Written By Bree
July 26, 2020, 12:36 p.m.(9/22/1013 AR)
I have set myself a new path - a journey toward serving Gild more fiercely and loyally than I have before. While daunting, this is the right choice. There are gaps in my knowledge, ways I could be better, and the time has come to fix that.
Written By Wylla
July 26, 2020, 12:28 p.m.(9/22/1013 AR)
Inspiration struck and I followed it out of the city entirely. I suppose I'd grown rather used to travel and seeing new places and people every day. While Arx is grand, the vistas end at the towering walls while you're within the city, and that can be stifling, despite the great wealth ideas mixing among the people. Sometimes feeling the caress of a cool breeze off the Bay of Thrax, or hearing the rustling of leaves and the singing of birds in the Gray Forest is just what one needs to settle a creative spark in one's mind and fan it into a blaze.
Written By Amari
July 26, 2020, 12:18 p.m.(9/22/1013 AR)
I'm away.
I thought i had something more to write about it, but I don't. If I die on this adventure, pack all my things in a sealed stone coffer beneath a tasteful statue in my honor near Oakhaven so that my next incarnation might someday find and collect them.
Leave the following inscription on the base of the statue:
Lady Amari, the White Heart of Keaton, first of her kind. Knight of Oakhaven, figure of minor significance.
"Maybe don't, next time?"
I thought i had something more to write about it, but I don't. If I die on this adventure, pack all my things in a sealed stone coffer beneath a tasteful statue in my honor near Oakhaven so that my next incarnation might someday find and collect them.
Leave the following inscription on the base of the statue:
Lady Amari, the White Heart of Keaton, first of her kind. Knight of Oakhaven, figure of minor significance.
"Maybe don't, next time?"
Written By Haakon
July 26, 2020, 11:40 a.m.(9/22/1013 AR)
A second successful reaving into the Saffron chain in as many months. Less lucrative than the first, but still a fair voyage that saw near a hundred souls delivered from bondage, and freebooters set to good work.
The lesson of this voyage is that hungry folk will eat. You can't tell them not to, all a body can do is point them at the most fit meal. They may acquire a taste for it.
The lesson of this voyage is that hungry folk will eat. You can't tell them not to, all a body can do is point them at the most fit meal. They may acquire a taste for it.
Written By Rosalind
July 26, 2020, 10:21 a.m.(9/21/1013 AR)
Do you know what is amazing? When you start getting answers to things you've had questions to YOUR WHOLE LIFE! I'm so so excited! Can't you tell?!
Written By Thea
July 26, 2020, 10:08 a.m.(9/21/1013 AR)
Relationship Note on Neilda
Neilda is back from whatever adventure she was off doing. I've never been so happy to see anyone. Well I have, but Neilda has a way of not telling me no. And telling me to do it anyway. Be fearless.
And yes, Miranda! That damn rope was terrible! Teach me your ways.
And yes, Miranda! That damn rope was terrible! Teach me your ways.
Written By Aconite
July 26, 2020, 1:32 a.m.(9/21/1013 AR)
This week has been long and strange. Exhausting in its own way. More revealing than I'd like it to be in others. I've missed opportunities. I'm still trying to find time to meet with Lady Esme to ride and talk. Things left vague for too long can grow a life of their own. I have also lost time to try to stop in and see the Whispers. And talk to Master Apollo, Professor Orick...
There needs to be more of me. Or less to do.
On the upside, I have been riding more. What Dame Leola has taught Narciso and I have been paying off. We work very well together now. I should take Azure and Azul to meet her.
There needs to be more of me. Or less to do.
On the upside, I have been riding more. What Dame Leola has taught Narciso and I have been paying off. We work very well together now. I should take Azure and Azul to meet her.
Written By Kaia
July 25, 2020, 9:59 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
I've never been one to adore being in leathers nor armor; but, gracious gods, today I was surely glad I was wearing some. Truly, that white hart jerkin I got from Master Apollo certainly saved my life. That damn 'Toad' almost cut me in half with his sword. But, hey, this is the type of things one must face when helping patrol the caravans moving through the Great Road.
We have made a stop at an Inn. Somewhere along the way between Arx and Brighthold. The driver has told us to keep a low profile. I'm trying my best to do as instructed, and blend in; However, the task might be a tiny bit hard to follow, considering the flashy weapons we carry and our armor.
We have made a stop at an Inn. Somewhere along the way between Arx and Brighthold. The driver has told us to keep a low profile. I'm trying my best to do as instructed, and blend in; However, the task might be a tiny bit hard to follow, considering the flashy weapons we carry and our armor.
Written By Lucita
July 25, 2020, 8:24 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
Relationship Note on Neilda
The sense of relief on seeing Neilda back home was immense. If anything had happened to her I would have felt I had failed in what Estaban wanted most, keeping his sisters, his family safe.
