Archaeus Fronte's Journal

[Centurion]

Archaeus Fronte's Journal​

War
Archaeus Fronte,
Stonefolk

The demons march closer day by day, hour by hour.
I know they will be here at Stonefolk soon, and we have little defense against their numbers, aside from the Hospitallers. I found a small notebook in this home that I now occupy, and I have decided to record important events in my life within, so that any heirs to my name may one day look back and recognize the family's legacy. I am ready to fight, to defend Stonefolk from obliteration. This battle will not go over easily, nor will the war. That mage, Rajaat, visited me earlier today. He had me swear to protect Jurai, as he believes that there may be a traitor in the Queensguard. I swore to him that I would not let her fall during this battle, that she would live on, with or without her kingdom. No harm shall come to my queen.
I was just informed of sighting of demons on the horizon, and I must go. If I may fall on this day, whoever may find this, make sure that Jurai knows that I -

[The rest of the page is charred and partially torn off, to the point of not being able to read.]


Rilath
Archaeus Fronte,
Stonefolk
Two months after the end of the Demon War

There is great suspicion around Stonefolk that Rilath is planning an overthrow of Queen Jurai.
The Hospitallers have left his command, and have warned the Queensguard of his possible Treachery. I was recently accepted in to the Hospitaller force, as an initiate. Queen Jurai has left for a personal reason of which I was not informed. I hope she returns soon... I miss her. De'Falgo and Castras are training me well. General Liosathe has pulled half of our forces out of Stonefolk and headed North, to stronghold Arrowhead.


The Council
Archaeus Fronte
Stonefolk
Beginning of the Dark Elven Conflict

Stonefolk is now led by a council consisting of De'Falgo, John Castras, and I. I am a Hospitaller knight now, as I have completed my training. I will keep a log of what happens in this entry.

-Jurai is declared missing
-Rilath is executed by popular vote
-Knight-Commander Altin Cruado is now an ally of Stonefolk and her outreaches.
-Dark Elves are attacking caravans outside of Acre now, in organized raiding parties.
-Vote is suggested on declaring war, after Dark Elves claim responsible for Jurai's death.
-War is declared.
-Band of ten men are sent far, far northeast to the Wall of Heartstone, the outer rim of the Dark Elven stronghold.
-Thirty-Four new citizens have arrived.
-Food rations are running low.
-Food rations have been boosted.
-De'Falgo suggests a direct attack on the Wall.
-De'Falgo, Castras, Fronte, and Angeline penetrate the Wall, being pushed back almost immediately.
-De'Falgo is capured, Castras is executed, Fronte escapes, Angeline is executed.


Hospitaller Commander Fronte
January 21st
Devastation
Stonefolk

The empire is in Ruins. Jurai is gone, a new tyrant is in her place. De'Falgo deserted us and now fights for the Dark Elven High Lords. Because of this, Stonefolk is ashes. That bastard betrayed us, and I swear to all of the gods, old and new, that he shall pay for his crimes, and for his broken oath. Many have died in the war of the Dark Elves. Acre is the only remaining secure stronghold, the home of what remains of local Hospitallers. I am going to form -


[This page is torn out]


Hospitaller Commander Archaeus Fronte

I can see the edge of civilization on the horizon. I should be there by nightfall, if nothing hinders my travelling. Perhaps I may find the stronghold of Iceblade, abandoned several years ago. If I do, I swear by any gods that exist, any that are worshipped, that I will rebuild. The Hospitaller force will not die.​

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[Centurion]

Nineteenth of Ghostmoon, 2259.​

I found my old journal, decided it was time to keep a new one. Seeing as though the material that had been written in my former journal was rather... private, and something that I'd rather not have around Lem, I'd torn out each page of private material and burnt them. Such words of my former love are things that in these days of work, and world, could be used against me. I already have so much that can be used against me... it's best I don't hold on to more.

