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== The Covenant of Avalon ==

'''Location and best known for'''

From the ordinary world Avalon is reachable by a gatehouse up the hill on the east side of Glastonbury. The gatehouse appears to be set into the hillside, and is always staffed. From Faerie, it sits astride a tangle of the network of Arthurian trods, and just across the marsh from the lands about Camelot, in a huge faerie regio adjoining Avalon. On one memorable occasion Martin's Mere island, which travels the Arthurian trods most winters, crashed into Avalon's gatehouse. The Faerie tunnels into Avalon change frequently, and have defied any attempt to keep track of them, except that we do tell everyone the spiders are assigned to find and guard tunnels.
[[File:Avalon-approach.jpg]]

Within, Avalon is a fair island with about fifteen houses clustered to the south and bigger wooden houses on the hills. There is a central hall, kitchens and a solid stone Library. Further down are farms and various Grog houses. The most obvious landmark is the twenty-five foot high Spider Garden between Geliqué's house and lab. We recommend the Strawberry Tarts made by the fairest granddaughter of Old Wyot, in a house near the swamp.

To the Order of Hermes Avalon is perhaps best known either for its fine library or its long-running feud with Stonehenge Covenant (which predates 1190). The Library includes a high-quality set of Arts Summae but the many excellent tractatus by Duris Custos also deserve a mention. Other books that may draw the curious include Merlin's Diary (original in Cornish with some Latin words), some Perso-Arabic acquisitions in Winter 1239 and the range of mundane subjects including legerdemain and chicken farming.

A map of Avalon from 1190: [IsleofAvalon1190.png]

'''Magi'''

The four older Avalon magi tend to keep to themselves and are but seldom seen at Tribunal. In practise 'they are always arguing with each other about something and it's never important.'

Anna Ex Miscellanea - occasional source of information when the Arthurian story cycle has been tampered with and needs fixing. NPC

Desdevarious of Merinita - loves cows. Quite certain of himself. NPC

Moira of York, Bjornaer - possibly the oddest of a strange bunch. NPC

Stephen of Jerbiton - I guess he gets on with the local nobles? No confirmed sightings outside breakfast. NPC

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PC Magi:

Hugh of Flambeau: Hugh is a well known Hoplite with a minor reputation of having been raised by diabolists. He served as Marshall of Stonehenge for seven years after being appointed at Tribunal, and led a small force of magi to destroy the invading army of giants, dragons and witches in Loch Leglean after this army had wiped out Brabonicum Covenant, Jarrow Covenant, and the Mercer House in London via Brabonicum's Gate. Hugh is possibly the biggest reason Stonehenge don't declare Wizard's War on Avalon. (Those who know him better say he's a nice man who goes out of his way to save children in distress, and it's not his fault he smells of sulphur).

Aisling of Merinita (currently away): Aisling is well known both for her announcement that she had developed a way to guarantee a baby has The Gift and for her very visible and beautiful body. Although she must be considerably older, Aisling, Gentle Gifted, still only looks about twenty and would definitely make Venus jealous. These days she does wear a long dress from neck to calf, but it takes a while to realise this as it is woven from transparent spidersilk.

Scriptor of Tytalus: Scriptor is in charge of the Library, and has authority over all book trades. It is known in some circles that he is a Holy Magus. Other than that - well he seems to like to travel? Five of them have been off to Africa and Asia, but he has the best Arabic of the magi. Although normally gifted, Scriptor does not have other social handicaps.

Aiobhe of Verditius: Aiobhe is best known for her offer to heal anyone from Stonehenge Covenants who turns up injured outside her lab. She has also sent free healing spells to other covenants and crafted quite high level spell rings for a couple of covenants. Reportedly she is also married to Geliqué ex Miscellanea, which became famous when their son, Auren of Verditius, was permitted to gauntlet after more than fifteen seasons of teaching rather than 15 years. Aiobhe is rather lovely apart from the occasional mad cackle, the way certain girls avoid her, the Gift and a hot streak if anyone criticises Geliqué.

Geliqué Lunel, Craft Magus Ex Miscellanea: Geliqué is married to Aiobhe of Verditius, but better known for being blamed for burning down half of Wychwood Covenant when she lived there, and the large spiders she is frequently buying vermin for, and keeps about her person. These spiders seem to be always at least 19 or 20cm wide and grow to the size of two pigs side-by-side seemingly at the will of the spider. She should be better known for her beautifully crafted silk weaving, but it is mainly Avalon who wear this, and various nobles when she occasionally weaves bolts of silk to sell. Gelique has written to every covenant in Stonehenge saying she can weave spell charges into items including silken masks of second sight.
[[Geliqué]]

Secondary Magi:

Bloody Bill, Redcap (companion), based at Avalon, possibly about more given his age.
Odo of Flambeau: Hugh's filius, more competent than his reputation.
Cadwyn of Tytalus (or Gauntleted name TBA): Usually encountered as a kestrel, when not in her lab. Cadwyn is actually descended from Merlin but I don't think that is common knowledge.
Makren of Flambeau (or Gauntleted name TBA): Hugh's second apprentice.

From 1239 - 1242 Auren of Verditius of Asfi Covenant, son of Aiobhe and Gelique, and his wife Zaynab are also here studying at Avalon, and have one of the two two-room guest houses.

'''Notable Custos:'''

Duris, Teacher and Writer - Duris has taught everyone at Avalon and is the author of a number of excellent tractati in Avalon's Library.

Neil the Bard and Guard: Neil is a good person to ask about things because he's usually willing to talk and explain things. Some of his stories are wild but you can tell he's telling the truth.

Sven, Viking Guard: Sven has runes about him, doesn't he? Does not look like someone you want to have an axe fight with.

Baron Bedivere: Heir or landowner of several tracts of land south and east of Glastonbury.

Sir Walter de Marisco: Owner of tracts of land mainly north and north-west of Glastonbury, but also the Tor itself.

Jonah: If you've met Jonah, you've noticed he's an old man with a Jewish nose, accent, dress sense and general features. You might not have met him, because he does night guard duty, and is sneaky.

Current apprentices: Hugh's apprentice Jack, don't mind the horns (born 1230), Aiobhe's boy apprentice Rapito (born 1229), Aisling's apprentice Esha (for which Tribunal gave her an exemption), but Esha and Aisling are away till at least Spring 1244.

Magical creatures, some of whom are familiars: A bright pink crow. The colourful faerie Oliphaunt. Two black Jabberwockies, keep away from their tentacles which are poison. There are also a magical cat, Gelique's familiar Nida the spider who sometimes speaks in a croaky kssy voice (spell item required) and a fire lizard about.
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'''Staying at Avalon:''' When you arrive, you state your name and business and are let in, unless you look threatening or arrive in force, in which case a guard withdraws (and let us know, the alarm will go off across the regio). On walking in, four to eight spiders twenty centimetres across line up like an honour guard and beg like spaniels (unless you have no lice or insects about you). Someone explains the spiders are asking permission to comb your hair for headlice etc and are quite clean.

There are normally two or three guesthouses, if full there is room in the village somewhere, or a decent inn in Glastonbury. The guesthouses are decently equipped with clean plain linen on fresh straw mattresses with wool blankets above and below in wooden bed frames, and a stone basin and pottery ewer for water in one room, and two chairs, a table and a couple of shelves in the other. There are wooden shutters to each window. The cider and cheese are particularly good here, but the normal fare is apples, chutneys, fresh bread and butter, roast meats etc rather than a princely table. French wine is available, as is an oil and egg spread similar to mayonnaise. There are no insects, including lice, within a ten-mile radius of Glastonbury Tor.

In theory, any magus of the Order of Hermes may study at Avalon's Library, the normal payment is a set amount of vis, but a good tractatus is often acceptable. Please enquire.

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'''Story seeds:'''
You end up at Avalon on the trods and scare cows out of their paddock. Hugh of Flambeau sees the prize cows stampeding towards him and reduces them to ashes. Desdevarious is angry, and an argument about who to blame ensues. Hugh is famously intolerant of cows, but did you know this?

Stonehenge Covenant ask you to gain information from/about Avalon. Naturally not so they could invade it again, those mercenaries were nothing to do with them sir, just for information...

Some of Avalon's Arts summa were found to have been copied. A scribed copy might appear at a very reasonable price, albeit recognisable as the Avalon one with a different cover and author name.

Someone wants to be introduced to the famous naked beauty, Aisling.

