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Orthodox Christians should write and paint and sing and dance. We should make movies and television shows. We should make clothes and produce textiles as art as well (the fullness of culture is itself too large to describe in a sentence, a paragraph or even a book). And in all these activities, they will be expressive of the fullness of our humanity without having to stick an icon on everything to prove its Orthodoxy.
-- Father Stephen in Glory to God for All Things



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2008-08-18

Raisse’s letter to Orian

She needs a runner, and she’s married to one, but he’s far away.

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2008-08-13

An exultant letter from Aidan

Being in love makes him poetic!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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2008-07-23

And Aidan writes a letter too

It’s contagious! Perhaps even Radan will write his letter in public.

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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)

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2008-07-18

Khora writes a letter

And her style is exquisite. Thanks, Boudewijn!

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