Written By Asger
Aug. 27, 2018, 6:33 p.m.(6/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
Really lass, I'm not angry, at this point it's nothing to be angry about. Hitting you wouldn't do anything, and it certainly wouldn't solve my poor opinion of you. I'm sorry you think that I just go around bad mouthing you, I have expressed one serious concern to Darren in the past, and my wife got an earful around the time, but she kept me cool rather then do something rash. If I ever would have imagined you were going to take it so deeply personally me joking about the Stormwall stratagem at that meeting, I probably would have still done it but more gingerly to avoid obvious hurt feelings. Never would have said that my words there were venomous. Seriously I got no injured feelings, life is rough, people die and tragedy happens. What shapes a people is not what happens to a them, but how they live and grow from it. Crovane are tough, we've weathered worse and in the future we'll see worse. We fear no storm. With the help of the compact, and a warming of our hearts to our neighbors, we've rebuilt and have been shown that there is genuine kindness beyond our lands. Not to mention Stormwall is pretty much fireproof now, that went into considerations while building, and it is the only city known to give a man an erection when he views her.
Look, I'm not cuddly and I'm blunt, I speak my mind and say what I think. I'm not going to apologize for what I said, because I meant every word of it. If you're going to say something, say it to that's person's face is what I believe and I do that, but I could have done it in a less fractious way. I can understand you're hurt by my words and that is where the condescending tone of your response come from. Where there is only negative opinion, punching someone isn't going to solve that. So I propose this, you, and me and a keg of the best whiskey we can find. We'll drink, probably say horrible things to each other and I can't promise you won't punch me, but at the end of the keg we can put and end to the hostility.
(I'm not going to ever stop being blunt or making terrible jokes though.)
Look, I'm not cuddly and I'm blunt, I speak my mind and say what I think. I'm not going to apologize for what I said, because I meant every word of it. If you're going to say something, say it to that's person's face is what I believe and I do that, but I could have done it in a less fractious way. I can understand you're hurt by my words and that is where the condescending tone of your response come from. Where there is only negative opinion, punching someone isn't going to solve that. So I propose this, you, and me and a keg of the best whiskey we can find. We'll drink, probably say horrible things to each other and I can't promise you won't punch me, but at the end of the keg we can put and end to the hostility.
(I'm not going to ever stop being blunt or making terrible jokes though.)
Written By Asger
Aug. 27, 2018, 2:07 p.m.(6/21/1009 AR)
That'd be false, less. In times of war there are good choices and there bad choices. Laying down and surrendering your arms would be a bad choice, as would be standing and fighting magic zombie sailors who overwhelm your numbers, that's a bad choice. Another bad choice was to totally remove me from planning the defense of the land I know better then anyone else in the compact because I said a stand up battle was suicide, and again when the reports came in that only with much larger numbers would that be a credible solution.
Decisions were made, and even though it was marching into a meat grinder, Crovane stood along with the compact because never in a thousand years will it be said that Crovane stood idle while someone else fought their wars. Sadly I was not proven wrong and there was a far greater loss of life that day then there should have been. All this was under the auspice of you "saving Stormwall" so when you set fire to the city as you were routed by overwhelming numbers I think by your own goals we can go ahead and write that off as defeat.
My relationship with Redrain is fine, more over it grows by the day as we work to make the North a better place. In regards to the Faith while I walk the path as my ancestors did before me, I have a strong belief in the Gods, I've built shrines on my land and have rushed to the defense of holy ground.
I've offered you no insult or venom, I've stated the facts and while they paint you in a poor light I've not embellished on them. It is by your poor strategies that one in four soldiers died there. It was your choice to ignore the Intel that it was a bad idea to fight that way with the numbers we had. It was your choice to ignore the plans of those who lived there and knew the land, cutting Crovane from planning the defense of their land. As was stated many times, you had complete control of the troops and planning, so by this same token blame and praise can be laid directly at your feet for your actions.
It's true, I don't like you Marian, but I have more important things to do in my life then fuck with you. However for the blood price paid by the troops that day, I will speak up to remind others of your history and devisions lest your choices lead to another bloodbath and mass loss of life. More over my people still joke about the ale spill war, we joke about the proudwoods downfall, why would we not joke about how we stood tall and faced battle in a suicidal plan wrought by a warchiefs hubris, and us being proven right. That's glory and bragging rights, we already got song.
In the end though while I dislike you and think you shouldnt be deciding strategy, I truly know ya did the best you could, so there is that.
Decisions were made, and even though it was marching into a meat grinder, Crovane stood along with the compact because never in a thousand years will it be said that Crovane stood idle while someone else fought their wars. Sadly I was not proven wrong and there was a far greater loss of life that day then there should have been. All this was under the auspice of you "saving Stormwall" so when you set fire to the city as you were routed by overwhelming numbers I think by your own goals we can go ahead and write that off as defeat.