As of today, my youngest daughter, Kaia Arianne Fronte, has taken up residence with my in my room at the Silver Palace. Writing this down as I watch her paint, actually. She's so very talented already - I can see that in the future she'll be a near perfect, if not entirely perfect, artist. I'm so very proud of her and Brii both. Little Beauty has not come by to visit me since the end to the great war, and I do miss her quite a bit. I wonder... is it Felicia who keeps her from me? I have not seen my wife in so very long. Perhaps she's stopped loving me...

On a lighter note, the play went by decently today. No interruptions, each of the actors did wonderfully. With Astrid having never shown up, I'm incredibly proud of Cali's ability to work under pressure. Especially with that large of a crowd. Interestingly enough, Lem didn't show. I thought I'd invited her. Maybe I'm just being silly.... She is a Queen though, above all, not just a friend. And with her illness... I'm worried. Scared, really. I don't see myself living past her death. And even though I have very few reasons to still want to live, those few reasons are worth the world to me. Kaia, Brii, Serenity... I love them each, I cannot be selfish and end this torment early. I will write here that I promise, when my time of duty comes to an end, I will move. Hell, I don't know where. Maybe somewhere out in the country. Far from all this political riff raff. Far from the dozens of people that want me dead, for their various reasons.

20th of Ghostmoon, 2259​

I don't know what I'm doing anymore, really. Being a slave? No longer king, that's for sure. And presumably never again. My family is in ruins, even more so than my kingdom. I feel as though little Kaia is the only one I have left, aside from Serenity. Serenity... I don't know if I'm making a mistake with her. I love Felicia, but it doesn't seem as though she loves me back. Thinking over the events since my arrival in the Northern Kingdoms of the world, it seems the luck I once held so dear has now... abandoned me. This rapid pace at which my life is moving is tearing me apart. No more than two hours after Elizabeth told me that she hated me, wished I'd never come back for her, and didn't say that she wished I was dead in Aeonis (although she certainly was thinking it), I had to bury my first born child... No father should have to go through that. I would have given my life to preserve hers, and every night I think about how this is entirely my fault. If I had gone after Elizabeth, Danniella would still be alive. Grey wouldn't have killed her. I have the blood of my own daughter and grandchild on my hands.

I've decided to remove myself from Elizabeth's life, as she has so openly declared she wishes. I will go through the legal process, remove her from the Fronte name and remove her from the will. Perhaps then this madness will cease. She has made it obvious that she hates me, anyhow - I think she'll be ecstatic to hear the news.

The overwhelming feeling of shame that washes over me every time that I look at her, Elizabeth. My own daughter hates me. My own blood. Wishes I had died. And it's entirely my fault, truly. Was it right for me to have sent her away so young? She would have survived with me, even if she was so young. Danniella left willingly, and we were separated just as long, though she loved me. And Elizabeth. Even through what events Elizabeth was sparking, even through her engagement to the son of my greatest enemy.

Alphos.... He is, at core, my enemy. Has hated me since we first met, just as his father did. Scardrac calls him a mistake. I don't doubt he was. But still, with my actions, I set myself in between them, I disrupt love in its course. Is it truly my right? Should I have made my feelings so clear about the situation? I should call them off, call off Janos. Call off Valrien. Seems I simply cannot stop making these mistakes, and each one does nothing more than prolong this suffering.

If I were to kill myself I only stay alive for Kaia, Brii, Serenity. They're all I have left, in the end. Even if Leminth is a friend, which... in truth, is a wild notion. What Queen would befriend as much of an idiot as I am? Can't stop making messes, can't even keep my own family in line. I wonder when she'll simply cast me aside. I can't help but wonder if I hold any real use to her, any real spot in her mind. Sure, she writes me, but with nothing more than reminders to keep my eye on people around the palace, make sure nobody does anything dangerous around the palace... She said herself to me, so many months ago, that I was important. She did not say the word, though. She simply... alluded to it. But these days, when I sit alone in my cold room in the palace, I cry. I cry for my past, I cry for the coming days. I mourn the death of Aleya, Danniella. Both taken before their time, because of me. Me, Me, Me, Me, Me. It is all my fault. And I can't bring myself to take my own life. I'm too much of a coward to.

I wonder if she'll execute me when my service ends.

