The Parchments I | Louis Joseph de Rosius

[Franczhiz 4053]

THE 

PARCHMENTS I

The Parchments of Louis Joseph de Rosius

Margrave de Haute-Epine, Comt de Beaufoy, Baron de Rosius, Seigneur de Mont Louis.

 

Scribed by, 

Scribe Martius de Haute-Epine

 

PROLOGUE

The Parchments are a compilation of letters written by Louis Joseph de Rosius. They describe his thoughts on various subjects and thus openly opinionated his point of view on the way man is nowadays living.

 

PARCHMENT OF PIETY

 

1. He who pretends like he does not feign affection often does feign affection. For it is He (GOD) who can only see the inside of his being. For it is only He who can strike fear in the heart of man.

 

2. Disregard GOD and his Scrolls, see your own world vanish and break apart through failure. He who allows the Deceiver to persuade one’s consciousness to do such, is far from a believer.

 

3. Through fear, is when man becomes most alive, through strength, he shows weakness from the outside and power from the inside.

 

4. What man can live without GOD and the Scrolls written by his Exalted? Without the divine, no man would walk this world, and no man would be spiritually connected to one and other.

 

5. Those who claim to be mighty as a mere mortal, are sadly mistaken. 

 

6. One can only compare their life to clay, in time, it comes harder and harder until it can break apart. It is GOD who keeps the pieces of the claywork together, not mortals.

 

7. Declaring a war against those of your own faith is one of the greatest sins the Deceiver can persuade a man to do, unfortunately, many have fallen for it. 

 

8. When the pride of a man takes over, is when they are most vulnerable, instead of striking the man out of jealousy, strike him back with that which is stronger than him and his pride combined, your faith and your own heroic deeds. All the deeds done while one serves GOD.

 

9. He who draws the sword first, instead of granting a situation rational thought, often proves the utter stupidity of man. Man is guided by wisdom and not foolishness. How come man can be so reckless in thought while not considering what effect their actions might have on the entirety of humanity? If a man sees all the solution in the use of steel to shed another being their blood, has the man who is controlled by such lost his sense of mercy and humility that has been taught by the Scrolls of the Exalted? If so, then GOD has certainly allowed him to be persuaded by the Deceiver and his daemons.

 

10. Mortals in this world must avoid adopting the minds of heretics. Them, who openly do acts of blasphemy in the eyes of his representative on the world and have no shame in taking closer steps to the Void where they will be confined for their acts.

 

11. In the amount of times Canonists have turned against fellow Canonists, I believe the consequence and situations of loss and death were a sign of GOD his wrath towards those who opposed his followers.

 

PARCHMENT OF WAR

 

1. What person thinks war is the only option to achieve ambition against those of their fellow faith? One who thinks such, is someone who does not take action in the name of GOD but in the name of their own greed. Zeal is often lacking by those who have the power to command armies.

 

2. The people who have often heard the clatter of swords, they either yearn to hear more, or are traumatized. The latter is uncommon.

 

3. Blood and steel is what kept the world thriving in the days of old Orenia. May it never return again and may it be forever kept under the ruins of Vienne where it belongs.

 

4. If those around you believe that the amount of wars that have been fought by a person proves their worth, bear in mind how he or she values their own heroic actions more than the judgment that GOD will give them once they stand before him in the Seven Skies with the Exalted as His witness.

 

5. In this world, wars fought for GOD are a rarity. In this world, only wars for political ambition exist.

 

6. Any ruler incapable of resolving their quarrels peacefully will resort to war because they know that through smart diplomacy, they will certainly lose.

 

7. One who thinks of the sword as a resolution, is a man not capable of living without sparing the life of innocents, yet proves himself hypocritical when he draws the sword and states it was for the greater good.

 

8. Do not shed blood for vengeance, when you do so; think of what future it will provide for your descendants and their descendants. For those who you slay, they will have relatives and haunt your bloodline forever.

 

9. Will there ever be a world without consequence? Will there ever be a world without quarrel? Will there ever be a world without ambition? With those three lacking, unfortunately, the heathens and heretics would prevail. 

 

10. In the wars fought on this world, not one ruler has had a victory without thousands of people dying and ascending to the Seven Skies or Descending to the Void. 

 

11. Where heretics are armed, GOD sends his most loyal zealots with swords to execute his will. 

 

12. One must see the difference between a political war and that of a Holy war. Where political wars continue to spark quarrels between the Canonist Princes, and a Holy war is where we unite in common cause.

 

PARCHMENT OF HOUSES

 

1. Dynasties are created through the ambitions and the risks honorable people were willing to take. Houses that have achieved fame through nepotism have nothing to prove their honor and their deservingness in achieving the fame that they did. 

 

2. Pride in your family is of the utmost importance, keep an eye on those who attempt to drive you off your path to ambition for the common cause of your House, and cooperate with those who are most loyal to you and do not seek to branch themselves off of your leadership.

 

3. Do what your ancestors would do, create descendants, and make sure their descendants carry your family name. Immortalize your House, educate them of the importance of GOD and the scrolls, educate them with the scrolls and teach them how to approach others from a rational point of view. Only then, is when your House is worthy of respect.

 

4. Only the weak houses rely on the powers from outside of their House, in order to make your House truly powerful is to integrate the ideas and suggestions from your own kin and strike that forth into the outside. To rely on the powers outside, creates instability and parts your House in two.

 

5. The true way to delegate power is not to keep all of your family members under you and rule as dictator over your own kin, but use your power to make a council of those who can truly help and establish a great name for the House. Do so carefully, for we have witnessed many back stabbings in many dynasties that once ruled Empires and Kingdoms, and have thus led to the falls of each.

 

6. Piety, strength and intelligence are the three things every House must be founded on, so one finds their House on the things proven worthy of a family. 

 

7. When a person tries to claim your leadership within your own House, make the consequence so grotesque and difficult for them that they do not know a way in or out of your House ever again. Make them depend on your decisions and expel them from any of your familial matters. Only forgive them once you have truly secured their honesty and their willingness to return to your fold in the atonement of their mistakes. 

 

8.A patriarch or matriarch who does not spend a good amount of time thinking about what their family wants, is born as an unfit leader and thus will never become one capable of leading. To lead your House is to risk and to make difficult decisions. One who is inept of doing so, must listen to those around him and solely depends on their input.  

 

Spoiler

I got inspired after reading The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius :]