoman, tall with handsoome hands. Waited for the caravan then set off. Had to chase off some bandits just a week in. Caravan owner was a bastard, everyone knew he was hauling more coin in there than he let on when the Captain took the contract. That's why we ran into so many bandits. Met Dorinda, brunette, sings pretty as a bird. Can't remember the name of her village. Promised her a pair of new slippers if I see her again.
Got back together with Cassiola. More bandits. Rooster caught a deer for supper and everyone was sick and puking for two whole days after eating it. Bought a pair of embroidered slippers from a peddler. Broke up with Cassiola after she threw the slippers in a stream. Asked the Captain to stop working with her but the Captain was an ass about it again.
We were attacked by bandits again on the way to Lenosia. That time there was a proper fight and we had two wounded. Took an arrow to the arm, but it got stuck in the mail. The Captain fell off his horse, broke his leg and his seat. He couldn't ride like that, so he decided to stay in Lenosia and we had to wait around. I liked Lenosia. I know I wrote more about it, but I can't remember what.
I was going to travel back with the caravan, but the merchant got it in his head I was being friendly with his wife. Captain gave me my pay and I got a job on a ship headed for Caith. I asked Cassiola to come but she stayed with the caravan. Sea made me puke as hard as that time with the deer. Didn't see a single pirate, giant fish or siren. Lost my writings traveling with a peddler from Caith to Arx.
I left out parts I can't remember and some other parts that aren't important now, even if anyone were to read this. Fresh wounds spill more ink or so they say.
Written By Mirari
Dec. 16, 2016, 3:06 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Felix
Written By Mirari
Dec. 16, 2016, 3:05 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
05/25/1005AR - Trust?
He told me that he wants to earn my trust. I am not certain that he understands the responsibility that comes with having it. My Lady is the only one who has my trust in full.
It is no simple thing to give. She has shown herself worthy of it. Both in the gift it is, and in being responsibile with what she does with that trust.
Written By Pietro
Dec. 16, 2016, 1:44 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
To face the death of a loved one and still to stand ready to offer compassion, kindness and wisdom to others who are raw and grieving takes a rare man.
I'm being deliberately obscure to protect the guilty, but ... I won't forget.
Written By Saedrus
Dec. 16, 2016, 1:30 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Larissa
Written By Agnarr
Dec. 16, 2016, 1:09 p.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Written By Eirene
Dec. 16, 2016, 11:48 a.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Do I talk about the long nights on campaign during the war when he and I joked around a campfire to stave off the long dark night?
Do I talk about the fact we were never lovers because we know how badly -that- would end? Despite endless jokes and threats to the contrary?
Do I talk about the time he was rushed to my table, broken and bleeding and holding back his blood and rage?
Do I talk about the grief he held deep inside over his wife? Grief only those of us who have lost a loved one know?
Do I talk about the fact we --never-- fucking connected after I came to Arx? Never once sat down and caught up properly, like friends do. His duties - first as lord and then as baron. His fucking duties.
I can't be angry about that; that was who he was. His mission, his obligation that always came first. I can be angry that the same fuckers who took his father from us came for the son. Took out a valuable ally and resource and a friend.
I know we're at war. I've been saying that for a while now. I just didn't think a friend would be one of the first major casualties.
There will be blood. I will spill it myself. I will do whatever is in my power to revenge my friend...
Fuck. I need a drink.
Written By Ida
Dec. 16, 2016, 11:10 a.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
I value these people and realize now - a little too late, perhaps - that I am too often remiss in making note in these journals just how much I've enjoyed a meeting or discussion or a blossoming friendship.
Time fades those feelings and I really should try to capture them while they are fresher.
Written By Sylvie
Dec. 16, 2016, 10:53 a.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Eos
I am only sorry that you could not find the answers, Eos. That you could not experience more, to live again out of the shadows. But you are with her now.
Written By Dawn
Dec. 16, 2016, 10:42 a.m.(5/25/1005 AR)
He asked for nothing in return. No favours, no privileges. He wanted only to help however he could and no matter if the assistance I required did not well suit him. No matter the challenges, he always brought me hope.
That was the man he was. He was a knight, first and foremost, cast from the stuff of legends. Of heroes. He was a man, with his own fears and uncertainties, but he strode through them to do what was needed. What was right. He was Lord, and Baron, and a friend to me.
I grieve for the Saiks. I grieve for Vomas, his son, who has so much of his father in him. I grieve for Lady Kima, his sister, who anyone could see at a glance loved him dearly. I grieve for Legate Orazio, who answered the call of duty but kept his family in his heart. I grieve for my friend, who died to protect what he held most dear and whose loss leaves a hole in our lives that few, if any, could ever fill.
I will pray you have found Elysia, Eos. I will pray you have found peace.
Written By Ida
Dec. 16, 2016, 10:07 a.m.(5/24/1005 AR)
More than that, though, he was kind enough to suggest respites away from our respective duties to just catch up and speak - simply for the sake of conversation. While we only managed these breaks a few times, I came to genuinely admire him and consider him a friend - one I would never hesitate to trust. I will sorely miss his wise words, his generous advise, and his kind spirit.
I will see you again in Elysia, dear Baron.
Written By Aislin
Dec. 16, 2016, 9:06 a.m.(5/24/1005 AR)
He seemed a good man, a kindred spirit when it came to a hunger to know the shape of our world.
I hope that didn't contribute to his death.
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