Written By Gwenna
July 25, 2020, 7:07 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
Relationship Note on Cassandra
I had the distinct pleasure of running into my cousin, Legate Cassandra Laurent, while having tea at the Mercier's with Sir Austen. Duties seem to keep she and I from catching up much, but it's such a joy when our paths do cross. Not only that, I was given the great honor of having my diamondplate quill blessed. The prayer she offered was truly moving, and reminded me why so many look to her as the Sword of the Faith. How fortunate I am to claim her as a relative and friend.
Written By Sapphira
July 25, 2020, 6:28 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
As I was helpless to be of assistance to Lord Alecstazi after he so valiantly Championed Oddmun in the duel of the horses, I took it upon myself to seek out instruction in the medical arts. It does seem there is a bit of confusion, though, as Oddmun and others believe I would become a Mercy. This, I could not do, as I refuse to forsake Limerance. However, I can and likely will join the Physician's Guild when it is appropriate to do so.
A song can heal the soul, but it can do nothing for a broken bone or fever.
A song can heal the soul, but it can do nothing for a broken bone or fever.
Written By Dio
July 25, 2020, 4:35 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
Relationship Note on Samantha
I hope the Marquessa of Old Oak will one day share how it was she acquired rum and cider from Elysium to share its blessings among mere mortals.
Written By Piccola
July 25, 2020, 3:08 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
War contains so much folly and wickedness that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. And if any thing is to be hoped, every thing ought to be tried.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is the most to be dreaded. It comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts; from these proceed taxes; and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, the power of the tyrant is extended; its reward of offices, honors, and emoluments is praised; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of oppression.
Thus, the malignancy which may be traced to the inequality of fortunes and the opportunities of fraud thence grow out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation therefore can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is the most to be dreaded. It comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts; from these proceed taxes; and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, the power of the tyrant is extended; its reward of offices, honors, and emoluments is praised; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of oppression.
Thus, the malignancy which may be traced to the inequality of fortunes and the opportunities of fraud thence grow out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation therefore can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Written By Haakon
July 25, 2020, 2:44 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
Though much of our reckoning toward ships and the sea has been upended of late, some truths still hold as they long have:
The longship remains the best raiding craft yet devised.
The dromond remains the best craft for pitched battle.
Galleys serve both roles, second best.
Caravels are unmatched for capacity and range; yet they've not displaced the ships that came before, not when it comes to the waging of war.
The longship remains the best raiding craft yet devised.
The dromond remains the best craft for pitched battle.
Galleys serve both roles, second best.
Caravels are unmatched for capacity and range; yet they've not displaced the ships that came before, not when it comes to the waging of war.
Written By Miranda
July 25, 2020, 2:39 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
Relationship Note on Domonico
Riddle me this!
What's large and floats and rides over blue?
... it's not hard.
You have one. Or access to one. Or forty.
That's all the hint I'm giving.
What's large and floats and rides over blue?
... it's not hard.
You have one. Or access to one. Or forty.
That's all the hint I'm giving.
Written By Miranda
July 25, 2020, 2:38 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
Relationship Note on Thea
The rope?!
The Gauntlet set out its best V-logs for me!!
They get me EVERY time!
The Gauntlet set out its best V-logs for me!!
They get me EVERY time!
Written By Miranda
July 25, 2020, 2:37 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
Relationship Note on Mabelle
You're lucky I'm not baking cookies.
If I didn't kill it to eat it and there's no cookfire, I can't cook it.
... Even then. It's pretty bland.
I hope you're getting your full of cookies!
If I didn't kill it to eat it and there's no cookfire, I can't cook it.
... Even then. It's pretty bland.
I hope you're getting your full of cookies!
Written By Lucita
July 25, 2020, 1:10 p.m.(9/20/1013 AR)
Relationship Note on Ian
Seven years Lord Ian and I have been friends and shared good times and bad ones. The gods must be watching over us for us to have survived as long as we have. And oh, I do hope he will NOT share his glitter with me, I have enough to cope with the things the twins manage to do.
Written By Hamish
July 25, 2020, 7:39 a.m.(9/19/1013 AR)
Relationship Note on Furio
All sorts of things. Is there anything in particular you are wondering about?
Written By Bhandn
July 24, 2020, 8:33 p.m.(9/18/1013 AR)
A fair number of people turned out to the Gauntlet event that Dame Harthall and I hosted. I was rather surprised by the number, myself, but all in all it went very well. If anything, it was very educational as to just how many people, of common roots and of the peerage, could handle being put through a grueling series of challenges.
I want to leave record here of my appreciation to Dame Bree for her assistance in handling some of the details, as well as keeping track of the scores everyone earned. I do not think I could have done it as well without the help, so I demonstrate my gratitude here for everyone to see.
I want to leave record here of my appreciation to Dame Bree for her assistance in handling some of the details, as well as keeping track of the scores everyone earned. I do not think I could have done it as well without the help, so I demonstrate my gratitude here for everyone to see.
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