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But Armadeus took one look at Maria and fell madly in love. Up until that day, the Count of Parma’s spymaster had little use for me. So in August, I packed up our carriages and off we went to visit my vassal’s court in Parma. The men were all off to war, leaving just us ladies: me, my mother and Maria, a courtier who was pretty as a picture and dumb as a rock. Winter turned the spring, spring turned to summer, and things were dreadfully dreary at court. Heinrich summoned all his troops in northern Italy to his cause. Then in early December, my liege, Heinrich the Holy Roman Emperor, declared some fool holy war up near the Baltic Sea somewhere. I had my marshal training troops my steward collecting taxes my spymaster investigating some of Byzantium’s more unusual devices and my chaplain spreading culture. I dispatched Bishop Alberto to investigate rumored claims of mine to Ravenna, a small province wedged in between my lands and the province of my husband. “Send the word to him yourself? Why of course! How kind of you to offer.” I turned and strode off before he could say more.Īnd so as the trees donned their autumn mantle of crimson and gold, I was wed to a man I’d never before seen.įor two months after that, I split my time between trying to conceive an heir and ruling my lands. “You will lose prestige if you marry beneath you.” “And by that, what you really mean is he is common born.” “But Your Grace,” His Eminence’s objection was hesitant. He’s an excellent scholar, diplomat and steward.” I blurted, “Giacinto is a learned theologian, temperate, zealous, gregarious, and charitable. I stepped forward and, like a little girl who’d been caught red-handed, handed to the bishop the parchment my scribe had prepared. His Eminence worried that, if I died, my lands would revert back to my Germanic liege lord, the Holy Roman Emperor. My father and only brother had been gathered into the arms of Jesus. Of all my family, only my mother and I still lived. “A husband, yes.” I had become nearly alone in the world. “Ah! Excellent! You’ve selected a husband?” “I have been considering your wise words about the succession.” I stepped out of the early morning shadows and into the pink light of dawn. His eyes flickered momentarily to the stone, snow and ice of the Alps, which rose up behind me and up and up and up until they became a cold, forbidding and impenetrable wall. “You sent for me, Your Grace?” my chancellor, His Eminence Bishop Alberto, was slightly winded by his climb up the steep palatial steps. Remember, there's no saving demo games, so I can't turn it off to access the pics until the game is over.
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I am taking screenshots, but I'll have to add them later. I hadn't really planned on posting it, but the game got really interesting. I've been thinking of doing an AAR, and this seemed to be a good time to practice. Following another failed attempt at downloading the game (Amazon won't sell downloads outside the US), I brought up the Matilda demo again and began playing.