21st of Ghostmoon, 2259
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Today Elizabeth stopped by. It turns out that she was very off put by the idea of being legally disowned, even with the fact that I would have had Dayter sign off as legal adoptive father. She tried to make things right, it takes courage to do so. But still, I have to keep myself distant. Just as she has several times in the past, I don't doubt that in the future she'll turn on me once again. By all gods, I swear I owe half of my cripples to her. But, as was fair, I forgave her for each time. I can't stand to see her cry. It hurts me, regardless of whatever defensive shell I'd put up. No father could ever stand by and watch as their daughter cries, begging forgiveness.

Kaia came back in the night. Very good, I was really starting to worry about her. She had left Sivaas here, under my desk, and went out without anyone - that's dangerous in itself. But, surely enough, when I woke this morning I found her snuggled up against me. Kaia is truly amazing, in entirety. I can't wait to see what she'll become one day. But for now, I never want her to grow up.~

Brii hasn't visited in quite some time, and I miss her, of course. I'm still unsure whether it is Felicia keeping her in the temple, not letting her visit, or that she had simply stopped wanting to visit. To either, of course, I would be heartbroken. I miss her deeply.

2259​

If my homeland is the way I left it so very long ago, then there is a way to fix the curse. I have to get to the Spire of Time, I have to. If I don't, Sasami will die. In truth, this time.

27th of Floodlock, 2260​

I found this journal again while moving some of my things from the Palace to the Silver Serpent's staff housing.
Brii came back to me. In nearly a decade I haven't seen my daughter, and it brings me so much joy and peace to have her with me once more. I fear the worst, however, for Kaia... it has been perhaps two, three years since I've seen my youngest. It's my fault... I should've bested the kidnappers. They took me and left my girl alone in the world, weeks of travel from her mother, and months from her father. If only I could've stopped them, perhaps things could be different.

I shouldn't think like this, I'm aware, but somehow I can tell she's gone. Passed in to the afterlife. It brings me a depression I haven't felt since Danniella's passing, a truly heart-wrenching feeling. It has me feel as though I'm a pitiful mistake of a father, a disgrace among men. It's entirely my fault that she's gone. I wasn't strong enough, and she payed the price. Without a father, without me, she didn't have much of a chance in the cruel world some call Altera.

A father shouldn't outlive his children, and I've outlived three of mine now.

I haven't seen Elizabeth for several years either, I'm curious as to where she may be. I hope I haven't lost a fourth daughter to the world. I'm not sure if I should be a father at all, with this.... mess. Brii is the only child I've had contact with in years, and she's just recently found me. She... had been living alone, from what I could infer. Moving from city to city, living under so many names she couldn't recall them all if she wished. I failed her as well. If only I had been able to best my captors, then Brii and Kaia would've both led stable childhoods. Instead, I've made the same mistake that I made with my first three; they went through war and the loss of their city, Danni the Pirate, Aleya the Scholar, and Elizabeth the... gone. Raised without a mother or father there for most of their childhood, not there at all for Elizabeth's. If only Sas and I hadn't been in war, perhaps we may have given our children a life which would render them happy, and alive.

I'm a disgrace of a father.

2nd of Springrise, 2260
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The simple games and fun would be looked upon as something basic and normal by most, but by me it was simply a way to remind me of my family since past. Once more I'm shown a broken mirror reflecting the opposite of what's truthful in my world; my family, new family, is dead and gone. Kaia is gone, Felicia is gone, only Brii remains. Brii is my only child now, and I cling to her with extreme desperation. To see the image of a perfect family in theory shattered me this evening; Daeron, the fun uncle, Naelwyn, the caring father, Tzemik, the loving mother, and Harleen, the fun child. They may not've seen it that way themselves, but that's what it looked like from the outside in. I should ask Tzemik if she has the ability to take my memory.

8th of Sporebloom, 2260
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It's been well over several months since I've written a passage, and... many, many things have happened. I am lost in this world, I do not see further need for myself to exist. Brii returned from her world travels, but Adelaide has not contacted me since she walked out of my life after the summoning event. I'd spoken to Danniella, and she told that she was doing well. Two children and a husband. She's growing up, I'm growing old.

