The Magnaura

[Andres]

Savvas stands up and bows for the Emperor.

"Mighty Basileus, I hereby repeat my oath of fealthy."

Savvas stares at the Grandmaster of the Order, seemingly amazed that the Comes still hadn't pledged his loyalty to the Basileus. He shrugged and spoke further.

"Our Patriarch is right about the Catholics. It's not good to have this apostate, this Pope, sitting in Rome. We call ourselves Romans, but Rome is not in our hands. It is in the hands of this abomination of christians, those Catholics!"

Savvas paused and took a deep breath.

"Yes, we should conquer the Holy Lands! Yes, the Holy Lands belong to us, true Romans. But if we want to revive our Empire, if we want to bring back the glory of the Roman Empire, then we need to take ROME! Our priorities are in the West, my fellow Senators. The Patriarch needs to be reinstalled as head of the Church, the only True Church which is the Orthodox Church and Rome is where he should be installed! Once we have conquered Rome, taking the Holy Lands will be but a formality."

I hereby withdraw the text of Edict 1.1 and replace it by this:

Edict 1.1.: At any given moment, the Basileus can decide to use all resources of the Empire for a direct assault on Rome. Every nobleman who is ordered to join this assault on Rome, will have to follow the call of the Emperor and will use all his available resources for the conquest of Rome.