Written By Marius
May 27, 2018, 3:19 p.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Simone
Daily reports, wife. Daily reports.
Written By Marius
May 27, 2018, 3:18 p.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
It feels nice to drop documents on Simone to sign for a change. I could get used to this.
Written By Caspian
May 27, 2018, 2:55 p.m.(11/11/1008 AR)
Anya is a decent enough apprentice. The snide remarks and overal contempt is bareable, but I feel like I could take on another apprentice. If you want to be a Champion and study under the best knife fighter in Arx, you should get in touch with me. Accepting interesting people only!
Written By Monique
May 27, 2018, 2:12 p.m.(11/10/1008 AR)
Five days until my birthday. I don't think I thought to live this long. Nor did I think all the things that have happened in the past year would have happened to me.
It has been a year of the greatest joy I have ever known, and the deepest sorrow; a year of family returning, new friends, and laughter; a year in which I have done things I regret, and things I am proud of.
Starting over this year, I keep in the top of my mind the following:
Great things do not come from realms of comfort, and when there is nothing left to lose, there is everything to gain.
It has been a year of the greatest joy I have ever known, and the deepest sorrow; a year of family returning, new friends, and laughter; a year in which I have done things I regret, and things I am proud of.
Starting over this year, I keep in the top of my mind the following:
Great things do not come from realms of comfort, and when there is nothing left to lose, there is everything to gain.
Written By Tabitha
May 27, 2018, 1:20 p.m.(11/10/1008 AR)
Life is a strange thing.
Written By Genevieve
May 27, 2018, 1:15 p.m.(11/10/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Jonathan
You looked like you'd walked into a door. Repeatedly. You were a complete state. But as far as I'm aware you didn't sing any vulgar songs, so that's a small mercy for the happy couple, at least.
Written By Jonathan
May 27, 2018, 12:24 p.m.(11/10/1008 AR)
Had a lovely wedding reception I went to for Lord Ian and his (very pretty and capable) new wife. It was really very nice, for a noble reception. There was booze, a good bit of talk, and a free-for-all tournament!
I came in a respectable third, ahead of Prince Luca (if only by luck and chance, i admit) but behind Prince Barric and Lord Wash, if only just. It was a /very/ good bout, even if my wife was a bit agitated about the many, many, /many/ bruises I received from it.
And I got an excellent bottle of liquor out of it!
I came in a respectable third, ahead of Prince Luca (if only by luck and chance, i admit) but behind Prince Barric and Lord Wash, if only just. It was a /very/ good bout, even if my wife was a bit agitated about the many, many, /many/ bruises I received from it.
And I got an excellent bottle of liquor out of it!
Written By Venturo
May 27, 2018, 9:32 a.m.(11/10/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orazio
The crotchety old Master I apprenticed with to learn the fine art of brewing had an idea of lessons: watch you fail, punish you, and then give short snippets of wisdom you had to dissect. I won't write down the particulars of the story that led to this little slice of wisdom, and I'll leave out a bit of the more colorful language he utilized, but in essence he said: 'Venturo, make it for the people you don't see, not the ones you do.' While we have yet to meet face to face, I know the Legate has had the opportunity to become intimately familiar with my craft. It is my intent that every drink crafted has such a compelling story in both its name and the taste to back it up, that you never need actually meet me to understand who I am, and the quality put into the craft. The Legate's help in an endeavor has been invaluable, and I appreciate both his assistance and his own appreciation for a good drink.
Written By Barik
May 27, 2018, 6:02 a.m.(11/10/1008 AR)
The more I look into this journal's frame the more I guiltify myself by the white nature of its borders. Almost as if I had no right to stand in the white light of a white book, as if my thoughts were a poison meant for darker wings, and darker words. Black journals aren't exactly healthy, however- and no legacy ever stood on them.
I met Prince Ainsley the other night. He seemed disturbed, as if something within him struggled. I consider myself socially perceptive, but with what little hints I received I underwent the assumption he had failed his latest romantic pursuit, but that's folly of my part. It could've been anything. But could've anything made him threaten a scholar? I can't judge him, Rinel does have a rather abusable countenance at times, so help me Vellichor, but it seemed to be against his very nature. I wish him the very best, and a hasty recovery, Gods watch over him. Except the last one. If they even exist, that is.
I met Prince Ainsley the other night. He seemed disturbed, as if something within him struggled. I consider myself socially perceptive, but with what little hints I received I underwent the assumption he had failed his latest romantic pursuit, but that's folly of my part. It could've been anything. But could've anything made him threaten a scholar? I can't judge him, Rinel does have a rather abusable countenance at times, so help me Vellichor, but it seemed to be against his very nature. I wish him the very best, and a hasty recovery, Gods watch over him. Except the last one. If they even exist, that is.
Written By Barik
May 27, 2018, 5:56 a.m.(11/10/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Rinel
I've never stood up for anyone before. Not even for myself. I don't know what I see in this scholar to be risking my neck, but my neck I risked; neck I've tenderly cared for the past eighteen years. Maybe I should distance myself from her, or do something; find something to snap out of this bout of chivalric streamlining that is bound to get me killed. Its not who I am.
Still, I can't shake off a feeling. Maybe I am getting the fevers, like that girl said.
Still, I can't shake off a feeling. Maybe I am getting the fevers, like that girl said.
Written By Riagnon
May 27, 2018, 1:13 a.m.(11/9/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Ylva
I don't remember you saying that to me at all! Funny thing, though...
[There's some blood smeared here that seems maaaybe deliberate.]
[There's some blood smeared here that seems maaaybe deliberate.]
