Athal writes to Raisse from Solay
He misses her so much, but he’s needed where he is. As Beguyan says, “there are lots of people who can fight, but only one who can do the king stuff”.
21-Sep-2009
27-Aug-2009
Cutting connections
Lots of events that Athal can’t tell because they happened literally behind his back (also behind a closed door, a courtyard or two and a stretch of ruined corridor with a small tree growing on it). Loose ends galore, but we ended the episode here anyway because tying them up wasn’t enough stuff for a whole session. We’ll probably do the rest in talk and mail.
08-Jul-2009
The battle for Solay
This ends on a cliffhanger; not of our choice —all of us much prefer closure— but the last train waits for no man, and it doesn’t care that the man happens to be a prince and an admiral and in the middle of a battle.
26-Jun-2009
25-Jun-2009
Off to war (1)
Part 1 of 2, or Athal’s fans will have to wait too long for me to find out some facts I’m not clear about.
Seeing the clerks in Beguyan’s headquarters, Athal asked for paper and a pen and wrote a note to Raisse: Off to war now. I love you. This travelled on the same ship as Aidan’s latest letter to Cora, so Raisse may get it soon after she reaches Valdis.
09-Nov-2008
Name of Athal
I swear on Queen Alyse’s grave that I didn’t know this.
Well, perhaps I did pick it up somewhere along the way when reading linguistics under the table in boring geography classes (or above the table in boring English classes; my teacher encouraged it as long as my grades stayed above 8-out-of-10 and what I read was in English) but it wasn’t a conscious choice, unlike orla “eagle” which I borrowed shamelessly from Church Slavonic because it analysed perfectly in Ilaini as “grand master bird” or “magic bird”.
But if I’d been aware of this connotation, I’d probably have gone out of my way to call him something else.
31-Jul-2008
19 (part I) - The rallying of Mernath
Athal’s last entry —well, the first part of it, because it’s another long one and I know that at least three people are waiting to read it— because we’re back in Valdyas and I’ve taken over the campaign again. I’m unlikely to stop posting roleplaying writeups, my own and others’, but this story arc is finished.
30-Jul-2008
19 (part II) - Home again (well, almost)
It felt very strange to be back in Valdyas, even though Sarabal is full of Síthi. It didn’t help that we were in Turenay rather earlier (in real time) than I’d expected and I had to take over almost unprepared.
Note: I don’t have much in the way of notes of this part; some of the facts may be inaccurate. If you were there and know better, don’t hesitate to tell me!
09-Jul-2008
18 - Much deliberation
Here’s Athal catching himself thinking like an Iss-Peranian, more than once. Fortunately, it’s likely that he’ll be on the next <shudder> ship home, and only because it wasn’t feasible to catch the one that was just leaving.
19-Jun-2008
17 - What a day
Was this really only one day? I think yes, though we slept for a few hours in the middle of it. It did end around midnight— the in-world day, that is, we ended neatly at 10:50.
Unresolved questions: what on earth was Selle’s message? It must have been important. And who was it that called Athal “priest of Timoine, Anshen and Mizran”? Sounds like the merchant-guild sisters, but I’m not sure.
