Written By Eleyna
July 31, 2018, 3:36 p.m.(4/19/1009 AR)
Skald gave us all the ability to choose our fates, but choices come with consequences.
Every. Single. Choice.
Choosing to practice with a sword likely means that you'll never be the best scholar. Choosing to become a devotee of the Gods means that the paths of marriage and children are lost to you. Choosing to walk through one door likely means that others will be closed to you.
Being granted the freedom to choose does not mean that you are given freedom from the consequences of the choices to make. For every decision you make, you must accept that you no longer have other decisions available.
Every. Single. Choice.
Choosing to practice with a sword likely means that you'll never be the best scholar. Choosing to become a devotee of the Gods means that the paths of marriage and children are lost to you. Choosing to walk through one door likely means that others will be closed to you.
Being granted the freedom to choose does not mean that you are given freedom from the consequences of the choices to make. For every decision you make, you must accept that you no longer have other decisions available.
Written By Eleyna
July 27, 2018, 6:43 p.m.(4/11/1009 AR)
Sometimes, some problems just solve themselves.
Written By Eleyna
July 24, 2018, 10:57 p.m.(4/5/1009 AR)
You know what isn't honorable? Pushing a grieving man into calling for a duel.
What's even less honorable? Accepting it in such a condescending fashion.
When someone is hurting and, perhaps, lashing out, you don't try to justify your actions. If you cannot offer comfort?
You leave them alone and let them heal.
What's even less honorable? Accepting it in such a condescending fashion.
When someone is hurting and, perhaps, lashing out, you don't try to justify your actions. If you cannot offer comfort?
You leave them alone and let them heal.
Written By Eleyna
July 20, 2018, 6:55 p.m.(3/23/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Shard
Fashion fuels multiple industries in the Compact, from the silk trade in the Lyceum to the fur trade in the North. A trend toward fur can give work to fur trappers in the North, to tanners in the Oathlands, to leatherworkers in Arx. It's easy to see trends as frivolous and stupid when you don't see the chains of industry and prosperity that result from them.
Written By Eleyna
July 19, 2018, 10:05 a.m.(3/20/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Vanora
Vanora and I kind of knew each other as children. Many of the children linked to the Velenosa end up spending a part of their childhood in Lenosia, so that there would be many children wandering the palace and grounds, playing in groups, attending lessons together. We knew each other, but she was close with Isolde while I was only close with myself.
When we first met again after growing up, it was over a negotiation table during the Kennex disaster. I was frustrated and angry, but Lady Vanora met me with honesty and a willingness to answer my questions, no matter how tense they were. It created a good impression. She was determined to clean up the mess that her then-husband made when it seemed like so many in House Kennex were hiding from the consequences of their nobly aimed action.
As time has gone on, I've found something of a kindred spirit in Vanora. We look at the world in similar ways. I think we both also epitomize a certain type of Lycene that often gets lost behind the more popular image of the hedonistic, fiery Southerner. It is refreshing to speak with someone that I don't have to explain the reasoning of my thinking. She seems to get it already.
Vanora was there in a moment where I needed help most. She never asked questions or waited for permission. She swooped in to do what needed to be done. I will be forever grateful for that.
When we first met again after growing up, it was over a negotiation table during the Kennex disaster. I was frustrated and angry, but Lady Vanora met me with honesty and a willingness to answer my questions, no matter how tense they were. It created a good impression. She was determined to clean up the mess that her then-husband made when it seemed like so many in House Kennex were hiding from the consequences of their nobly aimed action.
As time has gone on, I've found something of a kindred spirit in Vanora. We look at the world in similar ways. I think we both also epitomize a certain type of Lycene that often gets lost behind the more popular image of the hedonistic, fiery Southerner. It is refreshing to speak with someone that I don't have to explain the reasoning of my thinking. She seems to get it already.
Vanora was there in a moment where I needed help most. She never asked questions or waited for permission. She swooped in to do what needed to be done. I will be forever grateful for that.
Written By Eleyna
July 14, 2018, 10:45 p.m.(3/11/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Belladonna
Indeed. Setarco is just wasting time producing such low-quality material. To think that we've had this industry in the Lyceum for centuries, from the harvesting and spinning of silk to the shipping houses of the Hundred Cities that move the material across the Compact. All of this effort, so many jobs for something so -worthless-.
What have we been thinking?
What have we been thinking?
Written By Eleyna
July 14, 2018, 10:25 p.m.(3/11/1009 AR)
Silk is 'low-quality' now?
That's cute.
That's cute.
Written By Eleyna
July 13, 2018, 4:46 p.m.(3/9/1009 AR)
Sounds like some people need a nap and a snack.
Written By Eleyna
July 9, 2018, 11:23 a.m.(2/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
The feeling is mutual.
Written By Eleyna
July 9, 2018, 11:22 a.m.(2/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Talen
Is Victus' 'classiness' rubbing off on you?
Color me shocked.
Color me shocked.
Written By Eleyna
July 6, 2018, 8:47 a.m.(2/21/1009 AR)
The voices of Baroness Lucita, Princess Sorrel, and Princess Tikva were our saving grace in the Battle for Setarco. In the midst of brutal fighting and devastating loss, their beautiful voices kept us from falling to despair. I am convinced it was their songs that turned the tide of battle. So, while others might have voices just as sweet, those three voices are my favorite in Arvum, bar none.
Written By Eleyna
June 22, 2018, 10:36 a.m.(1/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Stefano
I should have done more to protect you. I should have done more for you, period.
I am sorry, my friend.
I am sorry, my friend.
Written By Eleyna
June 21, 2018, 4:12 p.m.(1/20/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Thena
I, too, have no idea who this Jeffeth is.
Apologies. It's a very big city.
Apologies. It's a very big city.
Written By Eleyna
June 20, 2018, 7:59 p.m.(1/18/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Eirene
You do me a great honor, my friend. Your children will be the best liars in the Lyceum by the time I'm done with them.
Written By Eleyna
June 8, 2018, 11:06 p.m.(12/14/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
If the rumors I hear are true, you did try to cut a cake with an ax. So, if the very, very large crazy boot fits...
Written By Eleyna
June 8, 2018, 9:47 p.m.(12/14/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
You need to stop drunk journaling.
Written By Eleyna
June 4, 2018, 4:50 p.m.(12/1/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Driskell
Does the dream end now?
Was this all in vain?
I am struggling to understand this, teacher.
I cannot hear the inner voice, the one you told me cultivate, over the pain in my head, in my heart.
Was this all in vain?
I am struggling to understand this, teacher.
I cannot hear the inner voice, the one you told me cultivate, over the pain in my head, in my heart.
Written By Eleyna
June 3, 2018, 11:39 p.m.(11/28/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Driskell
No no no no no no no no.
Written By Eleyna
June 3, 2018, 10:13 p.m.(11/28/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Mydas
Marriage is making you mushy, brother.
Written By Eleyna
June 3, 2018, 10:07 p.m.(11/28/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Serafine
I wish you could have seen it, Sera. You were always the more adventurous of the two of us. You would have been amazed.
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