Keeping up with the Vendelstalhs

[Decimate_The_Weak]

I remember being walked to Vyrgil on Beske for the first time saying to myself "this is the moment". It was the moment.

Kudos, Pentaxius. I'm eager to see what you roll next.

[Aethereal]

I enjoyed all our interactions, and yes they were always full of subtext and subtle intrigues - don't think I didn't notice, and I don't think you didn't either, though perhaps Vyrgil did with his inebriated states.

I've now experienced a Pentaxius character as both ally and friend (Axiomatic brethren) as well as enemy (it was our special kind of enmity, the type we never talk about or show in public but we know it's there. I like to think of it like the intrigues amongst the nobility of the Victorian era though perhaps a little bit more deadly.) And my conclusion is that you were great at both roles.

I think I liked the interactions when Vyrgil was young in his days as Agent and Arantras was but a scholar, not yet part of the House of Governance. That relationship of potential colleagues evolved into a direction I truly hadn't expected, but was a mixture of enjoyable and frustrating at times but it did make me have to think creatively to counteract it and control the damage. Making people author books in his name, and preventing them from publishing their own works without thorough 'editing'... then demanding censorship! The villainy, the villainy! Though as you mentioned, it was quite something that people went through with it anyway - no doubt Vyrgil offering a favour he had little intention of fulfilling for the unworthy pus-quills.

I look forward to seeing what's next when you return to play but until then good luck and effort in your real world endeavours.