Written By Victus
June 16, 2017, 1:47 a.m.(8/27/1006 AR)
More wakes for the dead. It seems like too many. This city has been to hell in back in the past month and a half, I almost can't keep track of the bodies anymore. At least that turncoat fucker suffered for what he'd done.
Written By Victus
June 12, 2017, 12:45 a.m.(8/19/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Fergus
To the victor go the spoils.
Written By Victus
June 10, 2017, 8:37 p.m.(8/17/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Edain
Whatever reservations I had against the Prince of the Sanctum, he wished for me to leave them all in the center of the Shrine today so Gloria might judge us both. So I did. I took every little nagging thought I've ever had up to this point and I let it all go. It turned out much better for one of us, but I respect a man who refuses to fall even when all seems lost.
You have my respect, Dragon Lord. You and Marian both have given me new insights into a Valardin's way of things. It's still a bit too shiny for me, but it ain't so bad.
You have my respect, Dragon Lord. You and Marian both have given me new insights into a Valardin's way of things. It's still a bit too shiny for me, but it ain't so bad.
Written By Victus
June 8, 2017, 10:28 p.m.(8/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Marian
If I ever start questioning why they call house Valardin a house of "Dragons", I'll be thinking of you to correct myself.
Written By Victus
June 8, 2017, 2:24 a.m.(8/12/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Abbas
The Isles have been home to many horrors for all of their existence. My predecessor was a man who held the reins of many of them in his hands as they went by. Let it never be said that we cannot find peace with ourselves on these raging waves, or that we can never walk upon a shore without our shadows following in our wake.
I commend my cousin's quest for redemption. You may have a long way to go, but I know you have the strength to see it through. I am proud of you.
Thrax will stand with the Compact as equals.
I commend my cousin's quest for redemption. You may have a long way to go, but I know you have the strength to see it through. I am proud of you.
Thrax will stand with the Compact as equals.
Written By Victus
June 7, 2017, 5 a.m.(8/10/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Thistle
Quit leaving your fucking flower crowns in my house. We get it, you smell better than the rest of us. Stop rubbing it in.
Written By Victus
June 5, 2017, 4:19 p.m.(8/7/1006 AR)
I am disappointed in all of you. Every. Single. One.
But especially you, tin-man.
But especially you, tin-man.
Written By Victus
June 5, 2017, 2:24 a.m.(8/5/1006 AR)
A great noodling competition was held today. I am distraught I was unable to attend. Truly.
Written By Victus
June 4, 2017, 10:59 p.m.(8/4/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Max
I considered you my friend.
Written By Victus
June 2, 2017, 9:35 p.m.(7/28/1006 AR)
I don't pray a whole lot. I still don't, but I never really did. Sometimes though, I did. I contradicted myself I know, I'm just trying to get my fucking thoughts together here.
Sometimes when I speak and act like Mangata is the one hearing it, it feels alright. Feels like somebody's listening more than usual. I ask about the waves sometimes. I don't get an answer but then the next day I start feeling the tides being a little calmer. It doesn't make much sense to me.
Maybe there's something about this praying thing I'm just not getting yet.
Sometimes when I speak and act like Mangata is the one hearing it, it feels alright. Feels like somebody's listening more than usual. I ask about the waves sometimes. I don't get an answer but then the next day I start feeling the tides being a little calmer. It doesn't make much sense to me.
Maybe there's something about this praying thing I'm just not getting yet.
Written By Victus
June 1, 2017, 11:09 p.m.(7/26/1006 AR)
Judgement was made in anger, I'll admit that readily. Nothing is ever as it fucking seems in this city. Always another line, another puppet, another something or another that crawls out from a demon-infested pit to deal with.
Bah. I shouldn't have said what I did when I'd first heard. There's something else to all of this. We'll figure it out for as long as we can stay not clutching at each other's throats.
Our House won't be divided.
Bah. I shouldn't have said what I did when I'd first heard. There's something else to all of this. We'll figure it out for as long as we can stay not clutching at each other's throats.
Our House won't be divided.
Written By Victus
May 31, 2017, 5:24 p.m.(7/24/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Freja
The Redrains are two for two on good booze and decent people. They can certainly take the prize for the most tolerable family I've conducted my meetings with.
Written By Victus
May 29, 2017, 12:45 a.m.(7/18/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Carita
Taking the house that Maximilian Darkwater built and dismantling it while he's away?
Disgraceful woman.
Disgraceful woman.
Written By Victus
May 28, 2017, 1:59 p.m.(7/17/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Darren
He doesn't piss me off very much. He's got booze and games. Decent.
Written By Victus
May 26, 2017, 7:21 p.m.(7/14/1006 AR)
Fight like fucking wild cats in the city and end up losing the most. It's a damn shame what's become of the Thraxian ward in the aftermath of the siege. Our people have built warships taller than the fucking clouds, it's time we put that to use rebuilding the lives of our people. I'm not going to be caught with my britches around my ankles again.
We'll come back stronger.
We'll come back stronger.
