Fury Family
Primary Objective
To command the biggest, meanest, scariest press-gang ever to tromp through the countryside.
Secondary Objective
To be spotted wearing into battle the latest in unique artifacts.
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Heraldic Description:
PER SALTIRE GULES AND SABLE A PALE OR THREE MULLETS SABLE
DEO VOLENTE - GOD WILLING
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There Be Monsters
Where there be monsters, there be Guardians of Ered Luin
Whether old or youngsters, we'll leave them all in ruins
For we march and we march, 'cause it's worth doing
To clear the realm of monsters, we be Guardians of Ered Luin
Through mountains steep and valleys low
We tread where very few shall dare to go
Though snow shall fall and rivers flow
We be Guardians so onward trudge, yo-ho!
Now here we are, and where you be?
No monsters here, they saw us come and had to flee!
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
In my search for bling bling
Nobles started to sing sing
Because I wanted to bring bring
Something from my older sibling
Alas, it's true. My late grandfather's forays into Eston proved too much to handle for the common womenfolk. He claims that the act happened by divine inspiration, thus the child was named Divine Fury, though I strongly suspect it was more of a divine opportunity that seized the day. Still, the family of Fury are a secretive lot as we are rather hard to name, or so I'm told.
Nonetheless, my brother quests to be a noble one day and can handle any balls any ladies might wish to throw but could they handle... er... his? He is handsome as can be though not so more than me.
Also, how could anyone think I would cheat my own brother, flesh and blood that he is? Certainly I must think of his welfare, rolling around in the mud in his sleep while I have my silk tent and my silk bedsheet. And he certainly could get a helping hand improving his adventure gear like with his rusty knife, though stabbing monsters with it might kill them from infection.
I like to think too that status and priviledges in life are a matter of fate and the life to which one is born in. My brother may yet prove to be the better man. After all, we all put on our pantaloons one leg at a time.
No one gets out alive :P
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Monsters, you beasts of the realm!
Hear me now you shallow stomach-leading fiends!
You may strike down my men on the battlefield,
You may rip them apart and gnaw on them,
You may knock me down unconscious
But you will never, ever,
And I mean never, ever,
Really mean never, ever,
Rip my Adorned Chain Mail of Strength (+5 Prestige - updated)
Off my cold dead body!
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
I would have sent this message to the Foresters guild but perhaps there are some issues that deserve the attention of the realm.
There is a small undead army in Hidale, not large enough yet for military action but led by an undead champion whom my adventurer brother could not handle. He will have to rest and try again.
I don't think adventurers in CE are not trying hard enough. I think it's excellent that Hetdrow (if I'm not mistaken) is identifying areas suggestive of trouble. It may be that these adventurers have their own agendas such as looking for or repairing items but perhaps the roots go deeper still. I recall, I don't know who and it wasn't my brother, that one such adventurer said in the Foresters guild "that's precisely why I work in other realms and not in CE", something like that and not my words. I gather that it was the way adventurers were treated in CE - that is with little respect and perhaps bordering on contempt. Then there was a case, very recently,of a peasant achieving noble status after years of dedication who called out for a liege lord. If I remember correctly, he was largely ignored and moved on to greener pastures.
In a hierachical society such as ours, yes peasants are below us. Likewise knights are below Lords who are below Dukes (where does that leave priests?). That brings the question of being below in what sense? - on an imaginary and self-created social scale. It simply doesn't exist not unless the majority maintains it. Then the delusion continues. A caste system based on occupation is fine. Caste discrimination is not. It all boils down to the attitude.
Am I suggesting the liberation of peasants? Granting of priviledges? Societal code does not condone it. More importantly, the System prohibits it. A peasant can be made general (if my research is not wrong) who can then be arrested by a noble. What am I suggesting then? A change in attitude towards peasants. Recognise them as humans. Treat them harshly and they rebel. Treat them unfairly and they move on and offer their services to other realms.
Adventurers do not ask for and receive little recognition from the average noble, until his services are needed, that is.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
I first wish to pay my respects to Lord Caledor Von Ulthuan, Viscount of Trawiy. I have not had the pleasure of personal correspondence with him and it is my loss.
