Written By Torian
May 10, 2019, 2:38 p.m.(1/28/1011 AR)
I'd like to document that I have learned today that because I am currently a successful merchant crafter, that at no time in my history was I ever hungry, fighting for food or shoes or the like. Through the blessings of the radiant one, all my past sufferings have ceased to have happened.
I owe a hardy thank you for such a gift.
I thank all of you as well, common and noble alike, who spend your money in the lowers or with the other Crafters. When you shop in my shop, whether you purchase a shoe, or the finest sharkskin bodice, or the thickest Cardian helm, your silver whether it's 10 silver or 10,000 pays for materials, assistants, transportation, and every piece along the way.
A piece for the skinner, a piece for the boy who scrubs the floor, a piece for the dock hand, and the ship's captain, and every man, woman, and child who's hands were put to the task along the way.
Your money spent feeds the working poor and puts clothes on their back. You may see a piece of clothing or of armor, some of them worth hundreds and thousands in silver. We common folk that make these things, however, see the food that puts on our tables and those of our friends, family, and staffers.
What profits remain the guild puts into helping poor folk start their trades, helping them acquire premises and the like. A good share of my own earnings help fund a school that houses, feeds, and teaches scores of orphans so that they won't be amongst those living the street life.
So I say again, thank you to all that contribute to the betterment of the common people by spending your coins, be it few or many, so that wealth can flow down from hand to hand to those that need it.
I owe a hardy thank you for such a gift.
I thank all of you as well, common and noble alike, who spend your money in the lowers or with the other Crafters. When you shop in my shop, whether you purchase a shoe, or the finest sharkskin bodice, or the thickest Cardian helm, your silver whether it's 10 silver or 10,000 pays for materials, assistants, transportation, and every piece along the way.
A piece for the skinner, a piece for the boy who scrubs the floor, a piece for the dock hand, and the ship's captain, and every man, woman, and child who's hands were put to the task along the way.
Your money spent feeds the working poor and puts clothes on their back. You may see a piece of clothing or of armor, some of them worth hundreds and thousands in silver. We common folk that make these things, however, see the food that puts on our tables and those of our friends, family, and staffers.
What profits remain the guild puts into helping poor folk start their trades, helping them acquire premises and the like. A good share of my own earnings help fund a school that houses, feeds, and teaches scores of orphans so that they won't be amongst those living the street life.
So I say again, thank you to all that contribute to the betterment of the common people by spending your coins, be it few or many, so that wealth can flow down from hand to hand to those that need it.
Written By Torian
May 7, 2019, 2 p.m.(1/22/1011 AR)
I'm a simple merchant these days, and artisan if I must be more descriptive. In my youth it's true I was a sell sword, but I never really came to understand dueling. There is glory and there is honor in battle, and yet also there is no glory and no honor on the battlefield.
I understand duels are to be about honor, but what counts as honor seems to elude me.
Imagine taking personal having one of mine caught insulting a group of people that included some of their own, rather than simply calling out the truth, that you shouldn't make a derogatory claim about an entire family when some of them are also your own peers. You really shouldn't do it at all, but if you're going to be slinging mud at an entire family, it's probably best to make sure that one of them doesn't stand next to you when you do it. Probably good too not to defend mud slinging.
But what do I know? It seems that there is honor in defending the insult and the lie, despite damage to what should be a laudable group above such common trappings. I would have thought the honor was in earning ones own reputation, rather than sullying it.
I'm but a humble merchant though, and these things are beyond my station.
I understand duels are to be about honor, but what counts as honor seems to elude me.
Imagine taking personal having one of mine caught insulting a group of people that included some of their own, rather than simply calling out the truth, that you shouldn't make a derogatory claim about an entire family when some of them are also your own peers. You really shouldn't do it at all, but if you're going to be slinging mud at an entire family, it's probably best to make sure that one of them doesn't stand next to you when you do it. Probably good too not to defend mud slinging.
But what do I know? It seems that there is honor in defending the insult and the lie, despite damage to what should be a laudable group above such common trappings. I would have thought the honor was in earning ones own reputation, rather than sullying it.
I'm but a humble merchant though, and these things are beyond my station.
Written By Torian
April 28, 2019, 8:58 p.m.(1/4/1011 AR)
I heard of a hobby or a trade or something where by a man builds a wee ship inside of a bottle.
I thought it was a silly thing, impractical to say the least.
Then I remembered how many sailors manage years at sea without incident, only to drown in a bottle.
Maybe those ships will help some of those sailors.
I thought it was a silly thing, impractical to say the least.
Then I remembered how many sailors manage years at sea without incident, only to drown in a bottle.
Maybe those ships will help some of those sailors.
Written By Torian
April 21, 2019, 11:39 p.m.(12/19/1010 AR)
When I dreamed up the Safe Harbor House, I just wanted an alternative to the tragedy that would give orphans the ability to make a way for themselves when they came of age. I tried to set it up, with some generous help, in a way that it might sustain itself.