Written By Victus
March 5, 2017, 12:49 p.m.(1/14/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valerius
It was the pick I suspected. Most people seem to like him. Lark meanwhile gets things done, but she isn't exactly the most charming of women. I don't say that with fucking derision, mind, the Gods know that I'm hardly the easiest man to get along with either.
Can't say I ever expected him to amount to anything. Used to be he didn't even try to prove me wrong. Of late, though, I'm coming around to the idea that he isn't a complete waste of Thrax blood. That there might just be something to Valerius I can come to respect.
Shows you the world's full of fucking surprise and wonder, eh? Heh.
Can't say I ever expected him to amount to anything. Used to be he didn't even try to prove me wrong. Of late, though, I'm coming around to the idea that he isn't a complete waste of Thrax blood. That there might just be something to Valerius I can come to respect.
Shows you the world's full of fucking surprise and wonder, eh? Heh.
Written By Victus
Feb. 26, 2017, 11:45 p.m.(1/1/1006 AR)
On Succession: House Thrax
Those who are familiar with me, know that in the past I would sometimes joke that if only Donella had been born a man, all would be good in Thrax. The truth is, I was not the only one making that joke. And further, we weren't really joking, not if we are honest with ourselves.
I would like to think I am a man whose actions follow his words. I this, Princess Donella Thrax, has convinced me that I have not been.
Let it be known:
From this day forward House Thrax shall no longer exclude women from the line of Succession. Let they have equal claims upon the title. Further, until I produce my own Heirs of the Body, Donella Thrax shall serve as my Designate Heir.
As for my vassals across the Isles, they are free to either follow my example or ignore it. We have always valued our independence in the East, and I will let them choose their own path rather than force their hand in this. Even if I strongly suspect there are a few Donellas out there who have, if not been wasted, then certainly not been used to their full potential for the advance of their Houses.
Prince Victus Thrax,
Highlord of Thrax
Prince of Maelstrom
Those who are familiar with me, know that in the past I would sometimes joke that if only Donella had been born a man, all would be good in Thrax. The truth is, I was not the only one making that joke. And further, we weren't really joking, not if we are honest with ourselves.
I would like to think I am a man whose actions follow his words. I this, Princess Donella Thrax, has convinced me that I have not been.
Let it be known:
From this day forward House Thrax shall no longer exclude women from the line of Succession. Let they have equal claims upon the title. Further, until I produce my own Heirs of the Body, Donella Thrax shall serve as my Designate Heir.
As for my vassals across the Isles, they are free to either follow my example or ignore it. We have always valued our independence in the East, and I will let them choose their own path rather than force their hand in this. Even if I strongly suspect there are a few Donellas out there who have, if not been wasted, then certainly not been used to their full potential for the advance of their Houses.
Prince Victus Thrax,
Highlord of Thrax
Prince of Maelstrom
Written By Victus
Feb. 26, 2017, 11:44 p.m.(1/1/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Calliope
Ward of Thrax: Magistrate
Lady Calliope Grimhall is hereby appointed my Magistrate for the Ward of Thrax, to provide counsel when required and justice in my absence.
Victus Thrax,
Highlord of Thrax
Prince of Maelstrom
Lady Calliope Grimhall is hereby appointed my Magistrate for the Ward of Thrax, to provide counsel when required and justice in my absence.
Victus Thrax,
Highlord of Thrax
Prince of Maelstrom
Written By Victus
Feb. 26, 2017, 10:26 a.m.(12/28/1005 AR)
There is a danger, always, of forgetting that if you name a man your enemy, chances are you will have named yourself his. If you then feel justified in acting against his interests, you must acknowledge that he is likewise justified in acting against yours. It is only reasonable.
Of course if cold reason ruled the world, it wouldn't look anything like it does.
Fear rules. Anger rules. Hate rules. Jealousy and spite and resentment and, yes, compassion and affections and soppy fucking love rules.
Bah. Where am I going with this?
I suppose when I was a Warlord, I rarely thought of these things. I said what I wanted to say, I did what I wanted to do. What enemies I made were either largely my own, or I was making them on the will of my Uncle, by iron and blood and fire.
Of course if cold reason ruled the world, it wouldn't look anything like it does.
Fear rules. Anger rules. Hate rules. Jealousy and spite and resentment and, yes, compassion and affections and soppy fucking love rules.
Bah. Where am I going with this?
I suppose when I was a Warlord, I rarely thought of these things. I said what I wanted to say, I did what I wanted to do. What enemies I made were either largely my own, or I was making them on the will of my Uncle, by iron and blood and fire.
Written By Victus
Feb. 26, 2017, 9:57 a.m.(12/27/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Abbas
The new Warlord of Thrax so far lives up to his reputation. He always wanted to prove himself, to be the dread fucking lord of the waves. Now he has a chance to ride the waves ahead of a whole fleet.
It is no easy thing, to let another man have the Leviathan while I sit in Arx. There is a great threat rising in the East, and every instinct says there is where I should be, not here.
At least I leave it in capable hands until I have time to be there in person.
It is no easy thing, to let another man have the Leviathan while I sit in Arx. There is a great threat rising in the East, and every instinct says there is where I should be, not here.
At least I leave it in capable hands until I have time to be there in person.
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