Sworn Swords

On retainer for some merchant, he asks if I got experience in excel flow charts. Yea I got an excellent flow chart right here.

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The knightly-aristocratic "values" are based on a careful cult of the physical, on a flowering, rich, and even effervescing healthiness, that goes considerably beyond what is necessary for maintaining life, on war, adventure, the chase, the dance, the tourn —on everything, in fact, which is contained in strong, free, and joyous action. - The Genealogy of Morals

“The helmet was also a mask and the wearer no longer just a warrior among the living, but also an ancestor and a living dead. Wherever there are mask cults, there are ancestor cults; the masks transform the wearer into an ancestor... This makes it easier to understand parts of the warrior ideal: dying when already dead was not a sacrifice, since one gained power in death and as an ancestor.” - Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard, ‘Werewolves, Warriors and Winter Sacrifices (Unmasking Kivik and Indo-European Cosmology in Bronze Age Scandinavia)’ [Helmet found in Vendel - Sweden, 7th Century AD]

There are no royals left, corruption has consumed all hereditary positions of power to the point where only cowards can be found on thrones. The coming age will sort wheat from chaff, men of coin from men of courage. True wealth is not measured in currency but in loyal hands and large herds. There are no nobles left.

Today, we founding stock Americans have the honor of remembering our Founding fathers and “..Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon chiefs from whom we claim the honor of being descended, and whose political principles and form of government we have assumed.” -Thomas Jefferson

Orb of Scrying on my castle’s walls caught this Greek dude asking for grain

Men have two options in life.