Written By Reigna
Aug. 6, 2017, 1:35 p.m.(12/21/1006 AR)
Princess Alarissa and Lady Monique's party was the stuff of dreams. It was so lovely, so magical. I have never worn clothes or jewelry like I did that night -- I truly felt lovely and Kael... Kael looked incredible.
I can only hope that Princess Katarina is going to be alright. Prior to the event, there was an accident at the Grottos and I helped as best I could. I saw her at the party, so she must have been alright. I will check on her soon and make sure she is well.
Coming to Arx has broadened my experiences so very much. I want to write about it, but I have to gather my thoughts first, to do it all justice.
I can only hope that Princess Katarina is going to be alright. Prior to the event, there was an accident at the Grottos and I helped as best I could. I saw her at the party, so she must have been alright. I will check on her soon and make sure she is well.
Coming to Arx has broadened my experiences so very much. I want to write about it, but I have to gather my thoughts first, to do it all justice.
Written By Reigna
Aug. 4, 2017, 7:30 p.m.(12/17/1006 AR)
Had the opportunity to meet with Keaton vassals for the first time, in the form of Sir Tarrant Moore and his sister Lady Tessa. They are polite, Sir Tarrant the very image of a Valardin Knight.
I look forward to getting to know them better. Princess Katarina dropped by as well and there was a very curious conversation that followed. I need to spend more time with other Scholars and those of the Faith.
I look forward to getting to know them better. Princess Katarina dropped by as well and there was a very curious conversation that followed. I need to spend more time with other Scholars and those of the Faith.
Written By Reigna
July 31, 2017, 2:22 p.m.(12/9/1006 AR)
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I am shaking and I think I might faint, but I cannot. I will not. I have to get home. I have to go home right now. Well. Maybe... i do not know. Maybe this is something I should wait on. But how can I?
Thank you, black journal, you are always there to take in my tremulous thoughts when I cannot form them.
I have to go home. I have to tell my love.
I have the most incredible husband in the whole of the world. I might not be able to say this in my white journal*, but I can confide it here. I love Kael to distraction. I never thought I could be this happy. I never dreamed that my life would be so changed. Coming to Arx has been the biggest blessing I have ever received. I praise all of the gods each and every morning, and again before I sleep. I have friends, real, true friends and everything ** everything is so perfect and why can I not stop crying?! Oh. Right. I need to go home. Yes. I am going home now.
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*OOC: Reigna totally thinks she's writing this in her black journal
** There are clear droplets of dried moisture on the page, as if spattered with tears
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I am shaking and I think I might faint, but I cannot. I will not. I have to get home. I have to go home right now. Well. Maybe... i do not know. Maybe this is something I should wait on. But how can I?
Thank you, black journal, you are always there to take in my tremulous thoughts when I cannot form them.
I have to go home. I have to tell my love.
I have the most incredible husband in the whole of the world. I might not be able to say this in my white journal*, but I can confide it here. I love Kael to distraction. I never thought I could be this happy. I never dreamed that my life would be so changed. Coming to Arx has been the biggest blessing I have ever received. I praise all of the gods each and every morning, and again before I sleep. I have friends, real, true friends and everything ** everything is so perfect and why can I not stop crying?! Oh. Right. I need to go home. Yes. I am going home now.
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*OOC: Reigna totally thinks she's writing this in her black journal
** There are clear droplets of dried moisture on the page, as if spattered with tears
Written By Reigna
July 30, 2017, 7:04 p.m.(12/7/1006 AR)
I am so very proud of my fealty, the great and mighty Valardin and the showing we've made thus far in the Iron Pentathlon. I look forward to the dueling tonight and will use it to inspire me to get better with my quarterstaff so that maybe next year I can participate.
Written By Reigna
July 30, 2017, 7:02 p.m.(12/7/1006 AR)
I had the pleasure of speaking with and sitting next to Princess Alis at the archer competition the other night. How is it that the Ladies and Princesses of Valardin are each nicer than the last? I have never felt so at home as I have in Arx. It is an unexpected and fantastic thing.
Written By Reigna
July 23, 2017, 11:09 p.m.(11/21/1006 AR)
Princess Alarissa is a wonder. Remarkably kind, thoughtful and so very generous. Truly, coming to Arx has changed my perspective on so many ways. I am blessed.
