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• Story
• Characters, Covenant and Secrets
• Background and Tribunals of the Order
• Discussions (including Latin Grammar crib-sheet)
• Internet Links
• Excel Spreadsheets for character design, and Miscellaneous files (including the Site Archive)
• Calendars for 1220, 1221, 1222, 1223 (including date of Easter, Full and New moons), and a discussion of Roman Dating, and an Excel spreadsheet to display a Julian Calendar for a given year.

Links

• Atlas Games publishes Ars Magica.
• Project Redcap and its recent changes page
• Hermes Portal magazine - electronically distributed Ars Magica fanzine
• Most of the players attended Baroquon the Role-Playing Games Convention in Cambridge UK on July 16th-18th 1999,
  and plan to attend Conjunction 2003 in Cambridge.
• The saga of Penn ar Mor used material from this site.
• The Durenmar web-resource site references a few of our articles.
• Other WWW research resources

Story

There are several Saga Journals with a root page linking them:

• Journal of Jehan (the Vilicus)
• Saga (Story Guide's) Journal
• Maga Speranda's Diary
• Lady Helissente's Diary
  plus
• eGIS - the Covenant's GIS and Census site

Also:

• The Hermetic Diary; listing the Magi's past and planned season-by-season Laboratory (or other) activities.
• The Vis store and Vis records

Additional stories can be found as:

• Saskia's background story
• Provision of Books for the Library
• Letters the characters have written
• Father Edwin's private thoughts, and Constantine's Confessions
• Iuris Perita's Secret Diary

Further writings of interest:

• Local Myths & Rumours

Covenant Information

• There's an overall description of the Covenant
• and the plan of the Tower
• the Library and Enchanted Devices are catalogued and described

Mike has placed a number of valuable files relating to the Covenant on his personal web-pages (off-site):

• A set of maps of the Covenant, the immediately surrounding region and the overall region
• A census of the Covenant's population, now, and looking back to 1223, 1222, 1221 and 1220
• A time-lapse display of the growth and evolution of the Covenant.

Character Information

• The Cast, including Magi and Other characters
  The magi maintain a Seasonal diary of their activities and plans
• their Secrets are available under nondisclosure...
• Neighbours of the Covenant
• Character Summary outlining the best known points about the various characters,
  and their Languages (and language problems)
• Phil's Characters

The Library also holds the collected correspondence of the characters:

• Letters the characters have written
• and their Secret letters.

Also a listing of all the Tribunals, and details of those involving our characters

• Tribunals of the Order of Hermes
• Normandy
• Rhine and
• Iberia
• (see also the discussion on Latin Names for Tribunals)

Secrets

Some stuff most players don't and shouldn't know, including

• Father Edwin's thoughts, and Constantine's Confessions
• Iuris Perita's Secret Diary

Background

• Medieval Herbalism
• 13th Century Perfumery

Discussion

Hermetic Latin has occupied much of our time:

• Latin Grammar
• Latin Names for Tribunals
• Glossary

Like most Sagas, we tinker with the Rules:

• Rules changes
• Revised Spell guidelines
  • Instant duration
  • Perdo Imaginem
• Books (Scribe Alphabet, Speak Language and Translation)
• Combat changes
• New Virtues & Flaws

Ian Miller put considerable thought and effort into these essays on game limits and consequences:

• Maximum Stat. Scores
• Stocking a Library
• Effects of Longevity Potions and the ultimate limits on longevity.

Character Spreadsheets

The following spreadsheets do the whole character sheet, including counting XPs for skill, characteristic points, and does combat totals. (It has a table of weapons included, and adds the relevant skills, characteristics, enc. and weapon attributes) They also calculate spell-casting totals.

The spreadsheets are in Excel 95 format; readable by Excel-5.0 too. I regret we don't have any other format for the moment. Any other format is likely to loose a bit of functionality as they use a number of Excel specific features.
You are recommended to download the ZIP archive unless you cannot handle this format.

• Non-Magus Character Sheet (72k) companion/grog including weapon tables
• Magus Sheet (295k) magus + weapon tables + grimoire + list of ArM4 spells
• Mythic Companion Sheet (138k) Mythic Companions from Hedge Magic + weapon tables
• A ZIP file of all of the above. (103k)

Miscellaneous

• Site update log and ZIP archive of the web-pages
• The site's images.
• This site uses generic HTML and should be viewable with any browser

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