Written By Gwenna
Nov. 10, 2018, 8 a.m.(12/18/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
For that, I thank all the Gods and Spirits. I can not imagine my life or House Redrain without your steady leadership and selfless dedication.
Written By Darren
Oct. 21, 2018, 11:02 p.m.(11/8/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
I had the pleasure of watching Princess Marian take part in a Rite of Gloria with Princess Coraline. They are both honourable and well-trained fighters, though Marian ultimately drew first blood. I was proud of her, as I have been, for her strength, resolve and dedication. She is one of the best fighters that I know, and I can think of no one better to have the mantle of Warchief for Redrain.
Written By Brigida
Oct. 21, 2018, 9:44 a.m.(11/4/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
The babies almost certainly ate their mother as well.
There are times for sweet moments to teach children about life and death and the cycles therein.
And then there are times to get a bucket of hot water, some good, harsh soap and a sturdy brush.
I think you may have found the line between.
There are times for sweet moments to teach children about life and death and the cycles therein.
And then there are times to get a bucket of hot water, some good, harsh soap and a sturdy brush.
I think you may have found the line between.
Written By Edain
Oct. 20, 2018, 2:40 p.m.(11/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
Please tell Princess Nia that Uncle Edain is very proud of her for protecting the spiders. Because spiders eat wasps.
Fuck wasps.
I apologize for the expletive.
Fuck wasps.
I apologize for the expletive.
Written By Aleksei
Oct. 20, 2018, 11:12 a.m.(11/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
Cool! Thanks for those nightmares.
Written By Monique
Oct. 8, 2018, 2:11 p.m.(9/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
Buried with me, all of it, as always.
Oh, except for the Gilded Page, which shall transfer to Lord Alessandro Greenmarch.
And Baron Norwood still gets my romance novel collection.
Nothing's changed!
Chances of impending doom depend on so many factors, I wouldn't even begin to be able to calculate to a percentage. You know me. I'm terrible with math.
Oh, except for the Gilded Page, which shall transfer to Lord Alessandro Greenmarch.
And Baron Norwood still gets my romance novel collection.
Nothing's changed!
Chances of impending doom depend on so many factors, I wouldn't even begin to be able to calculate to a percentage. You know me. I'm terrible with math.
Written By Eurion
Oct. 7, 2018, 5:16 p.m.(9/26/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
I loved the birthday party for your twins - I apologize for not paying more attention to the two small ones, but I got quite busy with all the other adorable toddlers there. It was wonderfully chaotic, fun and terrifying at the same time - but I did enjoy myself immensely.
(Do remind me of this if I start talking about getting my own family in the near future... I don't think I am ready for it!)
(Do remind me of this if I start talking about getting my own family in the near future... I don't think I am ready for it!)
Written By Rosalie
Oct. 3, 2018, 8:26 p.m.(9/18/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
Nor am I suggesting that the new Marquessa should suffer either. I am merely pointing out that there is more going on that just the elevation of one commoner to the Peerage. With everyone focusing on the Marquessa, it feels as though the other half of the situation was getting swept quietly under the rug.
I addressed you personally as you had most spoken in favor of the new Marquessa but had made no mention of the daughter left disenfranchised and disinherited. It was not meant to be any slight against you personally and I apologize if it came across as such.
I addressed you personally as you had most spoken in favor of the new Marquessa but had made no mention of the daughter left disenfranchised and disinherited. It was not meant to be any slight against you personally and I apologize if it came across as such.
Written By Edain
Oct. 3, 2018, 7:55 a.m.(9/17/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
I don't think there is anyone that can disparage what you have done or given of yourself for the Compact, and I would happily fight anyone that thinks differently, if not the for the fact you would whip my ass (again) for trying to be your white knight when you need no one to be a white knight for you.
But something you said made me realize there is one thing we have never really talked about, and perhaps I should share this thought here.
I have never consider you or any of the Greenmarch to have not been noble by birth. You are the descendants of Marcus of the Greenwood. A man of noble Oathland bloodline. A man that saw something was very wrong with the Last King of Sanctum before even Dame Sugan did by some accounts. A man that we recently learned gave his life to defend the gods of the Pantheon.
Even though the cultural differences have made things challenging and tensions and misunderstandings have happened and will continue to do so. I have never seen the Greenmarch as 'Savages we made noble.' I have always seen them as a noble bloodline that found it's way home.
But something you said made me realize there is one thing we have never really talked about, and perhaps I should share this thought here.
I have never consider you or any of the Greenmarch to have not been noble by birth. You are the descendants of Marcus of the Greenwood. A man of noble Oathland bloodline. A man that saw something was very wrong with the Last King of Sanctum before even Dame Sugan did by some accounts. A man that we recently learned gave his life to defend the gods of the Pantheon.
