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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonsterMash" data-source="post: 1677957" data-attributes="member: 12974">The Crusades is a broad period historically (1st crusade 1099, Frankish kingdoms in Outremer lasted to 1291). The inital players at the time of the first crusade were The Byzantine Empire - requested help from the Western Christians to help repel the Seldjuk turks and recover their territory in AnatoliaThe Western Christians or Franks A mixture of motives the normans like Bohemond were largely looking to seize land to set up their own states, but others had religious motives to reclaim Jerusalem from the MuslimsSeljuk Turks Building an empire in AnatoliaFatamid Empire Rulers of Egypt and much of the Middle east Also you have to consider the Spanish Reconquista (El Cid and all that) as simultaneous events. With Magic in the period it would be fairly discreet I think, but the arabian knights has things like flesh to stone and polymorph spells mentioned and I think divination spells could be used subtly.</blockquote>