Gelique visits or writes offering you a free charged magic item: a thick waterskin, which when touched against a wall, teleports the first 1,000 insects in the structure into the waterskin. This will work 3 times, and Gelique offers to pay vis for each full waterskin. Perhaps on doing this, a wall that was being held up by its termites, or the bugs in a spiderweb, starts to sag.

You've seen Gelique port to a forest (not Wychwood) with ten big 80cm spiders and turn them invisible before saying something in a set of gestures and skks you can only assume to be spider. Where are they and what are they doing? (Hunting for food).

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== Out of Character Game Information ==

=== The games:===
'''[[Avalon]]''' - Runs on Friday 19:30 on Phil's Discord server: "Da WAAAAAGH Painter"

'''[[Martin's Mere]]''' - Runs on Friday 19:30 on Phil's Discord server: "Da WAAAAAGH Painter"

'''[[Brabonicum]]''' - Runs on Tuesday 17:30 on the "Brabonicum" Discord server

'''[[Wychwood]]''' - Runs on the "Wychwood Spring" Discord server

=== Next Tribunal ===

Tribunal is held every 7 in-game years and about every 6 months of out of game time.

=== The Organisers ===

Currently: CJ is Head ST
Andy H is an ST with a focus on organisation and documentation
Matt is an ST with a focus on Tribunal

* Outside of Discord the Forum is used for communication about the games: [https://chretienschronicle.forumotion.com/]

* The Map: [https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=103CxxnNTcldv7aIcTN2vqXrlxpWtHEpO&ll=52.601986723108254%2C-2.0819987500000163&z=7]

* Stonehenge Tribunal Adventure Theme Tracking: [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18w_lp4GPE4e86-3Nb-zREMipbZVfCJBnDNRmXaTUvuo/edit?usp=sharing]]

* Comparative timelines: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NYwHXr5MnWlUv1qsMqXXzYN16ggsmb8zEK2cYDSTwGA/edit?usp=sharing]

* Plot Docs: Due to be done by Matt

* Rules/Dispute Queries: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PnB5Qe3Udf45ofM_ebxkVriziL13BCJiKLHJW1Ah6vs/edit#gid=0]

* Vis hunting rules: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/18D12vEvRNGhrHhuPAtr03Cx0iRibjZH1QmhPdbVehTA/edit]

== The Stonehenge Tribunal, Summer 1244 ==

OC map of the area: [https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=103CxxnNTcldv7aIcTN2vqXrlxpWtHEpO&hl=en&ehbc=2E312F]

=== Spring Covenants ===

'''[[Broseley]]''' - Founded in 1220, Broseley is a small covenant in Shropshire by the mighty River Severn. It is mostly represented by Beryl, Redcap of Mercere, and also home to Sir Nathaniel of Jerbiton, Gentian of Merinita, Laevis of Bjornaer, Gabrielle of Jerbiton and Redcap Brennan, and two apprentices.

'''[[Cambridge]]''' - Founded in the Tribunal of 1230 - It has 2 Guernicus, 2 Bonisagus, 2 Flambeau and 3 apprentices

'''Tintagel''' - Founded in the Tribunal of 1230 - It has 3 Merenita, 2 Verditius, 1 Tytalus and 1 Flambeau magi from Ireland.

'''[[Whitby]]''' - Founded in the Tribunal of 1230 - It has 3 Jerbition magi and 2 Ex Miscellania

'''Wyrms Head''' - (Reformed) - Reformed in the Tribunal of 1230 - It has 3 Irish Flambeau magi.

'''Yarmouth''' - Founded in the Tribunal of 1230 - It has 3 Redcaps, 2 Bonisagus and 1 Tytalus from the Rhine

=== Summer Covenants ===

'''Hereward's Isle''' - is a two century old covenant which is now enjoying a second Summer, Hereward's Isle is a mixed covenant with an illustrious history situated on a hoidden island in the Fens. It's magi are known to include Byron of Merinita, Lucius of Flambeau, William Ex Miscellanea, Janus of Bonisagus, Alyssa of Ex Miscellanea and Svetlana of Bjornaer. They have trained several apprentices. They are very isolated from the Order as a whole and redcap visits there are very rare, so the situation may well have changed. (6 votes)

'''[[Martins Mere]]''' (PC) - Refounded 1199 on the site of a previously destroyed covenant. It has 8 Magi: (2 Tremere 1 Bonisagus, 1 Mercere, 1 Verditious, 1 Bjornear, 2 Ex-Miscelania) and some apprentices either at or past Gauntlet.

'''The Mercere House''' (Bath) - Recently re-founded.

'''[[Wychwood]]''' (PC) - A growing covenant, recently moved into Summer, set in the Royal Forest of Wychwood.

=== Autumn Covenants ===

'''Stonehenge''' - is the single most powerful covenant in the Tribunal, and the largest with 13 magi. It aggressively protects its vis sources and dominates every Tribunal, as the Praeco Cuthbert of Flambeau resides here, along with Chad of Flambeau the Chief Hoplite and Tanaquil of Guernicus the Presiding Quaesitor. Five of the magi are a clutch of Criamon magi, whose activities are completely baffling to almost everyone outside the covenant, and possibly some within, though it is rumpoured that they are not schismatics not in communion with the Cave of Twisting Shadows. There are few Criamon magi in Stonehenge other than them to ask the truth. The Stonehenge covenant works carefully to restrict i) open practice of magic in froint of mundanes ii) interference with mundanes iii) creation of magical gold or silver iv) advocates hidden covenants and a secret order and v) are suspicious of House Ex Miscellanea, Merinita and Bjornaer magi who they claim are little better than the accursed Diedne. This is ironic as House Ex Miscellanea was founded in the battle against Diedne! Stonehenge covenant has strong political opinions and uses Tribunals and Marches to enforce its will. (13 votes)

'''[[Avalon]]''' (PC) - is a small covenant hidden in a regio near Glastonbury in Somerset. The magi there are very strongly associated with the Arthurian myth, which is a politically loaded myth right now: the Welsh Kings say Arthur will return, and overthrow the Saxons kingdom of England! Arthurian myth is everywhere around the covenant, and the magi there are experts in the subject, as well as the shadowy truth behind the stories. What they know they are not saying! They are known as rivals to Stonehenge Covenant, and for their strong association with extolling chivalry and knightly virtues. Desdevarious of Merinita, Moira of York (a Bjornaer maga), Anna Ex Miscellanea and Stephren of Jerbiton are all elderly magi who make up the covenant.

'''[[Brabonicum]]''' (PC) - the Tremere chapterhouse in the Tribunal, and geographically isolated from much of the life of the Tribunal. We all know what happened to it.

'''Caer Gadu''' - is a glass island floating in the middle of Lake Bala, and home to the strange warding experts of House Ex Misceallanea, as well as Domus Magna of the House. There power is great, but largely symbolic, and they still await the return of Pralix the Founder, centuries lost to Twilight. Recently they have been under scrutiny as linked to Welsh nationalism and Celtic revivalism which are dangerous currents in mortal politics. The covenant denies any knowledge of these things. (9 votes)

=== Winter Covenants ===

'''Multarum Insula''' (Wadeholm) - It has 1 Flambeau, 1 Criamon and 1 ex Miscellanea.

===News from the Realm===

* [[The de Marisco Afair]]

== The Stonehenge Tribunal, Summer 1216 ==

[[File:TribunalMap1190.png|200px|thumb|right| The Tribunal, Winter 1190]]

=== Spring Covenants ===

'''Jarrow''' is no more.

'''Wychwood''' is a tiny covenant on the edge of the Royal Forest near the Rollright stones. It is home to Abelard, Cassius, Amara, Regulus and others. Wychwood has the only known copy of Lupinus' ''Inspiration on Creation'', the finest book on Creo known to the Order. This exceptional book on Creo is Level 16 Quality 19.

