| The appellation takes its name from the village of Minerve, scene of one of the bloodiest sieges of the Cathar sect in the 13th century. |
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| Simon is best known as the ruthless leader of the notorious Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics of southern France. |
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| There, in the 1210s, a figure known as the Blind Cathar ontologised into being a conduit into the Dusk. |
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| In this world a love triangle survives and prospers, living under a dictator's rule but somehow connected to the dark ages of the Cathar Inquisition of the 13th century. |
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