Usamah ibn Munqidh, is he in the game?

[berke]

I couldn't find him. His family should be ruling the castle of Shayzar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usama_ibn_Munqidh

He was a prolific writer and intellectual during the times of the crusades. If anyone has some extra time, I recommend reading his "Book of Learning by Example", often translated as "An Arab-Syrian Gentleman's Account of the Crusades" by the renowned Princeton Historian Phillip Hitti.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitab_al-I'tibar

Here is a link to the text: http://i-epistemology.net/attachmen...ader in the Memoirs of Usamah Ibn Munqidh.pdf


Some colorful excerpts:

The Franks are void of all zeal and jealousy. One of them may be walking along with his wife. He meets another man who takes the wife by the hand and steps aside to converse with her while the husband is standing on one side waiting for his wife to conclude the conversation. If she lingers too long for him, he leaves her alone with the conversant and goes away.

Here is an illustration which I myself witnessed:

When I used to visit Nablus, I always took lodging with a man named Mu'izz, whose home was a lodging house for the Moslems. The house had windows which opened to the road, and there stood opposite to it on the other side of the road a house belonging to a Frank who sold wine for the merchants. He would take some wine in a bottle and go around announcing it by shouting, "So and so, the merchant, has just opened a cask full of this wine. He who wants to buy some of it will find it in such and such a place." The Frank's pay for the announcement made would be the wine in that bottle. One day this Frank went home and found a man with his wife in the same bed. He asked him, "What could have made thee enter into my wife's room?" The man replied, "I was tired, so I went in to rest." "But how," asked he, "didst thou get into my bed?" The other replied, "I found a bed that was spread, so I slept in it." "But," said be, "my wife was sleeping together with thee!" The other replied, "Well, the bed is hers. How could I therefore have prevented her from using her own bed?"

"By the truth of my religion," said the husband, "if thou shouldst do it again, thou and I would have a quarrel." Such was for the Frank the entire expression of his disapproval and the limit of his jealousy. . .

“I once opened a bath in al-Mar’arrah in order to earn my living. To this bath there came a Frankish knight. The Franks disapprove of girding a cover around one’s waist while in the bath. So this Frank stretched out his arm and pulled off my cover from my waist and threw it away. He looked and saw that I had recently shaved off my pubes. So he shouted, “Salim!”
As I drew near he sreteched his hand over my pubes and said, “Salim, good! By the truth of my religion, do the same for me.”
Saying this, he lay on his back and I found that in that place the hair was like his beard. So I shaved it off. Then he passed his hand over the place and, finding it smooth, he said, “Salim, by the truth of my religion, do the same to madame [al-dama]” (al-dama in their language means the lady), referring to his wife.
He then said to a servant of his, “Tell madame to come here.”
Accordingly the servant went and brought her and made her enter the bath. She also lay on her back. The knight repeated, “Do what thou hast done to me.” So I shaved all that hair while her husband was sitting looking at me. At last he thanked me and handed me the pay for my service.”
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The "I" in the previous story is a bathkeepr named Salim whom the Munqidhs had in their service.


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Anyway, It occurred to me that Usamah is perfect for this game? Maybe if he isn't in it, the developers can include him as a visiting diplomat for the Muslim rulers who gives advice or something.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

I can't find him in dynasties.txt either, maybe because Shayzar is a city ingame, probably for balance reasons and there must be one of each kind (castle, city, bishophric/mosque) before another can be build.
If you want to edit the files and add him, visit the mod forum in one of the stickies is a link or explanation for it. Don't remember exactly.

My family isnt ingame as well, despite them being important barons. (sigh)
I need to edit that as well.

 

[macphineas]

I can't find him in dynasties.txt either, maybe because Shayzar is a city ingame, probably for balance reasons and there must be one of each kind (castle, city, bishophric/mosque) before another can be build.
If you want to edit the files and add him, visit the mod forum in one of the stickies is a link or explanation for it. Don't remember exactly.

My family isnt ingame as well, despite them being important barons. (sigh)
I need to edit that as well.

If you have family heraldry, you could ask ARKO to put it in his mod, along with the characters and their families. Sleight of Hand also likes to bug the devs about omissions like this, maybe try and get them to address it in the bug forum.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

If you have family heraldry, you could ask ARKO to put it in his mod, along with the characters and their families. Sleight of Hand also likes to bug the devs about omissions like this, maybe try and get them to address it in the bug forum.

Thanks i will. Though its not much, some characters from (Giraud Berlay) in 1025 to 12something when the last baron of Montreuil rose up in revolt to the Duke of Anjou then loyal to the english.
Though the last ones of this line died at Agincourt IIRC. One father and both sons.
Currently there's only a de Montreuil listed in dynasties.txt.
Might try to find all that stuff.