I also wish to state that I am running as a candidate for the local lord of Trawiy. If I am deemed unworthy then there is no better way than to deny me again. I have been called a troublemaker by some. Of what trouble I do not know. From time to time I hear from friends and noble colleagues that my name is mentioned in the senate. Not being in the senate, I do not know the delicious/salacious? details and I have never asked what they are. It would be an interesting read, I'm sure.
I do know that all I have ever said or done was for the betterment of Cagilan. If my opinions or thoughts differ from the senate and this difference would upset the balance then leaving me out will send that message. But I find that I must speak my mind whenever I have to. If there is something to be said I must say it. If this is considered un-noble, un-knightly and un-lordly, there is nothing I can do about it. For the record, in the current debate, the bottom line of my message was an explanation of and an exhortation to the nobles of Cagilan to treat their subjects better.
I humbly await your decision.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Many in Ered Luin are now demoralized by this scandal and many are now said to be unwilling to follow you into battle, let alone allow you to command them... Prime Minister Samuel has already been approached and now asks about a replacement at the behest of other TLs...You are to be relieved of command effectively and immediately. A new SiC will be appointed shortly.
Why not ban me as well? For my social views and connections? The Empire can withstand enemy soldiers but shudders when I speak? It can tolerate dissension and disagreements with its allies but not within its own borders? Indeed the quill is mightier than the sword.
The men we lead into battle - are they not peasants? Do they not bond cohesively as they train and fight together along with the TL? Do we not grieve each time we lose men or a Captain? Or is the grief due to our lost gold and effort in training them? Basically, our lost pride and prestige rather than a genuine sense of grief? Showing grief for peasants on one hand and disdain on the other is simply hypocritical.
Social faux paux - It amazes me that me such an issue agitates nobles into heated discussions, requests and accusations and even demoralizes the army. I see no rule, law or tradition that requires a knight to ride roughshod over a peasant. Your squire - he who helps you wear your armour - do you slap him about for helping you don your armour wrong? Your messengers, do you whip them when they get your message wrong? Embarassingly for me, many nobles do. I have never laid the blame on my messengers when it was I who dictated it wrong.
Do you feel no connection with your men? Must any relation purely be lord and servant? Being a lord, does it mean we have to lord it over others? Is this how we inspire loyalty and bond with our subjects? It is no wonder then that our frontline regions are continually slipping from our grasps. The tighter we grip the more they slip away. And yet we continue to appoint the same lords that the peasants, yes the peasants kick out. Then we go back in and hang a few of them to flex our might and show them who's lord.
In this sense, I believe I have shown what it really means to be a noble, of noble blood and noble heart - and not just in name. The accusations against me is a social oppression and I am more sad than angry at my inability to convince anyone.
Good day.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Where have I said that we must treat peasants as nobles? I said treat them with respect due to another human being. I know there are many who do not need to feel superior towards peasants or show it in their attitudes. Blood is thicker than water and this saying is even older than our society. I have defended my kin as unobtrusively as I can against societal norms and even then all I asked for was a better attitude - not granting of rights and priviledges as a noble.
Those of us in the Order will know as we will even choose to help members of the Order even if he was an enemy of the Empire (ooc: see Wiki). Peasants have little rights, yes they do have rights - the rights to live and breathe - but hardly any right to go against a noble. I have brought this up because I find the prevailing attitude of nobles towards peasants a disturbing and dangerous trend. If a peasant, your subject, seeks you out for justice, will you not speak out? Read for yourselves and judge.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Cagilans,
I am ashamed of many of you. An able and committed Knight is slighted for his father's procreative urges... and by many who have not shown more noble behaviour then my boot-laces have! Sir Celestial Fury is one of the most dedicated and inspired Knights that have ever served Vornion, always searching to better the County and the Empire! He himself is a true noble, of blood and mind, who would rather shed his blood than see an innocent man suffer injustice, who feels compassion for his fellow man and fulfils his duties with loyalty and perseverance!
Yes, he has a bastard brother! Let all of you who are in the same position but have been hypocritical enough to remain silent about it think about what your opposition to Sir Celestial truly entails! As all of us he was born of noble blood and is of noble breading, his sense of humanity and civilisation is even more developed than most nobles I know, and for this you choose to degrade him?!
