Written By Edain
Aug. 9, 2018, 3:01 p.m.(5/13/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aureth
And we just had this moment. Is there some compulsion that drives you to cast shade at people and situations that, at least at a cursory glance, have no relation to you or are of no obvious imposition to you?
There are people that can help you through such things Archlector. Do you need a hug?
There are people that can help you through such things Archlector. Do you need a hug?
Written By Edain
Aug. 8, 2018, 8:57 a.m.(5/11/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aureth
I feel I owe the Archlector something of an apology because after thinking more on the topic of discussion the other day I realized that despite some implications I did not agree with, the core of the Archlectors point /is/ something I agree with.
The right thing for me to do would have been to draw attention to this rather get hung up on what is ultimately semantics. While I believe non traditional forms of duels are not inheritly a dishonor to the institution if handled with respect. It is certainly true that not all slights and disagreements need be solved with an honor duel.
There is no dishonor in friendly challenges for pride or creative contests to prove a point. In the jousting world we call it a tilt 'for love' meaning the love of combat. And everyone that learns to fight has participated in the Rite of Gloria at least once. In both situations it is not a contest about who wins. It is about fighting to your utmost and honoring yourself, your family and the gods in doing so.
So while I do believe there is a place for non traditional duels if handled with dignity, maybe we should be less quick invoke an honor duel and put be more willing to put ourselves out there in more informal, but no less bracing contests.
Again I apologise for losing sight of the more important message.
The right thing for me to do would have been to draw attention to this rather get hung up on what is ultimately semantics. While I believe non traditional forms of duels are not inheritly a dishonor to the institution if handled with respect. It is certainly true that not all slights and disagreements need be solved with an honor duel.
There is no dishonor in friendly challenges for pride or creative contests to prove a point. In the jousting world we call it a tilt 'for love' meaning the love of combat. And everyone that learns to fight has participated in the Rite of Gloria at least once. In both situations it is not a contest about who wins. It is about fighting to your utmost and honoring yourself, your family and the gods in doing so.
So while I do believe there is a place for non traditional duels if handled with dignity, maybe we should be less quick invoke an honor duel and put be more willing to put ourselves out there in more informal, but no less bracing contests.
Again I apologise for losing sight of the more important message.
Written By Edain
Aug. 6, 2018, 4:40 p.m.(5/3/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aleksei
You left Sanctum when you were very young, had you stayed you might realize that a silly duel, is a silly duel and fighting it 'to the first blood' does not elevate it.
And yes I know there is some irony in me saying this being that I just accepted a duel from Duke Cristoph over notes and if they should always accompany a gift.
And yes I know there is some irony in me saying this being that I just accepted a duel from Duke Cristoph over notes and if they should always accompany a gift.
Written By Edain
Aug. 6, 2018, 4:02 p.m.(5/3/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aleksei
So, your thinking is that a duel, fought over frivlous reasons and for two people to entertain each other is "ok" in the eyes of Gloria as long as it involves blades and to the first blood?
Written By Edain
Aug. 6, 2018, 3:39 p.m.(5/3/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aureth
I will leave some stones outside the manor so you can cut out the middle man and throw them directly at your glass house.
Written By Edain
Aug. 5, 2018, 3:33 p.m.(5/1/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Cullen
I know this will be news to no one, but one should never underestimate a fighter from the Green Wood. They are swift and deadly, and even with a shield and spear to give myself breathing room, I could not keep the man from striking like a coiled serpent and escaping my reach in one swift motion. Well fought Lord Cullen!
Written By Edain
July 29, 2018, 8:41 p.m.(4/15/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Cristoph
So let it be known, that if you are going to send someone a gift, even an anonymous one, it is only polite to send a note
Written By Edain
July 29, 2018, 6:38 p.m.(4/15/1009 AR)
Very shortly I will be watching other's tilt over a matter of honor, on my behalf instead of riding out on the field myself. Life seems to intervene every time I try this but maybe I should try and just find a day to go out to the crossroads leading up to the Arx and offer a friendly tilt for the love of combat to any passing knights. Yes that is something I should do soon.
Written By Edain
July 17, 2018, 3:48 p.m.(3/17/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Thena
I recommend jousting, or falconry.
Just not falcon jousting. My childhood attempts to invent the hobby did not end happily.
Just not falcon jousting. My childhood attempts to invent the hobby did not end happily.
Written By Edain
July 16, 2018, 1:49 p.m.(3/15/1009 AR)
I see alot of prattling from the Lyceum in the journals about our wine recently.
