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accommodate in the Castle, as chiefs of the garrison or mayor, to the widower Knight that has
               accompanied you from Spain: I have no doubts that he is someone legit.
                      All occurred just how Rodolfo had planned, with one exception that didn't disturb the
               objectives, as will be seen immediately.
                      The King of Portugal gave place to the request of the Catalan Knight, strongly supported
               by the Order of Preachers, and he granted him the County of Tarseval. This was happening one
               year after the extinction of the House of Tharsis by the Pestilence and, for that time, the Golem
               had  meticulously inspected the Village  of Turdes and the Seigniorial Residence. They would
               leave convinced that there were no Lords of Tharsis alive, notwithstanding that they would
               extend  the  quest  through  all  Spain  and  then  to  the  rest  of  Europe.  But  these  indignations
               would give negative results; or positive, according to the point of view, due to in all the sites
               where  the  members  of  the  condemned  Lineage  dwelled,  they  realized  that  the  pass  of  the
               Pestilence didn't leave survivors.
                      The new Count of Tarseval repopulated the Village of Turdes with five hundred families
               of Barcelona and settled down a garrison in the Seigniorial Residence of three hundred Catalan
               soldiers.  Where  was  located  the  Chapel,  at  the  feet  of  the  mountain  range  Candelaria,  he
               ordered  to  build  a  small  fortress  composed  by  tower  and  wall:  thence,  that  place  would  be
               always under the surveillance of the sentinels of the County. Not existing Noyos or Vrayas to
               guard the Secret Cavern, the best would be to maintain surveillance on the mountain range to
               keep away the curious or possible suspects. Three years later, the County of Tarseval travelled
               to Austria and he married with Vrunalda, transformed now in a German Lady. The Seigniorial
               Residence, remodeled and fortified by the Catalans, received then such shy Lady, who never
               stopped  learning  the  language  of  Alfonso  X  and  preferred  to  pass  the  hours  praying  in  the
               Church of the Grotto that to enjoy the courtly customs.
                      The family resulted prolific in sons and daughters that the continuity of the Lineage of
               Tharsis was until certain point assured. Otherwise, the County enjoyed of relative calm during
               the next years, especially due to the care that the Earl manifested to not be involved in the
               struggle  of  interests  that  the  monarchs  of  Portugal  and  Castile  sustained.  When  the  King
               Sancho IV reincorporate the region of Huelva, and he grants his seigniory with effects for life to
               Don  Juan  Mate  de  Luna,  and  the  Earl  of  Tarseval  pass  without  problems  to  the  crown  of
               Castile, that confirms his rights and the arms of the Catalan Count. The same respect will show
               for Ferdinand IV and the successive owners and Lords of the country of Huelva. In sum, the
               family that was growing in Spain, in the ancient dominions of the House  of Tharsis, would
               enormously surpass the aspirations proposed by Rodolfo and the Lords of the Dog, although
               they would converse until the midst of the XIV century the secret of their lineage.
                      But not all occurred as Rodolfo expected: there was one exception, but, as I said at the
               beginning,  that  didn't  change  the  objectives  of  the  Strategy.  The  problem  was  proposed  by
               Valentina,  who  was  a  young  woman  full  of  gifts  but  extremely  passionate.  Rodolfo  had
               arranged with a Lord of Flanders, follower, as his family, of the Domini Canis, the commitment
               of marriage between his son and Valentina: the engaged, a Captain to the orders of the Duke of
               Flanders,  was  certainly  in  conformity  with  the  marriage.  But  not  Valentina.  Why?:  what
               nobody imagined in that Family Council, had occurred in San Félix de Caramán; Valentina was
               madly in love of Pedro de Creta. Naturally, the bizantine Knight had something special due to
               he was already loved by other Lady of Tharsis, his deceased wife. But the passion that this time

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