Written By Valencia
Jan. 24, 2021, 10:12 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Autumn is here and with it the snap of cold and change in the air. I love this season, though again this year much is on mind. But for all that, I am grateful to feel a change.
My Hart is hard at work with the help of Prince Patrizio, Wolfscout Rowenova and Archlector Vayne to help us be ready to help our realm and people better prepare for what is to come.
I'm proud to work with them. All formidable and excellent people with experience and skills I respect and wish I had. I am inspired and very grateful they would wish to join our efforts.
I am also resigned to learn at their side. We all fight evil in our own way. And if I may see our people become stronger and rise to what must be done to win these fights we face across the realm, than I am only to happy to.
I have such faith and hope in our people. Especially when we are able to work together.
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My Hart is hard at work with the help of Prince Patrizio, Wolfscout Rowenova and Archlector Vayne to help us be ready to help our realm and people better prepare for what is to come.
I'm proud to work with them. All formidable and excellent people with experience and skills I respect and wish I had. I am inspired and very grateful they would wish to join our efforts.
I am also resigned to learn at their side. We all fight evil in our own way. And if I may see our people become stronger and rise to what must be done to win these fights we face across the realm, than I am only to happy to.
I have such faith and hope in our people. Especially when we are able to work together.
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Written By Hadrian
Jan. 24, 2021, 10:07 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Ever does my wife's cousin prove a source of pride not only for herself, but also for her House and people. She is a person of many gloves, many hats, and many cloaks. She came into this world part of a pair, but at this point she has risen exceptionally high to claim the coveted favorite title.
We, her family, are immensely proud of her many accomplishments and are ever eager to be astonished by those that will inevitably follow. Most recently she has given us yet another lesson in our centuries old history; vainglory and ambition can be wonderful things in the right hands, but those who become consumed by their thirst for personal greatness often forget it is the family - the House - which was always there, always waiting. It is the mark of a truly impressive individual who remembers that while their personal glories are of great importance, their thirst for acclaim is intricately bound to the very foundations of their House as well. No one is greater than their House and the House is of no great importance without its exceptional people.
We are in this together and she, my dear cousin-in-law, has shown once again that she is part of that dream. May her future endeavors prove as fruitful, just as stunning, equally astonishing, and always bring glory and honor to her and her House. I look forward to celebrating her achievement - and future achievements - as readily as my own.
She's awe inspiring.
We, her family, are immensely proud of her many accomplishments and are ever eager to be astonished by those that will inevitably follow. Most recently she has given us yet another lesson in our centuries old history; vainglory and ambition can be wonderful things in the right hands, but those who become consumed by their thirst for personal greatness often forget it is the family - the House - which was always there, always waiting. It is the mark of a truly impressive individual who remembers that while their personal glories are of great importance, their thirst for acclaim is intricately bound to the very foundations of their House as well. No one is greater than their House and the House is of no great importance without its exceptional people.
We are in this together and she, my dear cousin-in-law, has shown once again that she is part of that dream. May her future endeavors prove as fruitful, just as stunning, equally astonishing, and always bring glory and honor to her and her House. I look forward to celebrating her achievement - and future achievements - as readily as my own.
She's awe inspiring.
Written By Kastelon
Jan. 24, 2021, 10 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
One of the worst feelings in the world is that of sitting in anticipation, waiting to find out when you're going to be called off to war.
Written By Jaenelle
Jan. 24, 2021, 9:21 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
I have been informed I need to hire someone whose sole purpose is to open doors.
Written By Korka
Jan. 24, 2021, 9:18 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
I return to the city just as autumn settles in. Not sure what awaits me, but I'll soon find out.
Here we go again.
Here we go again.
Written By Patrizio
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:53 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
I am, increasingly, finding that there are days where I decidedly know so much of what is afoot in this world - and specifically with regards to the dark clouds approaching our shore - and just enough of the finer details that I wonder how those who came before us made it through the storms that've assailed us.