Even though the cultural differences have made things challenging and tensions and misunderstandings have happened and will continue to do so. I have never seen the Greenmarch as 'Savages we made noble.' I have always seen them as a noble bloodline that found it's way home.
Written By Rosalie
Oct. 3, 2018, 6:36 a.m.(9/17/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
I hate to say this, Princess, because I do respect you and the path your story took but... you also weren't chosen for those roles over a living direct blood relative that may have (rightly) presumed that the station would be hers, upon the death of her father. When your first husband died, you were not named the new High Lord of Valardin over His Grace. This daughter of Geraint's has been effectively removed from succession without any explanation or reason. This isn't just about one commoner's being ennobled. Its also about another ennobled commoner being snubbed most effectively by her own father. Who would want to come back to that, Princess? From what I understand, she is the reason her family bent the knee and were ennobled in the first place. Are you truly going to say that she -deserved- that treatment?
If I were her, I certainly wouldn't want to come back to what is almost certain to be the sneers and unfavorable opinions of the Compact. We are not a kind people, overall. She is a wounded woman, politically speaking, and the sharks will smell the blood in the water. Her home, her family, has just been taken from her. Whatever she worked towards has now gone to someone else. Would -you- want to be so snubbed, Princess? Wherever that girl is, I can only feel sorry for her and wish her luck on her journey.
If I were her, I certainly wouldn't want to come back to what is almost certain to be the sneers and unfavorable opinions of the Compact. We are not a kind people, overall. She is a wounded woman, politically speaking, and the sharks will smell the blood in the water. Her home, her family, has just been taken from her. Whatever she worked towards has now gone to someone else. Would -you- want to be so snubbed, Princess? Wherever that girl is, I can only feel sorry for her and wish her luck on her journey.
Written By Saya
Sept. 2, 2018, 8:49 a.m.(7/5/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
The blood stained storm; the rain that washes away the blood.
Written By Sorrel
Aug. 28, 2018, 1:07 p.m.(6/23/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
Dear Princess Marian,
As a non-traditional princess in Thrax, I deal with a lot of people who'd like me to take my armor off and put on a frilly dress. And while I do enjoy a fabulous gown from time to time, sometimes you just have to remind people that you need your armor to do your job and if they don't like it, they can eat it like the driest saltiest biscuit and enjoy it. Those people are wrong; they're behind the times. If a woman can lead troops in the Thrax principality, she certainly can do so in Redrain.
And there is none other than you who I look to for leading troops except perhaps the Warlord of Thrax, for whom I am a deputy. You have proven your mettle and you deserve your role as Warchief. Redrain would be weaker without you.
Don't let those who hate to see a woman in armor get you down.
Sincerely and with love,
Princess Sorrel Thrax, Bladesong
As a non-traditional princess in Thrax, I deal with a lot of people who'd like me to take my armor off and put on a frilly dress. And while I do enjoy a fabulous gown from time to time, sometimes you just have to remind people that you need your armor to do your job and if they don't like it, they can eat it like the driest saltiest biscuit and enjoy it. Those people are wrong; they're behind the times. If a woman can lead troops in the Thrax principality, she certainly can do so in Redrain.
And there is none other than you who I look to for leading troops except perhaps the Warlord of Thrax, for whom I am a deputy. You have proven your mettle and you deserve your role as Warchief. Redrain would be weaker without you.
Don't let those who hate to see a woman in armor get you down.
Sincerely and with love,
Princess Sorrel Thrax, Bladesong
Written By Asger
Aug. 27, 2018, 6:33 p.m.(6/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
Really lass, I'm not angry, at this point it's nothing to be angry about. Hitting you wouldn't do anything, and it certainly wouldn't solve my poor opinion of you. I'm sorry you think that I just go around bad mouthing you, I have expressed one serious concern to Darren in the past, and my wife got an earful around the time, but she kept me cool rather then do something rash. If I ever would have imagined you were going to take it so deeply personally me joking about the Stormwall stratagem at that meeting, I probably would have still done it but more gingerly to avoid obvious hurt feelings. Never would have said that my words there were venomous. Seriously I got no injured feelings, life is rough, people die and tragedy happens. What shapes a people is not what happens to a them, but how they live and grow from it. Crovane are tough, we've weathered worse and in the future we'll see worse. We fear no storm. With the help of the compact, and a warming of our hearts to our neighbors, we've rebuilt and have been shown that there is genuine kindness beyond our lands. Not to mention Stormwall is pretty much fireproof now, that went into considerations while building, and it is the only city known to give a man an erection when he views her.
Look, I'm not cuddly and I'm blunt, I speak my mind and say what I think. I'm not going to apologize for what I said, because I meant every word of it. If you're going to say something, say it to that's person's face is what I believe and I do that, but I could have done it in a less fractious way. I can understand you're hurt by my words and that is where the condescending tone of your response come from. Where there is only negative opinion, punching someone isn't going to solve that. So I propose this, you, and me and a keg of the best whiskey we can find. We'll drink, probably say horrible things to each other and I can't promise you won't punch me, but at the end of the keg we can put and end to the hostility.
