Mundus Novus

The Visigoth kingdom of Toledo is nothing more than dust stuck to the flanks of Muslim horses. Arabs, Bedouins and Berbers try to seize the juiciest pieces of the carcass, while the Umayyad walies sent from Damascus are appointed and deposed amid intrigues and fleeting alliances. The Church attends the struggles between Muslims with an eye on the longed-for past and blinded by the Islamic sun that lights up the future. A letter and a book arrive in al-Andalus from the hand of a new Umayyad governor. The Apocalypse is received by Christians as a promise of salvation, and dozens of ecclesiastics, as well as their servants, depart for the northern lands in search of the crystal sea along whose waves the Final Judgment will take place. They have heard that the last Goths who resist the Muslim government reside there, and they know that behind the mountains, far from the cities and roads that dot old Hispania, no one will be able to reach them. By the sea, the memory of Pelayo and his victories survive only in the memory of his daughter Ermesinda. Alfonso, her husband, seems more concerned with spending time in the mountains, instead of worrying about the Christian flock that hides in the valleys of the Montes Vindios. Ermesinda knows that the Final Judgment is near, and it is necessary to build a kingdom that protects them all. Only in this way, united Galicians, Asturians, Goths and Cantabrians, will the Islamic storm pass by.