Written By Coraline
July 1, 2018, 7:03 p.m.(2/12/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
Your wisdom, your experience, and your friendship gave me strength to achieve what I have, it will be an honor to serve by your side should we be called to do so.
Written By Calaudrin
June 14, 2018, 3:15 p.m.(12/25/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
I'm not making them die! I have specifically told them all NOT to die!
I didn't choose this name, someone else gave it to me.
I didn't choose this name, someone else gave it to me.
Written By Rymarr
June 14, 2018, 10:52 a.m.(12/25/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
One of the bravest people that I know. On or off the battlefield. From big, terrible beasties that nearly kill everyone, to fighting insurmountable odds at the revered Seawatch Gate, to pie that I made. Her courage has no limits.
Also, I think she may not have a sense of taste. This may require testing.
Also, I think she may not have a sense of taste. This may require testing.
Written By Calaudrin
June 3, 2018, 5:20 p.m.(11/27/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
I won't confirm or deny whether she threw me into the harbor.
Written By Alarissa
April 7, 2018, 6:15 p.m.(7/6/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
A situation comparable to being a knight and having to word your whites carefully would be akin to that of a house voice. One must be careful with what is said in the whites, for they are reflective of your house and your liege. Regardless that one may do so to lady down ones thoughts on this and that, for posterity and history and because some things should be written down.
Which is why a great many of my entries find themselves settled between the covers of my blacks. Lest someone take my poor ramblings about how ill fitting a dress is, to mean that my husband does not dote on me or that Thrax is money poor and the lists could go on. When I might simply be musing that I have perhaps lost a few pounds or someone has been wearing my dress and stretched it out. Simply such. But alas.
So there are many who quite well understand such things.
Which is why a great many of my entries find themselves settled between the covers of my blacks. Lest someone take my poor ramblings about how ill fitting a dress is, to mean that my husband does not dote on me or that Thrax is money poor and the lists could go on. When I might simply be musing that I have perhaps lost a few pounds or someone has been wearing my dress and stretched it out. Simply such. But alas.
So there are many who quite well understand such things.
Written By Reigna
April 7, 2018, 5:26 p.m.(7/6/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
I think I understand the words you write. You feel as though you must always be on guard, lest what you have earned is taken from you by those you might anger with your opinion? You feel muzzled and not free to speak your truth for fear that the consequences will take what you have earned?
You are correct, I do not know, which is why I asked. I suppose it was ignorant of me not to consider that answering that question might cause problems. You have my apologies for that, Dame Esoka. And my gratitude for the answer you gave.
You are correct, I do not know, which is why I asked. I suppose it was ignorant of me not to consider that answering that question might cause problems. You have my apologies for that, Dame Esoka. And my gratitude for the answer you gave.
Written By Cassius
April 7, 2018, 3:35 p.m.(7/5/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
A fair point. A commoner made a knight straddles a little bit of both worlds, and thus, if anything, your opinion is one I would love to hear more of on the subject.
Written By Thena
March 26, 2018, 12:20 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
Esoka took me fishing yesterday. My first time, or at least my first time doing it properly. We even caught something (and when I say ‘we’ I mean ‘her’) that had strange whiskers on it but was neither abyssal or a human corpse (we were fishing in the river in the Lowers, if you couldn’t tell).
We cooked it and ate it and it’s completely changed how I feel about fish. Also I learned that fishing involves a lot of sitting quietly which was very...needed.
We cooked it and ate it and it’s completely changed how I feel about fish. Also I learned that fishing involves a lot of sitting quietly which was very...needed.
Written By Alis
March 21, 2018, 10:14 p.m.(5/26/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
Thank you.
I don't have many words yet. But, knowing how you honor Eirlys' memory helps ease the sorrow of her being gone.
I don't have many words yet. But, knowing how you honor Eirlys' memory helps ease the sorrow of her being gone.
Written By Calaudrin
March 17, 2018, 8:39 a.m.(5/17/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
Gave her life for you?!
*there's a lot of underlining*
You can't even read this until you get back. I'm just going to mope around the shop some more. I'll go visit that bird so it can squawk at me some more.
*there's a lot of underlining*
You can't even read this until you get back. I'm just going to mope around the shop some more. I'll go visit that bird so it can squawk at me some more.
Written By Calaudrin
March 14, 2018, 11:53 p.m.(5/12/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
I'm going to need you to come back alive. For some very obvious and sentimental reasons. Like having /just/ gotten married and being in love with you.
Written By Thesarin
March 4, 2018, 11:19 p.m.(4/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
I've known Dame Esoka of the Greenwoods all her days. From our times in the woods, to when we walked into civilization together, when she was made a knight of the Compact, and when she took the Swords of House Riven to carry.