Thanks to the continued generosity of people like Maja Darling, we can get by with out having to go hand to mouth so much. That's good for the kids you know, and the staff, make it so they aren't so worried all the time.
Thanks to the continued generosity of people like Maja Darling, we can get by with out having to go hand to mouth so much. That's good for the kids you know, and the staff, make it so they aren't so worried all the time.
Written By Torian
April 8, 2019, 1:12 a.m.(11/19/1010 AR)
What's the standard response when a Whisper insults an entire family, which happens to include a fellow Whisper? Are they supposed to handle that stuff in-house or what? Seems like I should ask Calandra about it I suppose.
Written By Torian
March 29, 2019, 6:39 p.m.(10/28/1010 AR)
Say what you want about people sharing all their business with the world. As a man working on growing his skills and client base as a merchantman and trader of goods, I do appreciate it when others spell out the goods, prices, and customers for deals they've turned down so that I can profit in their place. So thank you very much for the pile of money.
If you too would like to complain about your customers, their needs, and your rates, may you also consider writing me directly to save yourself the trip to the archives.
If you too would like to complain about your customers, their needs, and your rates, may you also consider writing me directly to save yourself the trip to the archives.
Written By Torian
March 28, 2019, 5:08 p.m.(10/26/1010 AR)
The gods tell us to write in our journals to preserve our history and our knowledge and that all sounds well and good.
I hear tale that a lot of open letters to other people get written into journals and I find myself wondering if that is part of the same plan, to have all our laundry preserved for our descendants.
I hear tale that a lot of open letters to other people get written into journals and I find myself wondering if that is part of the same plan, to have all our laundry preserved for our descendants.
Written By Torian
Feb. 10, 2019, 11:30 p.m.(7/19/1010 AR)
You broke her heart.
You know who you are.
So do we.
You know who you are.
So do we.
Written By Torian
Feb. 9, 2019, 2:58 p.m.(7/16/1010 AR)
God's above, but do we even know if we've loved someone before we lost them?
Sally sounds like a wonderful woman.
Sally sounds like a wonderful woman.
Written By Torian
Feb. 3, 2019, 11:42 p.m.(7/5/1010 AR)
One drunk tells one drunk man's tale, and pretty soon there's a panic. Seems like there's always a panic, I guess it's just a matter of which drunk's tale people are panicking about now.
Written By Torian
Jan. 27, 2019, 11:53 p.m.(6/19/1010 AR)
I'm running out of things to teach the orphans. Guess that means it's time for me to learn something new.
Written By Torian
Jan. 6, 2019, 10:46 p.m.(4/23/1010 AR)
Who wastes tomatoes?
Written By Torian
Jan. 4, 2019, 1:16 a.m.(4/18/1010 AR)
I'm not burdened with nobility, so I can't say whether it'd make sense to wager with something that was entrusted to me but wasn't mine.
I can say, as a common man, that I can't see myself accepting such a wager though, even if offered. It'd be a miracle to have it work out.
I can say, as a common man, that I can't see myself accepting such a wager though, even if offered. It'd be a miracle to have it work out.
Written By Torian
Jan. 3, 2019, 6:59 p.m.(4/17/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Adora
Normally say "Sweet Words, Sharp Knives" but I suppose I'm up to changing it to "Fucking Awful, even more than Graysons" but then again even if we are great at being awful, don't Graysons say "None Greater?"
Written By Torian
Dec. 31, 2018, 12:32 a.m.(4/9/1010 AR)
Went to an impromptu party. Rare that I have time for a party. Some drinks down at the crows sure, but a party?
Written By Torian
Dec. 23, 2018, 11:22 p.m.(3/23/1010 AR)
I sure know how to embarrass myself in the right ways don't I? A good drink, to be sure, but if I'd stayed for another I've little doubt they'd have tried to marry me right then and there!
Written By Torian
Dec. 16, 2018, 11:54 p.m.(3/9/1010 AR)
As if we don't have enough problems!
Let's hope it's not gotten into the bottles at the murder at least.
Let's hope it's not gotten into the bottles at the murder at least.
Written By Torian
Dec. 9, 2018, 9:37 p.m.(2/23/1010 AR)
Come soon there'll be a vote on who should represent the common folk. Don't know if I've got the time for such a thing, but hopefully someone of a comparable temperament will if I don't.
Written By Torian
Nov. 18, 2018, 10:36 p.m.(1/8/1010 AR)
I've really outdone myself this time. You know, between my staff and my apprentices, I move a lot of goods in a normal week, more than a man working alone ever could. This was a very good week though, and if I didn't know better I'd wager I had two or three times the help I do have.
Good job all around, might have to give everybody a day off for reward!
Good job all around, might have to give everybody a day off for reward!
Written By Torian
Nov. 11, 2018, 7:14 p.m.(12/21/1009 AR)
It looks like the latest fad is to avoid mushrooms. Who knows what drives the peerage to favor or disfavor one thing or another. If a man could sort that out, he'd make a fortune staying ahead of the trends.
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