Written By Alarissa
Oct. 19, 2017, 12:31 a.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
I swear, if I wake to find bacon on the table for the next five months and change, I'll spear you like an octopus.
Written By Tikva
Oct. 19, 2017, 12:26 a.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Talen
Well, I definitely can't dispute the righteousness of that claim considering where his barony came from.
Written By Aureth
Oct. 19, 2017, 12:23 a.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
I will preface this writing by saying that Orazio is a better priest than I, and one I learn from, admire and respect, and that when he calls for compassion in correction in judgment, it's entirely possible that there is a reason that some people still call him the Heart of Solace.
But what I have to say is this:
If you truly desire to learn from a mistake, it must first be recognized.
How do you quantify a mistake, then, a transgression that need be learned from?
Skald granted us the freedom to choose our paths, and with that freedom comes the ability to choose wrongly. Yet even from wrong footing there are many paths that one can take. One can continue down the wrong path, determinedly and despite all logic, clinging to the certainty that one cannot possibly have been wrong.
It is easy to do. It may even be the easiest thing to do. But it is by the grace of Lagoma that we may choose again, and change; that if we identify that mistake, we may embrace it, recognize it, do something else, become something else. We do not have to continue to be wrong.
But in the face of the determination to continue to be wrong, it is very, very easy to grow afire with rage. I can think of little more maddening than the insistence of a person, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that they are right, when they are quantifiably not.
It is the lesson of the Thirteenth, for me at least, to examine myself: to recall that I am that person, that I am the one who believes myself to be right, and will not unstick myself from that position for love nor money. The difference being, I tell myself, I know myself to be right.
To any who read this, and know themselves to be right, remember the lesson of the Thirteenth, remember the gift of Skald, remember the grace of Lagoma.
Rule one is this: remember that because we can choose, we can choose wrongly. Rule two is this: Remember that although we can choose wrongly, we can choose again, and change. And rule three is this: remember that if you believe yourself to be right, always, ... you should remember rule one.
But what I have to say is this:
If you truly desire to learn from a mistake, it must first be recognized.
How do you quantify a mistake, then, a transgression that need be learned from?
Skald granted us the freedom to choose our paths, and with that freedom comes the ability to choose wrongly. Yet even from wrong footing there are many paths that one can take. One can continue down the wrong path, determinedly and despite all logic, clinging to the certainty that one cannot possibly have been wrong.
It is easy to do. It may even be the easiest thing to do. But it is by the grace of Lagoma that we may choose again, and change; that if we identify that mistake, we may embrace it, recognize it, do something else, become something else. We do not have to continue to be wrong.
But in the face of the determination to continue to be wrong, it is very, very easy to grow afire with rage. I can think of little more maddening than the insistence of a person, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that they are right, when they are quantifiably not.
It is the lesson of the Thirteenth, for me at least, to examine myself: to recall that I am that person, that I am the one who believes myself to be right, and will not unstick myself from that position for love nor money. The difference being, I tell myself, I know myself to be right.
To any who read this, and know themselves to be right, remember the lesson of the Thirteenth, remember the gift of Skald, remember the grace of Lagoma.
Rule one is this: remember that because we can choose, we can choose wrongly. Rule two is this: Remember that although we can choose wrongly, we can choose again, and change. And rule three is this: remember that if you believe yourself to be right, always, ... you should remember rule one.
Written By Blacktongue
Oct. 18, 2017, 10:56 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Arianna
I have never feared for my job security more than I do now.
Written By Mydas
Oct. 18, 2017, 10:44 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
I cannot praise highly enough the tailoring skills of Dame Morrighan. She surpassed even Lycene masters with their own fabrics, and has done phenomenal work, as always. She is a testament to Northern craft, and one I shall not tire to compliment.
Much to her continued embarrassment.
Much to her continued embarrassment.
Written By Thena
Oct. 18, 2017, 10:10 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Killian
The Legate's very same words struck me tonight as well. I have behaved badly, and I regret my previous journal post.
Written By Killian
Oct. 18, 2017, 9:41 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
"As for attitudes, it is important to recognize that the Sentinel calls us to judge and punish justly, and proportion with the offense, and to do so out of a sense of love and a desire to correct...not a malicious pleasure in others' discomfiture or public humiliation. Thus, we should judge ourselves first, and when we act, do so out of a desire to spark improvement, not simply to castigate."
-Legate Orazio
The Legate's words tonight were an inspiration, I wish that more than a handful had been there to hear what he said.
-Legate Orazio
The Legate's words tonight were an inspiration, I wish that more than a handful had been there to hear what he said.
Written By Merek
Oct. 18, 2017, 9:36 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
When I use man in my journals by the way, I meant mankind, humanity. Just so people know that woman is also included in that. I know this is a little bit random, but I just wanted it noted for future reference since I like to use the phrase often as a scholar.
Written By Arianna
Oct. 18, 2017, 9:36 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
Hahahaha! That is something he'd say. I'm gonna have to use it. Thank you kindly for the advice Your Grace.
Written By Merek
Oct. 18, 2017, 9:35 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
As for all this talk of nobility and jokes as well as charity, I would like to state that the Faith of the Pantheon and the Scholars both have charities related to various things. I'd also like to mention that Princess Valencia runs one of the most successful charities that I know. I'm not going to comment on the conversations I've read, except to give people venues to put their charity towards should it be wished. We are all the same in that we are all men, and all men need the same thing. Food, water, shelter. Let's make sure we can get as many people as we can those things.
