Dielo's Journal

November 23, 2005

Tomorrow is mine and Nicholas' seventeenth birthday. Vidad is refusing to come to the celebration, but he is old enough to make his own choices. He'll probably be down in Wayburg with delusions of grandeur, acting as if he's a self-proven noble with a personal army. Oh well, none of the cousins ever liked him anyway. Well, I'd better go. There are still lots of preperations to be made for tomorrow, and the servants will be ending their work shortly which means Nicholas and I have to pick up the slack.

November 24, 2005

What a party! Almost the entire family, and all of our friends were here! (except Vidad, of course) Grandpa Filador gave Nicholas and I each our own flocks of goats. He won't be too happy to find out that neither of us are planning on being farmers. The food and drink was all so wonderful, except for the souflee that Nicholas made last night after the cooks left. There was, of course, lots of ale to go around, and father even broke open the first cask of Lurgrod Lager brewed this year. Speaking of father, he gave the greatest gift that he possibly could. Nicholas and I never realized how well-off our family actually was, until father entrusted seventeen archers to my command, and seventeen infantrymen to Nicholas's command. I didn't even know we had hired soldiers, except for four men that guarded our gate at night. So, tomorrow, I'll have to register these men as my personal army, and enlist in the Redspan Army. Nicholas decided to leave home and go to the South East continent to make his living. He said it wouldn't be right to have two Filadors competing for recognition in one realm. He's leaving first thing tomorrow morning. I'm sure going to miss him.

November 25, 2005

I'm officially an independent, tax recieving nobleman of Redspan, now. I left home first thing in the morning. How glorious my men looked, and they were mine. They would do my bidding at any time of the day. There are about thirty-five other nobles and lords to meet. One named wagon is my mentor. I don't really care for her much. AJ is the military leader, and yells a lot. Manaydur is the King, Johannes the Royal Treasurer, Omenn the Arch Priest. Ry2n is the Duke of Stargard, Shamus is the Duke of Sullenport, and there are two military leaders named Leonard and Tony.