#1223: Landing
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It's interesting doing research for this comic (the few times I actually do elect to do research) -- there's all kinds of information out there that just isn't taught in schools.
In this case, the Crusades. it's fascinating to me just how many Crusades there actually were. Back in school only the first three were touched upon at all, and none in great detail. I hadn't realized when I wrote this comic how many there were (upwards of nine officially sanctioned Crusades into the "holy land", with many more smaller crusades to the north against the Germanic tribes, and other holy land crusades not sanctioned by the church). There was a whole era of Crusading, but very little of it is even mentioned in school (and it's doubtful most people know enough history to even be able to state what a "Crusade" really was.
In this case, the Crusades. it's fascinating to me just how many Crusades there actually were. Back in school only the first three were touched upon at all, and none in great detail. I hadn't realized when I wrote this comic how many there were (upwards of nine officially sanctioned Crusades into the "holy land", with many more smaller crusades to the north against the Germanic tribes, and other holy land crusades not sanctioned by the church). There was a whole era of Crusading, but very little of it is even mentioned in school (and it's doubtful most people know enough history to even be able to state what a "Crusade" really was.
Chris Rivan
2016-10-24 12:49:43
They don't cover the Crusades very well in public school because it undermines the official narrative of islam as the victim. The Crusades were a series of defensive conflicts attempting to defend the Holy Land and the Christians who had lived there for six hundred years from islamic invaders.
My Mom, a teacher, once literally told me she was disgusted by "Richard the Lion Hearted" because he traveled two thousand miles to convert people to Christianity by the sword. It was another five years or so before I discovered she was absolutely wrong. Christians were the defenders from islamic oppression.
Islam hasn't changed for shit in 1400 years.
darkmoonex
2016-10-26 23:46:30
Really, no one really came out well during the Crusades. The Christians went into the Turkish-controlled lands at the outset, ostensibly to free the lands and unify the church (East and West) by saving the holy lands and returning captured territory to Byzantium. But most of those lands were kept by feudal lords instead. This also ignores the fact that the holy lands are holy to Islam as well, and arguably western actions in those lands were as much an affront to them as them controlling the lands were an affront to Christendom. Plus, Christian or no, no one during that whole long period of wars seemed to care much about the Jews who, of course, were kind of there first. We can't really breeze past Christian actions any more than anyone else -- no one did well during that time period. No one.
When evil spreads across the land, and darkness rises and the monsters roam. When the creatures of the night make beautiful music, and the things that go bump in the night go bump with greater enthusiasm. When the world is in peril and is in need of a hero...
These guys are, sadly, the best the world can hope for. These are the adventures of the heroes of CVRPG. They mean well, they try hard, and occasionally they do the impossible...
They actually do something heroic.