Yes, Sir Celestial, the quill is ever mightier than the sword, but should only be so when employed with intelligence and skill. Even the quill is powerless against the foul stench of bigotry and misplaced sentiments of superiority…
All Cagilan banners in County Vornion will fly low today, for something in the Empire, what has once made it great, has died…
in honour,
Sir Cullen O'Ways Earl of Vornion
This has to be a fake letter to Celestial Fury. There is no scandal. There is no demoralization of Ered Luin or unwillingness to follow our Second in Command into battle. Relieved of command by who's authority? Certainly not our Prime Minister's. This is ridiculous.
I have bled for Sir Fury and he for me in the heat of battle, defending the empire. All of Ered Luin has bled for the empire. We are all now, and forever shall be in service of the empire. Just because he speaks of those we command as 'friends' in our war camps while having an ale or three before another battle in service of the empire is no reason to punish him.
His position as a SiC should not be in question here. Do not punish him for saying something you believe to be politically incorrect, please. Not everyone feels that way and I would be surprised if anyone in Ered Luin feels that way about him. I will continue to follow his lead and expertise on the battlefield for it has proven to be sound and wise.
If you do not want to listen to his rants in the battle tent then ignore it. I assure you that the next day, when Ered Luin rides into battle with Celestial Fury in its ranks, the troops give 200%. 100% for effort and 100% respect!
Sincerely,
Jeren Mithril Tybonn (Knight of Ansalle)
Lord Samuel,
I'm not a member of the Ered Luin, but I also wish to state that - if I were a member - I would gladly follow Sir Celestial into battle.
I sure hope the letter that was sent to him, is fake and means nothing. Should he be replaced I seriously doubt that this is the Cagilan Empire I've been fighting for - and lost many good men while doing so.
Faeryl Firesong (Dame of Cagil)
Nobles of the Empire,
Prime Minister Samuel also happens to be the Sponsor for the Ered Luin. He has the full authority to switch both the Marshal and the SIC.
As for the call to relieve Sir Celestial, it was I who made that request.
Now some of you are questioning why he was relieved. I shall explain.
Sir Celestial is an excellent fighter and a brave defender of the realm. There is no question about that.
Moreover, he was my pupil when I was Viscountess of Rauxod and a Mentor. He was a very good student, asking lots of questions and curious about the workings of the realm.
However, it has become apparent that I failed to instill in him a sense of the proper heirarchy of the Empire. Nay, the world! I have tried to repair this mistake through conversations with Sir Celestial, but to no avail.
Peasants have their uses. Adventurers (both outlaws and freemen) are very useful. Yet they are still baseborn. We are nobles. There is no crossing of that line. Ever.
Sir Celestial, while an able warrior, cannot be trusted with command over others if he does not recognize this fundamental difference.
This hierarchy is the way of the world.
If one cannot recognize and obey this order, one must accept the consequences.
Thank you,
Lady Renee Quasath Duchess of Nida
Lord Marshal Zond and Lady Duke Quasath,
With all due respect, I would like to request reassignment from the Guardians of Ered Luin if indeed Sir Celestial is to be relieved of his secondary command. During Lord Zond's imprisonment, Sir Fury commanded our army with temperance, decisiveness, and daring, showing all of the qualities that mark a man for military greatness. Though I may disagree with some of his personal views, I could not speak ill of a member of my family, even a bastard of a peasant. My life has been saved before by commoners fighting along side me. It is they who truly spill their blood for our crown. Just because they lack the intelligence of nobles is no reason for persecution. Even the basest smelling of flowers, with the sharpest of thorns has power in the hands of a true healer, just as the lowest men of the empire may have use if utilized properly by their lords. I have no desire to fight in an army that punishes the free expression of its leaders and will put pride before intelligent leadership, as Sir Celestial is without doubt the best man for the job. I will, of course, stay on and fight if it is required of me, but I respectfully request reassignment to the Eaglin Eagles if Marshal Kinsey is willing.
In Honor and Defense,
Auron D'Koran (Knight of Esgalons)
Knight Fury-
Noble or no, if your willing to take arms and fight the enemies of the Empire, I will reserve a place in formation for you. Just keep a wide birth as I tend to lose sense of friend or foe in the heat of battle. When the battle rage is in my heart it is kill or be killed. My allegiance is to the Empire and my Duke, I care not for politics.
Upon arrival in Trawiy, in honor of Caledor, where should a knight find the ale that he might share a drink with comrades in honor of the fallen?
