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built great mills and efficient factories for his lord Count Lambert
and on his own lands, gifted to him by that count, he has thrown up
huge buildings in but a few months. Our Church of Christ the
Carpenter at Three Walls is reputed to be the biggest in Poland.
Sir Conrad says that soon we will be making iron and steel in vast
quantities, as well as a sort of mortar called cement.

He is vastly tall, and must bend his head to pass through any
normal doorway. For his buildings at Three Walls, he decreed that
the doors be tall enough to let him pass with his helmet on. He
claims that the next generation of children will be, some of them,
as tall as he, because they will be eating properly. The carpenters
built as he required, but they laughed that any children of his size
must be of his get.

His prowess in battle is above that of all others, and but three days
agone he defeated one of the greatest champions in Poland, the
Crossman Sir Adolf, in Trial by

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Combat. He not only destroyed that Knight of the Cross easily, he
actually played with the man while he did it, first throwing away his
shield and then his sword, winning the fight with his bare hands to
show that God was truly on his side.

And he is a saintly man, kind to those in need and always ready to
help the poor, the aged, the oppressed. The very Trial I mentioned
was caused when, out of pity for a gross of Pruthenian slaves, he
beat seven Crossmen in fair combat, killing five and wounding a
sixth almost to the death, then saving that man's life with his
surgical skill. He met that caravan of slaves when he was traveling
a great distance to ransom a casual acquaintance with a vast sum,
to keep that man from being hung.

And he has been blessed by God. At the Trial, after he had
defeated his opponent so easily, he was foully attacked by four
other Crossmen. With my own eyes, I saw four golden arrows fall
from the sky, killing the. men who would have harmed the Lord's
Anointed.

Yet he is my enemy.

Never would I do harm to my lord, nor even think evil of him, for evil
is far from all his words and deeds. But since I was a small child I
have loved Krystyana.

Before I dared profess my love to her, she was chosen by Count
Lambert to be one of his ladies-in-waiting. I could do nothing while
she warmed Count Lambert's bed, and those of his knights, for