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Raisse’s letter to Orian
She needs a runner, and she’s married to one, but he’s far away.
2008-08-18
2008-08-13
An exultant letter from Aidan
Being in love makes him poetic!
2008-08-07
A letter from Ebru, dictated to Keti
It’s clear that Keti is used to much more flowery language than Ebru lets her write: she translates stock phrases literally.
‘Turenay’ happens to mean ‘bath-town’, called after the medicinal springs and bath-houses; ‘ver-’ means ‘dawn, morning’, ‘Solay’ (the Valdyan name of Aumen Síth) means ‘gold-town’.
The commander of the Order of the Sworn probably spells his name ‘Morin’ himself, but ‘Maurin’ is the way he’s likely to have pronounced it when he introduced himself, as he’s a native of Ryshas.
2008-07-28
An impassioned letter
Raisse started out angry (and I typed the whole thing with angry keystrokes) but the writing made her mood change, I think very true to character.
Who’s Who in Turenay
(or: what’s up with all those letters?)
We, that is my other half and I, are running a one-on-one side campaign following the adventures of Khora, to supplement the campaign with Athal and Raisse.
The first writeup of this branch happened to be
Khora’s first letter, and it sort of grew from that. Now
suddenly everybody and their dog is writing letters and
not even we ourselves can keep track of who all those people are
and who is related to whom, especially as the stock of names in Valdyas
is small so every other person seems to be called Raisse or Jeran.
Note that King Athal has disbanded the House Eraday; everyone formerly of that house who is loyal to him does not have the house-name any more but is still counted noble. Athal has more or less promised to come back from Iss-Peran with another name for the house, but frankly he can’t think of anything.
I don’t pretend to be exhaustive, but only try to give a reference guide. Also, this is not a catalogue of people appearing in the actual campaign writeups; perhaps I’ll do that later.
On a sidenote: once again I wonder whether to start a separate blog for roleplaying writeups, but the last time I mentioned that I got a (small) deluge of (mostly non-roleplaying) readers urging me to keep everything here, so I’ll stop contemplating it now.
2008-07-27
Radan’s letter to Vurian
All this (i.e. the side campaign with Khora, causing all these letters) is giving me lots of ideas for the next campaign arc. Radan doesn’t actually know much about the situation in Iss-Peran (at least not until Athal and Raisse arrive in Turenay), but he does have the right ideas.
For those readers who don’t lead part of their virtual lives in Valdyas, and for those who do as well, I’m working on a short “Who’s Who in Turenay and Elsewhere”.
2008-07-26
A very confused letter
Next time Khora writes a letter (and it’s likely that she will) I’ll start adding “previous” and “next” links. Radan isn’t forthcoming —we haven’t seen him much, after all— but Arin astin Hayan is writing a letter to his father.
Arin’s letter to his father
This young man is serious. Nicely different voice from Aidan’s!
Note: Khora spells ‘Kheti’ and Aidan spells ‘Cora’, but Arin’s spellings are actually correct (or, at least, most true to the original). ‘Albetire’ and ‘Albatire’ are valid variants.
2008-07-23
And Aidan writes a letter too
It’s contagious! Perhaps even Radan will write his letter in public.
2008-07-20
Second letter from Khora
Poor girl, afflicted with a grievous case of culture shock. If the people dealing with her read this letter, they’d probably be in danger of dying from culture shock too.
(Athal informs me that embarrassment is like seasickness in that you don’t actually die of it, you just wish you would)
2008-07-18
Khora writes a letter
And her style is exquisite. Thanks, Boudewijn!