=== Summer Covenants ===

'''Bridgnorth''' is a cave covenant that lies directly beneath the town! Sir Robert of Jerbiton is a former nobleman who retired from public life a century ago, and the covenant now only recruits women. It has traditionally had a somewhat isolationist stance but recently has welcomed redcaps and is rapidly expanding the library by aggressively pursuing the acquisition of quality books. Bridgnorth is very interest in providing an excellent home to Verditius magi, and applicants should write at once. The covenant offers excellent mundane links and resources, a secure home and two rooks (20 pawns) of vim vis a year to any maga interested in the position. (4 votes)

'''Hereward's Isle''' is a two century old covenant which is now enjoying a second Summer, Hereards Isle is a mixed covenant with an illustrious history situated on a hoidden island in the Fens. It's magi are known to include Byron of Merinita, Lucius of Flambeau, William Ex Miscellanea, Janus of Bonisagus, Alyssa of Ex Miscellanea and Svetlana of Bjornaer. They have trained several apprentices. They are very isolated from the Order as a whole and redcap visits there are very rare, so the situation may well have changed. (6 votes)

'''The Mercer House''' is no more.

'''[[Martins Mere]]''' is a Spring covenant in Lancashire with 5 magi.

=== Autumn Covenants ===

'''Avalon''' is a small covenant hidden in a regio near Glastonbury in Somerset. The magi there are very strongly associated with the Arthurian myth, which is a politically loaded myth right now: the Welsh Kings say Arthur will return, and overthrow the Saxons kingdom of England! Arthurian myth is everywhere around the covenant, and the magi there are experts in the subject, as well as the shadowy truth behind the stories. What they know they are not saying! They are known as rivals to Stonehenge Covenant, and for their strong association with extolling chivalry and knightly virtues. Desdevarious of Merinita, Moira of York (a Bjornaer maga), Anna Ex Miscellanea and Stephren of Jerbiton are all elderly magi who make up the covenant.

'''Brabonicum''' is the Tremere chapterhouse in the Tribunal, and geographically isolated from much of the life of the Tribunal. We all know what happened to it.

'''Caer Gadu''' is a glass island floating in the middle of Lake Bala, and home to the strange warding experts of House Ex Misceallanea, as well as Domus Magna of the House. There power is great, but largely symbolic, and they still await the return of Pralix the Founder, centuries lost to Twilight. Recently they have been under scrutiny as linked to Welsh nationalism and Celtic revivalism which are dangerous currents in mortal politics. The covenant denies any knowledge of these things. (9 votes)

'''Stonehenge''' is the single most powerful covenant in the Tribunal, and the largest with 13 magi. It aggressively protects its vis sources and dominates every Tribunal, as the Praeco Cuthbert of Flambeau resides here, along with Chad of Flambeau the Chief Hoplite and Tanaquil of Guernicus the Presiding Quaesitor. Five of the magi are a clutch of Criamon magi, whose activities are completely baffling to almost everyone outside the covenant, and possibly some within, though it is rumpoured that they are not schismatics not in communion with the Cave of Twisting Shadows. There are few Criamon magi in Stonehenge other than them to ask the truth. The Stonehenge covenant works carefully to restrict i) open practice of magic in froint of mundanes ii) interference with mundanes iii) creation of magical gold or silver iv) advocates hidden covenants and a secret order and v) are suspicious of House Ex Miscellanea, Merinita and Bjornaer magi who they claim are little better than the accursed Diedne. This is ironic as House Ex Miscellanea was founded in the battle against Diedne! Stonehenge covenant has strong political opinions and uses Tribunals and Marches to enforce its will. (13 votes)

=== Winter Covenants ===

'''Multarum Insula (Wadenholm)''' is an old and powerful covenant located in a bay full of shifting magical islands and often weird regios. Long the Mercer House of the Tribunal, it lost that honour when Brandonicum amd Stonehenge allied against to accusing oit of too much politcal power, and its magi are sworn enemies of Francesca Whittington of House Mercere and also usually embroiled in politics to try and prevent the Stonehenge domination of the Tribunal. A series of recent unsolved murders in the vicinity including the death of Hugh of Jerbiton a visiting magus found dead in the sea and the redcap Florence of Kent has led to some considerable problems and most magi have left the covenant. Those known to remain are Lady Winifred of Flambeau, Marcellus of Criamon and Jared ex Miscellanea. (10 votes)

'''Wyrm's Head''' is gone

== The Stonehenge Tribunal, Winter 1190 ==

[[File:TribunalMap1190.png|200px|thumb|right| The Tribunal, Winter 1190]]

=== Spring Covenants ===

'''Jarrow''' is home to a famous monastery; yet a new covenant has been founded near there, to the utter disgust of the Exarch of Tremere at Brabonicum. It has four magi, and so far they have not been forced to move, but it seems that House Tremere regard the new covenant as encroaching upon their Chapterhouse. The magi's names and Houses are not generally known yet.

'''Wychwood''' is a tiny covenant on the edge of the Royal Forest near the Rollright stones. It is home to the famous experimentalist Brendan of Bonisagus, who trained the young magus Andrew who so recently left us for Hibernia. Brendan is known for his knowledge of Corpus magic, and has recently recruited a second magus, Magister Marcus of Bonisagus. Wychwood has the only known copy of Lupinus' ''Inspiration on Creation'', the finest book on Creo known to the Order. This exceptional book on Creo is Level 16 Quality 19.

=== Summer Covenants ===

'''Bridgnorth''' is a cave covenant that lies directly beneath the town! Sir Robert of Jerbiton is a former nobleman who retired from public life a century ago, and the covenant now only recruits women. It has traditionally had a somewhat isolationist stance but recently has welcomed redcaps and is rapidly expanding the library by aggressively pursuing the acquisition of quality books. Bridgnorth is very interest in providing an excellent home to Verditius magi, and applicants should write at once. The covenant offers excellent mundane links and resources, a secure home and two rooks (20 pawns) of vim vis a year to any maga interested in the position.

'''Hereward's Isle''' is a two century old covenant which is now enjoying a second Summer, Hereards Isle is a mixed covenant with an illustrious history sitauted on a hoidden island in the Fens. It's magi are known to include Byron of Merinita, Lucius of Flambeau, William Ex Miscellanea, Janus of Bonisagus, Alyssa of Ex Miscellanea and Svetlana of Bjornaer. They have trained several apprentices. They are very isolated from the Order as a whole and redcap visits there are very rare, so the situation may well have changed.

'''The Mercer House''' was established just thirty years ago but has propspered greatly in that time. Set within the dominion in the city of London it replaced the earlier Mercer House at Multarum Insularum; that covenant was felt to be able to control politics to an undue extent owing to the redcaps being based there, and the Tribunal ruled henceforth Redcaps should be based at the new Mercer House. Technically there is no reason for Redcaps not to be based at other covenants, but Francesca Whittington the Chief Redcap is known to feel the enforced centralisation worked to the Houses's ultimate advantage.

=== Autumn Covenants ===

'''Avalon''' is a small covenant hidden in a regio near Glastonbury in Somerset. The magi there are very strongly associated with the Arthurian myth, which is a politically loaded myth right now: the Welsh Kings say Arthur will return, and overthrow the Saxons kingdom of England! Arthurian myth is everywhere around the covenant, and the magi there are experts in the subject, as well as the shadowy truth behind the stories. What they know they are not saying! They are known as rivals to Stonehenge Covenant, and for their strong association with extolling chivalry and knightly virtues. Desdevarious of Merinita, Moira of York (a Bjornaer maga), Anna Ex Miscellanea and Stephren of Jerbiton are all elderly magi who make up the covenant.

'''Brabonicum''' is the Tremere chapterhouse in the Tribunal, and geographically isolated from much of the life of the Tribunal. The Exarch of Stonehenge, Loch Leglean and Hibernia is Dalibor and he rules over the ten magi here, holding six sigils. The use of Certamen to push political agendas has been limited in recent years, and the covenant has stronger links with Scotland and Ireland than with the south of England. Stonehenge magi often speculate what the Exarch's political goal is, but the truth is no one has a clue and the Tytalans reckon it is probbaly more to do with the politics of Transylvannia than Stonehenge!

'''Caer Gadu''' is a glass island floating in the middle of Lake Bala, and home to the strange warding experts of House Ex Misceallanea, as well as Domus Magna of the House. There power is great, but largely symbolic, and they still await the return of Pralix the Founder, centuries lost to Twilight. Recently they have been under scrutiny as linked to Welsh nationalism and Celtic revivalism which are dangerous currents in mortal politics. The covenant denies any knowledge of these things.