Written By Ylva
May 27, 2018, 12:39 a.m.(11/9/1008 AR)
I am now the house physician for House Acheron. I am very excited and I hope I don't kill anyone. Really, I hope I don't let anyone die, or lose a limb or an eye or something else important. That would be awful. So I hope no one injures themselves while I'm the house physician.
But it's like I was saying to Lord Riagnon, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So I'll try to help so no one in the House injures themselves.
I've written down everything we have in the stores as far as medicinal herbs and other ingredients, so if anyone needs a simple cure I can probably brew something interesting. I have to buy some more tools for brewing and mixing, but I think I can buy them out of my allowance. That's what it's for, I think.
But it's like I was saying to Lord Riagnon, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So I'll try to help so no one in the House injures themselves.
I've written down everything we have in the stores as far as medicinal herbs and other ingredients, so if anyone needs a simple cure I can probably brew something interesting. I have to buy some more tools for brewing and mixing, but I think I can buy them out of my allowance. That's what it's for, I think.
Written By Harper
May 27, 2018, 12:07 a.m.(11/9/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
I reckon there are some things a person can let go and there are others that just bug you until you know you can't let go. That's when you gotta deal with it. So, Uncle Cal, thanks... for everything.
Written By Violet
May 26, 2018, 11:59 p.m.(11/9/1008 AR)
While I was recently in Stormwall, the summer in Arx drove that chilly memory quickly from my body. And we are in Whitehold in the Autumn. I'm freezing my tits off and loving it. I forgot the crispness, the energy, that the cold gives you. Going back to Arx is going to be hard.
Written By Coraline
May 26, 2018, 11:18 p.m.(11/9/1008 AR)
I think Princess Agatha and I have devised the perfect form of warrior girl talk. Random fighting gossip and where to find the best weapons and armor. Or rather drool over the best weapons and armor. Best...Girltalk....EVER!
Plus her idea of the fighting ring is epic. I really hope that happens one day.
Plus her idea of the fighting ring is epic. I really hope that happens one day.
Written By Coraline
May 26, 2018, 11:06 p.m.(11/9/1008 AR)
I made some new discoveries the past few weeks. First being that keeping busy is wonderful and also frustrating. It is wonderful in that you get to meet so many new people, and learn so many new things. It is frustrating in that it is hard to keep everything straight. It does keep the guards fit having to run across Arx after me though.
Second I learned that I love my House. The more I get to meet the people involved, the more I am so happy to be here. It is so different from Maelstrom and when I was growing up. I can be who I am, I can help!
Third is that I actually can enjoy learning! I just have to do it on my terms, who knew!
I wonder if Warlord Galen will teach me how to be a Warlord. Is there a Warlord training camp or something? My only fear is that I can't pull off that warstasch though. Plus I would look awfully strange with one.
Second I learned that I love my House. The more I get to meet the people involved, the more I am so happy to be here. It is so different from Maelstrom and when I was growing up. I can be who I am, I can help!
Third is that I actually can enjoy learning! I just have to do it on my terms, who knew!
I wonder if Warlord Galen will teach me how to be a Warlord. Is there a Warlord training camp or something? My only fear is that I can't pull off that warstasch though. Plus I would look awfully strange with one.
Written By Mercedes
May 26, 2018, 6:32 p.m.(11/9/1008 AR)
Gods.
I am very out of practice -- in more ways than one. It is time to apply and dedicate myself to practice until I am a sharpened edge.
I am very out of practice -- in more ways than one. It is time to apply and dedicate myself to practice until I am a sharpened edge.
Written By Cyril
May 26, 2018, 6:17 p.m.(11/9/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Vera
To be held in such high regard by my liege and my niece is the epitome of honor even after considering that to many of my peers, I am no longer a warlord but a soft, old, and crippled man bound to a desk out of pity. If only they knew... To be the only man in a room of strong and intelligent women is a very interesting predicament to be in. Especially when you feel like you need to prove who has the biggest balls. P.S, not me. They taught me humility, how to converge power through diplomacy, economics, and law. They taught me how to wage war (or wage peace as is the Melaeris way) across vast distances and while my injuries are the marks of punishment for crimes against Mangata, their burden is something I carry with pride as I seek absolution from my Goddess for my shortcomings. Being under the tutelage of our sisters, mothers, daughters, and niece is something we can not overlook. To this day, my beautiful niece and liege, teaches me the type of character one must strive to be, in order to lead our house. I couldn't be prouder.
Written By Vera
May 26, 2018, 5:35 p.m.(11/9/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cyril
I have always looked up to my uncle as an example of how far perseverance and strength of will can go.
Lord Cyril has never shied away from his love of the law, not even when the more traditional Thrax sought to mock him for it. Nor has he ever hidden his opinions on Thralldom or the unfairness of the culture we hail from. It hasn't been an easy path for my uncle to walk but he's continued down it with a dogged persistence that I cannot help but admire.
He never fails to make me proud.
House Melaeris would not be the same without him.
Lord Cyril has never shied away from his love of the law, not even when the more traditional Thrax sought to mock him for it. Nor has he ever hidden his opinions on Thralldom or the unfairness of the culture we hail from. It hasn't been an easy path for my uncle to walk but he's continued down it with a dogged persistence that I cannot help but admire.
He never fails to make me proud.
House Melaeris would not be the same without him.
Written By Tabitha
May 26, 2018, 2:44 p.m.(11/8/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Silas
Congratulations on the birth of Lord Cyril! I'm so excited and happy for you and Farrah. And for the rest of us too, because now we have a little baby Hawk to spoil and hug and fuss over!
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