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Written By Dio

March 20, 2020, 4:40 p.m.(12/18/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

Old Hob doubted me. "Why ye givin' command o' the ships t' the Seliki, eh Marquis?" said he. "Because she's intelligent," said I. "Aye, maybe with maps, Marquis, but not in the abyss o' combat at sea. 'Sides, ain't you intelligent too?"

"No, Hob," said I. "I'm clever. At most I can set traps to get what I want. But Lady Peri understands the minds of slavers. She can think like they do, anticipate what they will do. Her people know well the minds of slavers."

"They was slavers, the Seliki?" asked Old Hob, scratching his head. "No, Mate," said I. "They were thralls. They won their freedom, just as the people of the Saffron Chain will win theirs. And the Selikis have not forgot. From the founders of their line, to my protege and her father, make no mistake, they have not forgot what it meant to be chained. From what I've seen, they will raze all slavers and see freedom spread across these islands." Hob eyed me suspiciously. "Wull see 'bout that."

Before setting sail to join the Black Fleet of Pravus, Old Hob found me. "When's we sailin' with Admiral Peri again, m'lord?"

"Soon," said I.

He smiled.

Written By Fortunato

Nov. 8, 2019, 8:48 p.m.(3/1/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

Art is not meant to last forever. Paintings gain from their weathering. Even if it remained 'til the end of days, I will never prefer stone to the expressiveness of the brush, faded as the strokes may become.

Written By Shard

Oct. 10, 2019, 4:08 p.m.(12/27/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

I haven't forgotten.

Someone being more polite doesn't make them your friend, doesn't mean they have your best interests in mind, and doesn't guarantee they won't turn on you as soon as it suits their interests. It sure as hell doesn't make them more virtuous. It only means they've had training in how to say and do things that won't immediately piss other people off.

Ask yourself this: why would a ruler put anyone into a position of power, particularly a position of power where they're interacting with a foreign kingdom, if that person actually meaningfully opposed what the ruler was doing? Either the person is not actually an ally, or the position is not actually one with power that's going to matter.

Written By Octavia

Sept. 5, 2019, 6:47 p.m.(10/12/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

It is worth noting, Lady Peri, that the Church itself does not hold any temporal authority over the city of Arx. They can excommunicate, but they cannot declare anyone outlaw or exile them for faithlessness or heresy. That line has been firmly established over a thousand years of Arvani legal tradition - authority over the faithful is vested in the Dominus, but authority over the city is vested in the King and his officers.

Elisha may remain in the city. He may travel to the Lowers and seek an unscrupulous merchant who will sell to him. He may cast himself upon the charity of those who would not see him starve. That is his right, as he is not an outlaw. The Grandmaster of the Knights Templar can rattle his sword, and the Legates and Dominus can call upon him to repent and others to turn their face from heresy, but until Elisha Baseborn is charged by the Crown Court or the Inquisition with a crime punishable by exile or death, he can walk freely in the city.

Written By Preston

Sept. 5, 2019, 10:39 a.m.(10/12/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

What right is there to purchase food? That is others labour you purchase through coin. If you are excommunicated, you are separate to our community - you contribute nothing but ash and dust. Why should our farmers feed you? Why should our tailors cloth you? Society works because we each do the jobs we are skilled in, the jobs we are called to, and it is in our collective effort that a civilisation is built.

I accept that my views and feelings are not perhaps how some will feel. There are some who dance around with mirrors in ways that fill me with discomfort. I do not need to consider the temporal powers, nor represent the views of the Crown or a fealty, I only concern myself with the Gods and the Faith. That said, I think people may need to consider appearances. If you support and nourish a man whose mouth only spouts attacks upon the Church, whose hand only writes nonsense attempts to rekindle the heresies of Marach through fictional and false recountings of his works, whose whole body seems only to move to do injury to the Faith and the Gods, then what message does that send about your love of the Gods that you would nourish that without demanding repentance?

