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Written By Ann

Jan. 25, 2023, 3:33 a.m.(4/16/1019 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I believe you. That should count for something. Right?

Written By Mabelle

Jan. 15, 2023, 1:17 p.m.(3/25/1019 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I look forward to watching him dazzle the fashion scene with his abilities.

Written By Mabelle

April 17, 2021, 8:27 a.m.(4/22/1015 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I am so pleased for his return to the city for the benefit of the fashion industry and apprently for the benefit of me winning dancing contests.

Written By Lore

April 11, 2021, 1:47 p.m.(4/11/1015 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I am almost unreasonably pleased at his return to the city! I've already secured his services for a rather large project, but more than that, I was able to renew an old friendship that was sorely missed.

Welcome back, Vincenzo Villente!

Written By Shard

Nov. 9, 2019, 12:43 a.m.(3/1/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I don't think slaves that complain openly and loudly live very long. Or, at least, I don't think they live very long without a severe beating. And those are the ones who can still think their own thoughts.

Unless you want to collapse the Mourning Isles, delays are necessary, even if they're fucking intolerable. Sure, you can cut off the hand now. And then you'll have no hand. Turns out that hand can be treated if you're willing to have some fucking patience and let the healers work.

I've already gone on long enough about how nothing you're doing here in the Compact is freeing any slaves outside of Arvum, so I won't do it again here.

Written By Dianna

Nov. 8, 2019, 11:05 p.m.(3/1/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

What slavery, in the Compact, exists?

Thralldom, yes. But the two, as I understand them, are vastly, vastly different.

Not that we Lycene stoop to either one, nor would we. A free mind is an industrious mind; a free will is one that can create and bring more wealth than ever either thralldom or slavery might bring.

Words, of course, have meanings.

Written By Shard

Nov. 1, 2019, 5:11 a.m.(2/13/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I am absolutely not above cracking your bones if you accuse me of being in favor of slavery again. I am not, in fact, better than /that/.

The reason I'm giving you a warning first is I recognize you were running your damn mouth without the slightest fucking idea of who I am, what's important to me, or why saying what you did is enough to make me really, really want to grind your head into the cobblestone. I recognize you've got your head so far up your own ass that you're stargazing between your tonsils, and you're patting your own back so hard over symbolic gestures that your fingers are leaving bruises. I recognize that, so I'm letting it pass. I'm only going to do that once.

Written By Karina

Nov. 1, 2019, 2:15 a.m.(2/13/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I have long believed that there's beauty to be found in the broken and the damned, but beauty is not all that art encompasses. An artist has the unique ability to share their perception of the world, even shape the perception of others, and I find truth the more captivating component of any work; the most important color on the palette next to the very soul. It can be in plain sight, an allusion or a symbol buried in the paint, but it's always there waiting to be discovered.

I felt the need to express this after reading an earlier proclamation from Vincenzo, which concluded with, "Art doesn't bring beauty to the world when stained with the revolting bondage of living souls." He was likely speaking more literally regarding certain fabrics rather than the art I'm more familiar with, but the words stuck with me. I admire the spirit of what he's trying to achieve, yet disagree with the method of painting an entire people with one brush and one color. Perhaps a time will come when I'm welcome at Pins and Needles due to the merit of my individual beliefs, not turned away because of my heritage.

My own studio, the Muse of Mourning, remains open to him. I can attest that the only strife involved in the making of those paintings is my own and not borne on the backs of others. Maybe something in them will speak to him in a way words cannot. Afterall, I'm an artist. Not an orator.

Written By Victus

Oct. 31, 2019, 9:28 p.m.(2/13/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I have no idea who you are.

Written By Shard

Oct. 31, 2019, 8:18 p.m.(2/13/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I had a lot to write here, but I did just get done writing that empty words are just that. So forget the essay I could respond with, I'll instead make this short:

My actions speak for themselves, good and bad. My single, driving motivation my entire life will speak for itself. My family's efforts, for centuries, the things they have fought and died for, speak loud even when they've been forgotten.

Call me a slave supporter again, Vincenzo, and I'll break your face.

Written By Preston

Oct. 21, 2019, 10:35 a.m.(1/20/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

The Compact can defend its own - but to defend, you must first know and recognise you are under attack. That we seem poor at. But it is difficult to claim we cannot defend ourselves when our armies sit in their barracks. If the Dominus tells us to go and crush those behind this attack, if he points the Templars at a target? If he tells me to muster all our forces, to do whatever we must? I need only send 5 messengers to Maelstrom, to Sanctum, to Lenosia, to Farhaven and to Bastion. They will in turn send messengers out with the Solace to each major parish, who will in turn notify every minor parish. I have sent no such messengers, we have received no such command. But do not mistake the current lack of action for a lack of potential or power, Master Vincenzo. Keep the faith with your brothers and sisters of the Compact, and do not write off their prowess before they have even lifted sword from scabbard.

