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awakened in the Cold Heart of Valentina, overpassed all the arguments of Rodolfo and every
reasoning or advice of the Men of Stone; the Lady not listened reasons: or she married with
Pedro de Creta or the Strategy of survival of the Lineage would not pass for her. And what said
Pedro de Creta to all this? Undoubtedly he was also in love, but, he affirmed, that the
contracted vow for his murdered family inhibited him to formalize other marriage: he first
should take revenge, punish in some way the damn Golem. With this purpose he had came here
and he was still waiting to be oriented towards the Demon's den. But his patience was
exhausted and, if he not obtained soon the requested direction, he would go alone, putting his
course, as an errant Knight, in hands of God.
As can be seen, the situation was entangled but not impossible to resolve. The dilemma
that Pedro de Creta could manifest, about if he was worthy or not to marry with a Lady of
Tharsis, was already elucidated with his previous marriage. His family belonged to the
byzantine nobility; in the distribution of an inheritance, he was injured by the intrigues with
some familiars and, finally, he was forced to flee. One of the Lords of Tharsis met him in
Constantinople and he offered him such place in Spain. He was now thirty eight years old; and I
already exposed the circumstances of his widowhood. Thereby, in principle, not existed
insurmountable obstacle to fulfill the yen of Valentina: all was reduced to convince the Knight
about the importance of that union. But that would not be easy to obtain, due to they would
have to give explanations; and many. A new Council of Family decided, finally, to annul the
commitment with the Lord of Flanders and to talk clearly with Pedro de Creta.
They said him the truth. They make him understand that the terrible power of the
Golem could not be faced by any one if he only counted with the blood and the sword: was
necessary, also, the Wisdom; and that Wisdom could be found in the Domini Canis, that they
offered to integrate. But they didn’t occult the mortal danger that he would run if his marriage
with Valentina was discovered: he would be conscious, painfully conscious, that in such case his
family could be exterminated by the Golem again. Pedro de Creta understood in this way, that
the major possible damage against the Enemy would be caused by the constitution of a family
of the blood of Tharsis to perpetuate in secret the inheritance of the lineage. And then he was
disposed to follow the plan of Rodolfo of Spain!
The presence of Pedro de Creta was justified by the amity that he had with the Baron of
San Félix, this is, with the «Roman Knight» that represented the Man of Stone, and then by the
marriage with his «sister», a young Spaniard woman named Valentina. The couple passed great
part of their lives secluded in the Castle, as for the family of Arnaldo Tíber, without arousing
never the suspicion of the Enemy about their real origin. For the exploitation of the property,
and to cover any possible suspiciousness amongst the villagers, the Spaniards counted with the
inestimable help of a family of villagers to whom they had feudalized the farm. The Nogaret’s,
as they were called, came from an ancient occitanian lineage deeply committed with the
«Cathar heresy», in other words, with the Hyperobrean Wisdom. Many of its members were
burnt by Simon de Montfort during the siege of Albi; the rest of the family would have ended in
the stake too if the Circulus Domini Canis would have not protected it, accepting in the
inquisitor courts, that they controlled, their conversion to the Catholicism and transferring
them to San Félix de Caraman. These brave Cathars, loyal unto death and brave unto temerity,
were united with the Lords of the Dog, for the same hate against the Golem Church and its
Creator God Jehovah Satan: they were only waiting for an opportunity to contribute against

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