{"id":22945,"date":"2023-03-31T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=22945"},"modified":"2023-03-30T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:39:51","slug":"the-kingdom-of-tokavsk-session-19-diary-entry-of-lord-eskyil-chief-advisor-to-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/03\/31\/the-kingdom-of-tokavsk-session-19-diary-entry-of-lord-eskyil-chief-advisor-to-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of Tokavsk, Session 19:  Diary Entry of Lord Eskyil, Chief Advisor to the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editors\u2019 Note:\u00a0 Our reasoning for including this entry and its successors is twofold.\u00a0 First, it provides a glimpse into the current situation and culture of Tokavsk and its inner court.\u00a0 The diary entry of the chief advisor is of the utmost value to this anthology.\u00a0 We have confirmed its legitimacy through careful study, though were it a forgery it would still warrant a place here.\u00a0 The murder of advisor Jalic Seshet sent the court into a state of chaos that we are attempting to sort through.\u00a0 Thus, the following pieces form a reconstruction of the ensuing events that took place over several weeks.\u00a0 They are not in chronological order but are rather arranged in such a way that they tell a cohesive narrative.\u00a0 When originally compiling this, we were only to include the report of the guards because it was all we had, but the wealth of information we later overturned lead to the need for significant revision.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seshet is no more.\u00a0 I was aroused by this news, and now that I have time to think I am penning it ere it slips from my memory.\u00a0 I still have not processed the fact that he is dead.\u00a0 Though it was hours ago, I hear the frantic words of Pellin over and over as though for the first time inside my mind.\u00a0 The truth of it sinks into me, and then I blink and the initial shock fades again.\u00a0 Jalic Seshet, dead.\u00a0 The flinch, the watering of the eyes, then the strange indifference that is the substitute for grief.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later<\/p>\n<p>The meeting with the King was sullen.\u00a0 With one less robe and voice among us, our positions felt strained and empty.\u00a0 We could not close the circle around the throne without noticing the greater distance.\u00a0 The room was too silent, but no words were sufficient to penetrate it.\u00a0 Even the King was at a loss.\u00a0 We still had appointments to prepare for and bills to consider, but none of that could be done when one of our number was now dead.\u00a0 A heaviness settled about us, and all and all we fulfilled none of our tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors\u2019 Note:\u00a0 Our reasoning for including this entry and its successors is twofold.\u00a0 First, it provides a glimpse into the current situation and culture of Tokavsk and its inner court.\u00a0 The diary entry of the chief advisor is of the utmost value to this anthology.\u00a0 We have confirmed its legitimacy through careful study, though were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2243,"featured_media":21358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1852,1221,1611,1257,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22946,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions\/22946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}