Written By Merek
Oct. 18, 2017, 9:33 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Harald Grimhall and Faelan Navegant have both my thanks as well as respect. I can't put into words what I saw on the battlefield, except that without the actions of these two, our retreat wouldn't have been as successful.
Written By Jack
Oct. 18, 2017, 8:48 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Arx is a strange, strange place.
Today I watched one nobleman accuse another nobleman of besmirching a noblewoman. Apparently the one called the lady stupid?
After losing the duel, the offender repeated how stupid it all was, and how the lady lacked common sense.
I seem to recall duels being settled a bit different in the Oathlands. And I seem be saying "things are different in the Oathlands" a lot.
I'm beginning to feel like a bit of a hayseed. This big city living...
~ Jack Bathwater
Today I watched one nobleman accuse another nobleman of besmirching a noblewoman. Apparently the one called the lady stupid?
After losing the duel, the offender repeated how stupid it all was, and how the lady lacked common sense.
I seem to recall duels being settled a bit different in the Oathlands. And I seem be saying "things are different in the Oathlands" a lot.
I'm beginning to feel like a bit of a hayseed. This big city living...
~ Jack Bathwater
Written By Talen
Oct. 18, 2017, 8:46 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Tikva
Sorry, he's too busy doing paperwork for me.
Audric, get back to it, won't you? You have taxes to pay now, you son of a bitch.
Audric, get back to it, won't you? You have taxes to pay now, you son of a bitch.
Written By Alis
Oct. 18, 2017, 8:37 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
Was the shit taken off of the side of a ship? Because I have heard that is very difficult to do. I can see how it would require enough concentration that you would forget all other concerns for a time.
Plus, splinters. Ouch.
Plus, splinters. Ouch.
Written By Tikva
Oct. 18, 2017, 8:21 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Audric
His lordship the Captain-General, Baron Audric de Lire, makes such a habit of watching my back I'm beginning to think I should just keep him on permanent retainer.
Except that even on the allowance of a Grayson Princess, I'm not sure I could afford it. . .
Except that even on the allowance of a Grayson Princess, I'm not sure I could afford it. . .
Written By Victus
Oct. 18, 2017, 8:20 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Arianna
My cousin Dominic, rest his soul, had a familiar term he would go back to whenever things were too heated for his discourse.
"I'm going to go take a shit, be back later." And so he would. I impart this wisdom onto you, Lady Stonewood. May it help in your future discussions that turn loud and unsavory.
"I'm going to go take a shit, be back later." And so he would. I impart this wisdom onto you, Lady Stonewood. May it help in your future discussions that turn loud and unsavory.
Written By Tikva
Oct. 18, 2017, 8:18 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
I stand here alive today to speak of it because of the furious courage of two men with whom I shared a battlefield, two men with whom I had never so much as shared a word before it happened so. One of them I knew by reputation; the other was a stranger to me entire.
Harald Grimhall, Duke of Gri'helm's Point. Lord Faelan Navegant. Defenders against the storm.
They were the blessing of Gloria incarnate upon that battlefield. If they had fallen, it would have been an end for song and story. And yet they _lived_. They lived to fight again, to defy the Abyss another day.
Bless you both.
I am humbled. I am grateful. And I yet live.
Some debts can never be repaid. This one will never be forgotten.
Harald Grimhall, Duke of Gri'helm's Point. Lord Faelan Navegant. Defenders against the storm.
They were the blessing of Gloria incarnate upon that battlefield. If they had fallen, it would have been an end for song and story. And yet they _lived_. They lived to fight again, to defy the Abyss another day.
Bless you both.
I am humbled. I am grateful. And I yet live.
Some debts can never be repaid. This one will never be forgotten.
Written By Victus
Oct. 18, 2017, 8:18 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Actually now that I read through the rest of the entries today, could have picked a better day to talk about bacon.
Written By Victus
Oct. 18, 2017, 8:10 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Over the week I took some time to partake in an Oathland's delicacy called 'honey bacon'. It's slices of pig that are cooked and steam drizzled with sticky bee stuff. I've eaten a lot of strange things in my time but fuck me did /that/ one make me feel fat. I think my heart is about ready to burst from how it keeps trying to burn up through my throat.
Do I regret it though? Fuck no I don't. Maybe once every blue moon, when I don't need to make sure I'm mobile in the morning.
I'm told that knights of the Oathlands also do rigorous exercises in order to burn away what the sizzling-sweet shit does to your body. I have to think if they just skipped the bacon entirely they'd be the Compact's greatest warriors, but it seems like that's some sort of heresy in those parts. I can see why. If someone told me they didn't like to spear their own octopus on the table while it tries to escape the hunter with fork and knife, I'd believe they were pretty fucking weird too.
Do I regret it though? Fuck no I don't. Maybe once every blue moon, when I don't need to make sure I'm mobile in the morning.
I'm told that knights of the Oathlands also do rigorous exercises in order to burn away what the sizzling-sweet shit does to your body. I have to think if they just skipped the bacon entirely they'd be the Compact's greatest warriors, but it seems like that's some sort of heresy in those parts. I can see why. If someone told me they didn't like to spear their own octopus on the table while it tries to escape the hunter with fork and knife, I'd believe they were pretty fucking weird too.
Written By Audric
Oct. 18, 2017, 8:08 p.m.(6/5/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Arianna
When you're caught misbehaving, the more you bluster and blather, the worse you look. Just, you know, an old Boroughs orphan's advice. You get away with so much more if you know when to shut up.
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