Written By Belladonna
Dec. 26, 2017, 12:34 p.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Logan
Please do let me know how that works out for you. I point out that most prisons worth anything have foundations made of stone. I wish you the best of luck, tunneling through granite with your shovel.
Written By Victus
Dec. 26, 2017, 12:15 p.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Edain
D E E R
S Q U I R R E L
F O O D
R A B B I T
B A C O N
S Q U I R R E L
F O O D
R A B B I T
B A C O N
Written By Logan
Dec. 26, 2017, 12:01 p.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
The overbundance of support that I have received has greatly reduced my worry that I was abandoned by ALL of my family and friends. Perhaps that is why the spirits have given us two parents. When one line fails, the other provides. To those new friends that I did not know I had, thank you.
Written By Logan
Dec. 26, 2017, 11:57 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Sometimes you dig a hole to make a tunnel and escape the rethorical prison.
Written By Edain
Dec. 26, 2017, 11:40 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Wow, people know so much more about wolves than I do. All I know is you should avoid the toothy end and that they apparently know what D E E R spells.
Written By Belladonna
Dec. 26, 2017, 9:49 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
It would make my life so much easier if people would stop digging when they find themselves at the bottom of a hole with no ladder. Yes, the shovel is nice, and that is what one does to holes, but...
The further down you go, the harder it is to get you out.
The further down you go, the harder it is to get you out.
Written By Agnarr
Dec. 26, 2017, 7:21 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Shard
Whether the connected concept's wrong or no, it means what it does. Aggressive leader's got a lot of terms for it, eh? Same way 'eat' and 'cut' have a dozen words for the same, and same way in armored combat, blows to the head are oft termed helmsplitters when it is impossible for any human to cut open a steel helm.
Written By Marian
Dec. 26, 2017, 6:47 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Shard
Concepts like alpha, beta and omega were developed by scholars who were wishing to understand the social dynamics of pack animals. Yes, the theory was originally created using wolves as an example. I have seen this flawed theory applied to other groupings. Interestingly enough, the creator of this theory came back and disavowed the theory because...and this is key...it only applied to pack animals in captivity.
You see when you capture an animal, force it to live outside of the wild, he or she changes. He or she becomes more aggressive like the alpha or on the other extreme seeks the protection from the aggressors, like the omega. Territories or 'safe' areas are smaller. Resources are limited. Fear is a mainstay. Understand social dynamics change based on context. Captivity is what brings out the 'asshole' alpha. Not species or even gender. Not being a member of a family or pack.
That's where these concepts come from Shard. From watching healthy wolf families fracture under the stress of living in cruel captivity where resources are limited. It is not a badge of honor. It is a brutal social status obtained in the face of horror.
You see when you capture an animal, force it to live outside of the wild, he or she changes. He or she becomes more aggressive like the alpha or on the other extreme seeks the protection from the aggressors, like the omega. Territories or 'safe' areas are smaller. Resources are limited. Fear is a mainstay. Understand social dynamics change based on context. Captivity is what brings out the 'asshole' alpha. Not species or even gender. Not being a member of a family or pack.
That's where these concepts come from Shard. From watching healthy wolf families fracture under the stress of living in cruel captivity where resources are limited. It is not a badge of honor. It is a brutal social status obtained in the face of horror.
Written By Shard
Dec. 26, 2017, 5:27 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Agnarr
I've only ever heard that used toward people when it was referencing the wolf concept, and it sounds even more ridiculous. Like a sentence that has been mistranslated several times over until it makes no sense in either language. If the original concept of a wolf 'alpha' doesn't even exist in wolves, why use it to refer to humans? You've got words that mean leader. You've got dozens of them, in fact, words for each type of leader and how important that leader is compared to other leaders and how that leader got his job. You've got so many words for leader I still forget some of them. 'Alpha' doesn't mean any of that. It usually means loud, obnoxious, and aggressive (and, for some reason, male? There are ideally always two pack leaders, a male and a female, this is why I had so much trouble figuring this damned word out originally), possibly likely to be filled with arrows, but it doesn't mean anything important or substantial enough to need its own word.
Written By Agnarr
Dec. 26, 2017, 4:17 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Shard
They use alpha about people too, sometimes.
Makes more sense there, the concept's easier to grasp.
Makes more sense there, the concept's easier to grasp.
Written By Logan
Dec. 26, 2017, 2:52 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Cirroch
Cousin,
Too late for warnings. If my health was your concern you wouldn't have abandoned your blood when I was unjustly treated. The only oath I owe, is to my cousin Prince Darren and the House of Redrain. Your Duke, proclaimed my denoblement and you cemented it with your cowardliness and silence. Look on to my fields of fucks and see how barren it is, when it comes to your opinion.
Too late for warnings. If my health was your concern you wouldn't have abandoned your blood when I was unjustly treated. The only oath I owe, is to my cousin Prince Darren and the House of Redrain. Your Duke, proclaimed my denoblement and you cemented it with your cowardliness and silence. Look on to my fields of fucks and see how barren it is, when it comes to your opinion.
Written By Cirroch
Dec. 26, 2017, 2:19 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Logan
Logan, you are on a dark path. You dare invoke our ancestors.
No one has released you from your oaths. Proceed with caution, son.
No one has released you from your oaths. Proceed with caution, son.
Written By Logan
Dec. 26, 2017, 1:51 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Shard
Thank you for the insight.
Written By Shard
Dec. 26, 2017, 1:40 a.m.(11/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Logan
You're referencing a feud I neither know the details of nor particularly care about; it's none of my business. But if you're going to style yourselves wolves, know what skin you're wrapping yourself with. Particularly since the Horned One and his master love to lie about it.