Dougan Prestongreen (Knight of Skalk)
Duchess Renee,
if you felt that Sir Celestial has done something wrong, you should refer him to Judge Milan, who can then decide what punishment, if any, would be appropriate.
If you do not like Judge Milan's decisions, you are free to run against him in the next election.
With all due respect, I do not recall the realm electing you as Judge. So I believe demanding Sir Celestial's removal is a bit pre-mature.
Sir Enri Kinsey Viscount of Ravening, Marshal of the Eaglin Eagles
I would like to make public my vote on the issue of "Is it tolerable for a noble to consider a peasant kin".
I believe that the answer is yes, if only because we cannot alter the fact that there are occasions where a nobleman has slept with a peasant, and the peasant girl bore a child from it. While that resulting offspring is not a noble, they are kin to the nobleman's legitimate children. I do not see any good reason that the children of the two mothers should be forbidden from correspondence.
I would wish however, that Celestial Fury would quit stating his relationship with his common kin. I'm starting to get the impression that he's proud of the relationship that he has with a peasant.
Jasper Kirias Earl of Ansalle
Celestial Fury,
I don't like to participate in heated discussions but i would like to tell you some words.
You talk about social oppression. What that means? Do you expect anything else when you talk and act as if peasants were our peers? That goes against the roots of our society. I don't whip peasants if there is no reason, i don't believe in such actions but they cannot decide there own fate, if they try they should be punished. That is how our world works and those are the rules, you contribute to them by being a noble. Do you want to change this society? Perhaps you will be happier in a world without nobility, then you should take a sword, join the peasants and change it with blood. If you do, you will see how the same peasants you defend will be the firsts to fight against you.
Sincerely,
Sir Nuno Freire de Andrade (Knight of Eaglin)
Where have I said that we must treat peasants as nobles? I said treat them with respect due to another human being. I know there are many who do not need to feel superior towards peasants or show it in their attitudes. Blood is thicker than water and this saying is even older than our society. I have defended my kin as unobtrusively as I can against societal norms and even then all I asked for was a better attitude - not granting of rights and priviledges as a noble.
Those of us in the Order will know as we will even choose to help members of the Order even if he was an enemy of the Empire (ooc: see Wiki). Peasants have little rights, yes they do have rights - the rights to live and breathe - but hardly any right to go against a noble. I have brought this up because I find the prevailing attitude of nobles towards peasants a disturbing and dangerous trend. If a peasant, your subject, seeks you out for justice, will you not speak out? Read for yourselves and judge.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Shanka Foonfa Courcelle, Duke of Cagil has appointed Gorm as the new Viscount of Trawiy.
For as long as I have been here, the Prime Minister was always the one appointing new local lords. Why has the Duke of Cagil done the appointment this time? Was this a personal decision or was political pressure brought to bear? Was this by proxy?
Why was the election not allowed to run its course? Was I the only candidate? Is this a plot to deny me a fair chance? Why did we not see if I had support or not through voting?
I protest, I strongly protest at this oppression, a secret pact of the highest order. It is an abuse of power and process. I urge anyone who believes in justice to protest as well. If this can happen to me it can happen to you. I may not agree with you but I would defend your right to be heard and justice to be served and not to be discriminated against because of it.
To protest is sometimes the only option of dealing with someone abusing his powers, short of leaving the realm. More importantly, however, it makes your voice heard in a way that can not be easily ignored, for it can carry consequences - if many members of the realm protest, the abusive character might even be removed from the position he abused.
I have been advised that this is the risk and the path I chose by speaking that which those do not wish to hear. To this, I say: Nothing ventured, nothing gained... No guts, no glory. And also: if you want to be seen, stand up, if you want to be heard, speak up, if you want to be respected, shut up. I want to be respected but I want to be heard more.
Position is a precarious things. The higher up the social ladder you are the harder the fall. Position is a fleeting thing and what is given can be taken away. Nobles, do not love you position so much that you fear speaking up. Power tends to corrupt and if we do not keep it in check, who will?
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Forgive me for correction you Sir Nuno Freire de Andrade, but I do have a sense of hierachy along with a healthy sense of respect and have properly addressed them. It has been said that how we treat our servants is reflective of how we really (in our hearts) treat our peers and seniors. You were most kind in suggesting that I have not been removed yet as SiC so we should not jump the sword so to speak and I thank you for that.
