Written By Torian
Feb. 13, 2020, 11:28 p.m.(10.068038607804233/4.810162037037037/1012.7556698839837 AR)
Relationship Note on Mayir
Mayir, you'll get the better of me next time round I'm sure.
Truth be told, to you or any who take the time to read these journals amongst all others now or in years to come, both our families are engaged in the business of shipping and moving goods about and that business has been kind to both.
So in honesty what does a merchant family do with three ships? We carry food and other goods to those that need them, and in time if Magnata and Gild be kind, we may acquire more ships or we may not.
We can only hope that history will show the rising tides lifts all our boats, and that the common folk of the lowers can enjoy success together.
Truth be told, to you or any who take the time to read these journals amongst all others now or in years to come, both our families are engaged in the business of shipping and moving goods about and that business has been kind to both.
So in honesty what does a merchant family do with three ships? We carry food and other goods to those that need them, and in time if Magnata and Gild be kind, we may acquire more ships or we may not.
We can only hope that history will show the rising tides lifts all our boats, and that the common folk of the lowers can enjoy success together.
Written By Torian
Feb. 11, 2020, 7:48 p.m.(9.914372933201058/31.20488425925926/1012.7428644111001 AR)
Relationship Note on Mayir
I have heard from Mayir that some are questioning the success of the Culler Mercantile, bringing three caravels into our enterprise.
That is fair enough. We /have/ achieved heights that even many Mercantiles have not.
But look at it this way: The Cullers will be known as Arx's premier marine logistics provider. It would be damaging to our reputation to NOT have three caravels to meet our clients' needs.
So don't hate us; hire us.
Messengers always welcome.
That is fair enough. We /have/ achieved heights that even many Mercantiles have not.
But look at it this way: The Cullers will be known as Arx's premier marine logistics provider. It would be damaging to our reputation to NOT have three caravels to meet our clients' needs.
So don't hate us; hire us.
Messengers always welcome.
Written By Torian
Jan. 22, 2020, 2:29 p.m.(8.36735656415344/14.571967592592593/1012.6139463803461 AR)
Archlector Hamish has asked who says farmers can't be trusted. For lack of names to document for him, I can simply say: Not I.
Farming is hard work, maybe harder work than I've ever done at the tannery. It's certainly less forgiving by quite a lot, and a lot less rewarding when it comes to coin. One might say it's thankless.
That's why when the wind brought me word that some were saying farmers couldn't be trusted, I wanted to make clear that wasn't the case. Farmers work hard and they don't lay down and die. When a storm comes in to their land, you had better believe they know how to resist and recover.
And they grow our food, so crossing them is foolish on two fronts. At least.
Bad for business, and bad for your larder.
Farming is hard work, maybe harder work than I've ever done at the tannery. It's certainly less forgiving by quite a lot, and a lot less rewarding when it comes to coin. One might say it's thankless.
That's why when the wind brought me word that some were saying farmers couldn't be trusted, I wanted to make clear that wasn't the case. Farmers work hard and they don't lay down and die. When a storm comes in to their land, you had better believe they know how to resist and recover.
And they grow our food, so crossing them is foolish on two fronts. At least.
Bad for business, and bad for your larder.
Written By Torian
Jan. 21, 2020, 2:51 p.m.(8.297022156084656/10.633240740740742/1012.6080851796737 AR)
A lot of talk these days about farmers. "Never trust them" they say!
Well *I* say you never cross the man who handles your turnips.
Well *I* say you never cross the man who handles your turnips.
Written By Torian
Jan. 19, 2020, 6:06 p.m.(8.163956266534392/10.181550925925926/1012.5969963555445 AR)
Relationship Note on Josephine
People see the skull the Cullers use to represent themselves and they think that we're all killers or pirates or something. I maybe thought that once too, when I was a young orphan, before they brought me in.
In time, I learned that the skull doesn't represent a desire to do violence or to kill, it represents fate.
Fate is something that has been on my mind a lot these days. We have experienced a great lose recently in the death of the Crafter's Guildmaster. Not just those in the guild either.
By all accounts Josephine met her end as she had lived her life, caring for others. We might all hope and wish and pray to die in our beds as old men and women, surrounded by our kin and all that, but that isn't everyone's fate is it?
I take some comfort in knowing that Josephine's fate, if not to pass on as an old women in her bed, was to go out as she did, with her true self on display, courage and kindness until the end.
In time, I learned that the skull doesn't represent a desire to do violence or to kill, it represents fate.
Fate is something that has been on my mind a lot these days. We have experienced a great lose recently in the death of the Crafter's Guildmaster. Not just those in the guild either.
By all accounts Josephine met her end as she had lived her life, caring for others. We might all hope and wish and pray to die in our beds as old men and women, surrounded by our kin and all that, but that isn't everyone's fate is it?
I take some comfort in knowing that Josephine's fate, if not to pass on as an old women in her bed, was to go out as she did, with her true self on display, courage and kindness until the end.
Written By Torian
Jan. 5, 2020, 10:51 p.m.(7/6/1012 AR)
What do they have to be jealous about? What's one boat compared to having land?
Written By Torian
Dec. 15, 2019, 10:30 p.m.(5/19/1012 AR)
I'm very proud of the school my family has built, as years pass we see orphans who might otherwise have ended up burgers or cutpurses starting to make real money with legitimate skills.
Jays be blessed!
Jays be blessed!
Written By Torian
Nov. 17, 2019, 8:56 p.m.(3/19/1012 AR)
say what I will about being a sellsword in my youth, as poor as I was then, the life I live now threatens to make me a fat old man.