When I first learned the Arvani tongue, it took me some time to understand the word 'alpha', because it only ever seemed to be used in reference to wolves, and it never made any fucking sense in context. I had to pick out meaning bit by bit, but I'll admit it's still a little baffling at times. Let me try to paint this more clearly: when you talk about wolves, and you use the word 'alpha', what you mean is 'parent', and what you really mean is 'parents', because unless one has died, there are two, because each pack has a mated pair. The rest of the pack are their children. Wolf packs are families. That's it. Occasionally there are adopted members, or packs made up of unrelated members out of necessity, but this is rare. When the parents become too old and weak, they usually just die, sometimes in battle against other packs, sometimes in hunting, sometimes by simply wandering off into the winter, but their own children don't usually kill them any more than human children have a tradition of killing their own parents.
When I first learned the Arvani tongue, it took me some time to understand the word 'alpha', because it only ever seemed to be used in reference to wolves, and it never made any fucking sense in context. I had to pick out meaning bit by bit, but I'll admit it's still a little baffling at times. Let me try to paint this more clearly: when you talk about wolves, and you use the word 'alpha', what you mean is 'parent', and what you really mean is 'parents', because unless one has died, there are two, because each pack has a mated pair. The rest of the pack are their children. Wolf packs are families. That's it. Occasionally there are adopted members, or packs made up of unrelated members out of necessity, but this is rare. When the parents become too old and weak, they usually just die, sometimes in battle against other packs, sometimes in hunting, sometimes by simply wandering off into the winter, but their own children don't usually kill them any more than human children have a tradition of killing their own parents.
Written By Logan
Dec. 26, 2017, 1:06 a.m.(11/4/1007 AR)
While I did not know that my journal entries were in the purview of such fine folks as Baron Audric of de Lire and the mercenary Shard of the Valorous Few, I will say that I appreciate the attention and lecture when it comes to how wolves behave, I hope both of you could make the exception for my fubar, and accept it as the metaphor I intended it to be.
Written By Shard
Dec. 26, 2017, 12:51 a.m.(11/4/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Logan
That's not how wolves work, damn it.
Written By Audric
Dec. 26, 2017, 12:50 a.m.(11/4/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Logan
Shard's the wolf enthusiast that I know, but I'm pretty sure wolves don't eat their alphas when they get sick. Or have alphas.
Written By Logan
Dec. 26, 2017, 12:23 a.m.(11/4/1007 AR)
Years of service to a house, put out like the flickering flame of a candle. Not by gods, spirits or self fulfillment but by a man unworthy of the name he carries. Who's blood is so thin, he forgets about ancient oaths made between brothers and spirits. A man so threaten by you that the mere rumor of ambition by those beneath him is enough to warrant such an extreme response rather than cultivate it and together build something greater. Vercyn and Khanne, you may have taken my title, you may have taken my family, but I swear to my parents, my grandparents, and my ancestors that I will take them back from you. Your first mistake was breaking my bonds of servitude and the oaths of loyalty I made to your line because now I am free. Free to make my demands and free to enforce them. The only way to stop this pebble is to catch it before it turns to an avalanche. Good luck.
To House Sanna, how low you have fallen, lap dogs at the feet of an idiot. You forget of your blood feud with the Halfshav and you forget how it was with the union of my father and my mother, and the promise of a child of both houses that, that hunger was sedated. Now that is no longer the case, what is your excuse? For exposing your belly when the master orders you to roll over demands either the highest of punishment or retribution to the spirits of Man, our ancestors, the FREE northern men. You were supposed to be there for blood and you were not. Instead, you lowered your head and closed your lips, like a good little boy. We are not dogs, we are wolves. We follow our leaders not because we are told to but because like a pack, we feel that spirit in our core, and when that alpha grows weak and sick, it is ripped apart by said pack. That is my truth now and my loyalties bound by oath to myself, my blood, my pack, and Skald but my services... to highest bidder.
*A crudely done sigil of two stags locked by their antlers and a silver Compact coin hovering above them, is printed on the bottom of the journal entry.*
To House Sanna, how low you have fallen, lap dogs at the feet of an idiot. You forget of your blood feud with the Halfshav and you forget how it was with the union of my father and my mother, and the promise of a child of both houses that, that hunger was sedated. Now that is no longer the case, what is your excuse? For exposing your belly when the master orders you to roll over demands either the highest of punishment or retribution to the spirits of Man, our ancestors, the FREE northern men. You were supposed to be there for blood and you were not. Instead, you lowered your head and closed your lips, like a good little boy. We are not dogs, we are wolves. We follow our leaders not because we are told to but because like a pack, we feel that spirit in our core, and when that alpha grows weak and sick, it is ripped apart by said pack. That is my truth now and my loyalties bound by oath to myself, my blood, my pack, and Skald but my services... to highest bidder.
*A crudely done sigil of two stags locked by their antlers and a silver Compact coin hovering above them, is printed on the bottom of the journal entry.*
Written By Magpie
Dec. 26, 2017, 12:06 a.m.(11/4/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
I can only write about how immensely pleased I am to have the High Lord of Thrax's review of my hard work at story writing. I feel so inspired. I may write another... I may.
Written By Marian
Dec. 25, 2017, 10:27 p.m.(11/4/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
I find that when I'm drunk it's best that I put down the pen. Nothing good ever comes of it.
Please note that the scholars may take some time preparing your journal for others to read.