'''Stonehenge''' is the single most powerful covenant in the Tribunal, and the largest with 14 magi. It aggressively protects its vis sources and dominates every Tribunal, as the Praeco Cuthbert of Flambeau resides here, along with Chad of Flambeau the Chief Hoplite and Tanaquil of Guernicus the Presiding Quaesitor. Six of the magi are a clutch of Criamon magi, whose activities are completely baffling to almost everyone outside the covenant, and possibly some within, though it is rumpoured that they are not schismatics not in communion with the Cave of Twisting Shadows. There are few Criamon magi in Stonehenge other than them to ask the truth. The Stonehenge covenant works carefully to restrict i) open practice of magic in froint of mundanes ii) interference with mundanes iii) creation of magical gold or silver iv) advocates hidden covenants and a secret order and v) are suspicious of House Ex Miscellanea, Merinita and Bjornaer magi who they claim are little better than the accursed Diedne. This is ironic as House Ex Miscellanea was founded in the battle against Diedne! Stonehenge covenant has strong political opinions and uses Tribunals and Marches to enforce its will.

=== Winter Covenants ===

'''Multarum Insula (Wadenholm)''' is an old and powerful covenant located in a bay full of shifting magical islands and often weird regios. Long the Mercer House of the Tribunal, it lost that honour when Brandonicum amd Stonehenge allied against to accusing oit of too much politcal power, and its magi are sworn enemies of Francesca Whittington of House Mercere and also usually embroiled in politics to try and prevent the Stonehenge domination of the Tribunal. A series of recent unsolved murders in the vicinity including the death of Hugh of Jerbiton a visiting magus found dead in the sea and the redcap Florence of Kent has led to some considerable problems and most magi have left the covenant. Those known ot remain are Lady Winifred of Flambeau, Marcellus of Criamon and Jared ex Miscellanea.

'''Wyrm's Head''' is a covenant in a blackened tower on the Gower peninsula. The Tytalan magi here were destroyed in a Wizard's March for diabolism, and three of the five magi here were marched ten years ago when their infernal dealings with demons became known; one was subsequently hanged by the Earl of Pembroke for unrelated reasons. Now only the honourable Roderick of Flambeau remains, his apprentice having recently left. Roderick is known as a chivalrous fellow who has believed to have fought in a number of the battles in Ireland in recent years, yet never broken the Code of Hermes or his chivalric vows. He has slain a number of renegade Irish magi to protect the Order and is a master of Fire magics in the tradition of the School of the Founder.

== Outside the Tribunal ==

[[Asfi Covenant]] and [[Damietta Covenant]] in Africa are also managed by a player and can be written to and interacted with.

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'''== Broseley =='''

[[Location]]

Broseley Covenant is based at Sir Nathaniel's manor house in the village of Broseley, a mostly forested area about seven miles north of the market town of Bridgnorth and four miles downriver from Buildwas Abbey. Those are also the nearest crossings to the powerful River Severn, which divides Broseley from most of Stonehenge. Sir Nathaniel's house, a relatively new stone manor of about thirty rooms, always has good food and drink, even though rumour has it the Cook eats more of the expensive stuff than he should. A stronger magic aura and at least one guest lab can be found in the hills bordering Broseley to the north.

[[Famed for]]

They are always keen to trade their herbam and imagonem vis (which smells lovely) and some animal for other types of magical vis and to discuss trade of books and spells. Beryl, a Norman with a short dark bob of hair, is a fairly well known Redcap with good diplomatic skills. There have been for decades rumours that: Sir Nathaniel used to be blind, Gentian is one of them True Merinita who doesn't like faeries (she actually writes to other Merinita about this since 1230), Gabrielle is some lord's bastard daughter and Laevis' heartbeast is a bird. (These are all true.)

A case has been brought to the Quaesitors by one Sir Neville of Chirk that Sir Nathaniel and Gentian are interfering with his marriage by denying him access to his wife, Gabrielle (of Jerbiton), and child. He claims if she wanted to leave the marriage, she should go to a nunnery, and the child should live with him as his heir. Gabrielle's response was that Neville was a brutal wife-beater, and had forbidden her to study or practise magic on threat of harm to the child. He should be glad she hadn't killed him, and ordering her to go back would be denying her magic.

[[File:BroseleyManor1234.png]]

'''People of the Covenant'''

Sir Nathaniel of Jerbiton - Terram specialist aged around 80. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because they were giving him only poor quality stuff despite him being the main funding source of the Covenant. (He has Difficult Underlings). Gabrielle was his apprentice and he took a new one in 1235.

Sir Nathaniel's familiar is a monocerous called August.

Beryl of Mercere (ungifted), parens of Brennan. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because she loves Sir Nathaniel. No-one is quite sure if this is a platonic relationship. Beryl is proficient in all (I think) social skills and common lores (generally +5 to the roll including presence, +6 if Communication). Beryl does book negotiation as well as management of the covenant, and has a decent layman's understanding of magic theory.

[[File:Beryl.jpg]]

Gentian of Merinita - plant specialist, major focus in plants, can also cast healing spells. True Merinita and distrustful of faeries. She has basically no social skills.

Gentian's familiar is a barnacle goose called Jocosa.

Laevis of Bjornaer - small, brown-haired, beautiful voice, enchanting music, heartbeast songbird. Laevis moves around a lot and can be away for a week or so at a time with the local magical birds.

Gabrielle of Jerbiton: Sir Nathaniel's filius, she is beginning to earn a name as an Imaginem specialist. Gabrielle looks like the spitting image of the FitzAlan lords because her father is Lord John Fitzalan, Warder of the West and Lord of Oswestry and Clun, and her mother is his cousin whom he was not allowed to marry. Though very beautiful, she looks around thirty, her unhappy marriage may have aged her.
[[File:Gabrielle.jpg]]

Brennan of Mercere (ungifted, filius Beryl) - only around on his season off and one or two other trips a year, but has family nearby. He has a scar and is a good lute player and archer.

Apprentices: Laevis' apprentice Alysanne and Sir Nathaniel's apprentice Rhys.

The more reliable Companions and Grogs:

Hafren of Awre, the stablemaster, has obviously faerie blue eyes and Undine blood. He is the son of the faerie goddess Sabre (pron. Sab-rey) of the River Severn and has a supernatural ability to move water around (and finesse of 5 including Aquam speciality) but has no memory of his time underwater in the Faerie regio, nor does he remember aboveground when he is there. This is thanks to a malediction by Woden, faerie god of the delta. Hafren also can't drown, and is actually good with horses.

Nina of Broseley, now married, is Gabrielle's childhood friend and still works part-time as her maid, but mostly makes beautifully shaped candles. Nina is no longer allowed in several of the rooms (having been caught stealing to free her parents from serfdom) but is an actual True Friend to Gabrielle. She is also small and dark-haired.

Oke, magical half-giant. Mines under the hills to the North, still tries to protect Broseley because some of the villagers are his descendants (probably most of them by now).

[[File:Oke,half-giant.png]]

Inge of Montverte heads the defenses and will talk fortifications with anyone till you wish you hadn't met him. He has keen hearing and often suggests ways the Manor could be improved but he is evidently proud of the rectangle layout, moat and arrowslits, which were his idea.

Liam of Benthall, Chief Scribe and Librarian at Broseley, is a branded criminal (he stole food). He can be a bit too humble and is rumoured to have a diabolic past, but he seems to be good at his job.

Herley Coke of Much Wenlock is the celebrated cook. He really is an excellent pastry chef, even though he's frequently drunk. About a third of dinners involve Sir Nathaniel sending his compliments to the Chef but also wondering what happened to the Goose/Swan/Venison/brandy/Burgundian Wine etc that was ordered, and the news coming back that there had been an accident in the Kitchen and the rest would be coming to the table shortly, or it would be replaced.

Johanna is a skilled sheep-wife and faerie in Broseley. She's a supernaturally good sheep midwife.

[[File:Broseley-medieval-green.gif]]

'''Some Plot hooks'''

Feel free to play with Sir Nathaniel's Difficult Underlings to have someone turn up in your Covenant who used to work at Broseley, or be hired at Broseley by Sir Nathaniel in an absent-minded moment.

In 1242 Gabrielle has run away from her abusive husband, Sir Neville of Chirk, and he is trying to send people in to take their infant son and to stir up people against Sir Nathaniel to have Gabrielle sent to a nunnery.

Once a year in the hills north of Broseley the half-giant shows up and a Norse wizard's ghost shows up and keeps summoning ten Iron Age Viking warriors that do nothing but attack the half-giant and anyone in the way. Sir Nathaniel and sometimes Gentian join in for the night to make sure the half-giant wins without much injury, and welcome others to do so. No-one is sure whether the ghost mage would appear if the half-giant didn't.