On a more important note, I have captured Elizabeth and am holding her in solitude with myself in Stonefolk. She ran the day before yesterday, and nearly escaped, but I managed to catch up with her. She reached a point where she just couldn't run anymore, and collapsed. I was near that myself, and barely made it back to what remained of my Estate with her unconscious body. It's been a few days in total I've held her here, and I've succeeded in breaking her will. Is that a good thing? To break your own daughter's will, to get them to cave? It doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel right. I've also explained to her the web of lies Robert had constructed to take advantage of her, and she took it rather well. As soon as I can find Naelwyn to help me remove the corruption from her body, Elizabeth and I will be finding Robert and taking back the young girl Elizabeth had adopted.

Is there anything more to write?

 

[Centurion]

Waterday.
16th of Sporebloom, 2260.

Final entry.
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Do you know how it feels to not want to wake up anymore?

[The rest of this page is torn off.]

 

[Centurion]

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[Centurion]

Leminth.

On this day, Thronesday, 18th of Fogwater, 2259, there was a victory won against the great demon Tavish. After repeatedly strolling in to the warcamp and growling at me from where I could not see, I decided to investigate. When I saw him there, hiding behind the walls surrounding the portal, I must admit that I did break in to a cold sweat. After giving a "Ribbet" to try and lower the tension of the situation, I calmly approached him. Nearly immediately he bolted for the portal. Upon seeing this, I went to inform a few others who had wandered out after hearing the exchange: Grimar Ironheart, Gelyk Dormus, and Scardrac... Dormus? or Hellhound, whatever he is referred to as. Upon hearing of this Scardrac began to devise a plan, working with Gelyk and Grimar to perfect it. After much complaint from Grimar about the plan, during the likes of which I was punched by the demon, sent in to the air through the portal and landing nearby, they eventually put aside their differences. I was told that I was unconscious for nearly twenty minutes. Luckily I sustained no major injuries from this, and rose to aide the other three in their planning.

After I ended the bickering between Scardrac and Grimar, we were interrupted with scared shouting from near the portal - A small corrupted elven lady had been nearly cast ablaze by the demon. Sending her off to help with her burns, Grimar, Scardrac, Gelyk, and I followed suit through the portal. A few moments later the demon appeared on the walkway above us - scared the living...

After a few exchanges of blows between us and the demon, it suddenly teleported to a different walkway, staring back at us. We of course followed suit, attacking it in near unison to try and overpower him. He then somehow conjured up a force and threw us away from him with his mind, all but Grimar landing on the ground nearby. Grimar had been hit full force by the demon's black cube, sent out in to the sky and landing with a splash in the nearby bay. He did not return from that, we are unaware of his location at the time.

Pushing the demon further back, he unleashed a storm of lightning down on us; luckily none of us were hit by it. Scardrac dove at the thing, digging a small axe in to the back of its head. It punched Scardrac away and tore the axe out with an angry growl, healing itself nearly instantly. It once more shoved us away with an invisible force, and ran up the nearby hill a bit - Scardrac came around from behind and dove at him, digging a second tomahawk in to his head, which was yet again torn out and the wound healed. As he did this, Gelyk charged up and brought his blade down through the demon's knee and forced him to kneel. Within a split second I was upon him once more, bringing my blade down in to his neck quite deeply. At this moment he roared in anger and pain, chanting once more and shoving us away with that invisible force, this time teleporting away in retreat.

Gelyk Dormus, Scardrac Dormus, and I won in a battle against Tavish. I think it was mostly luck.

I will be around the camp if further questioning is needed. We are all hurt fairly bad, but I am certainly the worst of it - though I am still standing, still alive. I'm quite the survivor, as I'm sure you know.

---Signed Archaeus Aeondi Fronte, Exile, on this day of Thronesday the Eighteenth.