There are reasons that I travel these days with a chest of liquor in my command tent. I must imagine those who've had my title before did quite the same.
There are reasons that I travel these days with a chest of liquor in my command tent. I must imagine those who've had my title before did quite the same.
Written By Decius
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:47 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Oh a new messenger, from Princess Cerys none the less. I hope she finds me agreeable, as once more I am in need of silver, in order to work more...and eat. I heard eating was important. Not sure where. Perhaps they were having a jest with that one.
Written By Decius
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:45 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
It is far too hot to work. I am also out of melon juice. And wine. And bread...and cheese.
Oh and silver. Need that first to to get the others.
But it is too hot to work, so no silver....
Oh and silver. Need that first to to get the others.
But it is too hot to work, so no silver....
Written By Valencia
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:36 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Relationship Note on Eirene
Lady Eirene was kind enough to credit me with suggesting we bring home the pretty little luminous fish discovered upon a recent trip we enjoyed together.
While I can say the thought to collect samples of the fascinating things we discovered along the way for further study was indeed mine among others, the idea to take some of the delightful creatures home as a personal treasure was that of Dame Felicia.
I thought it was a lovely way to remember the journey, but I must admit my role in this was simply to see that the fish collected were given a comfortable home for them to enjoy before distributing them among our party.
They are indeed wonderous and beautiful things to see. I had no idea how lovely fish could be.
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While I can say the thought to collect samples of the fascinating things we discovered along the way for further study was indeed mine among others, the idea to take some of the delightful creatures home as a personal treasure was that of Dame Felicia.
I thought it was a lovely way to remember the journey, but I must admit my role in this was simply to see that the fish collected were given a comfortable home for them to enjoy before distributing them among our party.
They are indeed wonderous and beautiful things to see. I had no idea how lovely fish could be.
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Written By Adalyn
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:36 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Relationship Note on Vitalis
Tenacious, resilient, determined to persevere. I am pleased to walk this path beside him, no matter the obstacles that present themselves.
Written By Rosalind
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:28 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
I went home for a little while scholar. And it was amazing! Stormheart is exactly what I needed. Sometimes all you need is to surround with where you came from to see exactly it is where you need to be.
Written By Rosalind
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:21 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Attended the autumn bonfire today! It's the best time! No more dreaded heat and melting! Welcome cold air, pretty leaves, the smell of apples and---SO MANY THINGS!
Written By Thea
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:10 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
I attended the Eswynds coral ball the other night. Yes, you heard that right. It really is a beautiful stone. Is that right? I'm awful at such. But one thing you'll never hear me uncertain of? How proud I am of Medeia. And the necklace my brother and Kaia won at the auction? I may have to borrow it...I can't say I'm surprised they won it....
Written By Thea
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:05 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
The stupidity of some people never ceases to amazes me. I witnessed that last week. But Gods did I learn who I can fight alongside.
Written By Domonico
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:04 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Relationship Note on Cadern
Friendships can take many forms and life can surprise you when you make friends with someone who is quite unlike you in personality.
Marquis Cadern Blackwood is one of those people. He is hardly a martial sort and yet we have developed a friendship that I usually reserve for those I fight alongside.
Marquis Cadern Blackwood is one of those people. He is hardly a martial sort and yet we have developed a friendship that I usually reserve for those I fight alongside.
Written By Duarte
Jan. 24, 2021, 8:01 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Journal
Belinha would always tell me I was too stiff. After those many months of weekly meetings she took to walking me around town and introducing me to street merchants, bank tellers, strangers in the park or on the beach. She would give whatever her initial pitch was - always some mundane banter of a sort - and then she would say, "This is Duarte," or she would say, "...a good question for Duarte," and look to me. Or she would just look over to me ponderously at a lull in the conversation.
