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Written By Fatima

Jan. 17, 2024, 2:58 p.m.(7/26/1021 AR)

Relationship Note on Abbas

I pray one day the Queen of Endings will still be around to spin your thread once more, and that you'll find redemption on another turning of the Wheel.

Written By Juliana

May 13, 2018, 8:50 p.m.(9/25/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Abbas

I miss you.

Written By Juliana

March 27, 2018, 12:56 p.m.(6/9/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Abbas

It does no one any good to fight about who grieves the man or why.

In fact if we were honest with ourselves, my brother would have preferred no tears be shed at all. That instead glasses were raised, that stories were told. That those he loved and those that loved him, held each other close in their hearts and helped each other through the pain that his absence left.

Does that knowledge stop the ache or the tears? Ease the anger of what brought such on? No. I close my eyes and I see his face, the last moments of his life and I am both angry and grateful. Because if he was to die, then he died as he would have wished. With his weapon in hand protecting those he loved.

If there is nothing else that you remember of him. Please remember that.

Written By Samantha

March 26, 2018, 6:01 p.m.(6/7/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Abbas

I cannot speak to how I feel about Abbas in the wake of his death. I don't believe that his kindness toward me outweighs the darker choices he made by any stretch of the information. I can't even garuntee for certain that his motives for being kind to me were entirely for the sake of being so, and not ulterior motives.

But I do want to recall some what I remember of him. That he told me with a frank honesty that he had seen activity in the Gray Forest - Brand's monsters, and the havoc they had wrought, and that it chilled his soul. He asked me to consider him as a husband, and at the time I was baffled as to why he'd want to marry down. I remember writing to Dawn and Cara, and their wise advice of caution. And I remember when he gifted Deepwood, with no expectation of recompense, with a pack of war dogs to incorporate into our kennels.

I will never know the truth of his heart. I will never know what prompted him to make the choices he made.

I can and will hope that his next life will give him an opportunity for betterment.

Written By Caith

March 25, 2018, 4:52 p.m.(6/5/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Abbas

The conflict is over, the battles have been fought and the price of victory has been paid -- there have been so many losses, it makes the heart ache. Most of my loved ones have, thankfully, returned home but I mourn for those families that now have holes that cannot be filled. We raise our voices in remembrance and vow to never forget their sacrifice.

Yet there is someone no one openly mourns. Someone most are eager to forget.

Perhaps it is impolitic to be sad over the loss of Abbas. I know that he was responsible for horrific actions in his lifetime. I did not know him for very long but he always showed kindness to me and to those I love. Does that balance out the things that he did? Of course not but the measure of a person is not wholly black or white; humans are complex beings that cannot be distilled down into such simplistic terms. He left for war a man stripped of everything, a man seeking a path to redemption. It makes my heart sad that he left this world before being able to achieve that.

Maybe the world at large does not miss you, Abbas. But I do. You big jerk.

Written By Orathy

March 22, 2018, 5:44 p.m.(5/27/1008 AR)

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Reckon I were better to serve being on the ship with you 'n the pravuses, but aye, fucked up figuring them silks I ain't knowing be knowing how to lead a proper defense. Stood 'round with me thumb up me ass instead. Aye, now I be regrettin it to be hearin ya lost to the waters.

You be savin the twins, reckon I be owin ya me thanks. I be liftin a pint to yer actions and buyin a round for anyone who fuckin does the same!

Written By Aureth

March 9, 2018, 4:15 p.m.(5/1/1008 AR)

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Entering journals at the Archive is a religious duty. Excommunicated mass murderers have no business partaking.

Written By Duarte

March 5, 2018, 9:38 a.m.(4/21/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Abbas

The words of House Amadeo are 'Loyalty knows no bounds'. Loyalty cuts both ways. The apostate Abbas nee Thrax did show loyalty to my House and liege in dealing with the traitorous Houses of Argento and Malgentilega.

I will not comment on whether his exile or excommunication are appropriate. These are not for me to decide, and I have no opinion of them.

But I know that whatever his transgressions before the Gods and man, and whatever shade or hue of political paint surround recent decisions, he has no enemies here.

House Amadeo has a brief, but proud, history of taking in orphans and so opens its doors now to the orphaned Abbas.

Written By Darrow

March 4, 2018, 10:31 p.m.(4/20/1008 AR)

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Abbas Thrax, now Abbas of the Isles, has fallen from grace from many.

But he has not fallen out with me.

Those who would callously turn aside a man in need show their capriciousness of face, rather than faith.

I care nothing for appearances.

But I do care for those who have risked life and limb for others, and myself.

To those there will always be a port in the storm, so long as I draw breath.

