The Last Days of Eboris

This is the tale of the final weeks of the Hermetic city covenant of Eboris. The story is set at a time where the modern European bureaucracy was born: in Paris, 1295, under the reign of king Philip IV, the fair, the iron king. As might be expected, this is a story of intrigue, deceit, plotting, scheming and terrible peril. But it is also a story of ineptitude, red tape and disclaimers.

Founded in the early 1200s by the now so very venerable Mathieus of Constantinople, follower of Jerbiton, as way for him do deal with his grief after the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, Eboris is now the bustling central hub for many of the practical matters of the Order of Hermes in the Normandy tribunal. Indeed, Mathieus is the Praeco of the Tribunal.

Centrally placed at Rue de la Tabletterie, near the northern bank of the Seine river, the small stone mansion that makes out the Covenant of Eboris functions as an open house to many a Hermetic traveller in Paris. In particular, it is the home of the Sweated Shillings, a group of young Jerbiton magi under the tutelage of Mathieus. They function as a sort of Hermetic intelligence service for the Magi in Normandy Tribunal, here in the city of the King.