>>5205831>>5205852>>5205947>>5205948>>5205960>>5205999>>5206692>>5206694>>5206980>>5207514>>5207621>>5208802Your first thought was to swear on a Christian relic or something true and not some strange heathen talisman that was a blasphemy against God. But then you thought for a moment, after all you were pledgint loyalty to a vile man, an heathen, a sorcerer who spoke with the devil and with spirits ! How could you, in your honest consciousness as a Christian, accept this ? You were born and baptised, you knew what was right and what was wrong and choosing to forfeit your soul and defiling a holy relic by giving your loyalty to a known devil worshipper was definitely wrong. Then you planned on betraying him, so probably swearing on something without any spiritual value must be better. You knew that you were sent by God on a trial after all, and death was always nearby, what if you caught a cold, or an arrow, and died without receiving confession from a priest ? You feared the eternal Gehenna.
So you decided to swear on the relics of Monsanto, at least you knew the name of the deity that this priest served. And you had already fought the heathens worshipping this demon. You ordered the priest of Monsanto to come nearby and he said in his youthful voice while presenting you a piece of cloth.
-Charles de Villeroi, do you swear, on this part of the robes of the Holy Man Arbeestee who made the cows produce more milk, that you will be a loyal vassal, and to keep against all your loyalty with good faith and no treachery ?
-I swear it on the relics of the holy man Arbeestee.
It was like a promise done to a serf, it was worth nothing, only promises made between noblemen were worth something. But the Baron gave you some dirt, probably from local, and you bowed, taking it in your hands. He then said.
-Then let it be known that you will be the new Lord of Local, you will hold the fief in my name, I will protect you against any menace and you will serve in my host if I call you. If you betray me I will take back the land but if you serve me loyally I will provide you justice.
