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Written By Medeia

March 30, 2023, 11:03 a.m.(7/15/1019 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

Today marks five years since Haakon and I stood together and said our vows of marriage before Limerance (and family, friends, morbidly curious onlookers) within the Thrax estate.

Every year since has felt like a whole lifetime. There have been wars and losses I dare not count for the sorrow that would settle in my heart. However, I have been blessed to have my husband at my side through it all. I am grateful to have had five lifetimes with this man. A lady could not ask for a lord more dutiful, strong, and unlikely to tell her "no."

Of course, this is a dual celebration, as I like to tease him for getting a wife as a birthday present. I, as much as anyone, am surprised he has survived four full decades. And how lucky for him that he gets to revel in that with people so thoroughly dedicated to pestering him? (The children, of course.) (Yes, and also me. He is so fun to pester.)

Written By Thea

Nov. 20, 2022, 6:56 p.m.(11/25/1018 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

I feel the same about you...Most days.

Written By Cassiopeia

Nov. 20, 2022, 1:43 p.m.(11/25/1018 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

You see, that's the sign of a true friendship.

Written By Mabelle

Sept. 18, 2022, 9:40 a.m.(5/26/1018 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

I would like to meet that person who encrypts strategic plans in cake. Or just plans. Or just cake.

Written By Savio

Sept. 17, 2022, 8:29 p.m.(5/25/1018 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

A Cardian bearing gifts, you see
Is the most suspicious thing to me
Unless perhaps I happened upon
A Dagonite in Abandoned tongue
Equally dubious, no mistake
Would be a map that is a cake
But the one that truly stops my heart
Is when fuckin' Savio thinks he's smart
The rest is questionable without doubt --
But when a bard makes plans, look out.

Written By Scylla

Aug. 1, 2022, 1:15 p.m.(2/15/1018 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

Dagon on a tall cross. What a good way to ruin a beautiful sunrise.

Written By Caspian

July 22, 2022, 3:36 p.m.(1/20/1018 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

true.. but the Black Pigeon sounds far less intimidating then the Black Dove.

Written By Savio

July 22, 2022, 8:59 a.m.(1/20/1018 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

It's all true.

Written By Savio

June 8, 2022, 9:41 a.m.(10/16/1017 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

'How do they call this food,' he asks
'Why is it so highly prized?
I do not see a point to this
Unless it can be weaponized'

I'm sorry that the pineapple
Is not really what you're hoping
But I will gently recommend...
That you should cut it open.

Written By Piccola

April 11, 2022, 10:09 a.m.(6/12/1017 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

Only fools rush to seek blood, and usually find only their own.

Only cowards seek pity thereafter, and usually find only scorn.

Written By Medeia

Jan. 16, 2022, 9:46 p.m.(12/11/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

I wish sometimes that there was a way for me to show others how dependable, generous, and humorous my husband can be. He is an acquired taste, to be sure, but any good vintner knows how to handle sour grapes.

Written By Sydney

Dec. 25, 2021, 8:50 p.m.(10/23/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

Shockingly, when engaged by hostile forces, the local populace doesn't tend to roll over and welcome their invaders with open arms.

There's no putting it back in the bottle now, but our reach overextends our grip in the Saffron Chain, and we're all the worse for it.

I wonder what history will make of razing our way through territory that we laid no claim to, all in order to puff out our chests and look impressive, only to be caught with our pants around our heels when true threats came knocking at our door.

Written By Savio

Dec. 1, 2021, 7:56 p.m.(9/3/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

The Caravel Song, or, Get To The Boats
Dedicated to Lord Haakon Eswynd.

Their upkeep is a costly chore
You can't bring them close to shore
They're nigh on useless in a war --
And so we say, fuck caravels!

Consider a dromond, you twits
For the same cost, four more ships
Not bound to what the wind permits --
And so we say, fuck caravels!

For raiding a longboat is best
Throughout time it's passed the test
On every shoreline we possess --
And so we say, fuck caravels!

Even galleys, half-assed crap
Have their place in filling gaps
And luring the unwise to traps --
And so we say, fuck caravels!

Why do you soft-pated clods
Have so little love for cogs?
The best for all those trading jobs --
And so we say, fuck caravels!

Fashion is no base for sailing
Ignore that at the risk of failing
And all the while I'll be railing:
FUCK THESE FUCKIN CARAVELS.

Written By Romulius

Dec. 1, 2021, 5:40 p.m.(9/3/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

One of my shipwrights directed me to the journal recently published by the Lord Eswynd.

I approve. Ardently. The Compact also has the maddening tendency to describe any vessel fit for intercontinental travel as a 'caravel'.

The Eurusi caravel (and the Arvani, for that matter) are radically different ships from the galleons employed by the Cardians.

Written By Temira

Nov. 29, 2021, 6:59 p.m.(8/27/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

I always enjoy learning new things in life. And combat is one I have the least amount of experience in. So its great to have my near-brother take the time to train me. He's a great teacher, and even though our personalities are quite different, when it comes to training, Eswynds understand in ways i'm sure outsiders would think quite drastic but we are revers after all

Written By Mirari

Nov. 29, 2021, 2:32 a.m.(8/25/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

I know the lord is busy talking tough and screaming at seagulls but do not forget: the lord has been cordially invited to make his mark not with limited wit, but with those large, burly, Lycene-crushing arms of his and back up his claims with some honor.

Methinks that maybe lords who are more skilled with a pen shouldn't mouth off to any who write with the ink of blood.

Written By Mirari

Nov. 28, 2021, 12:43 a.m.(8/23/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

I think foolish white journals are my favorites.

We all have our off days but it takes a certain sort of character to consistently sound like they stumbled into the hallowed halls of Vellichor more than a little plastered.

Warriors of the Isles like to talk big, but it has always been funny to me how the greatest opposition they have sought over the centuries were helpless men, women and children to turn into slaves. It makes me doubt Lord Haakon's assessment of Lycene prowess.

He is, of course, welcome to prove me wrong anytime by publicly defeating any of our perfumed, quick to run, easy to kill duelists. I will brew the perfume myself.

Written By Temira

Oct. 11, 2021, 7:06 a.m.(5/12/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

Despite how much he favors tradition over anything progressive, I can see why when we are out in battle. Revers through and through we are. I myself, as much as I love how new The Compact is, and how everything is so fancy. I never forget the home on the Isle that I grew up on. Those days as children, yearning to join the revers on the next place to raid. I am as proud an Eswynd as my near-brother. I may poke fun and annoy him with cheeky comments but he has my upmost respect and loyalty. Fighting along side him and our Allies have humbled me once again.

Written By Medeia

Sept. 25, 2021, 3:12 a.m.(4/8/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

I have no shortage of reasons to be proud of my husband.

He truly is remarkable. I wish the whole of the Compact had witnessed the Rite of Gloria.

Written By Zakhar

Aug. 20, 2021, 10:36 a.m.(1/20/1016 AR)

Relationship Note on Haakon

Some of the best days in life are spent naked and running in the snow while watching butterflies spray and dance upon painted rocks.

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