Written By Margot

Feb. 27, 2018, 3:52 p.m.(4/9/1008 AR)

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We are too much what we were made to be, by someone who wanted tools not family.

Written By Peri

Feb. 21, 2018, 10:53 p.m.(3/26/1008 AR)

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He has developed some kind of deep (or shallow?) interest with me, or perhaps my hair. Given I saw him hitting on Lady Zoey right before noticing me, my guess is this is something passing. I have already replied to his message to explain why I am not entertaining anything.

Written By Vayne

Feb. 4, 2018, 2:46 p.m.(2/13/1008 AR)

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Silence can be profitable. It is in silence that, at times, we learn the most from our reflections.

You are welcome to join others at the Shrine. We'll respect your desire for silence and push you to speak meaningful words.

Written By Edward

Jan. 26, 2018, 12:35 p.m.(1/15/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Abbas

It is perfectly fine to question the decisions that were made by a General facing a force of insanity in the numbers of thousands. There is always those willing to criticize in the after-action thinking they knew better or could have found a better path.

But let me be frankly clear, because I am one of the few best suited to speak on this:

If Prince Abbas did not do what he did and save the strength of his forces; we would have been fighting the Silent Army inside Arx instead of outside of it.

That is the flip of the coin of burden Abbas carries.

Written By Belladonna

Jan. 26, 2018, 11:16 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)

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I would remind those who wish to offer respect to Prince Abbas did that he did what he did the way that he did it to ensure that no others would suffer the stain of his choices. He knew what he did was unspeakably terrible; he did it anyway.

Respect his choices, if you respect the man. Defending him and finding yourself facing consequences for such is precisely the opposite of appropriate.

Written By Cassima

Jan. 26, 2018, 10:56 a.m.(1/15/1008 AR)

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All hail the pirate king?

Written By Astraea

Jan. 26, 2018, 1:29 a.m.(1/14/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Abbas

Lagoma's mercy teaches us to forgive and so I have. Many times before, but when it came to the Prince I felt like I owed him an apology. Not for any wrongs that I had done him but for how I might have looked askance or passed judgement on him, in private or otherwise. I'm ashamed that I did even if I never voiced it to anyone, I know in my heart that it was wrong. For this reason I try to stay away from making decisions about people based on what I hear about them, it's our deeds that matter.

He saved the Thrax and, while I'm not a tactician myself I've reviewed the journals and the writings on the War of Silence, the rest of the Compact.

Tonight Tori and I got the chance to have drinks with him and a good friend of mine, Princess Isabeau. She is such a sweet woman but that's a journal all to itself. Either way I'm grateful for getting a chance to hear more about his story, it's a hard one to hear but we've all had hardships. Despite all this he accepted my invitation to trade hot steel and the outcome of the match isn't as important as what I gleaned in the heat of battle.

Strength. Perseverance. Dedication.

Maybe I'm a fool but I think were these qualities used in the pursuit of a virtuous life he might be considered a hero someday.

Written By Ectorion

Jan. 26, 2018, 12:48 a.m.(1/14/1008 AR)

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While at the service to Mangata, I witnessed a man whom rumor would have me believe a monster give as honest and reverent an observance and offering of prayer as any who had come to the shore. It was a strange moment, to realize my own hubris and arrogance, in having thought to know the nature of the man whom I had never met, and who I knew nearly nothing of. I had later a moment to speak with him, a shared drink before he sparred against Astraea.

He is not the man I had expected. Not at all the monster rumor would suggest. He is a man of duty and necessity, and I envy him not at all the path he has walked or the decisions he has had to make.

No, I found him to be a man of duty, with a deep devotion to his house and to the Compact. At the shore, I prayed that like the shifting tide takes away the marks upon the beach, Mangata would allow me to set aside those preconceptions. In doing so, I found a man I would be honored to stand beside in defense of the Compact he seems to deeply care about.

Written By Alexis

July 16, 2017, 5:35 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)

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I spoke to the Warlord of the Mourning Isles this week. Shared rum with him. I also spoke to the High Lord of Thrax when he visited the Gauntlet.

Warlord Abbas and High Lord Victus are more similar than not, I suspect. And while I do not know that I will ever understand the hardscrabble life of the Mourning Isles, there's mutual respect to be had for the core of who we are and what we do.

Written By Isabeau

July 11, 2017, 9:20 p.m.(10/25/1006 AR)

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What is the difference between a man who has committed monstrous acts and a true monster? Men can change. Prince Abbas Thrax has made a vow to mend his ways and, while this does not absolve him of the dark deeds done in the past, it marks him out as a man instead of a monster. May the gods guide him. (Maybe I'll lend a little guidance myself.)

Written By Juliana

July 7, 2017, 4:19 p.m.(10/17/1006 AR)

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Brother, Blood, Untrusted

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