Life at the Peteran Monastery had never been so quiet and secluded as now, after the end of the 50 years war. Peter the Diligent was concerned about the future of the monastery. He was the only priest left from the hundreds of monks and nuns that had once passed through these quarters, it was up to him to restore the grandeur of the Peteran Monastery. The royal wedding between King Edmund I and Queen Eleanor I, had been a good event to reestablish the authority of the Peteran faith, and the Queen and King supported the monastery and the Peteran faith. Still there was much to be done.
Still, Peter the Diligent, enjoyed the quiet loneliness of the monastery, he would rise before the sun to meditate, then pray and after his morning meal he would tend to the garden, that needed constant care. He was determined to maintain the work that nuns and monks of the Peteran faith had sustained through generations. Rare plants that had disappeared from the fields of the kingdom due to the expanded agriculture needed to be saved from extinction, it was only in the monastery that these seeds could still be found. Plants that were used for ancient remedies and for the making of traditional nectar produced right here at the monastery.
The days would pass swiftly at the monastery, hard work kept Peter the Diligent concentrated throughout the day, but if he was to save the monastery from dying with him, he had to get out and meet the people of Castle Keep. It wasn’t enough to hold the weekly sermon, he had to get out and show them that the monastery was an option for their children and that the Peteran faith was important to follow. The Watcher was everywhere and was measuring the devotion of the devotees.
Peter the Diligent had heard that the library at the Circle of Magic was getting a lot of visitors and decided he had to go and find out what it was all about. Maybe the von Oz wizards that kept the library could work together with Peter to recruit members for the monastery. For many generations, the Peteran Monastery was the only place where sims could learn to read and write, which had brought many to the monastery, but if the Circle of Magic was competing with the monastery, it could mean trouble.
The von Oz wizards, Bianca and Bruno, were happy to welcome Peter the Diligent to their library, they agreed to cooperate as long as Peter would promise never to condemn their library in his sermons. They also agreed to exchange seeds and plants to maintain the traditional plants of Castle Keep and not let the wisdom of the past be lost. Peter the Diligent was happy with the meeting, but was not sure how they would go about to recruit nuns and monks to the monastery. An opportunity would surely come up soon, he thought, The Watcher might help him.
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Beautiful chapter, I am excited for more; I love the whole setting.
I’m so glad you like it, I put a lot of time to getting the whole setting working, so I really appreciate it that you like it 😀
I’d read it anyway just since it’s a medieval-esque setting, but it’s got great writing too, and I am excited to see what happens 🙂
I love this. (:
Aww, thank you 😀
I love how you incorporated Sims Medieval language into your story. I also like how you have added intrigue into the Monastery, with the potential conflicts with the von Oz wizards, and Peter the Diligent’s desire to build the Monastery up. =)
I really liked Sims Medieval when it came, I just hoped they could make a medieval expansion that incorporated some of the concepts into the sims game 🙂