My relationship with Redrain is fine, more over it grows by the day as we work to make the North a better place. In regards to the Faith while I walk the path as my ancestors did before me, I have a strong belief in the Gods, I've built shrines on my land and have rushed to the defense of holy ground.
I've offered you no insult or venom, I've stated the facts and while they paint you in a poor light I've not embellished on them. It is by your poor strategies that one in four soldiers died there. It was your choice to ignore the Intel that it was a bad idea to fight that way with the numbers we had. It was your choice to ignore the plans of those who lived there and knew the land, cutting Crovane from planning the defense of their land. As was stated many times, you had complete control of the troops and planning, so by this same token blame and praise can be laid directly at your feet for your actions.
It's true, I don't like you Marian, but I have more important things to do in my life then fuck with you. However for the blood price paid by the troops that day, I will speak up to remind others of your history and devisions lest your choices lead to another bloodbath and mass loss of life. More over my people still joke about the ale spill war, we joke about the proudwoods downfall, why would we not joke about how we stood tall and faced battle in a suicidal plan wrought by a warchiefs hubris, and us being proven right. That's glory and bragging rights, we already got song.
In the end though while I dislike you and think you shouldnt be deciding strategy, I truly know ya did the best you could, so there is that.
Written By Asger
June 17, 2018, 8:34 a.m.(1/11/1009 AR)
I got a question for the Archlector of Skald, if the faith were to say....Start forcing shamans to turn from their beliefs at the tip of the sword or using other pressures to force conversion would you condemn that? At what point would you speak up against others trying to strip away the beliefs of a people?
Written By Asger
June 17, 2018, 8:11 a.m.(1/11/1009 AR)
You know I rarely take to the journals because I don't think a man's thoughts should normally be so public for the world to see. In the matter of beliefs it is no secret I follow the spirits, I have communed with them personally on multiple occasions and I have had the blessings of Mangata fall on my shoulders anointing me with the strength and savagery of the sea when I risked my life to clear her shrine of foul influence. I'd like to remind the Templar that many of your number saw the workings and movement of the Spirits first hand when they rose up to protect Stormwall from the invaders and lay them low. They obviously exist, this isn't a northern misguided phenomenon, the spirits exist and they protect us. So why is it to those that acknowledge their existence and offer them the odd prayer, gift at a shrine or beseech them for protection but have made it a lifelong goal to serve your gods and their ideals you would stop them from service? Perhaps if any could answer this, they could answer a heathen's genuine question. Where have the gods demanded their worship to the exclusion of others? If ya had just one god, I could understand being jealous and all that but with multiple ones you already have to acknowledge there isn't one king god and everyone else it a pretender or other spiritual parts of the world don't exist because it might hurt their feelings to realize we are surrounded by intangible protectors. (My bet is that the south is jealous that they long ago threw away their ancestral ties to the spirits and when the forces of darkness come they won't rise up to protect them)
Written By Asger
May 14, 2017, 10:43 p.m.(6/18/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Anze
The man is an ass and always has some new insult to casually bandy in conversation, all in all though he is a good friend and in battle there is no other I would want by my side.
Written By Asger
April 2, 2017, 4:57 p.m.(3/14/1006 AR)
So the siege has set in now. Always figured a siege was the worst type of warfare slow...A waiting game. Well I'll wait, and when the bringers decide to come and meet my axe, we'll be here ready.
Written By Asger
March 26, 2017, 10:55 a.m.(2/27/1006 AR)
As a child and even in the past few years I often wondered what it would be like to be my brother, to be the heir to be the duke. Now I find myself thrust into this position suddenly and it is more then I can take in. There are so many matters to see to and I am beginning to realize I don't know half of what I need to and my tried and true skills aren't going to help me here. Spirits give me strength, I am going to need it.
Written By Asger
March 19, 2017, 11:02 a.m.(2/14/1006 AR)
The inevitable siege grows closer, my nerves sing with the song that all warriors face before going into battle. This is the loudest the song has ever been, though contrary to how the first time I heard the song as a boy I was nervous, today I find myself excited, far more then I ought to be.
Written By Asger
March 10, 2017, 7:12 p.m.(1/24/1006 AR)
Today my house words echo through my mind, When The Bough Breaks. It was five hundred years ago that the Proudwoods were caught beneath the breaking boughs and crushed for their hubris and lack of foresight. My father taught it to me like a mantra, every little action or lack thereof, every word, every decree adds up, and if you aren't careful it will break and all their combined weight will come crashing down on you. So today the bough has broken, and I find myself thankful that I was not caught beneath it. It makes me think of how Lady Luck has stood beside me for the past decade, and how I've let her lead my path. No more, if Lady Luck stands with me then she will follow the path I carve and I and together we will grab the future I desire. If not...Well I look overhead and there are a lot of boughs in the forest.
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