There are sleeping giants in the area that were never completely resolved.

Broseley are friendly with the local faerie regio, Queen Sabre's palace, but the regio has pressure from Buildwas Abbey and other cities, old Nodens/Woden in the south, and ice faeries in the north-west where the River Severn originates.

Gabrielle's original Parens was a Diedne, Aemon, who died in 1218. This is not known, but it's possible other clues from a Diedne investigation might lead to Broseley.

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'''== Broseley =='''

[[Location]]

Broseley Covenant is based at Sir Nathaniel's manor house in the village of Broseley, a mostly forested area about seven miles north of the market town of Bridgnorth and four miles downriver from Buildwas Abbey. Those are also the nearest crossings to the powerful River Severn, which divides Broseley from most of Stonehenge. Sir Nathaniel's house, a relatively new stone manor of about thirty rooms, always has good food and drink, even though rumour has it the Cook eats more of the expensive stuff than he should. A stronger magic aura and at least one guest lab can be found in the hills bordering Broseley to the north.

[[Famed for]]

They are always keen to trade their herbam and imagonem vis (which smells lovely) and some animal for other types of magical vis and to discuss trade of books and spells. Beryl, a Norman with a short dark bob of hair, is a fairly well known Redcap with good diplomatic skills. There have been for decades rumours that: Sir Nathaniel used to be blind, Gentian is one of them True Merinita who doesn't like faeries (she actually writes to other Merinita about this since 1230), Gabrielle is some lord's bastard daughter and Laevis' heartbeast is a bird. (These are all true.)

A case has been brought to the Quaesitors by one Sir Neville of Chirk that Sir Nathaniel and Gentian are interfering with his marriage by denying him access to his wife, Gabrielle (of Jerbiton), and child. He claims if she wanted to leave the marriage, she should go to a nunnery, and the child should live with him as his heir. Gabrielle's response was that Neville was a brutal wife-beater, and had forbidden her to study or practise magic on threat of harm to the child. He should be glad she hadn't killed him, and ordering her to go back would be denying her magic.

[[File:BroseleyManor1234.png]]

'''People of the Covenant'''

Sir Nathaniel of Jerbiton - Terram specialist aged around 80. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because they were giving him only poor quality stuff despite him being the main funding source of the Covenant. (He has Difficult Underlings). Gabrielle was his apprentice and he took a new one in 1235.

Sir Nathaniel's familiar is a monocerous called August.

Beryl of Mercere (ungifted), parens of Brennan. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because she loves Sir Nathaniel. No-one is quite sure if this is a platonic relationship. Beryl is proficient in all (I think) social skills and common lores (generally +5 to the roll including presence, +6 if Communication). Beryl does book negotiation as well as management of the covenant, and has a decent layman's understanding of magic theory.

[[File:Beryl.jpg]]

Gentian of Merinita - plant specialist, major focus in plants, can also cast healing spells. True Merinita and distrustful of faeries. She has basically no social skills.

Gentian's familiar is a barnacle goose called Jocosa.

Laevis of Bjornaer - small, brown-haired, beautiful voice, enchanting music, heartbeast songbird. Laevis moves around a lot and can be away for a week or so at a time with the local magical birds.

Gabrielle of Jerbiton: Sir Nathaniel's filius, she is beginning to earn a name as an Imaginem specialist. Gabrielle looks like the spitting image of the FitzAlan lords because her father is Lord John Fitzalan, Warder of the West and Lord of Oswestry and Clun, and her mother is his cousin whom he was not allowed to marry. Though very beautiful, she looks around thirty, her unhappy marriage may have aged her.
[[File:Gabrielle.jpg]]

Brennan of Mercere (ungifted, filius Beryl) - only around on his season off and one or two other trips a year, but has family nearby. He has a scar and is a good lute player and archer.

Apprentices: Laevis' apprentice Alysanne and Sir Nathaniel's apprentice Rhys.

The more reliable Companions and Grogs:

Hafren of Awre, the stablemaster, has obviously faerie blue eyes and Undine blood. He is the son of the faerie goddess Sabre (pron. Sab-rey) of the River Severn and has a supernatural ability to move water around (and finesse of 5 including Aquam speciality) but has no memory of his time underwater in the Faerie regio, nor does he remember aboveground when he is there. This is thanks to a malediction by Woden, faerie god of the delta. Hafren also can't drown, and is actually good with horses.

Nina of Broseley, now married, is Gabrielle's childhood friend and still works part-time as her maid, but mostly makes beautifully shaped candles. Nina is no longer allowed in several of the rooms (having been caught stealing to free her parents from serfdom) but is an actual True Friend to Gabrielle. She is also small and dark-haired.

Oke, magical half-giant. Mines under the hills to the North, still tries to protect Broseley because some of the villagers are his descendants (probably most of them by now).
[[File:Oke,half-giant.png]]

Inge of Montverte heads the defenses and will talk fortifications with anyone till you wish you hadn't met him. He has keen hearing and often suggests ways the Manor could be improved but he is evidently proud of the rectangle layout, moat and arrowslits, which were his idea.

Liam of Benthall, Chief Scribe and Librarian at Broseley, is a branded criminal (he stole food). He can be a bit too humble and is rumoured to have a diabolic past, but he seems to be good at his job.

Herley Coke of Much Wenlock is the celebrated cook. He really is an excellent pastry chef, even though he's frequently drunk. About a third of dinners involve Sir Nathaniel sending his compliments to the Chef but also wondering what happened to the Goose/Swan/Venison/brandy/Burgundian Wine etc that was ordered, and the news coming back that there had been an accident in the Kitchen and the rest would be coming to the table shortly, or it would be replaced.

Johanna is a skilled sheep-wife and faerie in Broseley. She's a supernaturally good sheep midwife.

[[File:Broseley-medieval-green.gif]]

'''Some Plot hooks'''

Feel free to play with Sir Nathaniel's Difficult Underlings to have someone turn up in your Covenant who used to work at Broseley, or be hired at Broseley by Sir Nathaniel in an absent-minded moment.

In 1242 Gabrielle has run away from her abusive husband, Sir Neville of Chirk, and he is trying to send people in to take their infant son and to stir up people against Sir Nathaniel to have Gabrielle sent to a nunnery.

Once a year in the hills north of Broseley the half-giant shows up and a Norse wizard's ghost shows up and keeps summoning ten Iron Age Viking warriors that do nothing but attack the half-giant and anyone in the way. Sir Nathaniel and sometimes Gentian join in for the night to make sure the half-giant wins without much injury, and welcome others to do so. No-one is sure whether the ghost mage would appear if the half-giant didn't.

There are sleeping giants in the area that were never completely resolved.

Broseley are friendly with the local faerie regio, Queen Sabre's palace, but the regio has pressure from Buildwas Abbey and other cities, old Nodens/Woden in the south, and ice faeries in the north-west where the River Severn originates.

Gabrielle's original Parens was a Diedne, Aemon, who died in 1218. This is not known, but it's possible other clues from a Diedne investigation might lead to Broseley.

Broseley

2023-05-14T22:35:38Z

Hazel Grove:

'''== Broseley =='''

[[Location]]

Broseley Covenant is based at Sir Nathaniel's manor house in the village of Broseley, a mostly forested area about seven miles north of the market town of Bridgnorth and four miles downriver from Buildwas Abbey. Those are also the nearest crossings to the powerful River Severn, which divides Broseley from most of Stonehenge. Sir Nathaniel's house, a relatively new stone manor of about thirty rooms, always has good food and drink, even though rumour has it the Cook eats more of the expensive stuff than he should. A stronger magic aura and at least one guest lab can be found in the hills bordering Broseley to the north.

[[Famed for]]

They are always keen to trade their herbam and imagonem vis (which smells lovely) and some animal for other types of magical vis and to discuss trade of books and spells. Beryl, a Norman with a short dark bob of hair, is a fairly well known Redcap with good diplomatic skills. There have been for decades rumours that: Sir Nathaniel used to be blind, Gentian is one of them True Merinita who doesn't like faeries (she actually writes to other Merinita about this since 1230), Gabrielle is some lord's bastard daughter and Laevis' heartbeast is a bird. (These are all true.)

