#692 The Heralds of Doom
Fun Fact #691 The “Heralds of Doom” In 1375, Eastern Europe sat on the brink of war. The chief problem was that the Bosnian King (Tvrtko the 1st) refused to acknowledge the daughter of King Louis the 1st (of Hungry, Poland, and Croatia) as the next in line to hold the Polish crown, insisting it should go to the family with a remaining male heir and claim. Issues only worsened when the new (Exiled) Bishop of Bosnia, Peter Siklósi sided with King Louis –leading to a failed attempt on the bishop's life by King Tvrkto. Seeking to avoid war, and possibly his own death, Peter continued to look for a way to smooth things over when he found it in the most unlikely of places. While walking in Zaostrog, Dalmatia (Part of modern Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast) he stumbled across a hitherto unrecorded (Dog) breed of Pointers who were bred to be fast enough to run ahead of horses, and brave enough to keep the horses calm. He sent some of the dogs to King Tvrkto as an apology. This surp...
