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Hermetic Diary - Past Years

This diary records the hermetic activities carried out by each Magus in Season.

Activities in bold are those that are undertaken as Covenant Service. Activities in italics are planned, and perhaps embarked upon, but uncompleted.

The Charter requires three seasons of Service per annum from each Magus, to be reduced (after three years at the latest) to a single season per annum. In 1222, service was reduced to 2 Seasons per year. In 1229, service was reduced to 1 Season per year.

• 1220
• 1221
• 1222
• 1223
• 1224
• 1225
• 1226
• 1227
• 1228
• 1229

1220

[1]

The Spring season of 1220 was spent (much to the magi's distaste) in a variety of mundane tasks necessary to establishing the Covenant. Council voted that this should be allowed to count as service.

[2]

Preparing a Laboratory from scratch is a two season task. Due to the importance of rapidly establishing laboratories, Council has decreed that any Magus who uses their sole 1220 season of private study in preparing a laboratory is entitled to spend a second season to count as covenant service, in completing this task. All members of the covenant have chosen to take up this option.

[3]

Due to injury sustained defending the Covenant Maga Speranda was unable to complete her plan task for the season.
Given previous agreements this leaves no further options in how she should spend the remaining seasons of 1220

1221

[1] Constantine & Joach

At the Autumn Equinox, Joach walked the broken path from the Glade of Fire and fell into Normandy, and had to walk back home.
Near Mont St. Michel, he met Magus Constantine who agreed to visit LRC. They walked back together, and then Constantine had to clear Saskia's bedding and other junk from the IIIe floor Laboratory.

[2]

This is the first text composed by a magus working within the Covenant.

[1]

Iuris Perita found herself entirely distracted from her book studies by Industria Quaesitoris, who over the course of a stay lasting most of the Season, posed question after qesution about Hermetic Law. She was effectively engaged in Disputatio on Hermetic Law for this season.

[2]

Constantine went Vis hunting and found an abandoned castle near Lanrodec, but encountered "Lost Boy" faeries who peppered him with arrows. He spent some time being ministered to by Jimena. [Grin]

[3]

Joach has intended to return immediately, but Dergorus pressed him to stay and assist him in the Laboratory [Subservience] while he discoursed upon the means he applied to his enchantments [Hermetic Automata]

[4]

Constantine set out to raid the castle ruins at Lanrodec, but found the Wyrm and the massed ghosts more than he could handle; he spent the larger part of the Season wandering the woods hoping to find and pick up some stray Vis.

1223

[1]

Speculor set out to write a book for the Library, but was called upon to attend Cierella's games, in competition with Fudarus. When he managed to escape the games and return, he was sent to investigate the Treasure that Iuris Perita had been told of, but not investigated.

1224

[1]

Following tradition, Speranda started the season distilling Vis, but was called upon to go to the Valley of Mists and rescue Cierella from the Tower.

[2]

This is the first spell devised by a magus working within the Covenant.

1225

[1]

the aim is for all covenant magi to learn Sight Of the Elusive Vis, to make wilderness Vis hunts more effective.

[2]

Iuris Perita was called to judge a dispute between Odela (claimants) and Wirbelnia (holders) plus Fudarus (past holders) over ownership of a Vis site.
This also led to herself and Joachus visiting covenant Dextrovorsum in Britannia (where she found herself thrown into a murder mystery).

[3]

Speculor's punishment for annoying the Church by bursting through the Cathedral service and being arrested "as a demon", is to write a learned paper on "Transgressions Against Hermetic Law", for which purpose he must first study Hermetic Law...
As such he has been permitted to defer one season on service from 1225 to 1226

[4]

Joach required a Pawn of (Rego or Terram) Vis from the Covenant stores to perform the enchantment of Daedalean Flight. This led to agreement for a general disbursement of 1 Pawn per magus from stores

[5]

Speranda needs to make the extended journey to Castellar in Spain, and so has negotiated to defer a season of service until 1226

1226

[1]

Speranda first travelled back from Castellar in Iberia, pausing to see (dimly) a Sea Monster in the Bay of Biscay; she then went on the the Valley of the Mists, to re-enact the rescue of Cierella (and claim her reward of 2 Pawns of Vis).
After this, she returned to the Covenant with her Faerie Kitten follower. Alacrita proceeded to escape all containment and wreck other magi's laboratories, until she was bound into a magical Circle, which put paid to her wanderings. Speranda is considering how to cope with this...

[2]

Joach went to present Little Saskia (the Flying Pig automaton) to his parens Dergorus. Dergorus then requested a "small service" of him, and asked that he extract a feather from the enchanted Phoenix at Fornacula, so that Dergorus and his sodales might determine if it be a beast, construct or automaton.