However, your brother is poised to become the ruler of Coria and perhaps you might like to suggest that his rule be tempered with justice and fairness unlike that which I have been subjected to here.
I do too have a clue about how this realm and this senate works. The government machinery (ooc: protest options) does NOT allow me to protest against dukes and from the recent switch in region loyalties I doubt he is behind this (I will stand corrected). The government machinery only allows me to protest against the PM, the General, the Judge, and the Banker. Go through your options to protest and see for yourself. As I said, having searched past records, the PM has been the one doing the appointing. Now suddenly there is a change and I can only make one assumption and as the ruler he must take the responsibility for all appointments.
Will you, Sir Nuno Freire de Andrade remain calm and not heated if this is happening to you? Of course you would not because you will not be in this situation in the first place. I like everyone. I just do not like some of the things they do to me. I don't know if this is personal (ooc: or RP gone out of control) but I protest. I protest with all my heart and might and will NOT go quietly. I have not launched any personal campaign against any noble but I feel the shadows of a pact against me.
What is this fear? Of me? I pose no threat and have threaten no one but only seek justice for my kin and I tried to do so discreetly by talking philosophically in changing the mindsets and not the status of nobles. I seek a change in attitude. Why do you fear that?
Once again power play comes into the picture. Step on the peasants for they are beneath us. Just as we can step on those who are lower in rank than us. I ask: be fair and make peace. Or make hell and let's see where this goes.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Celestial:
You are an idiot. A peasant who does not know his place, nor how the hierarchy of the Empire works.
To begin, Duchess Renee was not the only one who asked you be removed from command. I did as well. I believe that one of the themes I presented to your superiors was that I was no longer willing to follow a stupid peasant into battle.
Peasant, due to your incessant fraternizing with the lower class, and continued public support of your peasant brother.
Stupid, because in two successive battles as SIC of the GEL, you led us to ruin. I get irritated when I lose 150 gold of special forces because you are an incompetent peasant. I get more irritated when I can only afford a unit of poor infantry to replace them. But I get down right angry when, due to your stupidity, I lose them as well, and I have to go begging to my Duke for funds to recruit more men. In peace, it would be bad enough. But this was during a major war, when funds were desperately needed on the front.
You are a stupid peasant, Celestial. You do not understand that as such, you will be removed from command. You do not understand that if those above you seek to remove you, whining and stomping your feet will do nothing. You do not understand that by continuing this ignorant, peasantish behavior, you ruin any chance of future command in this Empire.
If you are actually a noble, which, at this point, I highly doubt, then act like one. Restore the honor of your family's name, which you have stomped into the dirt. Either that, or go back to farming.
Famine Rider Marquess of Strahan
Friends and Comrades, Nobles of the Cagilan Empire:
My heart sickens as my eyes report the discourse of this dialog. The accusations and insults put forth by Sir Famine Rider are most grievous in nature. It disturbs me that we as nobles may speak to each other in this way.
Are we at war with Falasan or with ourselves? Are peasants mere insects to be crushed and degraded beneath our noble feet? Or are they the farmers who put food on our table, the soldiers that bleed for our cause and the adventurers who cleanse our land of evil? Is the CE a nation of elitist, bigoted, power hungry fools? Or an enlightened nation of progressive, honorable and prudent men?
Before another word, I would like to make it known that Sir Famine Rider is a friend and a mentor to me and I hold him in the highest of regards. It is with such deference and respect that I quote his first words to me as a knight of the CE
"However, our peasants are....peasants. And they are generally not all that wise or educated. There are many ways in which they could be more productive, if only they could be shown how to do it. Instead of having an Authoritarian estate, a lord could instead set his up to support Production - helping the peasants organize, streamline the buying, selling, and transporting of goods, building centralized grain stores..."
By my interpretation of your own words, My Lord, it were better to guide peasants and train them like puppies to your will, than beat them and force them into slavery. If you beat a dog, it will not obey you, but run to the hills and return to its feral way of life. These lower life forms are for us to guide and protect through our superior knowledge and wisdom. It is our responsibility.
In defense of Sir Celestial Fury's military command, I would like to remind everyone that the Duchess Renee Quasath also had a role of command during the stint of our marshal's absence. To criticize Celestial Fury's judgment is to criticize hers.
