The JAVE - Crusader A Conspiracy in the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Point-n-Click, Historical

1997

Index+ /France Telecom Multimedia Broderbund
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"The prelude to our story begins in the year 1180, a time between the second and third Crusades, at the Fiefdom Dun-Le-Roy in France, where the violent Lord Arthaud has incurred the wrath of the King of France by burning the fief's monastery to the ground and killing its occupants because they balked at paying his taxes. The king, Philippe Auguste, is displeased and, under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church, decides to punish Arthaud and strip him of his rights by attacking his fortress. Arthaud's defenses quickly collapse under the might of the Royal Army of France. Philippe judges that death would be too kind for such rebellion and instead chooses to have Arthaud placed alive in a crypt-like tomb, where he will remain for three years. One day, William of Tyre, chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, sends word to Philippe that the situation in the Holy Land is becoming more worrisome. Saladin, the Kurd war chief, seems on the verge of uniting Syria and Egypt under his domination and is threatening to overtake the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which is ruled by the incompetent and unfortunate 20-year-old leper king, Baldwin IV. The relics of the Holy Cross on which Christ died and the symbol of the unity of the Christian world are in danger. Philippe shrewdly considers the alternatives and decides that Arthaud, the consummate hothead, would be an ideal choice to send on a perilous mission to the Holy Land. Arthaud is freed from his prison and offered a pardon for his crimes in return for his agreement to embark on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in order to steal and bring back the relics of the Holy Cross. But Arthaud will have to employ great care in carrying out his mission, because in the volatile Latin lands of the eastern regions, there are many shadowy forces also lusting after the holy relics." -

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