April 24th
Dear Journal,
I suppose that I have to admit that I am enjoying my life in this new land despite the Curse. In fact, I think that the Curse has enabled me to become more independent and successful at my chosen profession. I know that I can stand and hunt with the best of them although I have not chosen to run with a pack yet.
Sure, I have met a few of my same persuasion, however, I am so used to being my own boss that I would find it rather difficult to follow the rules set forth by another. Unfortunately, my Father taught me too well how to stand on my own two feet and make my own way.
The hunting is plentiful and I have been able to do all of the things that I would have normally done with the exception of living in a fine house and still having my family with me. Ah yes, that does make me sad at some level, however, without the added burdens of the social acumen pressing on me to take a wife and have children to pass on the noble family name, I am finding it rather pleasant. Where else could I live that allowed me to socialize with others and still maintain my independence?
This new found freedom is almost more than I can bear at this point. I know that my life is very different if things had remained as they were in Gilneas. I know that I would be attending quite a few more social gatherings in my Mother’s hopes of finding a bride and I would have been working with my Father to carry on the family traditions of working in the business. Although we were of noble blood, there still had to be a way to earn a living in addition to anything that you might have gleaned from your ancestors as far as wealth.
I know that I have met a few people that I knew at home and strangely enough, they all seem to have become nobility since they landed in this new land. Lord and Lady Whatsis, well, I fully recollect them being trades people at home, the wife was a school teacher and he was a butcher of sorts. So, I suppose if they choose to live their new lives with the pretense of a lie, that is their business and I will not disclose their falsehoods. I know that more than just a few people in Gilneas yearned to have that nobility crown, well, I can tell you from experience, it isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be when you get out into the real world.
Speaking of the real world, I know that I am just breaking into the edges of this land of Kalimdor and I have visited the large city in the Eastern Kingdom called Stormwind. I can’t say that I was that thrilled with Stormwind due to the overcrowding, however, it is all a new beginning and I won’t let anyone spoil that wonder for me. To begin one’s life anew is not something that one should throw carelessly away by clinging too hard to your past. Let the past bury itself and live for the now and for the things that come – that’s what I fully plan on doing.
I know that I am going to live my life as it is and take what joy I can from being granted a second chance whether it came from this Elune or from the Light – it’s new, it’s exciting and I have finally convinced myself that I have no real regrets of things that have happened in the past. Yes, there is a part of me that feels horrible for what befell my family at my own hand, however, the beast was the one that did the killing, not me the man.
Alexander Brandric