Of course, as SiC he is ultimately responsible for the results of the orders he issued, but the noble Duchess did express her military opinion and Sir Fury acted upon it, as it was in accordance with his own. Indeed, what knight among all of you would not heed the words of a Duchess, though command be solely yours?
The disaster in Etoge and Vornion was not his fault, though it remains his responsibility. Several TL's either moved to the wrong region, or could not reach the battlefield in time, so the Guardians of Ered Luin were forced to fight without them.
I would like to point out that upon Lord Salvador's return he commended both the Duchess of Nida and his SiC Sir Celestial Fury, saying
"I am also honored and proud and greatly appreciative for the leadership and initiative of SiC Celestial and Duchess Renee. May I continue to rely on your support and advice in good health."
You openly disagree with that, my Mentor? What would you have done differently? Lord Zond, have you forgotten those words, that you allow him to be stripped of his rank in a political scandal?
By all accounts, the man's father slept with a peasant girl, and so Celestial had been forced to call him brother, for who in honor would deny their own blood? His hands have been tied from the beginning, and you would press the blade to his throat none the less.
And what of Sir Enri Kinsey? He has not been relieved from his command. He has not been slighted as Sir Celestial has. And I might also point out that we have almost no success on the front under his charge!
Let he who is without folly cast the first stone! Have none of you taken a peasant to your bed? Let us judge justly and fairly. Both men are talented and prudent leaders for my gold, and I would serve either of them and follow them both into battle. Let us forget these petty happenings and unite to focus our efforts on our true enemies!
WE ARE THE NOBLES OF THE CAGILAN EMPIRE, THE STRONGEST AND PUREST BLOOD IN THE WORLD!!! IF WE UNITE, WHO MAY STAND AGAINST US!!??
In Honor,
Auron D'Koran (Knight of Esgalons)
M'lords,
I have heard the Church mentioned in a couple letters concerning the realationships between a noble and peasants. In order to better clear the waters of any murk that may come through, I will expound upon the official decision and doctrine of The Order.
No noble may be held accountable for the actions of another. Much less so in the case of ignoble brothers, cousins, etc... It is under this premise that no person shall be excommunicated from our holy Order simply because of ignoble relations. Also, a noble that openly accepts and acknowledges his ignoble relation is still considered an Orderly noble by our church's doctrine.
However, any noble found to openly acknowledge that he is the sire of an ignoble person or otherwise peasant will be excommunicated after an investigation, discussion, and vote amongst the elders of The Order. Our reasoning is that, by fathering a peasant, a person causes Chaos through disruption of the natural hierarchy. If a noble does not reveal his relation to his peasant son, then he is excusable; if he acknowledges his relation then he is intentionally sowing dissent, dishonour, and thus Chaos throughout the world.
If this isn't clear enough, or if you wish to express your discontent with the decision, please adress all letters to the Elders of The Order so we may have private counsel with each person.
May you be blessed,
Telemechus Barthalemus (Priest of The Order)
This is silly. A noble who acts like a peasant is still a noble. A peasant who acts like a noble is still a peasant. Blood lines, not behavior, dictate nobility. I realize that some of you would have it otherwise, but here we are.
Sir Celestial has been a noble in good standing in our realm for a long time now. A peasant would not have been able to keep up a charade for this long. His claims to have a peasant for a brother is rather strange, I agree, but I've certainly seen other nobles on Atamara doing crazier things. Call his actions ignoble, if you must, but please do not challenge his nobility, unless you're willing to take him to Court over it. Otherwise, you're just blowing a lot of hot air and demoralizing the other nobles.
Sir Enri Kinsey Viscount of Ravening, Marshal of the Eaglin Eagles
Good Mark Received
Sir Cullen O'Ways, Earl of Vornion has given some of his knights (you among them) a good mark for the following reason: By standing up for your commoner brother you may have lost much prestige among many nobles, but you have gained my respect. One does not balance out the other, but remain true to your own convictions; only choose the timing to be vocal about them more carefully. Take care, Sir Celestial.
The definition of order and chaos as seen by the House of Fury (DEO VOLENTE - GOD WILLING).
