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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.

Within, Avalon is a fair hillside with about twenty houses clustered near the centre, 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. 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.

Magi

The four older Avalon magi tend to keep to themselves and are but seldom seen at Tribunal.

Desdevarius

Anna Ex Miscellanea

Moira of Bjornaer