|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:11 am
New Year, New Me
Solo or RP Format
Counts as 5 RP growth Points
Solo word minimum is 750, RP post minimum is 7
Another year has passed in Tendaji, meaning a new opportunity for the residents to accomplish their goals and dreams. Typically, this is a time for setting promises to oneself and others on what to do in the year ahead. There are many different superstitions on how to make a New Year's Wish: some toss their written wishes into the sea, others will burn them at a shrine, and even more will whisper them to representatives of the gods.
No matter how one goes about doing it, all will take the time to ensure that their wishes and promises have the best chance to come true in the New Year.
[ What is your character's promise for the New Year? Go about their practice of setting their goals and dreams in the way they feel is most important. Maybe they go to the shrines, or wish under a star, or honor the god(s) they follow. The goal of this World Event is to make a wish for the next year however your character chooses fit. ]
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 10:53 am
Vaena listened to the bells toll from her bedroom window. They rang every year for various reasons and this time it was for the new year. Lurin and Dafiel were thanked for the blessings and balance the new year was to bring, but to Vaena it was just more sound.
She felt like she was in a rut and the rest of the world was passing her by. She had thrown herself into her work and learning her craft, but it was reaching a peak here in Yael. She had learned all she felt she could from her apprenticeship and it was time for her to figure out where she was taking her craft. Did she want to leave and make a name for herself outside of her master’s company? Did she want to try to partner up? Did she want to try to learn more, something outside of Yaeli craftsmanship? There were many questions on her plate, and it was weighing down on Vaena. What she did know was that while she had been so absorbed in her work on Yael and avoiding anything foreign, the foreign had moved into her life.
Earthlings of all varieties were settling into Pajore and had been since Yael was discovered by the outsiders. It didn’t sit well with Vaena and she didn’t enjoy seeing the other colorful looks of the outsiders. Why couldn’t they just leave them be? The Gods were already angry enough that they were mixing, and now it was like everywhere she looked there were people she didn’t recognize.
And word kept coming in of new places discovered. First it was Belrea, and now an entirely new continent of fish people? It was more than she could imagine and she didn’t understand what the hype was.
But she had seen the wares. They brought over such interesting looking jewelry Vaena would have been an idiot to not at least give them a second look. Even if she didn’t want to admit it, there was more to learn out there in the vast world.
Vaena looked to the Sanctum from her window at her desk and put her head in her hands. Maybe what the Gods had in store for her this year was change. Maybe she was meant to learn more from these outsiders and not continue to be pent up, ignoring all things different and non-yaeli. She thought on that, watching the towers in the distance and wondering. Maybe she should pray?
She decided against that, but she did make up her mind about one thing. She had to change her attitude. She needed to accept that there was a much larger world out there than just her little island of Yael, and that things would never be the same for her or her world again. There was no kicking them out now, so she would have to swallow her feelings and give them a chance.
And she would learn from them.
She would go to Tendaji and see their jewelry, see their craft, and see how it was done. She wanted to learn more, to do something besides settling for what she already knew. This she was sure of.
So with the start of the new year Vaena started packing her bags. She was still in contact with her parents, visiting them often, but that chapter of her life was coming to a close. This new part of her, a part that… tolerated… outsiders. That part would take work. But for her craft she could manage. She hoped at least.
It took her a couple of days to get all of her loose ends tied up, but she traveled to visit her parents, told them she was leaving on a trip, to be back indefinitely, and returned to spread the news to her master jeweler. She didn’t take it so well, Vaena guessed she had wanted to try to go into some kind of partnership, but in the end she accepted it as well.
She looked at the dock in front of her and all of the people coming and going. She felt like such an outsider herself now. The number of yaeli was insignificant compared to those of other races. But she held out her ticket to the teller and boarded the large boat headed for Matori. She took another look back at Yael with her bags in her hand and said goodbye to her home… at least for now. She may or may not be back.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
