Written By Thesarin
Jan. 30, 2024, 11:52 p.m.(8/25/1021 AR)
Relationship Note on Mia
I'll answer you the same way, then, and as things are it seems foolish to be aught but honest.
That you love me has been my greatest gift these years, and most days I ain't a notion how it came to be. At my worst I were awful, and at my best I ain't, I know, much better.
I've tried, and that's all I could say. For you, and for ours, I've tried so fucking hard.
Written By Thesarin
Jan. 20, 2024, 6:02 p.m.(8/5/1021 AR)
I go out to another battle; so's been much of my life, for I chose to spend it wading through a river of red. This to save the lands of the Grey Forests, of my people, or at least see them safe away if such might be done. I ain't wrote on them and neither will I like on this. If I fall today, then keep my Blacks closed to the end of time;y thoughts are my own. If there's anything of me worth carrying on, it's my people, my family, and my children. I hope I'll see them soon.
But if this to be is the last word spoke or writ by or of Marquis-Consort Thesarin Riven, War Chief to the Twainfort, son of Vahari, last chief of the Greenwood tribe, let it be this:
That the Rangers of the East held their cause to the last.
That he the faith given him by the riverlanders making welcome to a stranger, them from every corner from the Forests to the Isles who he promised protection, and those of the Greenwoods who walked out from the woods with him to the unknown, was never broken.
Or failing that:
Come the second Breaking of the World, he never Abandoned his people.
Written By Thesarin
April 18, 2021, 12:10 a.m.(4/24/1015 AR)
They broke when the lords fled their lands to seek shelter in the great stone walls of Arx, and left them they'd sworn protection to face the Breaking of the World.
Written By Thesarin
Nov. 24, 2019, 10:08 p.m.(4/5/1012 AR)
Relationship Note on Esoka
We fought together at some of the worst of times, from the walls of Arx to the beaches at Stormwall.
I lead her far as I could, until she found she'd another path to follow.
Until we meet again, on the solid earth, or past the end of all rivers.
Written By Thesarin
Nov. 17, 2019, 10:15 p.m.(3/19/1012 AR)
Prince Tyrus Thrax
Marquessa Lora DiFidante
Lord Ian Kennex
Sir Amund
Mirella Fiorelli
for their good friendship and good works at rooting out and putting to torch an Abandoned clan that has scourged the Mother's March for generations.
Their unclean land and vile religion are undone, for the benefit of all peoples of Arvum.
Written By Thesarin
Nov. 13, 2019, 9:30 p.m.(3/11/1012 AR)
Reckon they realize it, at the last.
Written By Thesarin
Oct. 20, 2019, 6:19 p.m.(1/19/1012 AR)
Relationship Note on Preston
An awful risk. If it fails, it leaves yours broken, demoralized, and stranded in the cold, with a hard work at salvage.
Written By Thesarin
Oct. 13, 2019, 11:14 p.m.(1/5/1012 AR)
Now that land's been made a March.
Kin in Honor we stand.
Written By Thesarin
Sept. 29, 2019, 8:40 p.m.(12/5/1011 AR)
Most folk in Arx, though, seem to see it only in wrongs and rights. Which it is, ain't doubt. But more, it's good sense.
If you ain't would follow a command, it's like the one you're commanding feels the same. If you give a command ain't followed, it's more like every command to come seems less the way thing'll be, more a kind suggestion.
One or two ain't listen, you can shout 'em in line, slap 'em down, or make of 'em example to the rest. But if they all get the notion they can do how they like, it leaves the commander a lonely fool in a fancy shirt. Why armies break all at once, whole lines melting like snow in rain. More'n once I've seen a broken army with a leader shouting at the crowd to fall in line, as much use if they'd been ordering skies to rain or snows to melt. If them you're commanding ain't think you're in charge, they're right.
Written By Thesarin
Sept. 22, 2019, 9:51 p.m.(11/19/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
A few winters come, you'll struggle remembering how it ever seemed clever to seek out sharp metal set at you in anger.
And with an ever-flowing tide of young folk to remind you how you'd been a time.
Written By Thesarin
Sept. 15, 2019, 11:15 p.m.(11/5/1011 AR)
It's a night needed.
Written By Thesarin
Aug. 26, 2019, 12:14 p.m.(9/20/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Elloise
There's a thousand thousand Abandoned peoples all across Arvum, and the only truth to them is they ain't part of the Compact. A shav people might live in a castle with vassals paying tribute or might sleep in the mud with nothing they ain't wearing on their backs. Ride out from the forts and the roads, more'n a day or two, you'll find folk who can be Compact citizens when Solace or nobles ride through and become shavs trading with their neighbors when an Abandoned party comes close.
Folk where I'm from, we ain't had much trade in books. Paper fouls and rots too fast in the weather to put much stock in, when you ain't got great houses of stone and plaster for holding it.
We kept our histories in the songs of our people, and the Marks on our skin.
Written By Thesarin
Aug. 25, 2019, 10:59 p.m.(9/19/1011 AR)
Ain't much for merry-making, but the children were glad for the celebration.
Written By Thesarin
Aug. 16, 2019, 10:25 a.m.(8/28/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Written By Thesarin
Aug. 15, 2019, 1:50 a.m.(8/25/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Kill a host of strangers and take their wealth, might be named a hero.
Written By Thesarin
Aug. 13, 2019, 11:51 a.m.(8/22/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Tikva
So civilization seemed to mean every way folk without enough to do worked out how to make easy things hard.
But if we in Greenwood and Greenblood were civilised, then now I'm only more confused.
Written By Thesarin
Aug. 11, 2019, 10:13 p.m.(8/19/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Elloise
Not so many rules about it, be sure. But Civilized folk can give more offense without worry they'll be opened nave to chops.
Written By Thesarin
Aug. 8, 2019, 9:46 p.m.(8/13/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Shard
Take away all they got, all they would've had.
Written By Thesarin
July 28, 2019, 9:54 p.m.(7/19/1011 AR)
Written By Thesarin
July 7, 2019, 11:42 p.m.(6/4/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Shard
That a clever bastard could ride home with spoils while the Compact took their vengeance on whatever tribe was closest. Take all they could carry and let their enemies suffer for it.
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