“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.”

“Simon is best known as the ruthless leader of the notorious Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics of southern France.”

“There, in the 1210s, a figure known as the Blind Cathar ontologised into being a conduit into the Dusk.”