Written By Lark
June 7, 2017, 4:18 p.m.(8/11/1006 AR)
Today I come into my make-shift office and find a little brown bear paperweight waiting on me.
I'm intrigued.
I'm intrigued.
Written By Lark
June 6, 2017, 11:13 a.m.(8/8/1006 AR)
Should innuendo and/or puns ever be outlawed its obvious that the punishment should be a good tongue lashing.
Written By Lark
May 21, 2017, 10:25 a.m.(7/3/1006 AR)
Whoa, wait... Stop the cart.
I missed an opportunity to go to an auction where several of my favorite people were up for grabs?
SIGH.
Woe is me.
Next time, someone come save me from my paperwork to attend such things. I would have loved to see /someone's/ face as I laid down a chunk of writs and /dared/ them to escape my company for the evening.
Guess I'll have to continue to do it the old fashioned way. With threats of flogging.
What, that's not how /you/ conduct dates? Tsk.
I missed an opportunity to go to an auction where several of my favorite people were up for grabs?
SIGH.
Woe is me.
Next time, someone come save me from my paperwork to attend such things. I would have loved to see /someone's/ face as I laid down a chunk of writs and /dared/ them to escape my company for the evening.
Guess I'll have to continue to do it the old fashioned way. With threats of flogging.
What, that's not how /you/ conduct dates? Tsk.
Written By Lark
May 5, 2017, 4:17 a.m.(5/26/1006 AR)
In the end, we are all reduced to Faith.
I hold my breath with the rest of Arx and visit the shrines one last time before the armies collide with our gates like the waves upon the surf.
I hold my breath with the rest of Arx and visit the shrines one last time before the armies collide with our gates like the waves upon the surf.
Written By Lark
April 10, 2017, 12:31 p.m.(4/2/1006 AR)
It will never cease to amaze me how short some memory spans are.
Written By Lark
April 8, 2017, 11:48 a.m.(3/26/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Karadoc
[image of a connect-the-dots griffin, poorly executed and entitled, 'Important Import Report']
Written By Lark
April 2, 2017, 11:09 a.m.(3/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Gisele
Having never met her in person -- maybe I did and don't remember -- I can spot her character straight off. A dutiful and compassionate young woman, set to do right by Arvum in her own gentle way. I was once like that.
Written By Lark
April 2, 2017, 11:04 a.m.(3/13/1006 AR)
Lord Mydas and Lord Karadoc have both been instrumental in establishing and organizing some of the foundational methods. Though much of our correspondence has been via messenger, no small portion is on subjects not many individuals could easily follow. Lord Mydas was recommended to me once in the past, though for a task of an entirely different nature. His talents were not unknown to me. Lord Karadoc's come as a pleasant surprise.
Written By Lark
March 27, 2017, 9:30 a.m.(3/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valkieri
The Lyceum has lost many brave and honest men and women as of late, the Duke of Gemecitta among them. I grieve for them and for us all.
Written By Lark
March 25, 2017, 7:08 p.m.(2/26/1006 AR)
Sometimes it can feel as though you're the only one in all of Arvum to feel a certain way then lo and behold a mysterious novel appears in the course of your travels to reinforce everything you've been thinking. I haven't had such a good laugh in ages.
What a pity that it isn't funny at all.
What a pity that it isn't funny at all.
Written By Lark
March 25, 2017, 3:35 p.m.(2/26/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Samantha
Marquessa Samantha, Minister to the Crown, persists as a beacon of noble charity despite protestations to her office and her efforts. She is a shining example of what can be accomplished when we set aside our notions of exclusivity and false-superiority to reflect upon the common ache.
Written By Lark
March 23, 2017, 10:30 a.m.(2/21/1006 AR)
I listen beyond my rooms as a morning lark ushers in the dawn, singing her sweet song. When did her existence amongst the snow-covered grounds become one of defiance? It does not feel like a new day, yet invisible in the line of trees, high above the bedraggled winter fox as it clumsily scrounges to remember the location of its long-spent stash, she perseveres to tell me so. She sings as if to say, ‘It is daybreak and you must stir for there are those who on this day do not.’
