Post by ashenmoon on Nov 2, 2014 21:47:03 GMT
Excerpt of a letter from Lebedain Kuran Ismaer to her sister, regarding the events of the Faloran Revolution's taking of Pharion in the month of September, A.S. 2432 - the "Night of the Columns"
... and in any case, I've heard that people in the Holy City now put all the blame at my old teacher's feet. As if Arahamm taught Ecimer all those horrible things! Now, it wasn't that Arahamm was old, entrenched in his ways, or resistant to new ideas, as I've heard said. Quite the opposite, I would say! The old codger was as sprightly as ever when he taught me, and Ecimer. But Ecimer Suren Rappin must have been a difficult student by anyone's standards. Brilliant, certainly. But difficult. He caused enough of trouble for me as a classmate, either way.
Ecimer, for one, was old blood. It's different back home in the Holy City, with the Wardens in charge - it's almost as if it is another country over here. But Ecimer was not just a Suren: he was the oldest nephew of the Suren paterfamilias, second in line only to to the Suren heir (which, in those days, was Manlia Suren Issander...). So the difference in stations between the old scholar-bureaucrat and the young prince did not make things easier in class. Oh, not to imply that they did not get along. They got on splendidly. Perhaps too well - well, you know how it turned out. But barely a lecture went by without that Suren stirring something up.
Besides, our class at the Palace of Heavenly Study was filled with enough distractions for an old man that I feel it unfair to blame Arahamm for, perhaps, neglecting the moral rot of one of his students. I was there - I spoke with Ecimer often enough! - and I hadn't a clue. He was a bit strange, for sure, but so are many others. It's easy enough to condemn without being a part of the events as they transpired. Take Manlia Issander, for instance - this was four years before his appointment to the office of High Palatine. He hung out with Ecimer all the time - the two were inseparable back then! Not that you'll hear him say anything about it now, of course. And besides, we were all worrying about that Hector woman and the trouble she was stirring up. Perhaps we should have been less concerned with her and more with what was going on inside the Palace... well, either way. I was writing about Arahamm.
So you can tell pa and your friends and let them know: that man was a saint. I know for certain that Arahamm went to confront Ecimer on the eve of the 18th, to stop him. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Ecimer himself who killed him, but things were in such a chaos then - he might have died on the way. I doubt we shall ever know.
But enough of that! Mother was going to redesign the gardens, you say? I know just the...
... and in any case, I've heard that people in the Holy City now put all the blame at my old teacher's feet. As if Arahamm taught Ecimer all those horrible things! Now, it wasn't that Arahamm was old, entrenched in his ways, or resistant to new ideas, as I've heard said. Quite the opposite, I would say! The old codger was as sprightly as ever when he taught me, and Ecimer. But Ecimer Suren Rappin must have been a difficult student by anyone's standards. Brilliant, certainly. But difficult. He caused enough of trouble for me as a classmate, either way.
Ecimer, for one, was old blood. It's different back home in the Holy City, with the Wardens in charge - it's almost as if it is another country over here. But Ecimer was not just a Suren: he was the oldest nephew of the Suren paterfamilias, second in line only to to the Suren heir (which, in those days, was Manlia Suren Issander...). So the difference in stations between the old scholar-bureaucrat and the young prince did not make things easier in class. Oh, not to imply that they did not get along. They got on splendidly. Perhaps too well - well, you know how it turned out. But barely a lecture went by without that Suren stirring something up.
Besides, our class at the Palace of Heavenly Study was filled with enough distractions for an old man that I feel it unfair to blame Arahamm for, perhaps, neglecting the moral rot of one of his students. I was there - I spoke with Ecimer often enough! - and I hadn't a clue. He was a bit strange, for sure, but so are many others. It's easy enough to condemn without being a part of the events as they transpired. Take Manlia Issander, for instance - this was four years before his appointment to the office of High Palatine. He hung out with Ecimer all the time - the two were inseparable back then! Not that you'll hear him say anything about it now, of course. And besides, we were all worrying about that Hector woman and the trouble she was stirring up. Perhaps we should have been less concerned with her and more with what was going on inside the Palace... well, either way. I was writing about Arahamm.
So you can tell pa and your friends and let them know: that man was a saint. I know for certain that Arahamm went to confront Ecimer on the eve of the 18th, to stop him. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Ecimer himself who killed him, but things were in such a chaos then - he might have died on the way. I doubt we shall ever know.
But enough of that! Mother was going to redesign the gardens, you say? I know just the...
