Written By Edain
Dec. 19, 2017, 8:48 a.m.(10/19/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
What if we were to split the difference and create a sword of baked goods for you to hit people with?
Written By Caprice
Dec. 19, 2017, 1:25 a.m.(10/19/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Magpie
Don't contain them.
Act on them.
Write about it later, I need things to read while doing commissions.
Act on them.
Write about it later, I need things to read while doing commissions.
Written By Magpie
Dec. 19, 2017, 1:20 a.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
I feel so special to have been personally mentioned by someone I hold so near and dear to my heart. I thought time and marriage would dampen my feelings, but now I know that will never be. My chest pounds from the rapidity of my pulse and all I can keep thinking are those words spoken aloud... in his voice.
"I'm looking at you Magpie Grayhope."
He's looking at me. It sends fluttering butterflies to my stomach and I feel light-headed. My palms are sweaty. How can I contain these private feelings for much longer?
"I'm looking at you Magpie Grayhope."
He's looking at me. It sends fluttering butterflies to my stomach and I feel light-headed. My palms are sweaty. How can I contain these private feelings for much longer?
Written By Reigna
Dec. 19, 2017, 12:07 a.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Cristoph
I appreciate the offer, my liege, however, I see several potential problems with your generous suggestion.
Firstly, I happen to like you very much, as a person and feel an immense loyalty towards you. It would feel wrong to take up a sword against you. Secondly, I am a fan of your wife, and I am unashamed to admit that she is scary when riled. I happen to think she is passing fond of you, and I would not like her ire turned upon me.
Now, if instead you invited me to pelt you with tender baked goods, I might be game.
Firstly, I happen to like you very much, as a person and feel an immense loyalty towards you. It would feel wrong to take up a sword against you. Secondly, I am a fan of your wife, and I am unashamed to admit that she is scary when riled. I happen to think she is passing fond of you, and I would not like her ire turned upon me.
Now, if instead you invited me to pelt you with tender baked goods, I might be game.
Written By Mae
Dec. 18, 2017, 11:08 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
I wrote a history of Arx. I don't think it's very good, and it misses more things than it doesn't. But maybe someone can read it and get some perspective. Maybe it will help us not forget.
I'll be committing a copy of the book to the blacks, just in case it fades away.
I'll be committing a copy of the book to the blacks, just in case it fades away.
Written By Cristoph
Dec. 18, 2017, 9:51 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
I wear full armor. All the time. You may hit me with a sword if you like.
Written By Joscelin
Dec. 18, 2017, 8:55 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Eleyna
What does lotion from Eleyna Velenosa smell like? Like gold and delicious duplicity.
Written By Joscelin
Dec. 18, 2017, 8:50 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Eleyna
It's not a secret that the Archduchess Eleyna asks me about every month or so to let her be my patron. I've explained to her over and over that the Guildmaster of the Crafters Guild cannot have patrons, as it suggests favoritism to a specific House. While the rest of the Guild can have patrons with whomever they want, or not, I have no such ability.
That being said, it doesn't stop her from asking, and every month I receive some precious gift from her with a beautifully written request in her own hand.
This month, the thoughtful, gracious woman sent me a beautiful jar of skin salve, made with her own hands. She said she read my journal complaining about the effect the weather has been having on my skin, and concocted this wonderful stuff to help.
I still tell her no, but I'm very polite about it. Her response is always very beautifully written, and ends it with something like 'until next month'. Entreating her in person does nothing; she simply smiles like she knows something I don't and pats me on the hand.
Complex and wonderful as the moon, is the Archduchess of Velenosa.
That being said, it doesn't stop her from asking, and every month I receive some precious gift from her with a beautifully written request in her own hand.
This month, the thoughtful, gracious woman sent me a beautiful jar of skin salve, made with her own hands. She said she read my journal complaining about the effect the weather has been having on my skin, and concocted this wonderful stuff to help.
I still tell her no, but I'm very polite about it. Her response is always very beautifully written, and ends it with something like 'until next month'. Entreating her in person does nothing; she simply smiles like she knows something I don't and pats me on the hand.
Complex and wonderful as the moon, is the Archduchess of Velenosa.
Written By Marian
Dec. 18, 2017, 4:42 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
May I suggest taking up the sword and beating someone with it? It may not solve the issue that so enraged you but it does release that rage in a conductive manner. If you wish some instruction on how to handle a sword, I'm sure your husband can assist. Or I can offer my own teaching.
Written By Reigna
Dec. 18, 2017, 4:29 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Khanne
Blessings are friends like Lady Khanne Halfshav. With her wisdom and guidance, I am a better me.
Thanks be to all the gods that led me to this point in my life, to have such a companion.
Thanks be to all the gods that led me to this point in my life, to have such a companion.
Written By Valery
Dec. 18, 2017, 4:25 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
I have never celebrated my birthday...
So I guess I never paid it much attention.
But the other day, I read about the heir of Thrax being born the day of my birthday...
And it kinda made me a bit excited...
So I guess I never paid it much attention.
But the other day, I read about the heir of Thrax being born the day of my birthday...
And it kinda made me a bit excited...
Written By Quenia
Dec. 18, 2017, 1:36 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
It is decided. I am getting a dog. I look forward to speaking the Keaton's about this prospect.