Order
- a society or fraternity of knights, of combined military and monastic character
- any of the nine grades of angels in medieval angelology (one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God)
Chaos
- a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order
- the behavior of systems that follow deterministic laws but appear random and unpredictable
The House of Fury
1. Celestial Fury (Angelic Knight) 2. Eternal Fury (Angelic Knight) 3. Divine Fury (Fallen Angel)
And thus, the brethren of the House of Fury were ordained in celestial order with divine righteousness and eternal bliss to bring order to chaos. With this, I, Sir Celestial Fury - a Tai-Lo Sword - fulfil my Order(ly) imperative as requested by the Order and assert my lineage as demanded long ago by Priest Torsaan.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Chaos exists even in the most natural order of things. For what is light if there is no darkness to compare to? It is a human condition to seed chaos - a condition that we in the Order strive against every day. Some are more fortunate, being blessed with rationale and logic, kindness and charity while others believe they fight for order but are in fact chaotic in nature.
Chaos - that behavior of systems that follow deterministic laws but appear random and unpredictable. Deterministic by following personal gain at the cost of disrupting order and remaking it in their own image for their own selfish benefits. Random and unpredictable, they only appear to be. There is no cure for these creatures. For them, it is easier to wreck havoc and destruction and sow chaos then it is to create harmony and life.
Therefore, I, Sir Celestial Fury - a Tai-Lo Sword, have emerged reborn from the cause of chaos, stronger than ever to uphold order and justice and bring harmony to the universe! It is naught by accident that I now wield the FIRE of the Black Longsword of Flame to cut through the confusing lies of chaos and the awesome POWER of the Dazzling Book of the Dead to send chaos... to their eternal unrest.
Vengeance will be ours!
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
I write this message to the Father and the Father of the Sun - being the most senior members of the Order and the ones I trust the most in the Order:
As you have known now, I have been running in referendums for a local lordship for some time now and not only have I lost everytime but sometimes others have been appointed over me without even a chance at an election. If the purpose of The Order of Ered Luin (as the spiritual side of the Order) is still to:
use our powers together to grow our brethren to the highest ranks possible. We vote in blocs, we nominate our brethren for important positions. We crave power so as to avenge our Five Ancestors and further our cause. We will use our powers to make money, and our guildhouses will serve as sanctuary from those who wish to persecute our brethren.
and the The Order/Tai-Lo Oath is still to:
help a brother before a stranger, and a peasant before a lord
then I ask:
* that the Order support me in my quest for a lordship
* and two members of the Order be expelled:
* Duchess Renee, a Tai-Lo Templar, for persecution against me by conspiring
to remove me as SIC of the Guardians of Ered Luin with the excuse of
helping a brother before a stranger, and a peasant before a lord that
goes against the Tai-lo Oath and thus making a mockery of the Order
* Famine Rider, a Sister, who subscribes to the same ideology as the
Duchess and has publicly humiliated a member of the Order by calling me
stupid and a peasant and who has been reported to the Titans (not by me)
If I have any standing at all in the Order then I ask that the right thing be done in the name of Order and Justice.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Father Zadar, your offer is much appreciated and accepted. However, be warned and you must know by now, that the members I mentioned are no true followers of the Order but self-serving and put their interests ahead of the Order. They do not believe in the tenets of the Order. By allowing their idealogy, schemes and superior attitudes to prevail while maintaining their rank as members of the Order can and does harm the Order. Not all members are as outspoken as me but they, I believe, watch and observe how the leadership deals with or does not with members who go againsts the tenets of the Order. Justice must not only be served but be seen to be served.
Nonetheless, I do not wish to put the leadership in a quandary for they are powerful in their own right. However, unless the Order wishes to change its tenets it has, in my opinion, no choice but to censure the duo or to demote them if expulsion is deemed too harsh - I do not deem it so. With the Order there is no black or white, no grey areas to cloud the issue. They have gone against the tenets and turned order into chaos - and left to their own devices, will slowly, but surely, corrupt the Order - starting with the younger members who are about to take their oaths... and know not that which they pledge.
I am willing to take this to the court of public opinion in the Order if that be advised for I know my rights and I have been wronged. How many of these The Order of Ered Luin/The Thirty-Six Oaths have they broken?
I quote from The Order/Book of Ancients 2:
* A Tai-Lo must understand his oath...
* The duties of the Elders are to ensure the purity of The Order...
* The ejection of a member from our order shall fall under the power of
the discipline Elder. A person’s ejection must be made public, a reason
for ejection must be given, and a vote by the elders must be made. If a
majority of Elders agree, then that person will be ejected.
