May 12, 2019, 11:27 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on
Tescelina
Every time I see a new product of Lady Tescelina's mind, I wish I knew her better. She fascinates me endlessly.
May 12, 2019, 11:23 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
How I've reckoned it, folk can never know every end, or be full sure of succeeding.
Too much caution is ruin, sure as too little.
Make ready best one can, then cast the bones and act.
And live with whatever end.
May 12, 2019, 11:19 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
Here lies the lie in stone, the carved epitaph,
Whole lives unknown, fallacy in paraph.
'A Loving Husband.' 'The Obedient Wife.'
Selling short decades of human's own strife.
May 12, 2019, 11:16 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on
Fortunato
The rarest friend is the one who can walk with you down a lot of different paths, from the sweet, to the silly, to the sorrowful. Or all at the same time, and making snow people as you do. Being handsome in brocade and charming in anything at all doesn't hurt, either.
Half-making. We didn't finish. And that's my fault. But in my defense, he really needed to be pushed into the snow at that moment. Really! It was for his own good. And my amusement.
He'll probably get me back. That's okay!
Written By
Maja
May 12, 2019, 10:58 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
I watched a duel this week. I thought it would be very exciting! I do like a good fight after all. But it just went on..
..and on..
..and on..
..and on..
..and on..
I think I might have dozed off at one point. Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled that Sir Jeffy won but I would have liked a little more blood and a little less dancing.
May 12, 2019, 10:36 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on
Faye
It proves the most enlightening thing to see how the same character trait produces different results in people. My curiosity has produced an insatiable desire to experience everything there is out there, the highs and lows, the good and bad. In the Inquisitor Faye it creates finding the puzzles in everything. It means conversations with her leave me often with more questions than answers, but in the most delightful way.
May 12, 2019, 10:17 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
We're beginning to hear reports back on the situation with the Great Road. I'm extremely happy with the work completed by Nicia and Lady Jenessa. They're both wildly talented and we wouldn't have been set up quite as nicely as we ended up being.
May 12, 2019, 10:15 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
I super need to play catch up again. I started skimming journals I had missed from my usual stack, and felt a bit lost. I need to settle down and draw out my strategy and hopefully stop getting unexpectedly side tracked.
May 12, 2019, 9:53 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
There is something about fresh fallen snow.
It's like a beautifully bright and clean page to start a new path and leave footsteps upon.
I wish life were so at times.
~~~~<~<@
Written By
Kritr
May 12, 2019, 9:52 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
It is surprising how many people seem surprised that people want to fix what they broke.
May 12, 2019, 9:31 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
An open question to any who would answer, how do you define honor? I once read a book that dictated personal honor is the highest form of discipline and justice, however, such book also instructed that the only true judge of one's honor is the person themselves. So with that, I ask, how do you define honor?
For me, I think it lies somewhere between personal responsibility for one's decisions and the duty one owes to the world, its citizens, one's fealty, and faith.
Written By
Ajax
May 12, 2019, 9:31 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
You know, as a child. I used to not dream of hurting a fly, I remember those days with fondness, and those memories I cherish with a care of a man who doesn't wish to lose what he has left.
My mother was a very pious woman, it used to drive my father insane the back and forth was usually followed by my laughter as a child who couldn't understand why my parents were having a heated talk before supper. Still though, she would tell me stories and places she wished to visit.
I took a job as part of a guard to Sanctum, unfortunately, she was a causality of the Tyde rebellion so she never got to see it. But part of me in the aftermath of it all just wishes she was still around so I could go to her and tell here that she was right. It is as beautiful as she had heard.
May 12, 2019, 9:18 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
I feel like I am constantly learning. In part, I study to better myself and work towards my goals. I also spend a great deal of time trying to help others find answers to their own riddles... but sometimes, I wish I knew more. Sometimes, someone comes to me with a problem I so very much wish I could help them with. Sometimes, my heart hurts for their pain, and I wish I could help them more.
But I am one person. I cannot do all the things... but I can be here, and offer them love from that heart that hurts for their pain.
May 12, 2019, 9:14 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
I sincerely wonder if people actually consider what it is that they write in the whites, moreover, if they stop to think of the potential consequences that could be faced by other people when they do so. I think it wise to consider each thing a person puts in writing before doing so.
May 12, 2019, 9:09 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
Family is everything. Without them, those by blood and choice, I would be lost.
May 12, 2019, 8:49 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on
Maja
I never thought creating stories and songs was that difficult but when constructing a ballad of love and loss for someone of import to myself, it becomes increasingly difficult to affect the right words. I am trying. Soon you will have a story worth acting out on stage.
May 12, 2019, 8:48 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on
Radhilde
To my protege and soon to be member of House Tyde, congratulations! I am very happy for your good fortune and am very much looking forward to celebrating with you and yours. To a lovely lady and her intended. All the happiness and success.
May 12, 2019, 8:04 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
The play is coming together well, and I am so excited to be able to work with so many talented performers and artisans. I admit I am so much more nervous as the writer and the director than I ever have been in a lifetime of performing. I fear I will be unable to look at the audience at all when at last it's opening night, and for the first time ever will I experience stage fright.
Someone have a Mercy on hand in case I faint.
May 12, 2019, 6:54 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
It feels as if it was merely a matter of weeks since I was barely half way through my 'thirties', and could safely consider myself somewhat on the young side to be a widow. I felt that I stood out, if only in contrast, among the glittering and seemingly-untroubled courtiers of Arx. But of late I have become increasingly aware that my thirties are behind me, and that widowhood becomes ever less surprising as a state of life - both as a result of my age, and of the remarkable death toll among the Compact's leaders in recent years. Though there is still glitter and glory for those who seek them, the number of lost loves and fallen leaders seems to grow by the month. Yet there are still people of power and influence doing their best to avert wars, uncover criminals, and help the Compact to live up to its ideals. That they not only continue to try, but manage to succeed, lifts one's soul.
May 12, 2019, 6:54 p.m.(2/4/1011 AR)
'Can you help me develop a trade port?' is not a question that my youthful self would have thought would lie in her future: spare daughters of spare sons rarely receive such fascinating opportunities, after all. But I am rather glad that it now has: the Count of Brighthold was kind enough to turn to Esterhold, among other places, in his efforts to build a prosperous future for his people. That our combined efforts succeeded is welcome on their account - and also more selfishly on my own. May my education continue through such unexpected and productive challenges.