A case has been brought to the Quaesitors by one Sir Neville of Chirk that Sir Nathaniel and Gentian are interfering with his marriage by denying him access to his wife, Gabrielle (of Jerbiton), and child. He claims if she wanted to leave the marriage, she should go to a nunnery, and the child should live with him as his heir. Gabrielle's response was that Neville was a brutal wife-beater, and had forbidden her to study or practise magic on threat of harm to the child. He should be glad she hadn't killed him, and ordering her to go back would be denying her magic.

[[File:BroseleyManor1234.jpg]]

'''People of the Covenant'''

Sir Nathaniel of Jerbiton - Terram specialist aged around 80. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because they were giving him only poor quality stuff despite him being the main funding source of the Covenant. (He has Difficult Underlings). Gabrielle was his apprentice and he took a new one in 1235.

Sir Nathaniel's familiar is a monocerous called August.

Beryl of Mercere (ungifted), parens of Brennan. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because she loves Sir Nathaniel. No-one is quite sure if this is a platonic relationship. Beryl is proficient in all (I think) social skills and common lores (generally +5 to the roll including presence, +6 if Communication). Beryl does book negotiation as well as management of the covenant, and has a decent layman's understanding of magic theory. [[File:Beryl.jpg]]

Gentian of Merinita - plant specialist, major focus in plants, can also cast healing spells. True Merinita and distrustful of faeries. She has basically no social skills.

Gentian's familiar is a barnacle goose called Jocosa.

Laevis of Bjornaer - small, brown-haired, beautiful voice, enchanting music, heartbeast songbird. Laevis moves around a lot and can be away for a week or so at a time with the local magical birds.

Gabrielle of Jerbiton: Sir Nathaniel's filius, she is beginning to earn a name as an Imaginem specialist. Gabrielle looks like the spitting image of the FitzAlan lords because her father is Lord John Fitzalan, Warder of the West and Lord of Oswestry and Clun, and her mother is his cousin whom he was not allowed to marry. Though very beautiful, she looks around thirty, her unhappy marriage may have aged her. [[File:Gabrielle.jpg]]

Brennan of Mercere (ungifted, filius Beryl) - only around on his season off and one or two other trips a year, but has family nearby. He has a scar and is a good lute player and archer.

Apprentices: Laevis' apprentice Alysanne and Sir Nathaniel's apprentice Rhys.

The more reliable Companions and Grogs:

Hafren of Awre, the stablemaster, has obviously faerie blue eyes and Undine blood. He is the son of the faerie goddess Sabre (pron. Sab-rey) of the River Severn and has a supernatural ability to move water around (and finesse of 5 including Aquam speciality) but has no memory of his time underwater in the Faerie regio, nor does he remember aboveground when he is there. This is thanks to a malediction by Woden, faerie god of the delta. Hafren also can't drown, and is actually good with horses.

Nina of Broseley, now married, is Gabrielle's childhood friend and still works part-time as her maid, but mostly makes beautifully shaped candles. Nina is no longer allowed in several of the rooms (having been caught stealing to free her parents from serfdom) but is an actual True Friend to Gabrielle. She is also small and dark-haired.

Oke, magical half-giant. Mines under the hills to the North, still tries to protect Broseley because some of the villagers are his descendants (probably most of them by now).
[[File:Oke,half-giant.png]]

Inge of Montverte heads the defenses and will talk fortifications with anyone till you wish you hadn't met him. He has keen hearing and often suggests ways the Manor could be improved but he is evidently proud of the rectangle layout, moat and arrowslits, which were his idea.

Liam of Benthall, Chief Scribe and Librarian at Broseley, is a branded criminal (he stole food). He can be a bit too humble and is rumoured to have a diabolic past, but he seems to be good at his job.

Herley Coke of Much Wenlock is the celebrated cook. He really is an excellent pastry chef, even though he's frequently drunk. About a third of dinners involve Sir Nathaniel sending his compliments to the Chef but also wondering what happened to the Goose/Swan/Venison/brandy/Burgundian Wine etc that was ordered, and the news coming back that there had been an accident in the Kitchen and the rest would be coming to the table shortly, or it would be replaced.

Johanna is a skilled sheep-wife and faerie in Broseley. She's a supernaturally good sheep midwife.

[[File:Broseley-medieval-green.gif]]

'''Some Plot hooks'''

Feel free to play with Sir Nathaniel's Difficult Underlings to have someone turn up in your Covenant who used to work at Broseley, or be hired at Broseley by Sir Nathaniel in an absent-minded moment.

In 1242 Gabrielle has run away from her abusive husband, Sir Neville of Chirk, and he is trying to send people in to take their infant son and to stir up people against Sir Nathaniel to have Gabrielle sent to a nunnery.

Once a year in the hills north of Broseley the half-giant shows up and a Norse wizard's ghost shows up and keeps summoning ten Iron Age Viking warriors that do nothing but attack the half-giant and anyone in the way. Sir Nathaniel and sometimes Gentian join in for the night to make sure the half-giant wins without much injury, and welcome others to do so. No-one is sure whether the ghost mage would appear if the half-giant didn't.

There are sleeping giants in the area that were never completely resolved.

Broseley are friendly with the local faerie regio, Queen Sabre's palace, but the regio has pressure from Buildwas Abbey and other cities, old Nodens/Woden in the south, and ice faeries in the north-west where the River Severn originates.

Gabrielle's original Parens was a Diedne, Aemon, who died in 1218. This is not known, but it's possible other clues from a Diedne investigation might lead to Broseley.

Broseley

2023-05-14T22:34:45Z

Hazel Grove:

'''== Broseley =='''

[[Location]]

Broseley Covenant is based at Sir Nathaniel's manor house in the village of Broseley, a mostly forested area about seven miles north of the market town of Bridgnorth and four miles downriver from Buildwas Abbey. Those are also the nearest crossings to the powerful River Severn, which divides Broseley from most of Stonehenge. Sir Nathaniel's house, a relatively new stone manor of about thirty rooms, always has good food and drink, even though rumour has it the Cook eats more of the expensive stuff than he should. A stronger magic aura and at least one guest lab can be found in the hills bordering Broseley to the north.

[[Famed for]]

They are always keen to trade their herbam and imagonem vis (which smells lovely) and some animal for other types of magical vis and to discuss trade of books and spells. Beryl, a Norman with a short dark bob of hair, is a fairly well known Redcap with good diplomatic skills. There have been for decades rumours that: Sir Nathaniel used to be blind, Gentian is one of them True Merinita who doesn't like faeries (she actually writes to other Merinita about this since 1230), Gabrielle is some lord's bastard daughter and Laevis' heartbeast is a bird. (These are all true.)

A case has been brought to the Quaesitors by one Sir Neville of Chirk that Sir Nathaniel and Gentian are interfering with his marriage by denying him access to his wife, Gabrielle (of Jerbiton), and child. He claims if she wanted to leave the marriage, she should go to a nunnery, and the child should live with him as his heir. Gabrielle's response was that Neville was a brutal wife-beater, and had forbidden her to study or practise magic on threat of harm to the child. He should be glad she hadn't killed him, and ordering her to go back would be denying her magic.

[[File:BroseleyManor1234.jpg]]

'''People of the Covenant'''

Sir Nathaniel of Jerbiton - Terram specialist aged around 80. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because they were giving him only poor quality stuff despite him being the main funding source of the Covenant. (He has Difficult Underlings). Gabrielle was his apprentice and he took a new one in 1235.

Sir Nathaniel's familiar is a monocerous called August.

Beryl of Mercere (ungifted), parens of Brennan. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because she loves Sir Nathaniel. No-one is quite sure if this is a platonic relationship. Beryl is proficient in all (I think) social skills and common lores (generally +5 to the roll including presence, +6 if Communication). Beryl does book negotiation as well as management of the covenant, and has a decent layman's understanding of magic theory. [[File:Beryl.jpg]]

Gentian of Merinita - plant specialist, major focus in plants, can also cast healing spells. True Merinita and distrustful of faeries. She has basically no social skills.

Gentian's familiar is a barnacle goose called Jocosa.

Laevis of Bjornaer - small, brown-haired, beautiful voice, enchanting music, heartbeast songbird. Laevis moves around a lot and can be away for a week or so at a time with the local magical birds.

Gabrielle of Jerbiton: Sir Nathaniel's filius, she is beginning to earn a name as an Imaginem specialist. Gabrielle looks like the spitting image of the FitzAlan lords because her father is Lord John Fitzalan, Warder of the West and Lord of Oswestry and Clun, and her mother is his cousin whom he was not allowed to marry. Though very beautiful, she looks around thirty, her unhappy marriage may have aged her. [[File:Gabrielle.jpg]]

Brennan of Mercere (ungifted, filius Beryl) - only around on his season off and one or two other trips a year, but has family nearby. He has a scar and is a good lute player and archer.

