Written By Cicero
April 15, 2017, 9:21 a.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
Shipping. Trade. Food. Degraded.
Many hands, light work.
Written By Agnarr
April 15, 2017, 9:03 a.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
Written By Edward
April 15, 2017, 8:04 a.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valery
Written By Edward
April 15, 2017, 7:59 a.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
An arrow too, its flight was long,
They fell to earth, he knew not where,
So he searched from here to there.
Inside a heart, the song he found,
A song of love, that drew him 'round,
The arrow later, years long unbroke,
Where love was buried, beneath an oak.
Simple thing, to remember then,
Such things lost, can be found again,
Where its found, or in whom it will be,
Might bring lifelong joy, or tearful memory.
Written By Selene
April 15, 2017, 7:11 a.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
In an effort to keep something like this from escalating beyond a minor diplomatic situation and making the task of peace a harder one than it already is, I do urge all Houses and Families to wait until further developments have been made and announced before making any more proclamations. Thank you for your understanding and support in this matter.
In addition, two things:
*I will be meeting with all Great Houses, not just Thrax, to negotiate a treaty and law to implement that will ensure the acts committed by Prince Abbas Thrax never happen again.
*I am also meeting with Prince Calarian Grayson regarding application to the Diplomats to act on a more official basis in the future, should such situations arise.
Written By Dominique
April 15, 2017, 4 a.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
Written By Valery
April 15, 2017, 12:56 a.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
I've been told if I'm an assassin.
And I've been asked if I'm a spy.
I know at least one a joke, or I think so...
But I'm none.
And I don't know why anyone could think I am one...
Written By Serafine
April 15, 2017, 12:36 a.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
I am sorry, I cannot pore over the war-crime's of an ally's vassal while I'm in the middle of defending the city, and helping keep the evil beyond the walls from Ending Everything, and I am not going to condemn the House who sends soldiers to watch my back, my comrades' backs, my fellow men-and-women-in arms, and those I hold dear. It's common sense. You don't shit where you eat.
You want to raise a fuss? Fine. Can it wait until we've got this shit handled and the war is over and the Big Bads are dead and we're not in danger of starving? I can't defend my back and my front at the same gods damned time.
I'm too fucking busy dealing with the enemy before me than to make enemies inside the walls I live in.
Written By Harper
April 14, 2017, 11:58 p.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Ford
So. Milord Leather. I dunno if I got his name. If he gave it - I lost the damn thing after he knocked me over on my ass after our fight. He says he don't wear armor for ease of movement and to look good. There's a whole bunch of words I can use for a person that says that - but some of them might be too rude to write down forever, so I'll use the ones that the Scholar pointed out. Those words are: dandy, rake, and popinjay.
That last one is my favorite, so, I'm going to use it: Milord Popinjay.
Written By Harper
April 14, 2017, 11:50 p.m.(4/11/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
Written By Alarie
April 14, 2017, 10:04 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
Written By Reese
April 14, 2017, 10:03 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
I have killed more bringers than I can count, but I have also killed more Shavs than I can count and I am not proud of that.
All the Shavs that I have killed have been adults part of the attacking army, armed and engaging in combat.
In order to help spare those who can be spared, I target bringers first and if the Shavs stop attacking after the Bringers are dead, I let them go.
That being said my hands are stained. I expressed before that I was turning myself over to the faith regarding the attack on the pirate ship.
I journaled about this in great detail and I will not go back into such again, but one can read my old journals if desired.
Dominus Aldwin is a busy man, but finally we had a chance to speak. I am grateful he was able to make the time for me and the burdens of my soul.
The Dominus asked if I acted to the best of my ability and I said that I did not. Yes the pirates were armed and fighting back, but I could have given them a much greater chance for surrender and I did not. I expressed my regret as such is not the way of Gloria and the Sentinel.
The Doninus gave me a penance to serve. I am very grateful for such. I may not fully cleanse my hands, but it allows me hope for healing. The lingering stain will be a reminder. I will be serving my penance with Sir Armel of the Knights of the Solace and/or Sir Preston of the Templars by serving them for a time.
I have struggled greatly with the actions of Prince Abbas. I believe that his actions are offensive to the Gods. I urge him to speak with the Dominus as I did. I urge this for the sake of his soul and for the sake of those who have and may yet suffer under his cruelty.
My heart hurts for those who followed him into slaughter and yet ignorance is not an excuse, just as my ignorance when I followed was not an excuse.
Let self-reflection, self-awareness and the guidance of the faith and the gods keep us from being the monsters who we fight.
