I wonder if the Tigrano, after having been in Cyprus, managed to arrive in Turkey and then in Syria. Will he have visited the City of the Moon, and then the City of the Sun and those of the Planets, before arriving in Syria?
Will he finally come to Rēš-ina, the city that you now call Ras al-Ayin? And there, will he have visited the ruins of Tell Halaf, and then come to the nearby low hills from where the healing source gushes out, some even say miraculous, of Nab'a al-Kebreet? But not only this source, the place is full of sources with no name, or of which it is better not to name. Will he have already entered the caves from which it emerges, coming out in a thousand streams from the underground, the Khabur river? Will he have found what he is looking for?
Caves, healing springs, and an ancient object with strange powers ... where have I already read about these things?
However, the valley of the Khabur was a beautiful place, before all that blood was poured during the Medz Yeghern ...
But a long time before, I remember that every year we sent some of the sweet wine made by the Commanderies on the island of Cyprus, the island kissed by Aphrodite. A few barrels were directed to the City of the Moon, but a little was also sent to the distant city of Rhesaina. The Jacobite bishop of that city was very fond of the sweet Cypriot wine. It was difficult to send wine to the territories controlled by Arabs and Turks, but we had our good contacts in the Syrian Church.
Joscelin I also tried to conquer Rhesaina, but managed to keep her only for a short time. Who knows, perhaps he was looking for some strange object of power hidden in the caves of the hundred springs, too. What an adventurous life Joscelin I. There was a time, whe he had been trapped by the Turks and he was jailed in a fortress, but a group of fifty excellently trained and disguised Armenian knights managed to break into and liberate him. And so Joscelin I married the daughter of Constantine of Armenia ... but that's another story.