Written By Merek
Dec. 18, 2017, 1:33 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Larissa
I met this kind Whisper at the House of Solace. She's quite intelligent and fun to be around, as well as being with the Scholars. As such I would like to research with her sometime. There's a lot of things that are out in the world to discover!
Written By Merek
Dec. 18, 2017, 1:31 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
Research is a fun way to pass the time. I do not have any I'm currently on, or even leading, so if people need assistance, then they are free to contact me about it.
Written By Caprice
Dec. 18, 2017, 1:29 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
I am looking for a specific book written by Duke Cassius Pravus. If anyone reading this has any of his works, please contact me with the titles and if I can borrow them. I promise not to spill whiskey on them.
Written By Carita
Dec. 18, 2017, 1:23 p.m.(10/18/1007 AR)
Pardon, Scholars, for the idle contents of my mind: what sparkles more? Star iron or dragonweep?
I suppose I will never know.
I suppose I will never know.
Written By Reigna
Dec. 18, 2017, 1:06 p.m.(10/17/1007 AR)
The last few days have been a wholly new experience for me. I am not, or at least I had not thought myself to be, an angry person. And yet. The rage I have felt over the last few days has redefined what I know as anger. I think, at one point while reading a missive I went briefly blind. My entire field of visioned became white and then narrowed til all was dark save a singular point of white-hot rage.
If I distance myself from it, it is fascinating. I had no idea such a feeling existed, and yet if I think about it logically, the answer is, it must exist. For all the world is a state of balance. For every good, like Prince Edain and Princess Alis, the Princesses Caelis, and Sophie, Isabeau, Duchess Nicia, Duke Cristoph, for these souls that are righteous and beautiful, for the warmth and family they foster, so too must there be darkness. To balance and define the light. So if I can love Kael with such passion, such loyalty and heart, then so too must I be able to feel an anger as I do towards... well. Let us not go there.
To further the idea... I must, must find a way to bring myself back to balance and to let go of this rage before my internal humors are warped and I fall ill. I can sense it. That potential shift inside me, like a sickness laying in lurk waiting to take advantage of my imbalance.
One of the worst parts of all of this is I feel I must pause and think about what I put in my journal. No longer do I have that sense of freedom, as my thoughts and feeling are transferred from myself to the page. That sacred communion between me and Vellichor. I find myself nervous, anxious about what I write and who might be reading and the political ramifications that might arise from this act that I have taken for granted for so long. I feel sundered.
I am conflicted. I am furious at even the thought that I must censor myself, the feeling of loss at being able to commune as I wish with my journal. But I also know that being noble means putting your own wants and needs aside for the betterment of all.
What do you do when you have been called disgraceful? When you are told that you -- No. See. I have to stop. If I continue I will write out all the accusations laid at my feet and Kael's and that will likely be seen as starting it up all over again.
I suppose the rest of my communion must be placed in the Black.
If I distance myself from it, it is fascinating. I had no idea such a feeling existed, and yet if I think about it logically, the answer is, it must exist. For all the world is a state of balance. For every good, like Prince Edain and Princess Alis, the Princesses Caelis, and Sophie, Isabeau, Duchess Nicia, Duke Cristoph, for these souls that are righteous and beautiful, for the warmth and family they foster, so too must there be darkness. To balance and define the light. So if I can love Kael with such passion, such loyalty and heart, then so too must I be able to feel an anger as I do towards... well. Let us not go there.
To further the idea... I must, must find a way to bring myself back to balance and to let go of this rage before my internal humors are warped and I fall ill. I can sense it. That potential shift inside me, like a sickness laying in lurk waiting to take advantage of my imbalance.
One of the worst parts of all of this is I feel I must pause and think about what I put in my journal. No longer do I have that sense of freedom, as my thoughts and feeling are transferred from myself to the page. That sacred communion between me and Vellichor. I find myself nervous, anxious about what I write and who might be reading and the political ramifications that might arise from this act that I have taken for granted for so long. I feel sundered.
I am conflicted. I am furious at even the thought that I must censor myself, the feeling of loss at being able to commune as I wish with my journal. But I also know that being noble means putting your own wants and needs aside for the betterment of all.
What do you do when you have been called disgraceful? When you are told that you -- No. See. I have to stop. If I continue I will write out all the accusations laid at my feet and Kael's and that will likely be seen as starting it up all over again.
I suppose the rest of my communion must be placed in the Black.
Written By Quenia
Dec. 18, 2017, 9:08 a.m.(10/17/1007 AR)
I have decided that I cannot be a damsel in distress if something happens in Arx. I strongly feel I must prepare myself for the things to come; this is one way I can do so. I do not expect to become a full fledged warrior, but I want to be able to do more than simply scratch a monster's eyes out with hairpins or a dagger. To that end, I think I shall be commissioning a sword and a set of armor, and looking for someone to teach me the basics of sword play and combat. If anyone has any recommendations for either, or if you are someone who can teach me, well - my messenger box is wide open.
Written By Astraea
Dec. 18, 2017, 4:25 a.m.(10/17/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Joslyn
An immensely talented fighter who gives it her all. I can appreciate a Lady who takes no prisoners. Well fought Rose of Stonewood.
Written By Isidora
Dec. 18, 2017, 1:32 a.m.(10/17/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Antonio
We could not be more different. Truly.
He has agreed to take me boating or sailing but not shipping.
He has agreed to take me boating or sailing but not shipping.
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