Boy+Serf

You have chosen to live the life of a farmer. This life is hard, your "lord" has high taxes and is cruel, but luckily you have married a wonderful woman and have a family. You work the fields everyday with your peers and wives and at night come home to eat a meal cooked by your wife and a house she cleaned, even though she worked the fields just like you. You are a highly devote Christian and you do what your priest tells you because you fervently desire to get to heaven, however you have some concerns as you have had six children, two of which died at birth and a third that died of some infection, why did that happen? Do they go to heaven because your priest says you have to be baptised. In addition your priest himself demands your family and friends pay a "tithe" or "alms" to help the church, which adds to your confusion as your priest tells you things but doesn't follow them himself. He says we should be humble and minimize our desires, but he eats more than three families together and has the best clothes and best house.

Our "lord" has changed several times, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worst, we worry though about our "lords" son taking over as he is very cruel person and beats up serfs for fun, my uncle himself was whipped by him because he felt he looked at him disrespectfully.

Sometimes our Lord holds a tournament, it is so amazing to watch, the knights "Joust" each other on horses and fight with swords, spears, and other weapons, it's so much fun to watch. We prayed our thanks for the joyful day.

We met a traveling merchant today which was interesting, he had something called books with him, they looked like the bible our priest reads to us but they were about different things, how interesting it would be to be able to see what was inside them, but our priest told us they were sinful things and temptations from the devil, I prayed hard to be forgiven for my desire to see what was inside them.

Rumour has just come to the town that some kind of sickness is travelling the world killing everyone. Our priest tells us it's God's Wrath, and that as long as we are devout Christians we have nothing to fear, we pray every night.

Today was very exciting and scary, our priest discovered a witch amongst us, she was arrested and found guilty, so we tied her to a big pole in the ground, and set kindling all around her, dumped oil on it, and set it afire. She screamed she was innocent until she died, but our priest told us that was the devil inside her attempting to fool us, and tempting us with evil. We prayed extra long that night.

Today we saw something Amazing, a priest came to town telling us about these evil devil worshippers in the holy land who are tormenting Christians and destroying places Jesus went. He tells us that God has spoken to the Pope asking for people to go to this land and free it from these evil people. If we go and die on this "Crusade" all our sins are forgiven and we go straight to heaven. I was so captivated and inspired I almost signed up right then and there, but I decided to talk to my family first. What do I do?

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