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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rastfar" data-source="post: 3645065" data-attributes="member: 9596">4 Ter, 637 M.Y.Timotheus and I are two entirely different people.  It is as if we speak separate languages.  I truly do not understand him.  Is it possible for people to be so simple?  He is possessed of a singular purpose.  Hobgoblins.  He finds offense where I offer none and makes playful insult.  Is this an attempt to goad me?  Perhaps bearing witness to the demise of too many comrades has made him linear-minded.  I could not imagine having to remember the names and faces of so many fallen heroes in the name of a cause never won.I have stumbled upon a treasure far more rare than coinage or jewels.  With the aid of my brother-in-law’s coin, I am able to commission a suit of armour crafted specifically to aid in my particular skill sets.  I am thrilled with the prospect of beginning to meld my martial training to those of the arcane art.Markos has my sympathy, but still must earn my respect.  I shudder to think what he must have had to endure: having been stripped of his family, held a captive aboard a nefarious pirate vessel, obeying all bidding of the captain as his cabin boy.  I had heard horrible tales of such slavery aboard vessels of extended sea journeys, but to be forced into such terrible service with no prospect for escape, knowing not whether you will see a new dawn.  The injustice would certainly harden you to the world.  But he is fortunate.  He was cast adrift as he grew to be too mannish, not killed.  He was rescued and returned to his rightful family, recognized as a noble, given coin, influence, power, reputation.  He has been gifted of an education and contacts to aid in any endeavour he should so choose.  He has been offered an opportunity to do great good in Thricia, make a name for himself, and perhaps even prosper.  I will no longer abide his boyish immaturity, self-pity and wallowing, nor his over-exaggerated omniscience.  Henceforth he must learn to compose himself as a man of respect, such that he may receive the respect of others.  Only then will the world soften itself to him.</blockquote>

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