And then I had to accept introductions, bow, respond, or what have you. Generally speaking, a bad reaction on the part of our interlocutor meant I'd done wrong. A good reaction wasn't assessed. It was up to Belinha to decide if I had done a passable job of things. "But he seemed to like me..." wasn't ever an excuse for missing a bow, or for my mouth hanging open, or (worst of all) being stiff.
"When you get to know them Duarte, you can show them whatever you like. Until then, everyone is greeted the same. Who's the highest person you ever hope to meet? The Duke? Okay. So I don't care if it's a grocer, a minister or a street ruffian, they are all the Duke."
Of course, when everyone became the Duke, I became that much stiffer! It was back to the mirror for me. Ten more weeks, I remember.
So I thought something must counterbalance. If I am too stiff despite my best efforts then I need to exaggerate beyond what I feel appropriate in the opposite direction.
The next time Belinha introduced me to a farmer, I swung an arm across my belly and flung the other straight behind me as I dipped from the waist toward the ground, swinging the former arm like it was brush stroke against the dirt.
Belihna was not happy. "That was singularly absurd."
But I was less stiff.
Belinha would always tell me I was too stiff. After those many months of weekly meetings she took to walking me around town and introducing me to street merchants, bank tellers, strangers in the park or on the beach. She would give whatever her initial pitch was - always some mundane banter of a sort - and then she would say, "This is Duarte," or she would say, "...a good question for Duarte," and look to me. Or she would just look over to me ponderously at a lull in the conversation.
And then I had to accept introductions, bow, respond, or what have you. Generally speaking, a bad reaction on the part of our interlocutor meant I'd done wrong. A good reaction wasn't assessed. It was up to Belinha to decide if I had done a passable job of things. "But he seemed to like me..." wasn't ever an excuse for missing a bow, or for my mouth hanging open, or (worst of all) being stiff.
"When you get to know them Duarte, you can show them whatever you like. Until then, everyone is greeted the same. Who's the highest person you ever hope to meet? The Duke? Okay. So I don't care if it's a grocer, a minister or a street ruffian, they are all the Duke."
Of course, when everyone became the Duke, I became that much stiffer! It was back to the mirror for me. Ten more weeks, I remember.
So I thought something must counterbalance. If I am too stiff despite my best efforts then I need to exaggerate beyond what I feel appropriate in the opposite direction.
The next time Belinha introduced me to a farmer, I swung an arm across my belly and flung the other straight behind me as I dipped from the waist toward the ground, swinging the former arm like it was brush stroke against the dirt.
Belihna was not happy. "That was singularly absurd."
But I was less stiff.
Written By Domonico
Jan. 24, 2021, 7:59 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
There. I have worn the frockcoat that my sister gifted me. To the Ball at the Eswyd's. I think it went down well but I felt thoroughly unprotected the whole time.
Written By Gaspar
Jan. 24, 2021, 7:45 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Change. It is inevitable and yet I loathe it. At least the notion /of/ it. Every time it comes around, it almost always proves to be for the better. And more changes have come for me in recent weeks. More still come tomorrow. And the next day. And the following week. Month. Season.
The time draws near for a journey. Those that come with me increase in number at a stead pace. That makes me more hopeful that we will succeed in our purpose. And fills me with more worry. Responsibility. This has been a new concept since coming to the capital.
I hope I'm prepared for it by now.
The time draws near for a journey. Those that come with me increase in number at a stead pace. That makes me more hopeful that we will succeed in our purpose. And fills me with more worry. Responsibility. This has been a new concept since coming to the capital.
I hope I'm prepared for it by now.
Written By Lucita
Jan. 24, 2021, 7:41 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
Groan. I sampled too many libations from Saikland before deciding which to enter into that... contest. Note to self.... acquire more of that headache remedy from the Redrain Gardens.
Written By Lucita
Jan. 24, 2021, 7:38 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
It is hard to believe my twins... at age 6. The years just seem to fly by faster and faster. Six... they are SIX!
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