Written By Torian
Nov. 10, 2019, 10:54 p.m.(3/5/1012 AR)
When these journals get read in the times that haven't come yet, if they get read, I hope they'll reflect me as a man who understands the way life can force us to act in ways we wish we didn't have to. I hope as well, that it'll reflect that I understand being forced doesn't excuse us, and that we must also make amends.
Good reminder this week that, for now, that still seems possible for some.
If I ever figure out what it is that affords one redemption and another not, I hope that I can use that to help some of those left-behinds.
Good reminder this week that, for now, that still seems possible for some.
If I ever figure out what it is that affords one redemption and another not, I hope that I can use that to help some of those left-behinds.
Written By Torian
Nov. 10, 2019, 10:53 p.m.(3/5/1012 AR)
When these journals get read in the times that haven't come yet, if they get read, I hope they'll reflect me as a man who understands the way life can force us to act in ways we wish we didn't have to. I hope as well, that it'll reflect that I understand being forced doesn't excuse us, and that we must also make amends.
Good reminder this week that, for now, that still seems possible for some.
If I ever figure out what it is that affords one redemption and another not, I hope that I can use that to help some of those left-behinds.
Good reminder this week that, for now, that still seems possible for some.
If I ever figure out what it is that affords one redemption and another not, I hope that I can use that to help some of those left-behinds.
Written By Torian
Nov. 3, 2019, 10:27 p.m.(2/19/1012 AR)
Everything is hard work, in it's own way. Being a guard was hard work, especially if I had to draw my weapon. When I was learning a trade that was hard work too, but different. Teaching was another kind of hard work, and now that I spend most of my time as an up and coming merchant, it turns out that's another kind of hard work as well.
At least I smell better at the end of the day.
At least I smell better at the end of the day.
Written By Torian
Oct. 27, 2019, 10:41 p.m.(2/5/1012 AR)
If you knew the Tenny Twins and know of any family or other survivors that need help, or have any word about who's done them in, and you happen to come across this journal in your readings, then by all means feel free to share.
Written By Torian
Oct. 27, 2019, 10:28 p.m.(2/5/1012 AR)
You know, it's just my luck that as my love and I start to consider moving out of the Lowers, that some parts of the Uppers would suddenly become unlucky.
If you relive in luck that is.
If you relive in luck that is.
Written By Torian
Oct. 13, 2019, 9:55 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
Here's hoping I'm no hero...
Written By Torian
Oct. 6, 2019, 10:27 p.m.(12/19/1011 AR)
Business has been god, which is nice, but it's been stagnant as well. Gone are the days of wide swings in work, between the shop and the school everything is so... steady. It's boring.
Good thing there's other blessings come along now.
Good thing there's other blessings come along now.
Written By Torian
Sept. 29, 2019, 10:43 p.m.(12/5/1011 AR)
Whatever happens when I'm just a memory, I hope that it will be interesting to some scholar at least to observe the paths I've taken.
Some commoners will bemoan the law being on the side of the nobles, and of course it is, but their paths are often chosen for them.
Me? I was an orphan, doing what I could to get by until the Culler clan took me in. I learned how to fight and made some money that way, but it never felt like the right path and so I studied a trade.
Somewhere along the way, most of them took a liking to me and so here I am, not a drop of blood between me and any of them, yet they all look to me to steer this ship we call a family.
Some commoners will bemoan the law being on the side of the nobles, and of course it is, but their paths are often chosen for them.
Me? I was an orphan, doing what I could to get by until the Culler clan took me in. I learned how to fight and made some money that way, but it never felt like the right path and so I studied a trade.
Somewhere along the way, most of them took a liking to me and so here I am, not a drop of blood between me and any of them, yet they all look to me to steer this ship we call a family.
Written By Torian
Aug. 28, 2019, 3:22 p.m.(9/24/1011 AR)
I wonder what Vellichor thinks when we write down what we think we know based on hearsay and rumor?
On the one hand we're doing out good deed by documenting our lives for the future, but are the archives of the past full of as much rumor and conjecture as the whites of today? This one of those things that we think is a problem now only because we don't know it was always a problem?
On the one hand we're doing out good deed by documenting our lives for the future, but are the archives of the past full of as much rumor and conjecture as the whites of today? This one of those things that we think is a problem now only because we don't know it was always a problem?
Written By Torian
Aug. 25, 2019, 11:02 p.m.(9/19/1011 AR)
I'm no noble, and my education and experience is almost entirely of the common variety as a sellsword turned artisan turned merchant. With that in mind, oh future scholars and readers of the white journals of a man of no real fame nor stature, put little weight to my words.
Is the Radiant not supposed to be possessed of a sharp tongue, but a silver one? Is the position not named after the idea of a radiant light illuminating us all, rather than the radiant heat of ones own home burning down around them?
Is the Radiant not supposed to be possessed of a sharp tongue, but a silver one? Is the position not named after the idea of a radiant light illuminating us all, rather than the radiant heat of ones own home burning down around them?
Written By Torian
Aug. 11, 2019, 10:35 p.m.(8/19/1011 AR)
It's pretty easy to forget how different the world is leagues... even easier to not realize how it is just outside the gates or even down your own lane.
Written By Torian
June 9, 2019, 11:40 p.m.(4/4/1011 AR)
Let it be recorded that the men and women of the Crafter's Guild have elected to have Josephine Arcuri represent us as Guildmistress now, the previous Guildmistress Joscelin Arterius having retired from the position in good standing. Support appears to have been very strong and if her leadership is half as good as her smithing, we're all sure to continue to be prosperous.
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