Princess Reese
Written By Alarie
April 14, 2017, 9:53 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
Written By Merek
April 14, 2017, 9:49 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
Written By Ford
April 14, 2017, 9:19 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
I'm a child of three homes. When I lived in each of those homes I met so many different kinds of people, stuffy, brash, crude, lovely, warm, charming, sweet, upstanding, stalwart, heroic, and wise. I loved some, hated some, and was indifferent to others. One thing, however, that they all agree on, is that war is horrible.
It's a horrible, horrible thing to do to people. Simply the notion of what it is is abhorrent. To gather up as many people that aren't -you- and send them knowingly to their deaths. There is inherently, no honor in that.
We are at war, The Compact, on two fronts. One here at home, and the other out in a sea that we haven't even mapped out properly yet. Unfortunately, during the theater at sea, some terrible things were done. They were done to secure victory, to ensure it. Do I agree with them? No. Not in the slightest. Did they sway the tide of that initial campaign? Unquestionably.
We can discuss and point fingers and condemn one another until we're all blue in the face about who committed a worse atrocity. Yes, the leadership of the Compact agreed that sending 13 people to a sacrificial ritual was in our best interest. Yes, biological warfare was used against Shavs in the Saffron, including innocent people.
This was all done in the name of survival. Because this is what war does to us. It turns us as a people into the worst versions of ourselves.
There is no right way or, GOOD way to fight a war. There is no honor in killing others. Condemning those fighting for us, all of us from the King, down to the poor bastard who hangs out in front of the Traders Tavern with a pot to collect silver. That doesn't inspire those of us who are fighting to continue fighting. But we will, because we must. Even if we come home to hateful words, condemnation, and rescinded trade agreements.
War fucking sucks. But someone has to fight it.
Written By Aleksei
April 14, 2017, 7:08 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
So maybe I can't quite grasp what brings the nobility to react first and foremost to a perceived insult than to an atrocity. Maybe I can't appreciate the immense responsibility that weighs on the shoulders of so many house leaders.
But I do appreciate tens of thousands slaughtered in as deliberately inhumane a manner as possible, many of them children and the elderly, many of them barely passingly affiliated with the Gyre. And I appreciate the fact that the man responsible was not a rogue pirate to be shuffled aside as someone else's responsibility, but a prince of House Thrax given the authority of military leadership. Given command of their entire fleet. His actions are the responsibility of House Thrax and reflect upon its members whether they want it to or not.
There's an easy way for House Thrax and all of its vassals to separate themselves from the actions of Prince Abbas: condemn him. Publicly stand against his actions. If you think that your pride is more important than the lives of tens of thousands of people, you are wrong. If you think that your pride is more important than the tenets of honorable combat given to us by Gloria, you are both wrong and heretical. If you cannot stand being splashed with the blood spilled by one of your own leaders, then get rid of him. Condemn him. I assure you that the Compact is desperate to believe you stand with those horrified by all of this. Give any sign at all that you can think of the lives of tens of thousands flayed and crucified or killed by the deliberate spread of disease before you can think of your pride and your reputation. The sanctity of honor and human lives are worth more than both.
Help the rest of us believe that you stand against butchery and atrocity by excising it from your own ranks. Please.
Written By Killian
April 14, 2017, 7:01 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
It makes me wonder..what sort of thing could do such damage. And what sort of thing might we find that would do such damage to the Bringers of Silence..it is said by some few that Elfblight Orchids are damaging to the sylv'alfar..is there another substance we could concoct to harm the Bringers? A perfume infused with the essence of the orchids for example, if it harms them too, or perhaps infused with some ground extract of alaricite...
I wonder if we have any alchemists interested in insane experiments.
Written By Reese
April 14, 2017, 6:54 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
Princess Reese
Written By Caelis
April 14, 2017, 5:48 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
May your hopes find safe harbors.
Written By Aiden
April 14, 2017, 5:20 p.m.(4/10/1006 AR)
- I was accepted as a clerk of the court. The Chief Magistrate believes I have a future ahead of me, if I work hard.
- I received more presents from a good friend, I wish I could express myself more.
- I met new friends!
- I asked a Whisper friend of mine to attend a theatre show with me.
- I was promised a picnic!
- I sent presents to friends.
- Family believes in me to send me to the Wall and inspire the archers.
- I helped train Lady Charlaine's icebear and word is getting around that I train animals!
Bad Things That Happened:
- My mail keeps getting intercepted and I keep getting threats. Threats against my friends and against me.
- I was in the Badger house when more Bringers attacked. I have been unlucky in going out places.
- I wasn't able to help a lady in a top hat on the street. I wish I could have given her money.
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