(I'm not going to ever stop being blunt or making terrible jokes though.)
Look, I'm not cuddly and I'm blunt, I speak my mind and say what I think. I'm not going to apologize for what I said, because I meant every word of it. If you're going to say something, say it to that's person's face is what I believe and I do that, but I could have done it in a less fractious way. I can understand you're hurt by my words and that is where the condescending tone of your response come from. Where there is only negative opinion, punching someone isn't going to solve that. So I propose this, you, and me and a keg of the best whiskey we can find. We'll drink, probably say horrible things to each other and I can't promise you won't punch me, but at the end of the keg we can put and end to the hostility.
(I'm not going to ever stop being blunt or making terrible jokes though.)
Written By Leona
Aug. 27, 2018, 5:35 p.m.(6/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
For some people, it is very hard for them to understand that the worth of a place is not in the buildings or the history of it, but in the people who make their homes within. You made a choice to value the lives of the innocent over the buildings, and I think no one could fault you for that. Indeed none have spoken against evacuating Stormwall at least.
What some people fail to realize is that there was another choice made that was perhaps a more subtle one. In your strategy, you boldly assumed that the enemy was intelligent enough to not make a stupid, heedless decision and you planned accordingly. Who can say what they would have done if the Compact's forces were not there? Would they have pressed out of Stormwall into killing fields and past chokepoints? Or would we have given the pirate king a bastion of safety, an in tact and fortified city?
No one knows. The only reason we don't is that you planned for them to be smart and tactical, and deployed your forces to prevent them from grasping that advantage and making us pay for it for years. Planning strategies assuming the enemy is going to make the stupid choice is dangerous. It is a thing best done only when there is nothing but even worse choices to make.
What some people fail to realize is that there was another choice made that was perhaps a more subtle one. In your strategy, you boldly assumed that the enemy was intelligent enough to not make a stupid, heedless decision and you planned accordingly. Who can say what they would have done if the Compact's forces were not there? Would they have pressed out of Stormwall into killing fields and past chokepoints? Or would we have given the pirate king a bastion of safety, an in tact and fortified city?
No one knows. The only reason we don't is that you planned for them to be smart and tactical, and deployed your forces to prevent them from grasping that advantage and making us pay for it for years. Planning strategies assuming the enemy is going to make the stupid choice is dangerous. It is a thing best done only when there is nothing but even worse choices to make.
Written By Alis
Aug. 27, 2018, 2:30 p.m.(6/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
Wait, I should amend that. I should probably wait until the stick that is supposed to be up my ass is removed. It would be terribly uncomfortable to stand somberly with something lodged up there like that, though I will certainly try. I will make a trip to the healers and keep you informed.
Written By Alis
Aug. 27, 2018, 2:28 p.m.(6/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
I stand by you, sister. None in generations have faced the kind of enemy that we did at Setarco and Stormwall. There are no easy choices or strategies, but you know that. I have always looked up to you, and I continue to do so as an example of a Leader and Warrior of the highest caliber. And you honor Gloria with your offer.
I would stand as your second, if you have need of one.
I would stand as your second, if you have need of one.
Written By Faruq
Aug. 13, 2018, 3:50 p.m.(5/21/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
** written in perfect flowing handwriting, loopy but legible. Someone took their time today. **
Scars are how we know we are stronger than the adversity that faces us.
They show that even if we may not have made the best choice we have survived to make better choices later. Hopefully.
I am proud of all of my scars.
Each was well earned.
Scars are how we know we are stronger than the adversity that faces us.
They show that even if we may not have made the best choice we have survived to make better choices later. Hopefully.
I am proud of all of my scars.
Each was well earned.
Written By Sorrel
Aug. 5, 2018, 4:31 p.m.(5/1/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
It's always exciting to be able to spar against one of your heroes. I've admired Princess Marian's successes in the yard and on the battlefield for a long time, and I aspire to be like her. Today I got to meet her in the sands of the Training Center, and while I definitely lost -- she literally sprung over my head to take me out in a dramatically athletic move -- I made her take me seriously. I feel accomplished.
Written By Alexis
July 22, 2018, 7:25 a.m.(3/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
I overheard someone reading a recent journal entry about Princess Marian Redrain to someone else, and I have to agree - she's unsurpassed as far as teachers in the Arts of War go, be it personal combat or leading men or just tactics. I've found a good friend in her, and I am forever grateful.
Written By Monique
July 20, 2018, 7:03 p.m.(3/23/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
Well, it worked, didn't it? Side note: bad idea to jump straight into the hot springs after almost freezing to death. Such a bad idea.
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