The Diary of Lorina Carrion [Vol 3 & 4]

[Urahra 5359]

 

Text restored and edited by 

Bianca La Fleur

 

Lorina Tuvanova Carrion was an Imperial Princess during the reigns of Boris I, Alexander I, and Tobias I. The youngest daughter of St. Tobias, she maintained a diary from a young age and recorded the events of the world around her. Her diary remains a historically significant first-person account of the Duke’s War and the years leading up to it.

 

The third and fourth volumes, which detail her path to joining the clergy and also her years during the Duke’s War, have been recently recovered and restored by Orenian historians.  These volumes follow Lorina from her divorce from Christopher Blackwell at age 20 up until her elopement with Duke Jace Evans Bracchus at age 68. 

 

Lorina remains a controversial figure both for the act of breaking her holy vows and her questioning of established Canonist Church law and doctrine.

 

Volumes 1 & 2, covering Lorina’s early life, may be read here:

 

 

 

 

VOLUME 3

 

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Letter from Christopher

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Lorin's Letter

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VOLUME 4

 

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Two Letters to Lorina (From Drake Lancefeld and Publius Bracchus)

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Lorina’s Letter to Hugues

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Jace’s Letter

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Jace’s Statement to Vanaheim, as penned by Lorina

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Following the final entry in her diary, Lorina Carrion and Jace Evans Bracchus attempted to elope to the Dwarven Kingdom of Urugan with their children. However, some weeks later, they were located in Urugan by the Canonist Inquisition and forcefully returned to Oren, where they were tortured and questioned by the church. 

 

While records are vague on their ultimate fate, it is thought they were executed at the hands of the Church for their crimes against church law and Lorina's heresies. 

 

The fate of their children remains unknown. 

 

 

OOC:

 

If you spot any errors – repeated images, missing images, etc. – let me know..

[JoanOfArc 4586]

Fr. Griffith finished the first half of the third volume when a sudden melancholy overwhelmed him. He felt his heart sink deep into his chest. 

 

He knew of Princess Lorena from the stories he heard in the Northeast.

 

“Do not forsake your vows like that wretched Nun!” His mother screamed to him as he started his journey to the city of Helena to become an acolyte. She often told him about the Carrion “Princess” who broke her oath for love and communed with fallen daemons. The Carrion Princess rotting in the Void who betrayed the Briarwoods, the family saved his own family from ruin, and--- well, the latter does not much matter anymore. 

 

But after reading the diary, Griffith knew the truth. Lorena was nothing more than a virtuous girl stuck between war and the intrigue of evil man. She tried to be righteous, maybe not in the later parts of her life, but she did try in her early parts. Her life of kindness and compassion upended by sinners.

 

Did kind Godfrey’s ancestors truly do this her? Griffith judged harshly, They treated these children with brutality and evil that can not even be described in words?

 

He fumed with anger until it dissipated like the morning mist. Godfrey did not have any involvement with this girl. He knew that to be the truth. This happened many centuries ago, in a land distant from his own, so how could he judge the Briarwoods for this now?

 

He felt only guilt for his judgement now. And only pain for a girl he never even met. 

 

Fr. Griffith turned his face from the book and looked towards Fr. Seraphim across the room from him. Seraphim was in front of the room’s icon corner. Exalted Horen and the Mother of Peace in the middle, with Exalted Owyn and Exalted Sigismund above them, and below them St. Lucien and Venerable Oliver de Savoie. 

 

He went to brother-in-the-cloth and spoke silent words to him. Seraphim nodded and they both lit candles to St. Lucien and Venerable Olivier. They offered a prayer to Theós.

 

“Lord Theós, have mercy on Princess Lorena. Forgive her of her transgressions and let her rest in your heavenly kingdom.”

 

The melancholy and angst within Griffith’s heart lifted. He felt as perhaps, through the icons in front of him, that he saw St. Lucien and Venerable Olivier smile upon him. That perhaps their own prayers were being ushered to the Lord to forgive her. 

 

He offered the same prayer up to the Lord all night, hoping that he may see his sister-in-God in the Seven Skies when he passes from this life.

 

[seannie 6854]

Sig reads on with a sense of melancholy, leaning back into in his padded chair by the fire as he finished the entirety of Lorina Carrion’s entries – now acquainted with the life of a distant ancestor; their joy, misery, and everything else attached. It took some time, but the King’s expression would indeed lessen, once again returning to its usual neutrality, an emotionless blank state. He twirls about a clean quill through his fingers, occasionally ruffling the end of the feather along the bottom of his nose as he stared idly at the wall ahead of him.

 

Having spent enough time enthralled by his thoughts, the thinker folds the compilation of diary entries upon itself, flicking his quill away and pushing himself off of his chair, moving towards the bookcase he had originally retrieved this book from. He slides the book into its place, concluding on a chapter of his life and finally doing away with such important texts that had helped him become the man he was today. 

[Urahra 5359]

OOC:

 

Added some additional letters I found to volume 4.

[thesmellypocket 1839]

Pius of Sutica, FSSCT, encounters the story of the apostatising nun through reading her thesis on the Church and community. He writes in his notes: “She renounced her solemn vows to God and His Prophets on the basis of bad clergy. She was unquestionably wrong to do so, for the Church is not justified because her clergy never commit evil, but rather because her doctrine and sacraments are wholly truthful. Nevertheless, her tale shows what influence we clergy can have on the faithful. St. Jude edified her into renouncing the world and embracing God; the regicide threw her into the suicidal clutches of sin. Therefore I say that a clergyman who dies in grave sin, will be judged more harshly by the tenfold, compared to the ordinary man. I suppose this is why Ven. Humbert says, “The road to the Void is paved with the skulls of priests.”’

 

“May God have mercy on her soul.” He says, even his stony heart moved with compassion, and he offers a requiem mass for Lorina Carrion. He then offers a prayer for himself, that he may never be held accountable for the loss of a single soul. He becomes very mindful and certain of the fact that he, too, will be judged one day, and will have to give an account of his priesthood. The burden weights heavily on him, until he hears the quotation in his head: “For I bring with them their remedies...”

Edited September 24, 2020 by thesmellypocket