Written By Reigna
July 23, 2017, 8:33 p.m.(11/21/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Kael
Squaell? Squaell Keaton? Hmmmm.
Are we worried about them rising up against us later in life? I mean, thankfully there is no child yet to name. Though I have to admit 'Keaton's Purple Squaller' is still my favorite baby name by far.
Are we worried about them rising up against us later in life? I mean, thankfully there is no child yet to name. Though I have to admit 'Keaton's Purple Squaller' is still my favorite baby name by far.
Written By Reigna
July 22, 2017, 8:56 a.m.(11/18/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Shae
I am so impressed by you. What you have done for Princess Alarissa -- you are brave and kind and you are the best of what we all can be. Stay true, Lady Keaton. I look up to you more each day.
Written By Reigna
July 22, 2017, 8:53 a.m.(11/18/1006 AR)
It has been a whirlwind of days, with guests coming to the Hall to have dinner with us. We've had High Lord Edain, the Laurents, Lord Blackram, my cousins Desiree and Clover -- We even had Princess Katarina drop by unexpectedly! We are hosting Princess Valencia soon too and I am very much looking forward to that, as she is so very sweet and kind. It is such an honor to have these people in our home, to offer them hospitality, to see them laugh and smile.
Kael is a continual surprise, in such good ways. I am so very blessed to have been chosen to be his wife.
Devotions to Limerance.
Kael is a continual surprise, in such good ways. I am so very blessed to have been chosen to be his wife.
Devotions to Limerance.
Written By Reigna
July 16, 2017, 4:18 p.m.(11/7/1006 AR)
I finished decorating the Oak Suite at Keaton Hall, and... amazingly, Kael really liked it. The thing I was most anxious about, the painting, well. It went over perfectly.
I thank Limerance daily for guiding Kael and I together. The path getting to this point was arduous, painful and... But I have faith in the gods and in their plan. In this case, it certainly won out because while I had thought to never marry, to free myself from nobility, instead I am gifted a husband who I respect, who I admire and who is ... well. I will not gush.
I just am thankful.
I thank Limerance daily for guiding Kael and I together. The path getting to this point was arduous, painful and... But I have faith in the gods and in their plan. In this case, it certainly won out because while I had thought to never marry, to free myself from nobility, instead I am gifted a husband who I respect, who I admire and who is ... well. I will not gush.
I just am thankful.
Written By Reigna
July 15, 2017, 2:11 p.m.(11/5/1006 AR)
There have been so many opinions written of late on the topic of marriage. Personally, it has historically been a rather touchy subject to me. I came to Arx to marry a man I'd never even seen or written to before. I saw him the first time as he stepped up to the altar of Limerance and signed the contract that had been negotiated for us. We spoke our vows without ever having had a conversation. It was... there were a lot of emotions for me at the time. I was, frankly, angry. Terrified. Terrified and angry sum it up nicely. But I did it, and it was not that there was a sword held to my neck. I did it because that is, sometimes, what is necessary. It is what be being born to a noble family requires.
Marriage is a tool, one of many, that are at hand to the nobility. My family needed something the Keatons could provide. The Keatons needed something I could give them. There are hundreds of families that depend on Wyrmguard and hundreds more that depend on the Keatons. Because their lives rely on our success, we are expected -- required -- to give up certain privileges that are afforded to people as a whole. Like marrying for love or letting personal feelings get in the way of diplomacy. In some ways, being born to the nobility strips us of our personal freedoms. It is a sacrifice on a daily basis. Your heart will always want what it wants, but how often do the goals and needs of your people align with your own personal happiness?
Now. All that being said, we are children of our gods and they... they are good. I was terrified as stated before. I had this large, silent man, a stranger who could be, potentially, anything or anyone, standing before me, signing his name to a document that made us family. Blessedly, Limerance was watching over the both of us. My husband is... the most honorable, wonderful man I have had the pleasure to know. He and I have been lucky enough to find ourselves fitting together into a steady, stable foundation upon which our house can grow.
Blessing to all the gods.