Apprentices: Laevis' apprentice Alysanne and Sir Nathaniel's apprentice Rhys.

The more reliable Companions and Grogs:

Hafren of Awre, the stablemaster, has obviously faerie blue eyes and Undine blood. He is the son of the faerie goddess Sabre (pron. Sab-rey) of the River Severn and has a supernatural ability to move water around (and finesse of 5 including Aquam speciality) but has no memory of his time underwater in the Faerie regio, nor does he remember aboveground when he is there. This is thanks to a malediction by Woden, faerie god of the delta. Hafren also can't drown, and is actually good with horses.

Nina of Broseley, now married, is Gabrielle's childhood friend and still works part-time as her maid, but mostly makes beautifully shaped candles. Nina is no longer allowed in several of the rooms (having been caught stealing to free her parents from serfdom) but is an actual True Friend to Gabrielle. She is also small and dark-haired.

Oke, magical half-giant. Mines under the hills to the North, still tries to protect Broseley because some of the villagers are his descendants (probably most of them by now).
[[File:Oke,half-giant.jpg]]

Inge of Montverte heads the defenses and will talk fortifications with anyone till you wish you hadn't met him. He has keen hearing and often suggests ways the Manor could be improved but he is evidently proud of the rectangle layout, moat and arrowslits, which were his idea.

Liam of Benthall, Chief Scribe and Librarian at Broseley, is a branded criminal (he stole food). He can be a bit too humble and is rumoured to have a diabolic past, but he seems to be good at his job.

Herley Coke of Much Wenlock is the celebrated cook. He really is an excellent pastry chef, even though he's frequently drunk. About a third of dinners involve Sir Nathaniel sending his compliments to the Chef but also wondering what happened to the Goose/Swan/Venison/brandy/Burgundian Wine etc that was ordered, and the news coming back that there had been an accident in the Kitchen and the rest would be coming to the table shortly, or it would be replaced.

Johanna is a skilled sheep-wife and faerie in Broseley. She's a supernaturally good sheep midwife.

[[File:Broseley-medieval-green.jpg]]

'''Some Plot hooks'''

Feel free to play with Sir Nathaniel's Difficult Underlings to have someone turn up in your Covenant who used to work at Broseley, or be hired at Broseley by Sir Nathaniel in an absent-minded moment.

In 1242 Gabrielle has run away from her abusive husband, Sir Neville of Chirk, and he is trying to send people in to take their infant son and to stir up people against Sir Nathaniel to have Gabrielle sent to a nunnery.

Once a year in the hills north of Broseley the half-giant shows up and a Norse wizard's ghost shows up and keeps summoning ten Iron Age Viking warriors that do nothing but attack the half-giant and anyone in the way. Sir Nathaniel and sometimes Gentian join in for the night to make sure the half-giant wins without much injury, and welcome others to do so. No-one is sure whether the ghost mage would appear if the half-giant didn't.

There are sleeping giants in the area that were never completely resolved.

Broseley are friendly with the local faerie regio, Queen Sabre's palace, but the regio has pressure from Buildwas Abbey and other cities, old Nodens/Woden in the south, and ice faeries in the north-west where the River Severn originates.

Gabrielle's original Parens was a Diedne, Aemon, who died in 1218. This is not known, but it's possible other clues from a Diedne investigation might lead to Broseley.

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Broseley

2023-05-14T22:23:38Z

Hazel Grove:

'''== Broseley =='''

[[Location]]

Broseley Covenant is based at Sir Nathaniel's manor house in the village of Broseley, a mostly forested area about seven miles north of the market town of Bridgnorth and four miles downriver from Buildwas Abbey. Those are also the nearest crossings to the powerful River Severn, which divides Broseley from most of Stonehenge. Sir Nathaniel's house, a relatively new stone manor of about thirty rooms, always has good food and drink, even though rumour has it the Cook eats more of the expensive stuff than he should. A stronger magic aura and at least one guest lab can be found in the hills bordering Broseley to the north.

[[Famed for]]

They are always keen to trade their herbam and imagonem vis (which smells lovely) and some animal for other types of magical vis and to discuss trade of books and spells. Beryl, a Norman with a short dark bob of hair, is a fairly well known Redcap with good diplomatic skills. There have been for decades rumours that: Sir Nathaniel used to be blind, Gentian is one of them True Merinita who doesn't like faeries (she actually writes to other Merinita about this since 1230), Gabrielle is some lord's bastard daughter and Laevis' heartbeast is a bird. (These are all true.)

A case has been brought to the Quaesitors by one Sir Neville of Chirk that Sir Nathaniel and Gentian are interfering with his marriage by denying him access to his wife, Gabrielle (of Jerbiton), and child. He claims if she wanted to leave the marriage, she should go to a nunnery, and the child should live with him as his heir. Gabrielle's response was that Neville was a brutal wife-beater, and had forbidden her to study or practise magic on threat of harm to the child. He should be glad she hadn't killed him, and ordering her to go back would be denying her magic.

[[File:Broseley Manor 1234.jpg]]

'''People of the Covenant'''

Sir Nathaniel of Jerbiton - Terram specialist aged around 80. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because they were giving him only poor quality stuff despite him being the main funding source of the Covenant. (He has Difficult Underlings). Gabrielle was his apprentice and he took a new one in 1235.

Sir Nathaniel's familiar is a monocerous called August.

Beryl of Mercere (ungifted), parens of Brennan. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because she loves Sir Nathaniel. No-one is quite sure if this is a platonic relationship. Beryl is proficient in all (I think) social skills and common lores (generally +5 to the roll including presence, +6 if Communication). Beryl does book negotiation as well as management of the covenant, and has a decent layman's understanding of magic theory. [[File:Beryl.jpg]]

Gentian of Merinita - plant specialist, major focus in plants, can also cast healing spells. True Merinita and distrustful of faeries. She has basically no social skills.

Gentian's familiar is a barnacle goose called Jocosa.

Laevis of Bjornaer - small, brown-haired, beautiful voice, enchanting music, heartbeast songbird. Laevis moves around a lot and can be away for a week or so at a time with the local magical birds.

Gabrielle of Jerbiton: Sir Nathaniel's filius, she is beginning to earn a name as an Imaginem specialist. Gabrielle looks like the spitting image of the FitzAlan lords because her father is Lord John Fitzalan, Warder of the West and Lord of Oswestry and Clun, and her mother is his cousin whom he was not allowed to marry. Though very beautiful, she looks around thirty, her unhappy marriage may have aged her. [[File:Gabrielle.jpg]]

Brennan of Mercere (ungifted, filius Beryl) - only around on his season off and one or two other trips a year, but has family nearby. He has a scar and is a good lute player and archer.

Apprentices: Laevis' apprentice Alysanne and Sir Nathaniel's apprentice Rhys.

The more reliable Companions and Grogs:

Hafren of Awre, the stablemaster, has obviously faerie blue eyes and Undine blood. He is the son of the faerie goddess Sabre (pron. Sab-rey) of the River Severn and has a supernatural ability to move water around (and finesse of 5 including Aquam speciality) but has no memory of his time underwater in the Faerie regio, nor does he remember aboveground when he is there. This is thanks to a malediction by Woden, faerie god of the delta. Hafren also can't drown, and is actually good with horses.

Nina of Broseley, now married, is Gabrielle's childhood friend and still works part-time as her maid, but mostly makes beautifully shaped candles. Nina is no longer allowed in several of the rooms (having been caught stealing to free her parents from serfdom) but is an actual True Friend to Gabrielle. She is also small and dark-haired.

Oke, magical half-giant. Mines under the hills to the North, still tries to protect Broseley because some of the villagers are his descendants (probably most of them by now).
[[File:Oke the half-giant.jpg]]

Inge of Montverte heads the defenses and will talk fortifications with anyone till you wish you hadn't met him. He has keen hearing and often suggests ways the Manor could be improved but he is evidently proud of the rectangle layout, moat and arrowslits, which were his idea.

Liam of Benthall, Chief Scribe and Librarian at Broseley, is a branded criminal (he stole food). He can be a bit too humble and is rumoured to have a diabolic past, but he seems to be good at his job.