This happens every so often when the remember sparkling white wine was invented in the Oathlands and thier envy turns them green.
This happens every so often when the remember sparkling white wine was invented in the Oathlands and thier envy turns them green.
Written By Edain
June 28, 2018, 3:14 p.m.(2/6/1009 AR)
While the technical marvel of a well fought duel to the first blood are a thing to behold, it makes me sad that so rarely is an issue settled with a good bracing tilt.
Since /someone/, who may or may not, be named Herald Steve tattled my plans to Captain Hardwicke Morgan. So now my plan of disguising myself as a "Mystery Champion" is off the table, I will make this offer.
If you are a Champion by trade and wish to learn how to joust, I will offer to train you free of charge.
Since /someone/, who may or may not, be named Herald Steve tattled my plans to Captain Hardwicke Morgan. So now my plan of disguising myself as a "Mystery Champion" is off the table, I will make this offer.
If you are a Champion by trade and wish to learn how to joust, I will offer to train you free of charge.
Written By Edain
June 27, 2018, 12:14 p.m.(2/4/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Mydas
While I do not recall an official stance of the court, I can tell you how I would rule on such a case within the Oathlands. Slavery is outlawed in Compact as a whole and the Oathlands upheld slavery as illegal an immoral long before the Reckoning and the forging of the Compact. We consider Thralldom to still be a form of slavery, even if a more limited one.
Were a Thrall to escape and find themselves in the Oathlands we would respect thier rights as provided under the Compact for non Oathbound, unlanded non nobility, who have the ability to live where ever they choose.
Now of course if thier escape involved murder or other egregious crime we would cooperate with investigation into the matter and consult with the Crown to see if such warranted trial in thier former home, but otherwise we consider them free citizens of the Compact at that point.
Were a Thrall to escape and find themselves in the Oathlands we would respect thier rights as provided under the Compact for non Oathbound, unlanded non nobility, who have the ability to live where ever they choose.
Now of course if thier escape involved murder or other egregious crime we would cooperate with investigation into the matter and consult with the Crown to see if such warranted trial in thier former home, but otherwise we consider them free citizens of the Compact at that point.
Written By Edain
June 26, 2018, 9:59 a.m.(2/2/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Tikva
I had heard about this and thought it was a joke. This is really happening?
Perhaps I am the pot calling the kettle black because of my love of jousting and how a tilt can sometimes go horribly wrong, but this just sounds like asking for disaster to happen.
Perhaps I am the pot calling the kettle black because of my love of jousting and how a tilt can sometimes go horribly wrong, but this just sounds like asking for disaster to happen.
Written By Edain
June 25, 2018, 5:19 p.m.(1/28/1009 AR)
Just because someone grants you release from an Oath does not make you honorable to asking to be released from it.
Written By Edain
June 25, 2018, 1:15 p.m.(1/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Orazio
The reason humility is not one of the primary virtues of the faith is not that it is not divine, it is that it is a prime component of the other virtues that Gods demand of us. Justice, Mercy, Charity, Honor, Joy, Industriousness, Wisdom, Freedom, Love, Fidelity, and Patience, humility is part of the common clay through which we attain them all.
To be humble does not mean you are not proud, nor does it mean you are not bold. Nor does it mean we do not stand fast for our beliefs and virtues. This is why I believe it to be a misunderstood virtue. Many equate it to being the wolf in the pack that shows it's throat to the pack leader, when the humble one is the strong pack leader that knows even his weakest packmate has a role to play until he can run no more.
So in short while humility is not one of the Divine Virtues I believe it is an important facet of all of them.
To be humble does not mean you are not proud, nor does it mean you are not bold. Nor does it mean we do not stand fast for our beliefs and virtues. This is why I believe it to be a misunderstood virtue. Many equate it to being the wolf in the pack that shows it's throat to the pack leader, when the humble one is the strong pack leader that knows even his weakest packmate has a role to play until he can run no more.
So in short while humility is not one of the Divine Virtues I believe it is an important facet of all of them.
Written By Edain
June 25, 2018, 12:51 p.m.(1/28/1009 AR)
On humility:
It is my favorite virtue so I thought I would weigh in my thoughts on the topic. Some of which others have already said but not with the same words perhaps.
Firstly I have learned in my life that acting humble and possessing true humility are not the same thing. It is a subtle thing but it can be significant. Humility is one of the most liberating virtues you can possess.