Disciple Rinel says she will tend to him, I would say Rinel is being headstrong and foolish. She is a talented researcher, she has a great deal of knowledge. But often her wisdom is questioned. In this I think I must as well. Her life is not filled with the Faith, she has never made those ultimate sacrifices or oaths to become a Godsworn, the Faith must be certain first she seeks to serve the Gods, not have the Faith serve her. As a child of the Faith, her own head may be turned. She may, in a mistake, fall for a heresy or allow it to spread. She may mistakenly encourage him in a way that she feels is repentance but is not what the wider Faith would consider. You see, as a child she cannot offer forgiveness, for she is not fully of the Faith. She is still tied to the temporal. As such, if the excommunicated wish to repent, if they wish to become a penitent, it is to the Godsworn they must look. Rinel herself had to engage in such tasks previously. The Legates are fair, if someone proves they wish to repent, they will provide ways. As it is though, the man excommunicated seems to want to entrench himself as an enemy of the Faith. His danger is not in and of himself - that is why he still lives - the danger is those who seeing him as no threat think it is acceptable to humour him.

Written By Reigna

Sept. 5, 2019, 1:57 a.m.(10/11/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

To be excommunicated is to be outside the Faith. To be outside the Faith is to be outside of the Compact. To be Abandoned. Citizens are forbidden from trading or doing business with the Abandoned.

This is why excommunication is the ultimate punishment, reserved for those who are unable to be reasoned with, for those who refuse to walk the path of the gods as dictated by the Faith. It is a harsh thing, meant to inspire horror and contrition. To be excommunicated is to be cast out from our society completely. To be alone.

It is a terrifying punishment.

Written By Rinel

Sept. 5, 2019, 12:50 a.m.(10/11/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

You must understand that the Grandmaster of the Knoghts of the Temple is our guarfian. It is preferable that such an esteemed position be held by one of such conviction that doubt and corruption may find no purchase--and Sir Preston's soul is adamantine in its conviction.

Nevertheless, the laws of Faith and Crown do not prohibit charity to the excommunicate. I continue to provide the Goodman Elisha with necessities--I take my duties to the Lady Gild as seriously as I take my vows to our Lord Vellichor, and I will not deliver the Goodman's writings to the Whites without ensuring that he is physically hale. He must be led back to our Faith with gentleness and with patience.

A shepherd must at times abandon the wayward for the health of the flock. A guardsman may not abandon his post to save a burning home. Those who perform the duties of their office are to commended, not condemned. It falls to those of us without office to perform the small duties demanded of us by our Gods.

It has ever been the prerogative of the child and the fool to nurse the wayward back to health and return it to its master. The brambles of confusion it is caught in will not harm the devout.

Written By Eddard

Aug. 6, 2019, 4:56 p.m.(8/8/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

I have been scouring the white journals for the best way to remove ferret scat from carpet.

Any suggestions?

Written By Vincenzo

Aug. 1, 2019, 2:26 a.m.(7/25/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

Knock and the door just might open. Seek, and you might find what you're looking for. Ask, and you may find your answer given.

The Salon is hosting another discussion, this time the topic will be "Redemption".

Count yourself invited. Come prepared!

Written By Jasher

July 8, 2019, 8:09 p.m.(6/6/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

In their eyes, the Compact is of no consequence.

We are the toy to be squabbled over, used to further their own ends and wield as a tool against their enemy than a proper nation to acknowledge. For one to leave while the other remains will be seen as retreat and weakness, and so unless they both leave together, they will remain together.

And so they will remain until something bids them to act.

Written By Willow

June 26, 2019, 3:41 a.m.(5/9/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

That is one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that someone from the family who owns the Murder of Crows has a crow.

I'm not saying all crows are good or that all crows are bad. What I /am/ saying is that there is more context to that particular than you were seemingly taking into account.

Written By Ajax

June 23, 2019, 11:30 p.m.(5/4/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

The levels that I am okay with this idea frightens me. Thank you.

Written By Alecstazi

June 22, 2019, 6:35 p.m.(5/2/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

1. Just because I am "newly come to Arx" does not mean my opinions are invalid or uninformed. There is a whole world outside the walls of this city.