Herley Coke of Much Wenlock is the celebrated cook. He really is an excellent pastry chef, even though he's frequently drunk. About a third of dinners involve Sir Nathaniel sending his compliments to the Chef but also wondering what happened to the Goose/Swan/Venison/brandy/Burgundian Wine etc that was ordered, and the news coming back that there had been an accident in the Kitchen and the rest would be coming to the table shortly, or it would be replaced.

Johanna is a skilled sheep-wife and faerie in Broseley. She's a supernaturally good sheep midwife.

[[File:Broseley 1220 colour.jpg]]

'''Some Plot hooks'''

Feel free to play with Sir Nathaniel's Difficult Underlings to have someone turn up in your Covenant who used to work at Broseley, or be hired at Broseley by Sir Nathaniel in an absent-minded moment.

In 1242 Gabrielle has run away from her abusive husband, Sir Neville of Chirk, and he is trying to send people in to take their infant son and to stir up people against Sir Nathaniel to have Gabrielle sent to a nunnery.

Once a year in the hills north of Broseley the half-giant shows up and a Norse wizard's ghost shows up and keeps summoning ten Iron Age Viking warriors that do nothing but attack the half-giant and anyone in the way. The magi join in for the night to make sure the half-giant wins without much injury. No-one is sure whether the ghost mage would appear if the half-giant didn't.

There are sleeping giants in the area that were never completely resolved.

Broseley are friendly with the local faerie regio, Queen Sabre's palace, but the regio has pressure from Buildwas Abbey and other cities, old Nodens/Woden in the south, and ice faeries in the north-west where the River Severn originates.

Gabrielle's original Parens was a Diedne, Aemon, who died in 1218. This is not known, but it's possible other clues from a Diedne investigation might lead to Broseley.

File:Gabrielle.jpg

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Gabrielle of Jerbiton

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Hazel Grove:

'''== Broseley =='''

[[Location]]

Broseley Covenant is based at Sir Nathaniel's manor house in the village of Broseley, a mostly forested area about seven miles north of the market town of Bridgnorth and four miles downriver from Buildwas Abbey. Those are also the nearest crossings to the powerful River Severn, which divides Broseley from most of Stonehenge. Sir Nathaniel's house, a relatively new stone manor of about thirty rooms, always has good food and drink, even though rumour has it the Cook eats more of the expensive stuff than he should. A stronger magic aura and at least one guest lab can be found in the hills bordering Broseley to the north.

[[Famed for]]

They are always keen to trade their herbam and imagonem vis (which smells lovely) and some animal for other types of magical vis and to discuss trade of books and spells. Beryl, a Norman with a short dark bob of hair, is a fairly well known Redcap with good diplomatic skills. There have been for decades rumours that: Sir Nathaniel used to be blind, Gentian is one of them True Merinita who doesn't like faeries (she actually writes to other Merinita about this since 1230), Gabrielle is some lord's bastard daughter and Laevis' heartbeast is a bird. (These are all true.)

A case has been brought to the Quaesitors by one Sir Neville of Chirk that Sir Nathaniel and Gentian are interfering with his marriage by denying him access to his wife, Gabrielle (of Jerbiton), and child. He claims if she wanted to leave the marriage, she should go to a nunnery, and the child should live with him as his heir. Gabrielle's response was that Neville was a brutal wife-beater, and had forbidden her to study or practise magic on threat of harm to the child. He should be glad she hadn't killed him, and ordering her to go back would be denying her magic.

[[File:Broseley Manor 1234.jpg]]

'''People of the Covenant'''

Sir Nathaniel of Jerbiton - Terram specialist aged around 80. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because they were giving him only poor quality stuff despite him being the main funding source of the Covenant. (He has Difficult Underlings). Gabrielle was his apprentice and he took a new one in 1235.

Sir Nathaniel's familiar is a monocerous called August.

Beryl of Mercere (ungifted), parens of Brennan. Left Arbor Low in 1220 because she loves Sir Nathaniel. No-one is quite sure if this is a platonic relationship. Beryl is proficient in all (I think) social skills and common lores (generally +5 to the roll including presence, +6 if Communication). Beryl does book negotiation as well as management of the covenant, and has a decent layman's understanding of magic theory.
[[File:Beryl.jpg]]

Gentian of Merinita - plant specialist, major focus in plants, can also cast healing spells. True Merinita and distrustful of faeries. She has basically no social skills.

Gentian's familiar is a barnacle goose called Jocosa.

Laevis of Bjornaer - small, brown-haired, beautiful voice, enchanting music, heartbeast songbird. Laevis moves around a lot and can be away for a week or so at a time with the local magical birds.

Gabrielle of Jerbiton: Sir Nathaniel's filius, she is beginning to earn a name as an Imaginem specialist. Gabrielle looks like the spitting image of the FitzAlan lords because her father is Lord John Fitzalan, Warder of the West and Lord of Oswestry and Clun, and her mother is his cousin whom he was not allowed to marry. Though very beautiful, she looks around thirty, her unhappy marriage may have aged her. [[File:Gabrielle.jpg]]

Brennan of Mercere (ungifted, filius Beryl) - only around on his season off and one or two other trips a year, but has family nearby. He has a scar and is a good lute player and archer.

Apprentices: Laevis' apprentice Alysanne and Sir Nathaniel's apprentice Rhys.

The more reliable Companions and Grogs:

Hafren of Awre, the stablemaster, has obviously faerie blue eyes and Undine blood. He is the son of the faerie goddess Sabre (pron. Sab-rey) of the River Severn and has a supernatural ability to move water around (and finesse of 5 including Aquam speciality) but has no memory of his time underwater in the Faerie regio, nor does he remember aboveground when he is there. This is thanks to a malediction by Woden, faerie god of the delta. Hafren also can't drown, and is actually good with horses.

Nina of Broseley, now married, is Gabrielle's childhood friend and still works part-time as her maid, but mostly makes beautifully shaped candles. Nina is no longer allowed in several of the rooms (having been caught stealing to free her parents from serfdom) but is an actual True Friend to Gabrielle. She is also small and dark-haired.

Oke, magical half-giant. Mines under the hills to the North, still tries to protect Broseley because some of the villagers are his descendants (probably most of them by now).
[[File:Oke the half-giant.jpg]]

Inge of Montverte heads the defenses and will talk fortifications with anyone till you wish you hadn't met him. He has keen hearing and often suggests ways the Manor could be improved but he is evidently proud of the rectangle layout, moat and arrowslits, which were his idea.

Liam of Benthall, Chief Scribe and Librarian at Broseley, is a branded criminal (he stole food). He can be a bit too humble and is rumoured to have a diabolic past, but he seems to be good at his job.

Herley Coke of Much Wenlock is the celebrated cook. He really is an excellent pastry chef, even though he's frequently drunk. About a third of dinners involve Sir Nathaniel sending his compliments to the Chef but also wondering what happened to the Goose/Swan/Venison/brandy/Burgundian Wine etc that was ordered, and the news coming back that there had been an accident in the Kitchen and the rest would be coming to the table shortly, or it would be replaced.

Johanna is a skilled sheep-wife and faerie in Broseley. She's a supernaturally good sheep midwife.

[[File:Broseley 1220 colour.jpg]]

'''Some Plot hooks'''

Feel free to play with Sir Nathaniel's Difficult Underlings to have someone turn up in your Covenant who used to work at Broseley, or be hired at Broseley by Sir Nathaniel in an absent-minded moment.

In 1242 Gabrielle has run away from her abusive husband, Sir Neville of Chirk, and he is trying to send people in to take their infant son and to stir up people against Sir Nathaniel to have Gabrielle sent to a nunnery.

Once a year in the hills north of Broseley the half-giant shows up and a Norse wizard's ghost shows up and keeps summoning ten Iron Age Viking warriors that do nothing but attack the half-giant and anyone in the way. The magi join in for the night to make sure the half-giant wins without much injury. No-one is sure whether the ghost mage would appear if the half-giant didn't.

There are sleeping giants in the area that were never completely resolved.

Broseley are friendly with the local faerie regio, Queen Sabre's palace, but the regio has pressure from Buildwas Abbey and other cities, old Nodens/Woden in the south, and ice faeries in the north-west where the River Severn originates.

Gabrielle's original Parens was a Diedne, Aemon, who died in 1218. This is not known, but it's possible other clues from a Diedne investigation might lead to Broseley.