Written By Martino

Oct. 21, 2019, 6:43 a.m.(1/20/1012 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

While the words will ring as perhaps harsh to some, I do agree that they must form the thoughts by some of the future Shav'arvani and likely why we saw that sudden appearance a few months ago of a foreign power within the Compact's borders.

It is why, at testing times, where there is unity there is always victory.

Written By Roxana

Aug. 22, 2019, 2:06 a.m.(9/11/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

Really dear one, only those three goals?

I was sure I'd inspired another! I hope I aimed it at the right artiste.

Written By Mabelle

July 13, 2019, 4:57 a.m.(6/15/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

Having multiple dresses is convenient and nice, for every weather and occurance, but there shall always be a single dress or two that will be your favorite, high quality through fabric and seam, sparkling like no other, fitting you so well and hugging every curve.

Those shall remain in the back of the closet and in the depth of one's heart until their time to shine will come and they will shine brightly and be the envy of every one in the city.

Soon enough.

Written By Shard

July 9, 2019, 3:35 a.m.(6/7/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

They're not exactly wandering. They're mostly just sitting in their boats glaring at each other, when they're not being invited to give lectures.

Written By Peri

July 8, 2019, 11:19 a.m.(6/5/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

In your journal you write of the foreign emissaries from Cardia and the Undying Empire. I have also wondered why they have no embassies here. Cardia does not seem to recognize us as a kingdom as yet. Lord Marcus Sulla explained his role as military praetor as an office of a military governor that is set over a region that is not yet under their control. That is the language he used - yet. They seem to acknowledge that other kingdoms exist. They refer to a Prima of a kingdom in Nefer'khat as majesty yet call our King governor. As to their power, It is beyond my comprehension when I consider the history of the Suthryn Reaches as mentioned in the timeline written by Scholar Tobias the Dubious. We have our own histories - the Isle of Blackshore or Saikland Greens being ones mentioned at that talk.

I do not know if establishing embassies is something we'd want - what would follow from a formal relationship? And If we even want embassies perhaps they would need to agree to establish an embassy at the same time as the Undying Empire, given their detente here in our waters. One thinks that would require a work of legendary diplomacy.

Matters are delicate. I do not know what maintains this balance. I pray that our King and his diplomats continue to have wisdom.

Written By Shard

July 6, 2019, 4:13 a.m.(6/1/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

As someone with personal experience, I want to point out that Abandoned don't get to walk in the gates. They don't get to walk anywhere. They get to die if they show their faces anywhere near city walls. And while I don't think a real comparison is worth anything given the endless rivers of blood shed on both sides, I'm fairly confident more Abandoned have been butchered in their homes than Arvani since the Great Road came about. Beaucage alone is responsible for thousands of dead, children included, in response to one dead noble. Grayreeve decided to decorate Riven's borders with the tortured and crucified members of an entire tribe in order to show that he was put out. Other noble houses from the Oathlands have been calling not just for Abandoned blood, but Prodigals as well. Refugees were hunted down and murdered in a place of sanctuary.

I don't like seeing any undeserving family or House fall. I don't like child killers. I don't like murderous butchers in general, regardless of where their allegiances lie. There are monsters on either side of the line, but right now ours are being very fucking loud, so it seems strange to pretend like we can't hear them calling for more blood. More, and more, always.

As for Cardia and Jadairal, I really doubt the Nox'alfar would appreciate having them as embassy neighbors, but I'm even more certain there'd be blood in the streets if you tried to stick their embassies in the same city, let alone the same road.

Written By Joscelin

June 25, 2019, 1:43 a.m.(5/7/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

I can't think of a noble that can afford my living expenses or the materials to pursue my craft without making coin from my stock, nor the raising of my children or supporting my family, at least not without devoting a massive amount of funding. And while we are called to inspire others, we are also called to answer Jayus' inspiration. Some of these inspirations require expensive materials.

Pursuing our need to create and answering Jayus and His inspirations is a personal matter, however. Just because I am comfortable with our traditions doesn't mean it's the best way of handling things.

Written By Mabelle

June 13, 2019, 1:50 p.m.(4/12/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

One cannot be too careful in this city to estimate those who do not have your best interest in mind.

Thank you for constantly showing me the path.

Written By Thorn

June 10, 2019, 11:23 p.m.(4/6/1011 AR)

Relationship Note on Vincenzo

Ode to the Lucky One

You are the odd to my even
The black to my white
You are the dove to my raven
And wrong to my right

You are the sin to my virtue
The club to my heart
You are the healing to my hurt you
You are the stop to my start

You are the win to my loss
The effect to my cause

You have a handsome face
Where's my wine?

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