Written By Caith
May 28, 2018, 9:26 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
Oh, this chill in the air is making me so excited for the first snowfall. I do hope it is soon! There is nothing prettier than falling snow and it is a delight to play in.
Written By Saoirse
May 28, 2018, 8:47 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
I find winter very pleasant indeed.
From inside.
Or afar.
From inside.
Or afar.
Written By Eleyna
May 28, 2018, 7:56 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
If you like the cold so much, take it back to the Mourning Isles with you and keep it there.
I second the sentiments of both my cousin and Blessed Aureth.
I second the sentiments of both my cousin and Blessed Aureth.
Written By Venturo
May 28, 2018, 7:44 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Drifa
Well, some might claim me biased in my accounting, but my recommendation would be to go to the southwest corner of the Compact Ward, and visit the Raconteur. You'll find all manners of interesting drinks to sate your thirst there, and a good story or two to go with them.
Written By Aureth
May 28, 2018, 7:41 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
The only good thing about the cold is going inside, lighting a big fire in the hearth, and not being fucking cold anymore.
Written By Luca
May 28, 2018, 7:31 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
Dear Victus,
Let no doubt stand in your mind that this entry into my white journal is about you, and in response to your own journal concerning your love of the cold and your feelings on people who don't love it.
I will put this in words you can both understand and appreciate.
Fuck you. I will fight you.
Let no doubt stand in your mind that this entry into my white journal is about you, and in response to your own journal concerning your love of the cold and your feelings on people who don't love it.
I will put this in words you can both understand and appreciate.
Fuck you. I will fight you.
Written By Victus
May 28, 2018, 7:13 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
Some people don't like winter. I say some people are fucking loonies. Ain't hardly much better weather to be experiencing than a kind of cold chill. Just makes everything slow itself down, gives you time to enjoy the world as it takes in a deep breath. Snow is fun too. Fun to make into weapons and fun to bury fuckers in.
Ever just stood on the deck of a ship while a bone-chilling wind rolled over you? Ain't a feeling like it in the world. It's almost magical how nice it can be. And the winter rain, like a nice cold shower to wash away all the grime. Like becoming someone new.
Love it. Love the snow. Love the ice. Love the cold.
Ever just stood on the deck of a ship while a bone-chilling wind rolled over you? Ain't a feeling like it in the world. It's almost magical how nice it can be. And the winter rain, like a nice cold shower to wash away all the grime. Like becoming someone new.
Love it. Love the snow. Love the ice. Love the cold.
Written By Tynan
May 28, 2018, 4:19 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Thena
I'll stop by and water the flowers while you're gone, don't worry.
Written By Lys
May 28, 2018, 3:54 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
I dreamt I planted lily seeds and faithfully watered them every day for a season, but they grew from the ground withered and rotted.
Written By Driskell
May 28, 2018, 3:22 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
I'm reminded of a rather old saying that goes "When the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything as if it were a nail."
I suppose the same could be said regarding holding anything tightly as your sole focus in life, such as a sword and thinking the only solution to the problem is the enemy destroyed.
I suppose the same could be said regarding holding anything tightly as your sole focus in life, such as a sword and thinking the only solution to the problem is the enemy destroyed.
Written By Riagnon
May 28, 2018, 3:15 p.m.(11/13/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Rhea
WHELP. The competition sure was steep but oh boy, oh boy, I guess I made the final cut! OW- I CUT MYSELF.
Written By Drifa
May 28, 2018, 2:49 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Arx, the golden capital of Arvum, home to many fancies and all their fancy valuables.
Not more than a few days and I can feel my toes itching to get back in saltwater.
P.S. Where the fuck is the bar around here? I could use a good mug of booze right about now.
Not more than a few days and I can feel my toes itching to get back in saltwater.
P.S. Where the fuck is the bar around here? I could use a good mug of booze right about now.
Written By Preston
May 28, 2018, 2:17 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Eleyna
I can understand that view, but it is not one I can share. You are unsure if the messages on the virtues the Gods call us to are indeed their summons, yet to me these are the words of the Faith, the words of the Gods, and that is the world I know. As surely as you know your left hand and your right, I know that the Faith guides us with the best that we know. And I accept that and I trust that, because it has endured us for over 1000 years. Even when the Crown has fallen, the Faith has righted us. But. I am a Godsworn as much as I am a Knight, so I bound to that. The Faith is the cause of my life. It has been my father and my mother, my sisters and brothers. It will be all I ever know, from my earliest memory to my death.
