A Chance For Redemption – House Torres Mega Campaign

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1. Title should be: "House Torres MegaFun"

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2. Becoming lustful after learning how to fight from your dad…
   I suppose everyone has their kinks…?

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3. As we return to the history of House Torres, we see the aging Archon Castoro go through the years that arguably brought him from an obscure and minor ruler, to that of a man with a considerable legend. The remainder of his reign showed that his leadership was still strong, but that his family also remained as seen previously: complicated. Under Castoro the last independent polities of Sardinia would cave before the Archonate, interestlingly enough it occurred through diplomacy rather than war. But Castoro would certainly see war in the future. Problems regarding his angered half-brother Gallu would fade when Gallu died in a bandit raid while out traveling, which a considerable amount of future historians would theorize was an assassination ordered by Castoro.

   Many interesting stories concerning Castoro and his immediate family would appear after his death, likely due to the prestige he garnered. These include supposedly wild happenings during a feast taking place shortly after the full unification of Sardinia, a story describing what occurred when a very particular holy relic was unveiled in the Cathedral of St. Peter in Sassari* and a story of Castoro hunting and killing a whale. Most notable are stories portraying the Archonesa Margot as a cannibal, something supposedly revealed to Castoro by his younger son Gallu during a hunt. The lack of proper evidence makes this doubtful and some see this as medieval writers portraying Margot in a negative light to present Castoro as a righteous man who was long in conflict with a terrible wife and eventually won in the end. Later sources describe a more loving relationship between the royal couple however and those who believe that Margot truly consumed human flesh argue that this came as a result of blackmail at the hands of Castoro. Castoro supposedly being responsible for his half-brother's death is used to support this theory.

   The "particular" holy relic is attested as supposedly being the foreskin of Jesus Christ himself and evidence shows that the relic actually existed and the sources seem to indicate that the public accepted it as being the actual skin of Christ, though that "fact" has been very scrutinized by modern historians. In other familial regards, Castoro would train his daughter Margot (named after her mother, the Archonesa) in the art of combat and betrothe her to the recently vassalized Judike of Cagliari: Marianu, who also was the marshal of Sardinia and, less favourably when it comes to the gene pool, a nephew of Castoro. Castoro seemed to be preparing more and more for what would happen after his inevitable death, as his titles would end up split between his two sons, his primary heir Alessandro, known for suffering from gout, and Gallu the Younger, known for spending much time with his father training combat skills and hunting. There are also sources that tell of Castoro seemingly pondering his mortality during his time in the later crusade.

   Said crusade was declared by Pope Silvester IV for the purposes of reclaiming the Holy Land for the Christians. Castoro would participate and had not long earlier defeated two notable peasant uprisings. The Archon would be known for being even more knowledgeable in the ways of war than his father Judike Gallu of Logudoro, participating in the sieging of the holy city Jerusalem itself. He would go on to have a positive reputation amongst Christendom, with another interesting story telling of him graciously gifting a White Boar he had hunted to the Pope himself. With the crusade ending in victory for the Christians in 1161, Castoro's bravery resulted in another one of his nephews: Amadore, being granted the Holy Land as his property, becoming the first King of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Upon returning to Sardinia, Castoro commissioned the building of the Temple of Alghero, a symbol honoring the Sardinian effort in the recent crusade. Castoro, however, would never see it completed as he passed away from natural causes in August of 1161, aged 64, having ruled for 28 years.

   His reign was not as long as his father's, but it was arguably more eventful and spawned legends of the man known as Archon Castoro of Sardinia, even if several stories about him can be seen as exaggerated or straight up made-up, they show that he was a monumental figure in his time that writers wished to honor. His middle-aged son Alessandro, 45 years old, ascended to the young throne of the Archonate of Sardinia, he now had the responsibility to hold the family of House Torres and the Sardinian realm together.

   Long live Archon Alessandro!

   *I looked up Cathedrals in Sassari and there is a Cathedral of St. Nicholas of Bari there but it was built in the 13th century, so I just made it so that the Church of St. Peter that exists in Sassari (built in the 12th century) is a Cathedral in this timeline.

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