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"Look, Lorina! I made the paper!" Amelia, soon-to-be Baroness of Virdain, commented to her younger sister Lorina. @bumblefina

A SOUTHERN GALA by LEO VINNY

THE SOUTHERNER’S COUPLING

FORWARD

It is with great joy that the houses of de Lewes and Varoche announce the coupling of Fernand de Lewes, Baron of Virdain and Lady Amelia Paulina of Varoche. The ceremony shall take place at the Chapel of Our Lady of Paradisius post-haste. All aligned with the United Kingdom of Aaun are invited.

Formal Invitations to the peerage of the United Kingdom of Aaun,

His Royal Majesty, James I, Sovereign of Aaun, and his royal pedigree

His Highness, Heinrich von Alstreim, Prince of Merryweather and the Rhine, and his noble pedigree

His Highness, Robert II de Joannes, Prince of Sedan, and his noble pedigree

His Grace, Brandt Barclay, Duke of Minitz, and his noble pedigree

The Right Honourable, Louis II de Rosius, Margrave of Haute-Epine, and his noble pedigree
The Right Honourable, Phillipa von Reuss, Margravine of Velen, and her noble pedigree

The Right Honourable, Jan Ivanovich, Count of Vaska, and his noble pedigree

The Right Honourable, Emilio Varoche, Count of Varoche, and his noble pedigree

The Right Honourable, Emir Rosius-d’Abbassia, Count of Pacidia, and his noble pedigree

The Honourable, Cosima von Augusten, Viscountess of Hohengarten, and her noble pedigree

The Honourable, Fernand de Lewes, Baron of Virdain, and his noble pedigree

The Honourable, Stefan Euler, Baron of Eulersburg, and his noble pedigree

The Honourable, Ulfra Ragmarsson, Baroness of Alsace, and her noble pedigree

The Honourable, Helwig von Bardenwig-Alstreim, Baron of Arentania, and his noble pedigree

Formal Invitations to the Royal Government of Aaun,
His Excellency, Paul Varoche, High Chancellor of Aaun, and his household

ITINERARY

• The Ceremony
  • The union between Lord Fernand and Lady Amelia will occur in the Chapel of Our Lady Paradisius to cement their matrimony.
• The Couples Dance
  • After the ceremony, the newly-weds will share a dance – unaccompanied by anyone until the first dance ends.  After that, everyone is invited onto the floor to dance.
• The Feast
  • To conclude the ceremony, everyone in attendance is invited to a feast. The menu consists of multiple Savoyard, Illatian and Adrian dishes for guests to dine on. In honor of Lady Amelia’s dear friend, Henriette, Duchess of Minitz, vintage La Henriette wine will be served alongside the meal.

MENU

• HORS D’OEUVRES
  • Kraljeva Supa (Краљева супа) - or, in common, King’s Soup, is a brothy traditional Adrian soup with bits of chicken, tomatoes, carrots and other assorted vegetables. Served with vintage La Henriette.
• ENTREE
  • Escargots à l'ail – snails served with garlic, a favorite dish of Lady Amelia. Served on fine, vintage china from Yong Ping and served with rye bread and dipping sauce.
• PLAT PRINCIPAL
  • Ćevapi – Grilled minced beef and pork, cut in the shape of sausages. Served alongside flatbread and sour cream.
• DESSERT
  • Pain au Chocolat - a cuboid shaped bread, doused in yeast-leavened laminated dough with three pieces of dark chocolate in the middle.

i <3 all the posts saying to donate to trans organizations but remember not to do it during pride month. do it year round. donate to ur local gsa's and ur local trans people. help ur local lgbtq+ community as well! and always remember monetary donations are great but if you cant donate then always attend rallies, parades, and support the people in ur community who are lgbtq+ (especially the trans ppl! we are under attack)

happy pride my dears. pride is a protest

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On 5/26/2023 at 6:28 PM, Lunan_EXE said:

I'm crying I want one of these so bad but my character Estel has fire trauma bro :(( 

estel can get over it

Time stood still in Savoy. Amelia lounged around most days, taking in the sun. She was mostly bored. It'd been a long time since she saw her dearest friend, Henriette -- the Duchess of Minitz. After hearing about the fall of Minitz, Amelia took pen to paper and wrote to Henriette of Lewes, praying for her safe arrival to Savoy.