Written By Lark
March 17, 2017, 9:41 a.m.(2/9/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Luca
Unequivocal, nigh-childlike goodness is a rare and refreshing commodity beneficial to all. A sad thing that it cannot persist forever under the thumb of its antithesis. Eventually, without encouragement, it will begin to turn.
Written By Lark
March 12, 2017, 1:27 p.m.(1/28/1006 AR)
The voices from on-high take risk to warn us that Princess Dawn, the King’s Own, and Countess Nekarris’s actions in the interest of our defense will soon be made undone not hours after once again, it was suggested to me that their terrible sacrifice did nothing -- a sacrifice which I myself have suffered for and have never fully recovered from. There remains such derision and fostered distrust between and even within our sects, where a helping hand is met with a dubious eye and saving our world is made into competitive sport. Not all those who fight will have their name held up for all to see or even have a seat at the table. The conquering hero will not always return home to be hailed as such. We will do our part, glory and gratitude bedamned, or… well, we have all seen now, haven’t we?
Written By Lark
March 9, 2017, 9:37 a.m.(1/21/1006 AR)
Even on a gray winter morning such as this, the sun can take a momentary break from the clouds and find you with a stray beam of its light.
Written By Lark
March 2, 2017, 5:33 p.m.(1/8/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Natalia
Twat biscuit.
Written By Lark
March 2, 2017, 5:32 p.m.(1/8/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Zhayla
Little woman. Big stick.
Remind you of anybody?
Remind you of anybody?
Written By Lark
Feb. 27, 2017, 12:51 a.m.(1/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valerius
Tolerable.
Written By Lark
Feb. 22, 2017, 1:20 p.m.(12/20/1005 AR)
Hundreds of years of inertia have facilitated the casting of House Thrax as our ready and willing villains. Just as we now exist in the midst of a grand awakening, whereupon select individuals within our population have opened their eyes to truth, there is yet more ignorance to dissolve within ourselves of a very human nature.
I see before me a People indoctrinated into a system that, yes, varies greatly from that of our own -- neither more or less flawed than the other. I bid you not to forget in your haste to denounce them that our beloved Queen, my own cousin by law whom I mourn to this very day, was a Sea Serpent long before she ever shed her skin to become a Griffin.
Casting aside age-old stigma and historical subversion to peace is no easy feat but it is what I beg of you nonetheless. Now is not the day in which we crumble from within, turning against one another with pointed finger and sword. I am no Godsworn Sister. I am guilty as easily as any woman of just this but I acknowledge and endeavor to listen, to watch and to withhold judgment. Answer the long-planted seed of derision in your hearts with a contagion of conscience, understanding, and patience.
Change and peace are possible.
I see before me a People indoctrinated into a system that, yes, varies greatly from that of our own -- neither more or less flawed than the other. I bid you not to forget in your haste to denounce them that our beloved Queen, my own cousin by law whom I mourn to this very day, was a Sea Serpent long before she ever shed her skin to become a Griffin.
Casting aside age-old stigma and historical subversion to peace is no easy feat but it is what I beg of you nonetheless. Now is not the day in which we crumble from within, turning against one another with pointed finger and sword. I am no Godsworn Sister. I am guilty as easily as any woman of just this but I acknowledge and endeavor to listen, to watch and to withhold judgment. Answer the long-planted seed of derision in your hearts with a contagion of conscience, understanding, and patience.
Change and peace are possible.
Written By Lark
Feb. 20, 2017, 12:17 p.m.(12/16/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Niccolo
The man is the embodiment of intelligent nobility. He has tirelessly expressed extreme grace and humility while navigating powerful losses to his person, his House, his fealty... unerring dignity whilst having his character brought into question time and time again... and in having received what can only be viewed from the outside as a partial justice if that. I can see why a lesser woman, already made vulnerable through her deficiency of personal virtues as a result of a lifetime of extreme privilege, could become hopelessly enamored and infatuated. I have only compassion for such a creature where were I him, I might well be within my rights to not.
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