I, Sir Celestial Fury - a Tai-Lo Sword - do hereby call for an ejection and a vote.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
(If you do not mind, Father of the Sun, I am also sending this to the Father that he may also know what I intend to do.)
My apologies, Father of the Sun. My membership in the Order does not go that far back to that unfortunate event. I now find myself looking back at the notice at every temple of the Order that says, if I'm not mistaken, "Why am I here?" To bring order to the realm? But first there must be order within the Order.
If the two who left did not wish to follow the principles (or the oaths for that matter) of the Order, then pray tell, why should they be in the Order? This has now gone beyond my political aspirations or vengeance. I am truly troubled now that I realise that things are not in order. The Order must not sacrifice (founding) principles for (maintaining) authority or injustice (towards me) for unity (in the Order).
Forsooth, I have a mind to test the rank and file of the Order and see how many are really committed and how many are - heavens forbid - ... chaotic. Let us see how many will scream for my expulsion and curse at my existence (for speaking the truth) then we shall see what order there is in the Order and who has been the most faithful to its tenets.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Knight of Cagilan:
Do you tire of a lack of opportunity and challenge? Do you seek a liege who will support you and understand your needs?
Then make your way with all haste to the region of Mangai, in the Grand Duchy of Fissoa on the island of Dwilight and seek out my brother - Lord Eternal Fury, Earl of Mangai.
"There are unclaimed regions for the taking. If you desire to stake your claim then go now! - for we have need of knights. The first to arrive and pledge allegiance to Mangai shall have special consideration."
- This offer shall last for one week *
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Adventurers, Freemen, Outlaws:
Do you tire of a lack of opportunity and challenge? Do you seek regions with monsters, undead and Gold?
Then make your way with all haste to the region of Mangai, in the Grand Duchy of Fissoa on the island of Dwilight and seek out the Lord Eternal Fury, Earl of Mangai.
"The bounty pot will be larger than any you have ever encountered. The first to arrive shall be deserving of the first pot. Outlaws shall be pardoned and made freemen."
- This offer shall last for one week *
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
Order of the Sword - Knights of the Sword are ones who excel at weapons combat. Knights must win the High Templar in a duel before they are accepted into this order.
I, Sir Celestial Fury, do hereby formally challenge the High Templar in a duel as part of my initiation rites into the Order of the Sword.
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
With the proliferation of the faith of the Word in Cagilan, it may be time to reassess the Order's sway upon the minds of Cagilans and to recall the beginning of the spread of the Word.
As I remember, though the memory of more senior members should extend further back, the Order engage in a theological dialogue with Priest Torsaan who at the time was a citizen of a neighbouring realm. Though his views seemed strange to me and his language even more incomprehensible - with guttural sounds that jar the delicate vocal chords of ordinary Cagilans - the Order nevertheless saw fit to invite him to our realm with an official welcome at one of our temples.
I believe Priest Torsaan took the opportunity given by the Order to establish himself and his faith in Cagilan by first embracing citizenship and then spreading his faith (What else did the Order expect him to do?). I sense, through his hard work behind the scenes and his determination, he has enabled his faith to blossom.
I speak this as I have heard talk among members of disgruntlement at the proliferation of the Word to the detriment of the Order. Though he was welcomed with open arms by the Order, relations have deteriorated somewhat (behind the scenes) and the Word is now regarded as misguided.
If something is to be done as has been voiced in the Order by others, I would suggest that the Order reassess its religious significance in the minds of current members first. Strength comes from within and the Order must first be put - in order.
When there was a call for new members to take their oaths, how many took up the call? Not a single one - made their public vows. This should have been a warning sign that things were not right when even the ordinary members were apathetic about their membership and viewed their religious affiliations as nothing more then mere symbolism.
What then do I propose?
1. A return to the founding tenets of the Order.
2. Upholding the oaths and making sure that members take it seriously - with
reminders and discipline from the top.
3. Retain quality over quantity - quality members who care about the Order
and will do what it takes to make it right rather than a padded
membership that gives rise to a false illusion of strength that will
readily crumble at the first instance of being asked to uphold their vows.
4. Reshuffle the upper hierarchy with members who are bold enough to make a
change.
Support me, disagree with me - or make your own voice heard. I have offered my thoughts and services. Will there be takers?
Celestial Fury (Knight of Vornion)
