{"id":24342,"date":"2023-11-17T23:46:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T04:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=24342"},"modified":"2023-11-17T23:46:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T04:46:42","slug":"the-kingdom-of-tokavsk-session-25-words-from-elshir-personal-servant-to-lord-eskyil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/11\/17\/the-kingdom-of-tokavsk-session-25-words-from-elshir-personal-servant-to-lord-eskyil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of Tokavsk, Session 25:  Words from Elshir, Personal Servant to Lord Eskyil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>He had to have known Lord &#8212; had enemies.  Everyone in this place does, yeah?  The King and advisors running about with no one watching, not like.  Ever seen them?  Now Lord Azhan, he&#8217;s a type.  A real quiet man he is.  Always writing.  Or Lord Grasz.  The one with the old family name?  Lost the Ceremony to the current King, may a thousand hawks guide Him to eternal warmth.  Ever alive is the King, may He have a long and prosperous reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, yes, the point.  My language is not rude, this is how I talk.  Mean I no disrespect.  My Lord, well, he has a strange gift, you see.  He knows when something bad is to come.  Not what it is or how but that it is.  Like magic if such a thing were given to mortals.  Lord Eskyil is no ordinary mortal, now, he is a very important man.  So even if he did not know what the event was, he in a way knew that it was.  So I said this to another or two, yeah.  No negative rumors would I spread to people.  I only said it to those who knew.  Don&#8217;t come after me like frosthounds with winterbite, yeah?  And may I not be from around here, but I was selected from my village by Lord Eskyil, before that a roofer I was.  I am not fully nothing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He had to have known Lord &#8212; had enemies. Everyone in this place does, yeah? The King and advisors running about with no one watching, not like. Ever seen them? Now Lord Azhan, he&#8217;s a type. A real quiet man he is. Always writing. Or Lord Grasz. The one with the old family name? Lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2243,"featured_media":21356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1852,1221,1611,1257,2079,1806,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342"}],"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=24342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24343,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342\/revisions\/24343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}