Sicilia: Tempus Novum
A new AAR, this time with Sicily.
This is my first HttT game, so:
Difficulty: Very Easy
Lucky Nations: None
The others are normal.
Sicilia: Tempus Novum
It was the year of 1399, and in a small monastery near the Sicilian city of Messina abbot Benedetto was anxiously waiting for the messengers that would return from Rome, where they discussed the foundation of a new monastic order, devoted to the studies of the Holy Scriptures and the world. It was their former abbot, Dom Pellegrino, who was the founder of this monastery, exactly with the idea of studying the Bible and the world around them, while writing down what they discovered. It is in this monastery where a local farmer boy became monk, and started to write down the history of Sicily in a systematic matter.
Tacito, being raised in the poverty of a family of serves, was the youngest member of the family, four children. Their mother died while giving birth to Tacito, leaving their father to raise his four children. Even under this sad and difficult circumstances, he was a good-hearted man, who tried to raise his three sons and daughter the best way he could. But life was hard for the family. One day, when Tacito was barely 14 years of age, his two elder brothers and two farmers came back to the house unusually early in the day. It was a hot summer day in 1395, and in between them they dragged a sort of improvised stretcher with their father on it. Their sister hurried to the men, asking what happened. Tacito only watched from a little distance, with a growing feeling of fear coming up from his stomach. Their father had an accident while herding the cows of their landlord. He fell in a deep cliff, and broke his back as result.
The evening of the accident, all four children were huddled around their father, lying unconscious at his bed. He was pale, his eyes closed. His breath was weak. For Tacito, the world was falling apart. It was two days later when their father died. After the burial, the four children sat around the only table in their shabby house. They were discussing how they would live further. Missing the labour of their father, the eldest brother could not work to feed three more mouths. Although their sister was working at the mason of the local lord, she did not earn enough too to feed two children. So they decided that Tacito should go to the monastery that was build nearby recently. He did not dare to fight their decision, and so he was brought to the monastery two weeks later. The monks were not very willingly to accept this poor child, but the desperate plea of his sister convinced them. They taught him about the Bible, they prayed, they taught him Latin and Greek, they prayed, they taught him Astronomies , they prayed, they taught him about herbs, they prayed, they taught him about the foreign lands far away and they prayed. Tacito seemed to be a smart student, learning fast and soon he was accepted as a full member of the monastery. With his mere eighteen years of age, he was ordered a task most of the other monks didn’t want to do, the great task of keeping a record of what happened within the kingdom of Sicily. And so he began with determination on this task, with all means he had access to. He called it:
Sicilia: Tempus Novum
A new AAR, this time with Sicily.
This is my first HttT game, so:
Difficulty: Very Easy
Lucky Nations: None
The others are normal.
Sicilia: Tempus Novum
It was the year of 1399, and in a small monastery near the Sicilian city of Messina abbot Benedetto was anxiously waiting for the messengers that would return from Rome, where they discussed the foundation of a new monastic order, devoted to the studies of the Holy Scriptures and the world. It was their former abbot, Dom Pellegrino, who was the founder of this monastery, exactly with the idea of studying the Bible and the world around them, while writing down what they discovered. It is in this monastery where a local farmer boy became monk, and started to write down the history of Sicily in a systematic matter.
Tacito, being raised in the poverty of a family of serves, was the youngest member of the family, four children. Their mother died while giving birth to Tacito, leaving their father to raise his four children. Even under this sad and difficult circumstances, he was a good-hearted man, who tried to raise his three sons and daughter the best way he could. But life was hard for the family. One day, when Tacito was barely 14 years of age, his two elder brothers and two farmers came back to the house unusually early in the day. It was a hot summer day in 1395, and in between them they dragged a sort of improvised stretcher with their father on it. Their sister hurried to the men, asking what happened. Tacito only watched from a little distance, with a growing feeling of fear coming up from his stomach. Their father had an accident while herding the cows of their landlord. He fell in a deep cliff, and broke his back as result.
The evening of the accident, all four children were huddled around their father, lying unconscious at his bed. He was pale, his eyes closed. His breath was weak. For Tacito, the world was falling apart. It was two days later when their father died. After the burial, the four children sat around the only table in their shabby house. They were discussing how they would live further. Missing the labour of their father, the eldest brother could not work to feed three more mouths. Although their sister was working at the mason of the local lord, she did not earn enough too to feed two children. So they decided that Tacito should go to the monastery that was build nearby recently. He did not dare to fight their decision, and so he was brought to the monastery two weeks later. The monks were not very willingly to accept this poor child, but the desperate plea of his sister convinced them. They taught him about the Bible, they prayed, they taught him Latin and Greek, they prayed, they taught him Astronomies , they prayed, they taught him about herbs, they prayed, they taught him about the foreign lands far away and they prayed. Tacito seemed to be a smart student, learning fast and soon he was accepted as a full member of the monastery. With his mere eighteen years of age, he was ordered a task most of the other monks didn’t want to do, the great task of keeping a record of what happened within the kingdom of Sicily. And so he began with determination on this task, with all means he had access to. He called it:
Sicilia: Tempus Novum
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