Opening post by Lady Alys Karstark · #1
Take this from a man who has rebuilt. You can date a lord's arrival by his vocabulary.
Words carry doctrine: call it a 'trade' and losses feel arithmetical, call it a 'loss' and they feel personal.
The oldest words outlast their mechanics — half our slang describes systems that changed seasons ago.
That is the whole of the lesson, and it was dear.