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Written By Acacia

April 16, 2017, 12:19 p.m.(4/14/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Thena

Thena's competent. I can still see the Grayhope in her, which isn't a bad thing, really. She keeps just enough of a sparkle to keep one interested in what she's going to do next. I'll probably always prefer her not in Iron armor, but we all find our place.

Written By Estaban

April 16, 2017, noon(4/14/1006 AR)

So I have become part of the Iron Guard, I wear their armor and their badge but I do not yet feel part of them. But this I hope will pass soon enough I am still new and I am just getting to know the other Iron Guards. I do know that I am starting to find my way, my path is starting to become a bit more clearer now. I do hope that my father is pleased that I have not shrugged something like this off to the wind and that I have decided to put myself into something more then adventure.

Written By Harper

April 16, 2017, 11:35 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Merek

Another one of us in th' Guard. He ain't too bad for someone that uses a lot of words (a lot. a whole lot. a looooot) on account of the dagger he gave me. I've started practicin with it by tossin it across m'room at the Crown and into th' wall on th' other side of the target I drew up an' pinned there. I might even get good enough to win a game o'darts at th' Murder.

Written By Calypso

April 16, 2017, 11:28 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Fiora

I've always felt the women in my family tend to hold this kind of fierce self confidence and determined air about them. Fiora is no different. Though she may shy away from openly displaying such, I see it in her in our private conversations. She has a good head on her shoulders, a swift thinker. In the past she has very much dodged responsibility and commitment, I see now that the tides have begun to change. I'm glad she is back in the city and willing to show her fierce determination.

Family is everything. I can't say enough good about mine. They are everything to me.

Written By Peregrine

April 16, 2017, 11:24 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Tikva

...as dictated to a scribe of Vellichor...

It is like home to hear the Heron Lady. We did not keep words on paper with ink. There it was songs. Our lives were with music. My own Temmas had a voice that could bring the sun from behind clouds. Tikva is like this. She brings smiles and songs. She is sunshine and her little lord is very lucky to have such a mother. Little things grow best in sunlight.

Written By Peregrine

April 16, 2017, 11:18 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Reese

...as dictated to a priest of Vellichor...

She was named Princess Ribbons to me. Her colours are bright, in the forest she would be seen for a very long way because of them but I think it would be no bad thing for her. She sees clearly. She sees me as people, she sees the Gold Feathers as what they are. She is the first to say, "Peregrine, what do you think about this?" and not only once. I like this Princess Ribbons. When Calarian says, "Soft is not weakness," it is this one I think of.

Written By Peregrine

April 16, 2017, 11:13 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Cara

...as dictated to a priest of Vellichor...

The little mother is strong. She is fierce as any falcon and will hatch a fierce chick. When Bringers come she fights without armour or weapons. She makes armour, she makes weapons, with what is around her. She is one who would do well in the wilds but it is good she is here. I look to her for how to be here.

Written By Mydas

April 16, 2017, 11:02 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Of course Brand has a plan. But one does not offer an ultimatum out of the kindness of one's heart. If he gives an ultimatum now, it's because he considers that plan of his risky, that he would rather win this without having to risk so much of his forces. He's not counting on us accepting of course. He only wants to divide to better conquer, weaken his enemy before the finishing blow.

So let's not give the bastard what he wants.

Written By Calaudrin

April 16, 2017, 11:01 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Surrender? Who has time for that? I have refugees to recruit. One of them hit me with a rotten tomato today. It's going well.

Written By Harper

April 16, 2017, 10:21 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Sparte's so funny he made me snort coffee all over the page 'fore this and all the ink ran. Shame 'cause it was a masterwork.

Which, for one: coffee. (It's so good. Scholar's gotta cuppa too. And one them iced buns on account of lettin me write this while eatin.)

For second: the page 'fore this was a list of words synonymous (my new word, see) with ass. I counted sixty-eight before I quit.

For third: Can we use that white flag in the Iron Guard barrack latrines? Askin for a friend.

Written By Calypso

April 16, 2017, 10:20 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Given the recent events pertaining to Prince Abbas' choice of tactics at war, I've considered beginning a document on the honorable conduct of war. Something to be discussed and agreed upon by the High Lords of the realm. We do not condone the killing of innocents and the slaughter of nations. Leave the merciless killing and brutal acts of war to those who chose to face it for their cause.

A task to be discussed after this war is won. Let none distract us from the goal at hand.

Written By Merek

April 16, 2017, 10:14 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Recently, we have received an ultimatum from Brand. He would not do this if he didn't have a plan. While some think it's being over-confident, I think he has a plan. We must continue to thwart him in the city. Two weeks. We have to be vigilant. But for once, I think I'm going to relax for a day while Meeka handles the logistics of my funds and charitable works. A massage, a nice bath, and perhaps a little shopping to give back to the community. Afterwards, I have things to make for people.

Written By Sparte

April 16, 2017, 10:13 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

'Blah blah blah surrender and die or don't surrender and die anyway.' I don't know who writes Brand's ultimatums but their career is as dead as his hopes of winning this siege.

Written By Simone

April 16, 2017, 10:02 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Dear Gentle Readers:

There is no doubt that war is terrible. It is the greatest catastrophe that can befall human beings. It brings death and destruction, merciless slaughter and butchery, disease and starvation, poverty and ruin in its wake. I only have only to think of the havoc that was wrought to each individual near and abroad and I pray to the Gods - the old and the new - for peace.

But, somehow, we must recognize and come to terms with the fact that it is a necessary, inescapable terror. A glance at the past of the world will show war has been a recurrent phenomenon in our history. No period has been free from the devastating effects of war.

In view of it seems futile to talk of permanent, everlasting peace. It's this worry that has caused an unpredictable shift of my being. Concerns that I assumed were a result of my exhaustion. Lingering worry. Deep dread. I thought that this was the time that I was supposed to realize the wonders of impending motherhood.

Instead, things are less wonderful. If there is one thing you can expect when you are having a child, it's that everyone will have will have some witty remark or sympathies given in earnest. Someone reassured me that I will never have decent sleep again. Which, by the way, I've decided that anyone who is amused by my impending sleep deprivation, reveal themselves to be rather sadistic. Don't you think?

The thing is, I don't really know what I should expect.

I do have the strength of will to find out.

M. Simone Greenmarch

4/13/1006 AR

Written By Mirari

April 16, 2017, 8:14 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

If this siege is making you feel dirty, I have soaps! I just added blackberry hair tonic, in fact.

Written By Silas

April 16, 2017, 5:56 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

I got myself a set of rubicund armor.

I feel very... red.

Written By Mira

April 16, 2017, 3:55 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Jhond

A friend of my father, who used to tease me as a girl. Now all grown up into...a courtesan? Didn't see that one coming...

Written By Mira

April 16, 2017, 3:53 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Ford

My patron, who curiously doesn't seem to be that interested in the law.

Written By Mira

April 16, 2017, 3:53 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Audric

A scoundrel and a rogue! Very charming, dashing, handsome--wait. Stay focused. Still a rogue. Gruff. Irreverent. But he does pay well.

Written By Audric

April 16, 2017, 3:45 a.m.(4/13/1006 AR)

All these people writing about how bad they feel about killing! It confuses me, I have to say, as a man who's devoted his life to leading an army of killers to kill other people for coin. Here's the advice I shall offer, to those with heavy hearts about it: it gets easier. Eventually, you start to get bored with it, really! Or you learn exactly how to drink to stop it bothering you. Me? I drink because it makes everyone else more entertaining and, really, most people are dreadfully boring without it.

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