I am also a Knight - so I am in that sense simple. I see direct solutions. Straight paths. And there, the doubts you think are essential in the polite world - the world of Arx, the world of politics, the world of society - they are death on the field. One man falters, and so the wall is broken, the line is lost. One man decides the command of Gloria to be brave, to be honourable, to hold until you can hold no more, to think of your fellow soldiers and care for them, one man who decides all that is nothing and he seeks to save his life by running without need? So the rout begins. Perhaps this is why the Orthodoxy holds such strength in the Faith Militant. We live in a world that touches the polite realm of Arx as through a hazy curtain, parallel but not the same.
Still, I would not think me or my people slaves because of our choice of belief. Nor am I one who would say you are heretic or even misguided in your worship and beliefs. I would say that within the boundaries of the faith there are many voices. A choir that sings only one note is dull indeed, after all. We all share a purpose, and in 99 out of every hundred things we all agree. It is the balance in those voices that is important. So it is important the Orthodoxy is heard, and its view considered. Even as the Orthodoxy itself has considered and mellowed in its majority over the issues of public worship of the Thirteenth in the manner of the Lycene.
I am also a Knight - so I am in that sense simple. I see direct solutions. Straight paths. And there, the doubts you think are essential in the polite world - the world of Arx, the world of politics, the world of society - they are death on the field. One man falters, and so the wall is broken, the line is lost. One man decides the command of Gloria to be brave, to be honourable, to hold until you can hold no more, to think of your fellow soldiers and care for them, one man who decides all that is nothing and he seeks to save his life by running without need? So the rout begins. Perhaps this is why the Orthodoxy holds such strength in the Faith Militant. We live in a world that touches the polite realm of Arx as through a hazy curtain, parallel but not the same.
Still, I would not think me or my people slaves because of our choice of belief. Nor am I one who would say you are heretic or even misguided in your worship and beliefs. I would say that within the boundaries of the faith there are many voices. A choir that sings only one note is dull indeed, after all. We all share a purpose, and in 99 out of every hundred things we all agree. It is the balance in those voices that is important. So it is important the Orthodoxy is heard, and its view considered. Even as the Orthodoxy itself has considered and mellowed in its majority over the issues of public worship of the Thirteenth in the manner of the Lycene.
Written By Archeron
May 28, 2018, 1:56 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Amari
The Lady Amari seems in many ways similar to me - the sensible love of the forest and the outdoors. I'll maintain a badger is preferable to a small goat, but, still. We must accept these differences in life.
What she did make me think of with her questions about Thrax, is the view that we are scary. As I wrote about Victus, he can seem scary yet I have no fear because he is a man who is trying to be just. For my part, I wonder if I try to - if not be scary - if I cultivate a stand off nature? I do like to observe, even within social situations. I like to provoke others to emotional reaction, so I can understand them at their most honest, least guarded. Does that make me a bad person? Perhaps. I could say I am just a product of my past - that I avoid people because people are unreliable. They will say they are there to protect you, and then they will die. Everyone has these secrets they hold, and the dangers of those secrets are played out on everyone. I could say it is because the woods are my home. But in truth it is because I do not know my place, or how I relate to others. I am voice of a house I spent most of my life hiding my heritage to. I am an archer and woodsman of a fealty that values personal combat and the sea over the land.
Perhaps the secret to finding myself isn't in withdrawing into myself, but in seeking to expand my thoughts by meeting with others. Perhaps. It is worth a try.
What she did make me think of with her questions about Thrax, is the view that we are scary. As I wrote about Victus, he can seem scary yet I have no fear because he is a man who is trying to be just. For my part, I wonder if I try to - if not be scary - if I cultivate a stand off nature? I do like to observe, even within social situations. I like to provoke others to emotional reaction, so I can understand them at their most honest, least guarded. Does that make me a bad person? Perhaps. I could say I am just a product of my past - that I avoid people because people are unreliable. They will say they are there to protect you, and then they will die. Everyone has these secrets they hold, and the dangers of those secrets are played out on everyone. I could say it is because the woods are my home. But in truth it is because I do not know my place, or how I relate to others. I am voice of a house I spent most of my life hiding my heritage to. I am an archer and woodsman of a fealty that values personal combat and the sea over the land.
Perhaps the secret to finding myself isn't in withdrawing into myself, but in seeking to expand my thoughts by meeting with others. Perhaps. It is worth a try.
Written By Mydas
May 28, 2018, 1:54 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Eleyna
Quite. Only a slave robbed of self blindly follows.
Written By Eleyna
May 28, 2018, 1:46 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Preston
Everything, even the supposed will of the Gods, should be questioned thoroughly. Even if you think you know the answer. If the answer is truly the Truth, then it will stand up to inspection again and again and again. Truth cannot be corrupted by questioning.
