Crusade Pathfinding

**Gilrandir** · 10-10-2011, 15:29

Don't let this thought carry you away. If you do you may become too mellow and relaxed. Then one day you will find yourself in a whirlwind of rebellions. You must keep an eye on 'em anyway otherwise you'll be in for all kinds of trouble, oh truly magnificent one.
P.S. One of the ways to stay alert is to pay close attention to the spelling of my "name" - it is GilRandir. It's Elvish: "gil" means "star", "randir" means "wanderer, pilgrim".

**Trapped in Samsara** · 10-10-2011, 16:18

Originally Posted by Gilrandir

P.S. One of the ways to stay alert is to pay close attention to the spelling of my "name" - it is GilRandir. It's Elvish: "gil" means "star", "randir" means "wanderer, pilgrim".

You have elves in the Ukraine?

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**Gilrandir** · 10-10-2011, 16:26

As much as elsewhere. But you don't have to be an Elf to bear an Elvish name. Such as Victor is a Latin name, but I don't suppose you number Julius Ceasar among your ancestors. Yet, I may be wrong.

**Trapped in Samsara** · 10-10-2011, 17:28

Originally Posted by Gilrandir

I don't suppose you number Julius Ceasar among your ancestors.

I think you mean Julius Caesar. Et tu, GilRandir?

Well he was an insatiably randy old goat, by many accounts, so who's to say I (and many hundreds of thousands of others) don't have some of his DNA.

Genghis Khan is estimated to have 16 million living descendants.

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**Gilrandir** · 10-11-2011, 13:56

Originally Posted by victorgb

I think you mean Julius Caesar. Et tu, GilRandir?

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Sic transit gloria mundi.

**Gilrandir** · 11-20-2011, 10:00

One more thing with crusades I wonder about. Generally, you have to pay the Pope for the crusade (usually about 1000 florins). But sometimes you get a message that the Pope calls you (and the catholic world) to start a crusade against someone. Do you have to pay for it as well? I mean it was the Pope who wanted it, why should I pay. I never had a chance to check this logics as this message comes either when I'm indisposed (read unprepared and broke) to start a crusade or when it is me that the crusade is supposed to aim.