A certain Illatian spinster has a mental breakdown after learning that someone else has gotten married.

why this font

CHAPBOOK: FIVE POEMS BY A.P. VAROCHE

Published 1918

ODE TO THE LANDS

An oppressive stone colored sky,

Praying over the decrepit, burned

Church. A sea of pale yellow

Sways in the evening breeze,

So it was; my life began,

So it is; I’m forever a woman,

When my time comes, and my body

Is frail, pale, muttering my last prayer

Let me go.

FROSTED SISTER/NAKED TREE

A naked oak tree curves left in winter,

My sister prays underneath the tree,

Hair the color of winter, she wore the dress

Like time swinging around her.

Her body unweighted, all her

Armor falling off her white skin,

She’s a dove in the summer.

I crept towards her, hair dark, and tall

Like a cypress, to join her in prayer

Under the naked tree.

EPITAPH

The grass bites at her feet,

A cruel, rainy cloud covering the sky,

She’s clad in a black gown - the dowagers song.

Fallen from grace, her under eyes are painted

With dulled beige streaks. The desolate mind

Of this woman shrieks immortally, tired oak-brown

hair flies in the wind. 

She turns her back to the make-shift grave of my father,

Wobbling back into the city.

for Anna of Alstion

MARCH OF THE MAN

Under unusually calm winter skies

The men marched, boots crunching in placid snow.

They sang a chivalrous war song, 

Honored and free.

Careless corpses, coarse lips.

They marched in hollow friendship,

Undying and never alive, praying

For the Seven Skies to heal the world.

Swords plunged into the chests of their

Enemies, gutting their hearts and lungs

Supped the blood of the Anathema.

Holy and knighted, bound by the grace of God.

THE MOON, SUN, AND SKY

Behold, the cosmos!

Splattered with gleaming paint

Against a tranquil blue night.

A lone, slightly crooked tree on

The beach holds the

Crescent moon in all her glory,

Portraying her as an Augustan-era starlet.

A still, unmoving sea sings in the night -

Praising the mother moon.

And then I give to you, the sun!

Furious and beaming yellow,

Beating us with senseless violence,

Yet he gives life to your kind!

So benevolent to beat us down

And provide us with life!

He is round and fat and angry,

Juxtaposed to his wife - the moon,

Who’s a shapeshifter in emotions.

And finally, I give to you the sky.

A mix of it’s mother and father,

the placid moon and the raging sun.

It houses the stony gray clouds in

Its domain. Nourishing our crops,

And our love - but the sky

is not just kind. Anger it, and you

Face the wrath of a million screams!

Face the wrath of sharp arrows of

Rain piercing your skin!

We hold onto feelings, that we

Aren’t used to feeling - only to make

Us alive.

WRITTEN BY

A. P. Varoche

PUBLISHED

6 of  Tobias' Bounty by Herbertine Publishing House

Somewhere in Barrowton, Amelia Paulina says a prayer for the honorable men and women attacking the anathema Duke of Adria.

i don't really have anything else to add other than a few things

1. boiling this down to a minecraft war is really gross actually.

