Oh Mithros! So much has happened. I'm sorry my first couple of entries are so short, but to be fair I did warn you. I don't really keep diaries, but this one seems different. It's more of a time line or a life-story for me to be able to go back and see what I've done wrong. Or at least what I'll do wrong. Either way, I have actually just bought my new home. It's a small, small shack next to the grotesque docks, but it's cheap and it's better than camping out on my raft.

I got a job delivering items and letters and such at this market. It's really rather big and I guess a lot of people go there to buy their items. They sell incense and flowers and a lot of religious statues. So far, none of the labor has been really hard, but the owners do seem rather happy to not have to walk all the way across town by themselves. Plus, I only get paid by the day. So, as long as it's still light out I have to return and deliver something else. Not that I'm complaining though, far from it. Actually, I'm very happy here right now. I have already completed my top two items in my check list. I found a job and shelter, and as far as I'm concerned I have not offended anyone or done anything wrong as of yet. Yet, of course, being the key word, but at least so far life is peaceful. So, technically I only have left to learn the customs. I'd say I'm doing very well, don't you? (Actually, you don't really say anything since you're only a book.)

Either way, I think I shall start working on learning the customs around here then. It's not as if I don't have any contact with anyone who is able to tell me all about it. Well, actually I don't. I guess I forgot to put friends on that list of things to get...

Friends.

I can't even remember if I had any back in Tortall. I must have...right? I guess I've been trying so hard to create my new life here I did just that. I created a life, but there's nothing added to it. No happiness, no fun, but then again I haven't been sad or angry. Just indifferent. Uncaring.

It's not bad. I have no regrets of what I've done. Everything was for the best of everyone.

Anyways, I'm here now, and I have a great new start. You know it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The hardest part is probably understanding what some of these people are saying. Not all of them speak the same language, and even then sometimes the person has such a thick accent it's hard to distinguish what they're trying to say.

Also, I'm really sorry if I forget sometimes to write in you so you become so far behind in what's happening but I think you have to realize that...Wait. Book. Yes.

Sorry, sometimes I wonder if I'm losing my sanity.

Like yesterday, I thought I was going insane. This elder man walks right up to me on the pathway that my shop is on and asks me something. I have no idea what it was that he asked for he had a very strange accent. It sounded kind of familiar, but then again it wasn't coherent to me. He took a step forward when he could tell I wasn't understanding and said it again. Still, I couldn't decipher what he was saying, so he just sighed and left.

That's it. No goodbye. No explanation. No nothing. He just left.

It was the strangest thing, but afterwards I just ended up walking back to my shop. It was still light out and I still had places to go.

The store. the store is really pretty simple, once coin per statue, 10 incense for one coin, etc. So far, that's pretty much all I know, but I have to learn more since they want me to run it sometime for them. They said they had a wedding or something to go to in the next few months so they are going to test me and see if I can run the store for them since I'm really the only person working there that's not family. The husband said that it was okay if I wasn't married or nothing since I was quiet, obedient, and honest. I personally don't know if that's a compliment, but I guess it is since I have no plan on marriage.

Mithros! I don't have any plans.

Oh, yes. That's another thing I have to work on. I keep doing that and praying to Mithross. He may be my God, but he can't really protect me since I'm not in Tortall anymore. So, now I have to convert to all of Carthak's Gods and Goddesses. I had no idea how hard it would be. I mean, Mithros and the Great Goddess are accepted everywhere and they're alters are just as sacred so I'll always lay flowers at them, but I also need to remember the Carthak Gods. I don't want to make them mad at me. With all of the good luck I've been receiving by finding this job and finding this house, no matter how smelly, I have a lot to make up for.

The protection of a God is hard to obtain, and once lost is impossible to get back, but it is all worth it once you have it.

I think I remember a story being told actually about Carthak being in trouble with the Gods, but being here now it doesn't look like it. Carthak is prospering and temples and alters are all over the city. Well, I haven't actually been through the entire city yet. I've only been here and around the city since that's where all of my deliveries are, but all of the temples look nice and well-used. Everyday at the shop there is a "rush hour" when everyone grabs their items to go and pray. I've noticed that there is one Goddess that tends to stand out especially, The Graveyard Hag. I don't really know why but if I was her I'd be offended someone would portray me so...ugly. It's sad but true all around this place her figure changes but no matter how it's done she always has these horribly ugly features.

I will definitley have to find out more about her since she seems so popular, but honestly I don't really like the idea of going and praying to her everyday just because I don't want to look at her.