What do I mean by this? I mean that it frees you from pretense. The humble does not have to fear owning mistake, because the truly humble does not fear showing weakness. They can address them, acknowledge them, and overcome them. Humility is one of the greatest ways to escape from beneath heavy burdens and keep your eyes on doing what others need of you.
It is my favorite virtue so I thought I would weigh in my thoughts on the topic. Some of which others have already said but not with the same words perhaps.
Firstly I have learned in my life that acting humble and possessing true humility are not the same thing. It is a subtle thing but it can be significant. Humility is one of the most liberating virtues you can possess.
What do I mean by this? I mean that it frees you from pretense. The humble does not have to fear owning mistake, because the truly humble does not fear showing weakness. They can address them, acknowledge them, and overcome them. Humility is one of the greatest ways to escape from beneath heavy burdens and keep your eyes on doing what others need of you.
Written By Edain
June 16, 2018, 2:33 p.m.(1/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aurelian
Justice is a virtue we must always aspire to. But it is not a virtue that can always bring us joy. When Prince Aurelian was kidnapped I was just a boy. I was really upset that a younger cousin that I played with often was taken and so I kept trying to steal a sword and sneak out to go look for him. It got to a point where my brother's had to tackle me and stuff me in a wardrobe to keep from continuing to try.
After he returned, we always had trouble relating to each other. He was so closed off, and this will surprise some of you, but I have been catergorized by some as 'ignorantly optimistic' so I sometimes did not understand why as time passed he just didn't put it behind him. I was a dumb kid at times. But I always loved him. I remember his rare smiles, like when he commissioned an unwieldy great sword named 'Furniturebane' for Princess Alis. It was rare, but we share our share of laughs and good memories, just as did arguments and disagreements about things.
I could say that man was not my cousin which is true. But while he was never my blood, he was my family, for almost 20 years since the real Prince Aurelian was taken and killed. I ordered his execution because he committed treason, because after weighing all facts, his death served justice and to protect my family and to protect the Oathlands from the danger he represented. But there is something we should never forget.
My cousin Prince Aurelian died when he was six. The victim of some sect that posed as bandits with a dangerous purpose. But my innocent cousin was not their only victim. They also took another six year old child and twisted and broke him and remolded him until he was their. Until he was their weapon. I wept when I knew that I had to deliver justice to the man that stole my cousins identity. When we find the monsters that killed my cousin, and turned another child into a broken shell to be their spy, when we bring them to justice, I will have no tears for them.
After he returned, we always had trouble relating to each other. He was so closed off, and this will surprise some of you, but I have been catergorized by some as 'ignorantly optimistic' so I sometimes did not understand why as time passed he just didn't put it behind him. I was a dumb kid at times. But I always loved him. I remember his rare smiles, like when he commissioned an unwieldy great sword named 'Furniturebane' for Princess Alis. It was rare, but we share our share of laughs and good memories, just as did arguments and disagreements about things.
I could say that man was not my cousin which is true. But while he was never my blood, he was my family, for almost 20 years since the real Prince Aurelian was taken and killed. I ordered his execution because he committed treason, because after weighing all facts, his death served justice and to protect my family and to protect the Oathlands from the danger he represented. But there is something we should never forget.
My cousin Prince Aurelian died when he was six. The victim of some sect that posed as bandits with a dangerous purpose. But my innocent cousin was not their only victim. They also took another six year old child and twisted and broke him and remolded him until he was their. Until he was their weapon. I wept when I knew that I had to deliver justice to the man that stole my cousins identity. When we find the monsters that killed my cousin, and turned another child into a broken shell to be their spy, when we bring them to justice, I will have no tears for them.
Written By Edain
June 14, 2018, 1:11 p.m.(12/25/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
I have no doubt that you are a harder man than I will ever be. I was just pointing out that whenever it seems we are at our lowest point there is always something else our enemies can take from us.
So I won't try to prove otherwise. If you want to cross blades in a and show just how hard you are I am happy to oblige. I apologise my observation came across as an insult.
So I won't try to prove otherwise. If you want to cross blades in a and show just how hard you are I am happy to oblige. I apologise my observation came across as an insult.
Written By Edain
June 14, 2018, 11:27 a.m.(12/25/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Riagnon
Wait. I was in an alley? I am very very confused.
Written By Edain
June 14, 2018, 8:24 a.m.(12/25/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
I hope this is true for you goodman. I really do. Steel yourself though, because everytime in my life I have thought, "nothing can ever hurt me worse than this so now I am indestructible" I have been proven wrong. Everytime.
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