2. yes people can change, however joel is in no way obligated to forgive charlemagne or those group of people making 'jokes' towards them. i am a firm believer of forgiving people when they have made change and progress - but we also have to draw the line, set boundaries, etc. thats what joel is doing. they're setting boundaries. additionally, i think lotc should be a relatively peaceful place. it can be toxic, yes, and we've all contributed to that (myself included, however i like to think i've chilled out now), but again, there's a line to be drawn and boundaries to be set. any good therapist will tell you to set boundaries for yourself, which i think lotc should do with its banning system; decide who's crimes are too heinous that they should be booted off the platform once and for all. i don't know charlemagne personally, but i do think that the words he and his friends had made about joel are vile & disgusting. i won't say whether or not he deserves to be banned, that is my private opinion -- however admins should decide that. all in all, i do sympathize with you joel - i've been in similar situations before and i remember the stress and anxiety it caused me, we don't speak anymore but i do wish the best for you moving forward from this.

srry if this is just me repeating myself im kinda out of it right now lol oopsies

It was midnight when Amelia's fears had approached. The night glowered and hollered, the wails of Amelia Varoche creating a symphony in the Chateau de Lucienne - hot tears stained her face, which was contorted into an ugly, monstrous facade. Words left the Varoche's mouth as incoherent babbles and gurgles as she did nothing but stroll through the vineyards and halls of her fiancee's manor.

The nonchalant, and often dour Amelia Varoche lets a slight grin encroach onto her face, pleased a ball is coming to town. She sends a letter to one of her many fashion forward friends, requesting a dress.

IL COMPLOTTO DELLA MOGLIE

A play by A. P. Varoche

Published in 1912

Semi-inspired by the story of Emigliana of Napoliza, Duchess of Adria

CAST

Paloma – The mistress of Salvatore, a bawdy woman dressed in scandalous and revealing clothing.

Salvatore – Paloma’s lover and the husband of Anna. Tall, broad and handsome with dark hair.

Anna – Salvatore’s wife, paranoid and driven to insanity by the actions of Salvatore.

SETTING

Set in late 1700s, early 1800s in a Providence-esque city somewhere in the heartlands. A vast, wild kingdom, our story follows a high-ranking noble, his wife driven to madness, and his mistress.

ACT I | La Padrona

ACT II | La Trama

ACT III | L'omicidio

Amelia quietly sends in an application for the Herbertine university; pursuing a double major in poetry and theatre.

hi

! THIS IS AN OOC POST !

hey

are you an adrian with a desire to be fashionable? a passion for fashion? well! do i have a deal for you... today (feb 20th 2023) i am hosting a skin raffle that ends on friday (feb 24th 2023) for all my lovely little adrians living in adria... in velec. but wait! there's a catch, your persona must be actively roleplaying in adria or have a house in adria or be an adrian citizen (i will check and know if you've roleplayed in adria before. trust me).

"oh wow erin why are you doing this you're so kind" omg haha thanks... well loyal citizen of adria i am doing this to give back to the adrian community or something. adria has offered really fun rp for me and i'd like to see it thrive in the future, at least for another year -- so this is my way of giving back to the community (the only way i know how tbh).

"oh ok cool but how do i enter" oh my god i'm sooo glad you asked... well, simply follow these easy steps!! :D

• proof you live/rp in adria (a screenshot of your home with your name on a sign, a screenshot of you actively roleplaying in adria, or something else that signifies you've roleplayed in adria)
• your minecraft ign
• your ADRIAN characters name
• (optional) your discord

IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDE PROOF THAT YOU RP IN ADRIA I AM TAKING YOU OFF THE RAFFLE LIST!!!!!!! BE WARNED !!!!

"but how do we know if we want your skins erin???" oh wow! i almost forgot about that :D well one its FREE, but if you're not amused by the idea of a FREE SKIN FOR FREE then here are some recent skins i've done for amelia
 

look how decadent she is... :)

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR IF I MISSED ANYTHING LET ME KNOW AND I WILL CLARIFY!!!

oh also if u want a better chance at winning this u can pay me five mina and i'll add ur name once more to the spinny wheel... u can only do this 3 times tho..

"They let a woman on the team! How feminist of them..." Amelia sarcastically replied to herself, not really aware of what Folkball was.

After saying her daily prayers in her room, Amelia read the missive - a brow quirking as she decoded each fancy archaeology term with her trusted dictionary. She gave a firm nod in affirmation, carefully folding the report into a square and placing it in a box. 