High Possibility:

This demon, Fury, the likes of which you say has no physical form - that is wrong. Fury is the corruption itself, spreading its tendrils across the world. I came to this realization, when, after having gone against orders to investigate the Arduin Forest's state of corruption, Fury trapped me and took me to the Void. I spent hours down there, the air very slowly creeping out of me. Dury my stay in the cavern, with the void seemingly sucking the air away, I began to try and get Fury to reveal his true form to me, seeing as though I was almost certainly going to die. He responded with only hisses and hrrks, and this supports my idea. After awhile, I made an attempt at escape - the likes of which was halted very quickly, and I was damn near shoved in to the Void as a result. Though, after stalling Fury with the wish to play a game of riddles, it released me, telling me 'Slaughter Calls, Mirage will be Ours. You will die another day.' This is how I knew to begin preparations for a demon attack on Mirage. Once I returned to the medical tent, the likes of which has a bed much more comfortable than the slightly softer patch of grass I had been sleeping on, Albareth came in with his daughter, Sheila. I spoke with Albareth of what had happened at the Arduin Forest, and Sheila spoke up, wanting to hear more. So I told her. And after I had finished, the girl told me that she had once been trapped with Fury underground - though, after gifting him a piece of amber, she was released. Upon asking how Fury was able to take the gem, she replied something along the lines of, 'A tentacle came out of the wall and took it.' This went unnoticed by me for the time, but immediately came back to my mind as I fought in the battle of Mirage. As I realized it, the massive tentacle of corruption raised high in to the air, another part of it came down; it chased me through the palace, and eventually wound up throwing me in to a sewer line. All the while, the tentacle followed me. It slithered along its way, blocking escapes, terraforming land along the way...

My point is, Fury is not ethereal. Fury is the corruption itself, manifested in to tentacle form.
+Reasons for Belief+
-Not giving a reasonable answer to my wish to see its true form.
-Fury's ability to seemingly 'chase' people, and carve caverns with ease.
-Sheila's gift.
-The mass of Corruption Tentacles present at Mirage during the attack.
-Fury's form has not been directly seen or alluded to by himself.
-The feeling of his voice being omnipresent around and within corrupted lands.


~Fronte - 5th of Fogwater, 2259

 

[Centurion]

Posted first new journal entry!

 

[Centurion]

Posted 20th of ghostmoon entry @Sophe @Michcat @MaelstromPuddle @Megadonkey30 @Gibbles98

 

[Centurion]

21st of ghostmoon. @Sophe @fhamersley @QuXXn_ @Deash12

 

[Centurion]

*Maniacal laughter*

 

[Centurion]

27th of Floodlock journal entry is there now. @QuXXn_ @fhamersley @Sophe

Edit: Wow writing Journal entries as Archaeus is really depressing.

 

[Centurion]

@Naelwyn @Jstar @Michcat @fhamersley
@ForestRose
In the newest writings

 

[fhamersley]

;-;

 

[Centurion]

Released a letter free to read way back from the exodus. Much fun!

@Scardrac @Arken @james_power @Michcat

 

[Centurion]

@Sophe @smurf58105 @Arken @ACU20 @GLaDOS101 @fhamersley

 

[fhamersley]

I love these so much nhngngng

 

[bettemus99]

.. oh -my- Let's watch this o3o

 

[ACU20]

"I've also explained to her the web of lies Robert had constructed to take advantage of her, and she took it rather well. As soon as I can find Naelwyn to help me remove the corruption from her body, Elizabeth and I will be finding Robert and taking back the young girl Elizabeth had adopted."

That's actually Roberts daughter. . .And also, that 'web of lies' was actually just a way for Rob to get an excuse to propose to her. 'saving archaeus'

TROLOLOLOLOLOL

 

[Sophe]

...Lizzy had to have some way of escaping... She chose using lies ^-^

 

[Centurion]

"I've also explained to her the web of lies Robert had constructed to take advantage of her, and she took it rather well. As soon as I can find Naelwyn to help me remove the corruption from her body, Elizabeth and I will be finding Robert and taking back the young girl Elizabeth had adopted."

That's actually Roberts daughter. . .And also, that 'web of lies' was actually just a way for Rob to get an excuse to propose to her. 'saving archaeus'

TROLOLOLOLOLOL

i know how things go

archaeus also used lies