Written By Joscelin
Nov. 14, 2018, 11:24 p.m.(12/28/1009 AR)
My nerves are frayed. I can't take much of this.
Written By Vanora
Nov. 14, 2018, 11:21 p.m.(12/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Valdemar
Cast as great a shadow, may your sons one day consider it just as daunting.
We'll see his saga written, and then you will continue to do the deeds that will be written in your own.
Nothing would please him more than to look on your saga with jealousy.
Written By Karadoc
Nov. 14, 2018, 11:10 p.m.(12/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Lucita
Written By Vanora
Nov. 14, 2018, 9:57 p.m.(12/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Harald
I used to jest now and again that the Grim Duke would outlive us all, and I believed it truly. I did not expect to see him pass until way unto middle age myself, he seemed larger than life. Invincible. And he must have been both of those for all the tales of his heroics to be true.
In the caves once fighting began he charged into the fray a man possessed. I cannot guess what thoughts went through his head, though likely they touched upon clashing weapons with foes he'd challenged before. I am told that the Grim Duke looked his death in the eye long before the caves, long before I knew him. He called his death by name once and came out the other side. Now I wonder. If he intended one way or another to go back, if once a person has seen their death, chosen it, named it....it chooses a person right back.
I know what many do not, what he spoke of only seldom and only if you were truly listening for it. That he, like most Grimhalls he would claim, did not wish to die an old man in his bed, even surrounded by peace and love and family. There was only one 'good death' and it came at the sword, the axe, the knife, or the choke of the sea. That he would have a story that made his ancestors jealous. Are they now? I hope so, for he died as brave and Grim as any who have come before him. Yet there is something of the work left unfinished. A legacy that even in death, or perhaps especially in death, he passes on to his sons and grandsons.
Written By Vanora
Nov. 14, 2018, 9:45 p.m.(12/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Harald
The Grim Duke is dead. He and I had a complicated relationship from the first, one that only grew more so as time went on, and yet by the end he was father to me as well. Not the way he was to Valdemar, nor Ingrid...but he loved me the way a man might his daughter-in-law, the mother to his first grandsons who will carry the name Grimhall with them. He taught me so much, and between us by the end there was affection and respect. I wished for so much more time. There are still so many things I don't know and will never know about him. I wanted very much for him to be there as the boys grew up...for I've never met a man who loves children the way Harald Grimhall did...save perhaps his eldest son.
I mourn in quiet, where my grief cannot distract from those who have lost something more. Yet I mourn him too, and would have all who ever read my whites know this. I'd do anything to have him back here with us, to have spent another ten years, or twenty, learning all that was and would be expected of me. I've lost a father, a teacher, a powerful opposing force and an even more powerful ally.
Thank you for this, Harald. For making me a part of this family, and insisting that at least among ourselves I was never anything less.
We will honor your legacy a dozen different ways, over and over again.
Written By Alrec
Nov. 14, 2018, 7:45 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Norwood
Written By Ophelia
Nov. 14, 2018, 6:36 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Jordan
Written By Miranda
Nov. 14, 2018, 6:10 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Domonico
Consider it done now.
Congratulations, Cousin!
Just breathe.
Written By Miranda
Nov. 14, 2018, 6:08 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Fecundo
Congratulations!
All my love to you and your Lady Dragon.
Can't wait to see all those little peachicks you two will make!
Written By Preston
Nov. 14, 2018, 5:11 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Thena
Written By Tikva
Nov. 14, 2018, 4:59 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Gareth
As I look into the future of the social calendar of Arx and I think about what to do in honor, in memoriam, of a cousin I honor, I think: thousands of silver in commemoration, food and drink and remembrance? He'd hate it, but he's dead and wouldn't have to participate? Dozens of people coming together to deliver eulogies of a person who they remember largely as a grim, intense shadow?
In Gareth's honor, I will serve the Inquisition that he served with his whole heart. I'm not sure else I will do. I have to think on it.
Written By Victus
Nov. 14, 2018, 4:53 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Perhaps someone can sell me on it.
Written By Thorley
Nov. 14, 2018, 4 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Baron Thorley Farwatch
Baron Thorley Farwatch
Baron and Baroness-Consort Farwatch
Baron Thorley Farwatch, Baroness-Consort Violet Farwatch, Lady Tala Farwatch, Lady Sorcha Farwatch
..and then a note at the bottom.>
Not sure if I'm ever going to truly get used to this. Just planned my first event as a Baron. We'll see how it goes.
Written By Samantha
Nov. 14, 2018, 3:29 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Rymarr
Written By Kaldur
Nov. 14, 2018, 3:11 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
And yet the saplings reach for the sky, the Wheel turns, and we with it.
Just... now it feels like we're under it.
Written By Alrec
Nov. 14, 2018, 2:33 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Written By Forato
Nov. 14, 2018, 2:21 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
I couldn't live a slave of fear. I can't live as a slave of anything, or anyone, anymore.
Written By Delilah
Nov. 14, 2018, 1:34 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Cybele
A written word conveys preservation against the brunt of cruel time that erodes many things. Who among us can really say what the wind remembers and the sea recalls but Mangata? Yet in every loop of ink I engrave memory and perception that will withstand the diminishing of the years piled up against them. An odd sentiment, for the person I write of has a different legacy and a different place on the Wheel.
Cybele was one of the first people I encountered in Arx, one of the first lasting friendships I made back when no one much knew about me -- and many would look on the family name with raised eyebrows, regardless of the achievements of my relations. They looked deeper into a person and found something perhaps not immediately seen by others. There was never a sense of hubris or haughty judgment. Cybele watched the world through such a sense of serenity and purpose, a knowledge of what roots sank deep into the world and what was needful at the time. I am saddened our paths diverged more often than not in recent months, though I could always trust in wisdom badly sought being found upon my friend's lips, in a smile, in a kind gesture.
We are the poorer for the loss, and yet so much enriched. The presence of Cybele and Bashira in the new Grove is something that will inspire coming generations, new shaman and devotees of Petrichor who hear the story of their grand gestures and the lives they lived. I can say I knew Cybele, and shared much. I can say that such a sacrifice for others -- loving, strong, brave, and utterly certain -- fits in every way with the character I came to know.
Be you well, friend, and the spirits rejoice that you have touched so many.
Written By Khanne
Nov. 14, 2018, 1:12 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Thank you.
And for those who have lost their lives, lost their loved ones.... my heart both hurts for the loss of your presence in our current lives and busts with awe and in some cases pride for knowing the person you were in this lifetime and how strong you were to have given so much of yourself, to the last. I hope to honor those who have passed from our grasp to return to The Wheel soon.
To Cybele and Bashira, members of the Spirit Walkers, both such talented and wonderful people, know that I am blessed to have known you. Thank you both for the impact you made upon my own life.
And to those who went with me... who listened to my plea for assistance in hopes of accomplishing something so absolutely dangerous... who feared, perhaps, their own chances of survival in even attempting this feat (Spirits know there are few times I have ever felt my own mortality so deeply)... who despite all that stood by my side in that clearing... some of whom very nearly (much much much too nearly) lost their lives in trying to see us all to success... I know you all know how very much it meant to me to do... and I hope you all know how much it means to me that you helped. Words will never be able to come close to expressing the depths of my gratitude. But....
Thank you.
Written By Valdemar
Nov. 14, 2018, 1:02 p.m.(12/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Harald
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