It's just the moment that we fall into complacency in the assumption that we know all the answers that we are the most prone to that corruption. Most often the will of the Gods is filtered through the mouths and actions of men. Without thorough questioning of the will and of oneself, how are we to trust that we speak for the Gods and not for our own desires being hidden behind those of the Gods?
I encourage everyone to question. Themselves. Others. Gods.
Blind obedience without careful inspection is a betrayal of those that fought to give us the ability to question.
It's just the moment that we fall into complacency in the assumption that we know all the answers that we are the most prone to that corruption. Most often the will of the Gods is filtered through the mouths and actions of men. Without thorough questioning of the will and of oneself, how are we to trust that we speak for the Gods and not for our own desires being hidden behind those of the Gods?
I encourage everyone to question. Themselves. Others. Gods.
Blind obedience without careful inspection is a betrayal of those that fought to give us the ability to question.
Written By Reigna
May 28, 2018, 1:23 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Sparte
I think that the ideals you put forth are admirable ones. The goal of open debate and exposure to opposing thought is a necessity in a free society. The issue I think, is that, as it stands, the Salon had a reputation of being... somewhat... Mean and indolent. There have been multiple requests or interest shown in seeing the results of the debates archived and the response had been dismissive at best, and rude when pressed. They are often spoken of in association with excessive drinking and loudness. They are not always done much in advance and have had spurious or vindictive topics seemingly to publicly shame someone. I found myself the target of one such event held. So, if these issues were addressed I think we could move into a place where they might become more inviting and thus, more popular.
Written By Preston
May 28, 2018, 1:19 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
As we learn more about our history, more about the traditions, so I find myself with more questions than answers. I want to know our ancestors, to know where we came from, as well as I know myself now. And restore to glory all that which has been tarnished over the years. Yet. I am reminded at each step the importance of what I do know, and know with certainty, namely the commands of the Gods. Doubt, questions, they are not useful there. There is no questioning the Gods desires, their demands on us, when we know them. You obey, as best you can.
Questions and doubt have their place, where there is genuine uncertainty. But to interpose them into certainty, to have doubt for doubt's sake? That weakens us all. And for that weakness, at the wrong moment, entire bastions could collapse and fall like rocks into the sea.
Questions and doubt have their place, where there is genuine uncertainty. But to interpose them into certainty, to have doubt for doubt's sake? That weakens us all. And for that weakness, at the wrong moment, entire bastions could collapse and fall like rocks into the sea.
Written By Signe
May 28, 2018, 12:29 p.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
Maintaining both an open mind and an open heart blesses you with the opportunity to meet the most fascinating people of the city. A new face brings with it an opportunity for adventure.
That will be a goal for myself, to meet someone new every day.
That will be a goal for myself, to meet someone new every day.
Written By Sparte
May 28, 2018, 11:48 a.m.(11/12/1008 AR)
The Salon is an organization with many interpretations, like any other in Arx. It can be a force for enlightenment as much as ignorance.
I was recently accused of being an optimist to the point of foolishness, because I believe the efforts of The Salon were achieving their better self. That we were empowering people to ask questions, to seek answers, to recognize that the absence of an easy answer is not the same as there being no answer. Just not an answer we yet have, something worthy of more questions. Perhaps better questions.
Instead what was cited to me were events where people were shouted down for daring to disagree, where people declared 'winners' rather than acknowledging the value of the questions and perspectives posed. A notion that the results of the debates shouldn't be shared.
I find this troubling. I want to see The Salon be a force for the betterment of discussion in Arx and abroad, something that draws us together and pushes us forward.
I have not succeeded by myself at achieving those ends. I openly seek the help of others, both directly and through advice and guidance. I do not promise to follow the ideas of others, but I promise to listen.
I was recently accused of being an optimist to the point of foolishness, because I believe the efforts of The Salon were achieving their better self. That we were empowering people to ask questions, to seek answers, to recognize that the absence of an easy answer is not the same as there being no answer. Just not an answer we yet have, something worthy of more questions. Perhaps better questions.
Instead what was cited to me were events where people were shouted down for daring to disagree, where people declared 'winners' rather than acknowledging the value of the questions and perspectives posed. A notion that the results of the debates shouldn't be shared.
I find this troubling. I want to see The Salon be a force for the betterment of discussion in Arx and abroad, something that draws us together and pushes us forward.
I have not succeeded by myself at achieving those ends. I openly seek the help of others, both directly and through advice and guidance. I do not promise to follow the ideas of others, but I promise to listen.
Please note that the scholars may take some time preparing your journal for others to read.