[3]

Constantine claims this was consummate skill (and so looks set to be called on to repeat the feat...), but others might just think he was lucky!

[4]

Speculor owed a IIIe season of service, but his parens required him to make an offering of service, once he had received his Longevity Potion. He must make up his service next year.

1227

Elise has decided to contribute more regularly to the joint well-being of the Covenant, in return for access to the Library. Her activities now join those of the other magi.

Speranda & Constantine have agreed to do III seasons of service this year, to get books written to trade with Wirbelnia, and so are only liable for I season in 1228.

1227	Joachus	Speranda	Iuris Perita	Speculor	Constantine	Elise	Fulk
Spring	study the Genesis Summa on Creo	Distil 3 pawns Vim + visit Cierella	study Beasts: Mundane and Arcane	Distil 3 pawns Vim	beaten up; study in bed*½ A Second Primer in Perdo	private Vis hunt	accumulated free time
Summer	Enchant a Traveller's Tent	visit Haeconius; study A Second Primer in Perdo	Vis Hunt (with wand and Zane) service: 2 pawns	Distil 3 pawns Vim	Enchant a Healing Bed	Write On Controlling the Undead	illuminated the First Primer on Muto
Autumn	distil Philosophic Mercury	Write Confirmatio Formae	study A Primer in Perdo	Write A Shield Against Delusion	Write The Joy Of Penetration	Write The Bones Of Mortal Man	illuminated Insights into Hermetic Law
Winter	copy 3 Tractatus [1]	write Elegantia Magicae	copy 3 Tractatus [1]	copy Beasts: Mundane and Arcane [1]	write Trial by Fire	private study (borrowed book)	illuminate The Bones of Mortal Man

[1]

The Covenant agreed to trade texts with Wirbelnia, making copies of:

• Beasts Mundane and Arcane (our excellent Animal Summa)
• Tractatus on Ignem, Rego, Vim and Creo.

in return for copies of

• Mens, Anima, Animus (an excellent Mentem Summa)
• A Primer in Vim
• Perdo Secundus (a mid-level Summa)

 

1228

Speranda & Constantine agreed to do III seasons of service in 1227, to get books written to trade with Wirbelnia, and so are only liable for I season this year.

1228	Joachus	Speranda	Iuris Perita	Speculor	Constantine	Elise	Fulk
Spring	copy 3 Creo Tractatus	visit Cierella, then travel to Montes Planis	copy 3 Ignem Tractatus	study Primer in Vim	copy 3 Vim Tractatus	copy 3 Penetration Tractatus	accumulated free time
1228 Normandy Tribunal	Attend Tribunal as LRC representative
Summer	Tribunal + copy 1 Tractatus	at Montes Planis	personal	distil 3 Vim pawns	personal	personal Vis hunt	Illuminate the Joy of Penetration
Autumn	personal distillation of Philosophic Mercury	return home from Montes Planis	Vis Hunt: 2 Corpus, 2 Perdo	study Primer in Vim	personal	Traded Vis for rights to read Regio in the Head of Man	illuminate Perdo Secundus
Winter	personal distillation of Philosophic Mercury	distil Vim Vis	study the Magic Theory Summa	Learn The Inexorable Search for next season	personal	invent spell: Ring Of Warding Against Spirits	illuminate Mens, Anima, Animus

1229

Council agreed that the improved Vis stocks in the library (re-balanced by Joach's successful trading at the 1228 Tribunal) mean that members of the Covenant need only perform I season of service per year..

1229	Joachus	Speranda	Iuris Perita	Speculor	Constantine	Elise	Fulk
Spring	study Philosophiae: De Rerun Magorum	study Second Sight with Amelle	Vis Hunt with Zane & Wand	enchant a Lens of the Inexorable Search	personal...	paid to read Regio in the Head of Man	accumulated free time
Summer	study A Primer In Intellego	investigate Faerie Acorn Cup	study Introduction To Herbam	study Isagogus In Vim Deo Datam	enchant a Lamp Without Flame	personal Vis Hunt	illuminate Trial By Fire (Finesse)
Autumn	study A Primer In Perdo	study Mastery Of The Elements (Rego)	study Introduction To Herbam	adventure to Nantes	personal	personal Vis Hunt	illuminate Elegantia Magicae (Finesse)
Winter	enchant Brooch Of The Feathery Body (ReCo GL5)	study Shape Of Mortal Man (Corpus)	recalled to Objurgator	study Regio in the Head of Man	personal	paid to read Introduction To Herbam	illuminate Shield Against Delusion (Parma)