Capítulo 19: The Declaration of First Crusade

Hearing the declaration of the Crusade directly from the apostle of the Goddess right after seeing the growth of a legendary tree on a Holy day, the people of Alta cheered and celebrated until after nightfall. It felt like the whole city would take up arms and march toward the nearest heathen town, however, we managed to calm them down. My purpose for the conquest was solely to save them from the tyranny of the uneducated, ignorant, and malicious medieval tyrants, therefore my people couldn't be savages themselves. I already informed high priests of temples and called for a conference to instruct priests to instill a sense of morality that embody humanism, charity, honesty, and kindness that includes all life forms. However, this sense of morality wasn't pacifistic. I emphasized the importance of conversation and dialogue, yet I also included defending oneself and one's community among the teachings, as well as the holy mission to spread the faith of the Light. Apart from the changed morality, I also highlighted the importance of art and culture and added the sense of aesthetics as a pillar of life. The endless amounts of books, poems, and plays that I had read on earth still remained in my head, so it allowed me to hand pick many literary works that I thought to be life-changing and write them here, albeit modified to fit into this world. But perhaps the most important change in daily life was the introduction of a seven-day solar calendar that had 13 months and 28 days exactly in each month and a leap day every 4 years. Simultaneously with the calendar, we introduced pendulum clocks with anchor escapement for bigger clocks and hairspring clocks for smaller pocket clocks.