Marriage is a tool, one of many, that are at hand to the nobility. My family needed something the Keatons could provide. The Keatons needed something I could give them. There are hundreds of families that depend on Wyrmguard and hundreds more that depend on the Keatons. Because their lives rely on our success, we are expected -- required -- to give up certain privileges that are afforded to people as a whole. Like marrying for love or letting personal feelings get in the way of diplomacy. In some ways, being born to the nobility strips us of our personal freedoms. It is a sacrifice on a daily basis. Your heart will always want what it wants, but how often do the goals and needs of your people align with your own personal happiness?
Now. All that being said, we are children of our gods and they... they are good. I was terrified as stated before. I had this large, silent man, a stranger who could be, potentially, anything or anyone, standing before me, signing his name to a document that made us family. Blessedly, Limerance was watching over the both of us. My husband is... the most honorable, wonderful man I have had the pleasure to know. He and I have been lucky enough to find ourselves fitting together into a steady, stable foundation upon which our house can grow.
Blessing to all the gods.
Written By Reigna
July 9, 2017, 11:52 p.m.(10/21/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Shae
I had the pleasure of meeting my husband's cousin, the Lady Shae. She is the sweetest of ladies and so very energetic. I think between herself and Lady Jael that I might ... it says odd to say this, but between them I feel almost as if I can recapture some of my lost childhood.
Written By Reigna
July 9, 2017, 7:28 p.m.(10/21/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Jael
The Lady Jael invited me for a ride a few days ago and it was incredibly fun. She let me ride a bay named Aster and he and I got on famously. It had been a while since my last ride and yet she was wonderfully patient while I regained my ability. We got up past a canter at one point and I was almost thrown. But I loved it. I think I will be taking my lady up on her offer of more frequent rides. I cannot spend all of every day in the Archives, afterall.
But I wanted to mention Jael's kindness. It was fun. And that is not something I have much of.
But I wanted to mention Jael's kindness. It was fun. And that is not something I have much of.
Written By Reigna
July 2, 2017, 9:05 a.m.(10/6/1006 AR)
The Laurent Festival was truly amazing. I had such a marvelous time! I saw my cousin Desiree for the first time in years, High Lord Edain stopped to say hello to Kael and I! We had a chance to speak with Duke Christoph and Lady Jael and we saw so much cornholing! I admit I was not sure about it to begin with, but after watching them go at it for a while I began to see the appeal.
There were all manner of treats and things to look at. I acquired a jar of Laurent Honey, and there was even a book being shown around. It was fascinating in its own gruesome way. It told the tale of three cocks embattled over doing their duty. I had mentioned to Lady Jael that I felt the parable was lost in the glorification of all that cock on cock violence. But then the good lady made the valid point that perhaps it is in the graphic and precise language of said violence that the lesson resides. Is it a treatise on how our culture has grown numb to ever escalating and grandiose displays of violence? Have we as a culture embraced battle and hardship to such a degree that it takes it being perpetrated by three cocks to shake us from our complacency and say, "Here... let the rending of our cocks cease?"
Thoughts to think on, certainly.
There were all manner of treats and things to look at. I acquired a jar of Laurent Honey, and there was even a book being shown around. It was fascinating in its own gruesome way. It told the tale of three cocks embattled over doing their duty. I had mentioned to Lady Jael that I felt the parable was lost in the glorification of all that cock on cock violence. But then the good lady made the valid point that perhaps it is in the graphic and precise language of said violence that the lesson resides. Is it a treatise on how our culture has grown numb to ever escalating and grandiose displays of violence? Have we as a culture embraced battle and hardship to such a degree that it takes it being perpetrated by three cocks to shake us from our complacency and say, "Here... let the rending of our cocks cease?"
Thoughts to think on, certainly.
Written By Reigna
July 2, 2017, 8:57 a.m.(10/6/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Lorien
My husband's cousin has joined us in Arx! While construction of our home is still underway and it is not yet suitable for habitation, I am so glad that he has come to stay with us. He is such a different creature than my lord. He smiles so easily and there is so much humor on the surface. It has been so long since I've had family that smiles at me. I am certainly looking forward to getting to know him better. I believe he is a lucky charm, or at least that his arrival was a gift from Limerance.
Written By Reigna
July 2, 2017, 8:53 a.m.(10/6/1006 AR)
I have been in Arx nearly two weeks now and the days begin to get a sense of rhythm and the steps taken in each day begin to morph into an almost liturgical rote. I wake, I look to my husband and I say my prayers. I arise from my bed and I go to the bank to review our paperwork and documents. By mid morning I am heading to the Great Archive and there I lose myself in all manner of knowledge gathering.
