Written By Hana
Nov. 24, 2016, 12:47 a.m.(3/14/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Aureth
It's strange, having a father where you never had one before. Knowing that half of you came from this person.
I don't really know Aureth Grayhope well yet. I've heard all kinds of things about him since I arrived in Arx, half of them contradictory.
So what do I know?
I know that when a daughter he didn't know he had showed up with questions, he welcomed her into his life. (I mean, first he nearly choked on his cider and fled the tavern to regain his composure, but eventually.) I know that he's tried to help how he could, being supportive in her efforts to open a shop. I know that when she had awkward questions about the family she never knew, he did his best to answer them.
He may not have been a very good father in the past -- or any kind of father at all, since he didn't know I existed -- but he's doing his best to be supportive now.
And there are plenty worse places to start from than that.
I don't really know Aureth Grayhope well yet. I've heard all kinds of things about him since I arrived in Arx, half of them contradictory.
So what do I know?
I know that when a daughter he didn't know he had showed up with questions, he welcomed her into his life. (I mean, first he nearly choked on his cider and fled the tavern to regain his composure, but eventually.) I know that he's tried to help how he could, being supportive in her efforts to open a shop. I know that when she had awkward questions about the family she never knew, he did his best to answer them.
He may not have been a very good father in the past -- or any kind of father at all, since he didn't know I existed -- but he's doing his best to be supportive now.
And there are plenty worse places to start from than that.
Written By Hana
Nov. 19, 2016, 9:22 p.m.(3/1/1005 AR)
In all my travels with my mother's trade caravan, I learned many techniques for working metal. Even rubicund and diamondplate. But I've never had a shop of my own, a place to improve my craft. Knowing how to work rubicund and knowing how best to balance a sword made of it are wildly different tasks, after all.
And now I have a shop. My own space! A place to work and sell things, where I can finally improve my skills. Ida says that there will be plenty of customers for rubicund weaponry, as soon as I'm ready to sell it. I hope that can prove enough of an income...
And now I have a shop. My own space! A place to work and sell things, where I can finally improve my skills. Ida says that there will be plenty of customers for rubicund weaponry, as soon as I'm ready to sell it. I hope that can prove enough of an income...
Written By Hana
Nov. 16, 2016, 3:47 a.m.(2/18/1005 AR)
Arx.
For the place I was, well, conceived, I've never been here very often. Certainly never to stay. So I spent the first few days here feeling very lost! Like my world was a little off-balance, just enough that I wasn't sure of things.
But now, after the Assembly, it seems like a lot of the city is feeling that way, too. In a weird way, that makes me feel less alone.
And if the rumors are right, if war is coming, then I'll do my part. I'll help make weapons to defend the realm! Though I'm sure plenty of the other smiths must be better than me—it's Arx, the capital!—the weapons I make are more than good enough to serve in battle. Even if they aren't alaricite.
And maybe I can find a really good weaponsmith to apprentice to...
For the place I was, well, conceived, I've never been here very often. Certainly never to stay. So I spent the first few days here feeling very lost! Like my world was a little off-balance, just enough that I wasn't sure of things.
But now, after the Assembly, it seems like a lot of the city is feeling that way, too. In a weird way, that makes me feel less alone.
And if the rumors are right, if war is coming, then I'll do my part. I'll help make weapons to defend the realm! Though I'm sure plenty of the other smiths must be better than me—it's Arx, the capital!—the weapons I make are more than good enough to serve in battle. Even if they aren't alaricite.
And maybe I can find a really good weaponsmith to apprentice to...
Written By Hana
Nov. 13, 2016, 8:54 p.m.(2/11/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Aureth
I don't know what I expected my first meeting with the father I never knew to be like. I hadn't expected it to be a spur-of-the-moment thing in a tavern, where he sprayed cider all over me in shock, and the the entire rest of the family descended on us.
I'm glad to have met him -- I definitely have things to discuss with him! -- and the rest of the family seems nice, if a touch overwhelming.
But still, a small part of me wonders just what I have gotten myself into.
I'm glad to have met him -- I definitely have things to discuss with him! -- and the rest of the family seems nice, if a touch overwhelming.
But still, a small part of me wonders just what I have gotten myself into.
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