2 hours ago, DahStalker said:

Crumena of Kamees is a really cute high elf guy with a beard! He is patriotic and loves rope. @Heero

wait crumena isn't a woman???

when is aauns communist revolution??

oh ymg vod please stop revolutionizing skinning i can barely keep up with the new style of human skins.... i cant keep doing this guys pleas....e....

(this is actually rlly cool and i like it!! it'd be nice if i could wrap my head around modeling)

The winds screamed on this particular night as a lone wanderer stopped in a tavern on her way to the Duchy of Adria. She plucked a wine glass - half full - from a table. Her cheeks painted a muted red to complement her sun kissed skin, her prominent black mole still there after all these years.

The Fortunate spoke to a messenger boy, demanding he inform the Adrians of her arrival. He refused at first, and - unfortunately - the Fortunate had to pay him a hefty fee of fifty mina.

As the sun rose over the purple, star splattered sky the messenger came running into Adria. 

“The Fortunate is coming! The Fortunate is coming!” He screeched, his voice hoarse after a good few minutes of screeching. The boy hung a poster up, stating when she would come.

THE FORTUNATE COMES TO TOWN

After several decades of absence due to a number of unfortunate series of events, Francesca the Fortunate has found her way back to Almaris.  She arrives in one saint’s week from tomorrow, providing fortunes to every Adrian searching for their future.

For a small fee of five mina, any Adrian wishing to know their future will be told what will happen to them. All proceeds earned from this event will be gifted back to the Adrian people at the end of the saint’s day.

Strolling through Old Vienne, Amelia notices that the tavern is open. She decides to become an alcoholic, just as any good Illatian would.

LITTLE ILLATIA: AMELIA VAROCHE’S DIARY

plz don’t metagame D:

2nd of the Sun’s smile, 1906

To-Do List

• Study Raev
• Write a Letter back to the Duchess Austina
• Meet Alia

Lorina was attacked yesterday by some man. He was screaming about poisonous berries. I was so mad I let him have a piece of my mind… I feel bad about yelling at him, Lorina wasn’t too mad about it. I still haven’t met ‘Alia’, I’m starting to think she’s not real. I wish my mother didn’t die, I wish she was still here with us, braiding my hair or teaching Lorina the proper way to be a lady (Lorina’s actually really good at being ‘proper’). I don’t remember much of what she looks like, but I can remember her voice. It was sweet, and lilting– when she was sick it was coarse and almost oily. She was interrupted by coughs between every sentence. I can barely remember her eyes, the shape of her nose, her hair color… Am I a bad daughter? Do I not pay enough attention? If she was here, everything would be so much easier.

There was another attack on Adria just last month. Some wizard-mage-witch crept out of the woods and fell unconscious. Something was in the sky– it’s hard to tell what it was. I can’t remember, really. It flew around in the sky for a while, Jan and a soldier tried killing it… It didn’t really work. But I remember some four beings descended from the sky called out four names. Suzana and Kzenia Sarkozic were called out, I know that for sure. The witch-mage-wizard woke up and they debated killing it. “Don’t kill it! He has answers!” “Kill him! He’s Iblees-spawn!” “Don’t kill him or you’ll kill us all!”.  I think the mage unleashed the spirits in the sky… It was horrifying. I’m worried for the two Sarkozic sisters, I think they’re both under ten. Why would a Demon want two girls under the age of ten? They’ve not committed any sins, they’re too young to truly do anything. I pray they’ll make it out of this alive.

The Duchess Austina wrote me back (I wrote her a letter, asking to be a lady-in-waiting)! If it wasn’t for the looming threat over Adria, I’d be jumping for joy. She recommended we meet for lunch some day, and that I’d be a great candidate to be a lady-in-waiting. I still have to write her back, though. I’m unsure of when I can write her back, however– Adria hasn’t any writing paper (odd) and the only place that does is Old Vienne. I don’t really want to travel through the Witches Woods to get a piece of paper, though. It’s a bit intimidating to do that right now.