I dare not broach the topic of my husband in these pages. I think I might possibly use every page I see in trying to express my admiration for the man, composing poetry on the topic of his eyes or lips (likely both), or a dissertation on the ways in which I've gotten him to almost - almost! - laugh.
It is amazing how one's perspective can change so drastically in a week and a half's time. When first I came to Arx I was dragging my feel, loathe to even think about my upcoming nuptials, filled with dread and unease wondering who my husband would be. What kind of man he would be. To say it has been a pleasant surprise is quite the understatement. Limerance is looking out for me. I shall say extra prayers to him this week.
I dare not broach the topic of my husband in these pages. I think I might possibly use every page I see in trying to express my admiration for the man, composing poetry on the topic of his eyes or lips (likely both), or a dissertation on the ways in which I've gotten him to almost - almost! - laugh.
It is amazing how one's perspective can change so drastically in a week and a half's time. When first I came to Arx I was dragging my feel, loathe to even think about my upcoming nuptials, filled with dread and unease wondering who my husband would be. What kind of man he would be. To say it has been a pleasant surprise is quite the understatement. Limerance is looking out for me. I shall say extra prayers to him this week.
Written By Reigna
June 25, 2017, 4:04 p.m.(9/21/1006 AR)
I start the day today, as I have for the last five days, as Lady Reigna Keaton.
I beg my lord's forgiveness for my frequent lapses, but I am getting better at remembering.
Arx is everything I dreamed it might be. And while I come here as a lady married and not at the godsworn devoted to Vellichor as I had previously intended, still... this place fills me with a sense of purpose, of potential. The archives alone are a dream come true, the wealth of knowledge is incredible. I have spent most of these last days soaking it in. I wonder if I will ever get used to the sight of those bookcases, ever tire of the scent of parchment.
Either way, my path has been set, taking me to Arx, and I am here and I have a new name.
I will do everything I can, employ all my knowledge to assist House Keaton in its endeavors.
I beg my lord's forgiveness for my frequent lapses, but I am getting better at remembering.
Arx is everything I dreamed it might be. And while I come here as a lady married and not at the godsworn devoted to Vellichor as I had previously intended, still... this place fills me with a sense of purpose, of potential. The archives alone are a dream come true, the wealth of knowledge is incredible. I have spent most of these last days soaking it in. I wonder if I will ever get used to the sight of those bookcases, ever tire of the scent of parchment.
Either way, my path has been set, taking me to Arx, and I am here and I have a new name.
I will do everything I can, employ all my knowledge to assist House Keaton in its endeavors.
Written By Reigna
June 25, 2017, 11:28 a.m.(9/20/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Kael
Today I learned that an alcohol's potency is quite likely in direct and inverse proportion to the amount that they give to you as a serving. This is something I shall keep in mind for the future most assuredly.
My lord Keaton has been sweetening my mead with additional honey to assist me in my goals towards someday developing a palette for wine.
He is an exceptionally observant man. Unsurprising, I suppose, should one consider his family.
I -- I shall have to keep further observances to myself.
My lord Keaton has been sweetening my mead with additional honey to assist me in my goals towards someday developing a palette for wine.
He is an exceptionally observant man. Unsurprising, I suppose, should one consider his family.
I -- I shall have to keep further observances to myself.
Written By Reigna
June 20, 2017, 10:13 a.m.(9/8/1006 AR)
Today is the day I am married. I have never seen his face or heard his voice or read a word written by his hand.
I wonder who he is? I know his name, I know some of his story. But the man himself? No idea.
Limerance look over me. I do what I must and I will find peace in this as I have in all the choices I have had to make.
Mother is standing there, staring at me impatiently. I am to go collect the gown I will be wearing tonight. I do not recall the last time I had a brand new gown. I shall have to take exceptional care of it.
It is time.
I wonder who he is? I know his name, I know some of his story. But the man himself? No idea.
Limerance look over me. I do what I must and I will find peace in this as I have in all the choices I have had to make.
Mother is standing there, staring at me impatiently. I am to go collect the gown I will be wearing tonight. I do not recall the last time I had a brand new gown. I shall have to take exceptional care of it.
It is time.
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