2. Politics has little room for emotion. Hopefully this is a lesson you learn before you assume the role of Countess, for your people's sake.

3. It is actually his highness Prince Alecstazi Thrax.

4. The Isles do not beg. Nor are we a people who will easily accept charity.

Written By Archeron

June 21, 2019, 6:11 p.m.(4/28/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

If I may gently say, my lady, if you wish to promote discord and civil war, then force an islander to beg. They don't. If there is to be no help without begging, the Islands will deal with matters on their own. There will be suffering, but a new balance will be found. Thankfully i know this isn't the case - I have no belief that the mainland can help fully. We cannot do for all of Thrax what we all did for Kennex, Islanders and Mainlanders. But, I know our allies and friends will help us as they can, in the same way we help them with what ways we can.

If the compact makes one another beg for the support we owe one another? Then we fall and die on in our own castles. The Mourning Isles cannot stand without trade from the mainland. The mainland cannot command its coast without the navies of the Mourning Isles and the Lyceum. We share far more than we differ on - as Princess Sorrel says, it is just one tradition, this Thralldom.

So please, whatever your anger, do not speak of making the Isles beg for aide - because it is not the reality of how we treat one another, but hardliners - earnest but mistaken - will use such words to stir dissent.

Written By Kaldur

June 12, 2019, 2:51 p.m.(4/10/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

Let it be known, do not under estimate my dear sister. In my annoying younger brotherly duty - a domain I take quite seriously - I winged an inflated ball at her while she was diving on the terrace at Whitereef. Quite without missing a beat as she flipped through the air, she batted the ball right back into my face.

So if you see a great red welt on my face, well. As my Gumary said at the time, 'You earned it, lad.'

Written By Preston

June 9, 2019, 7:04 a.m.(4/3/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

There is a difference between questions and questioning, that perhaps I was not clear about.

Asking for understanding, the 'what is this?' 'what is the reason we do this?' questions, are perfectly fine. These are how you understand, this is part of learning.

Even questioning yourself, the choices you have made, questioning your decisions on the battlefield or posing yourself or others moral quandries, trying to find a better moral path? That is not a problem, indeed it is to be encouraged. We should all improve.

The problem is in questioning the firmament of our society, questioning the established order. Not asking what it is, but questioning its very nature, asking /why/ it should be that we worship the Gods, or give obedience to the king, or why we should hold to our oaths. These are the questions that serve no purpose other than to introduce doubt where there is no need or virtue to it. They serve no-one but our enemy.

Of course, others disagree, but the Orthodoxy has stood on these principles since the time of Carnifex Alor Valardin.

Written By Morgan

May 19, 2019, 5:19 a.m.(2/17/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

I dream of a future when all are free to bellow as they wish, no longer shackled by the oppression of silence. My cousin is helping make this happen, I couldn't be more proud!

Written By Evangeline

May 1, 2019, 6:16 p.m.(1/10/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

I met Lady Peri at Boldness Espressions during one of my days of travel. In my attempt to acclimate myself to the new city, I have been randomly selecting different venues to visit.

From the start, I was intrigued by the noblewoman, ripe with knowledge, full of vim and vigor. I wonder now as I had not taken notice then how exactly she takes her coffee. Perhaps hers was a strong brew but I envied her energy and enthusiasm. I look forward to meeting with her against soon.

Written By Valenzo

April 6, 2019, 2:36 a.m.(11/15/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

Why would you do this?!
They read these, y'know!

Written By Marian

March 25, 2019, 12:51 p.m.(10/20/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Peri

We were not the best, but neither were we the worst. I think we managed to stay right in the middle when it came down to it. However, regardless of the results, I found the evening enjoyable with a clever companion who's sharp eye allowed me to find a few things in the underwater scavenger hunt. I hope that she didn't mind that my swimming was not on par to Princess Reese. No one came close to her amazing aquatic tactics.

Kudos to Princess Valencia and Princess Liara for their clever riddles and warm soothing pools. The Autumn Pool Party shall be an event that I will fondly remember.

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