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by Valonia
Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:33 am
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: The Five of Cups
Replies: 2
Views: 10101

Re: The Five of Cups

"Currently, runic magic is still too weak, too alien to the known laws of Britannian magic to be effective. If, however, there were to be another weakening of the interdimensional walls, the knowledge might become useful. However, if this were to occur it would be impossible to foresee how the...
by Valonia
Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:27 pm
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: The Five of Cups
Replies: 2
Views: 10101

Re: The Five of Cups

The road to Yew was as it normally was these days: rife with bandits, wild beasts, and undead. Things didn’t really seem to be getting better, even if Valonia hadn’t noticed them getting any worse either. But as she might have to travel a bit more than she anticipated, she supposed should be gratefu...
by Valonia
Tue Feb 01, 2022 3:15 am
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: The Five of Cups
Replies: 2
Views: 10101

The Five of Cups

https://i.imgur.com/uFqGXk1.jpg "[The Five of Cups] is a card of emotional baggage and instability and can signify that you feel deep remorse, regret, anger, sorrow or disappointment. It is also the Minor Arcana card of abandonment and can either represent you being abandoned by someone signif...
by Valonia
Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:04 am
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: Hiraeth
Replies: 8
Views: 11337

Ash and Oak pt.3

Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless – Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra The Druids – that is what they call their magicians – hold nothing more sacred than mistletoe and a tree...
by Valonia
Tue Dec 21, 2021 11:08 pm
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: Hiraeth
Replies: 8
Views: 11337

Ash and Oak pt 2

Closer to evening, after bodies had been buried and supplies given, they gathered to discuss what they had learned. The farmer had offered them the use of his barn, which was currently empty. It was away from the main house (though not by too far), and afforded the group some privacy. It also meant ...
by Valonia
Tue Dec 21, 2021 11:03 pm
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: Hiraeth
Replies: 8
Views: 11337

Ash and Oak pt 1

What comes next? Is it regret? Time slowed when you left. And just like that, you were gone - Hayden Calnin, Haunt Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's sing...
by Valonia
Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:22 am
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: As vigil, the stone
Replies: 0
Views: 10049

As vigil, the stone

“The nation of all the Gauls is extremely devoted to superstitious rites... and employ the Druids as the performers of those sacrifices... Their funerals… are magnificent and costly; and they cast into the fire all things... which they suppose to have been dear to them when alive.” -Julius Caesar, ...
by Valonia
Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:43 am
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: Hiraeth
Replies: 8
Views: 11337

The Knight of Wands

https://i.imgur.com/KHLHP7p.jpg "Here begins the epitome on the knightly art of combat that was composed and created by Johannes Liechtenauer, who was a great master in the art… Because the art belongs to princes and lords, knights and squires, and they should know and learn this art, he has w...
by Valonia
Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:56 am
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: For what you have tamed
Replies: 0
Views: 10228

For what you have tamed

“Come and play with me,” proposed the little prince. “I am so unhappy.” “I cannot play with you,” the fox said. “I am not tamed.”… “What does that mean -- ‘tame’?” “It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox. “It means to establish ties… To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who ...
by Valonia
Sat Aug 21, 2021 1:29 am
Forum: Roleplaying Stories
Topic: Hiraeth
Replies: 8
Views: 11337

Frayed and Undone

"...and he honored him with the ritual of cremation, burning him together with his armor. Then he raised a barrow over his ashes, and all about were elm-trees planted by mountain nymphs, daughters of Zeus that beareth the aegis..." - The Iliad, Homer “The threads that had held Britannia a...