Stood by her at the walls in the Siege of Arx, fought with her in the Forests.
And now I've seen her married, to a man who makes her happy.
Dark days coming, but this is a good one.
Stood by her at the walls in the Siege of Arx, fought with her in the Forests.
And now I've seen her married, to a man who makes her happy.
Dark days coming, but this is a good one.
Written By Samael
March 4, 2018, 10:19 p.m.(4/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
Congratulations on your nuptials!
Written By Thesarin
Feb. 21, 2018, 4:09 p.m.(3/25/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
Legate Orazio wondered at why folk give worship to the spirits. Answered best I could.
Didn't mean to say that our people only paid mind to the spirits, but I see how it could have. So I wanted to make clear.
Reckon you're right that winning is up to us. Can't expect gods to step in on our side.
Would be nice.
Didn't mean to say that our people only paid mind to the spirits, but I see how it could have. So I wanted to make clear.
Reckon you're right that winning is up to us. Can't expect gods to step in on our side.
Would be nice.
Written By Emily
Feb. 16, 2018, 12:06 a.m.(3/14/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
Deepwood is rich in life and loyalty and Dame Esoka embodies that. I am completely intrigued and inspired by her presence and glad to have her help with aiding my efforts in the preparations of Deepwood's newest force. I know they will be in good hands. Good company and good humor, I look forward to further working with her.
Written By Astraea
Dec. 31, 2017, 11:43 p.m.(11/16/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
That was one hell of a fight Dame. You got me again! I write this with excitement because it means that while I may have improved I'm not done. There is never an end to the pursuit of perfection. When we cross blades it's more than a contest of skill for me. It's therapeutic.
Maybe you never needed to know that but I am happy that you have the market on laying down a good ole Crownlands beating.
Good show my lady, good show.
Maybe you never needed to know that but I am happy that you have the market on laying down a good ole Crownlands beating.
Good show my lady, good show.
Written By Monique
Dec. 9, 2017, 12:29 p.m.(9/26/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
As it happens, I did train for athleticism and survival. Dame Esoka is a hard taskmistress, but a damned good one. Wise, I think, beyond her years.
Written By Eithne
Dec. 3, 2017, 9:12 p.m.(9/15/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
Dame Esoka reached out to me when I was seeking an instructor in Athletics. As a child I had no problems running or climbing trees. Over the years, all of that took a back seat and I focused completely on my work. Being strong and being agile are clearly two different things. She made me run through the woods with her. Just when I was almost out of breath and about to thank her for the rigorous workout, she told me to go climb a tree. I'm not kidding. She told me I should be running two miles twice a day.
Since then, I haven't been able to do the full two miles twice a day but I get in about a mile a day. I hope she's proud of me for the next time we meet!
Since then, I haven't been able to do the full two miles twice a day but I get in about a mile a day. I hope she's proud of me for the next time we meet!
Written By Thesarin
Nov. 26, 2017, 10:37 a.m.(8/28/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
The world moves.
We made Riven a new thing, half-Greenwood and half-Crownlander. Neither peoples is what we were before. Few people in them neither, I think.
We'll be another new thing now, with Burned Men and Redhawks and Thenns from the woods, and Bloodsnakes and Tyrfalls and Brokeblades from the isles, and plenty more.
Can't stop the future more than you can dam up the Mother. We'll all be something new together, sharing stories and lives and homes. But I don't look to see the Greenwoods stop being ourselves neither, or blend to nothing among the strange peoples. I look to keep our stories told, the marks written, out songs sung.
Even if you don't want to hear me singing them.
We made Riven a new thing, half-Greenwood and half-Crownlander. Neither peoples is what we were before. Few people in them neither, I think.
We'll be another new thing now, with Burned Men and Redhawks and Thenns from the woods, and Bloodsnakes and Tyrfalls and Brokeblades from the isles, and plenty more.
Can't stop the future more than you can dam up the Mother. We'll all be something new together, sharing stories and lives and homes. But I don't look to see the Greenwoods stop being ourselves neither, or blend to nothing among the strange peoples. I look to keep our stories told, the marks written, out songs sung.
Even if you don't want to hear me singing them.
Written By Calaudrin
Nov. 22, 2017, 7:44 p.m.(8/19/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
I wouldn't want to disappoint you. So with that in mind:
I'm incredibly excited for my newest position which I expect will involve plenty of paperwork that I will fill in with my terrible handwriting.
But seriously, I'm thrilled.
No, that wasn't sarcasm. I'm happy.
I'm incredibly excited for my newest position which I expect will involve plenty of paperwork that I will fill in with my terrible handwriting.
But seriously, I'm thrilled.
No, that wasn't sarcasm. I'm happy.
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