| Spring 1221 |
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Summer 1221
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- Midsummer Solstice Vis gathering
- Departure for the Normandy Tribunal at Petrusca, in the Brenne Marshes.
- The Normandy Tribunal took place
at Petrusca in the Brenne marshes, on the 20th of July.
- The march back from Petrusca, and discovery of
a Nymph's Statue.
- Speranda's Quest to find the Secret of the Nymph's
Statue
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- At the Autumn Equinox, they revisit the Four Elements around the Menhir's Regio.
- Joach falls into Normandy, makes
his way back and meets Constantine of Burnham, a newly gauntleted Flambeau
magus.
- Constantine confesses his sins (especially his Gauntlet) and performs
Penance.
- The complex family that makes up the Covenant grows
and reflect upon itself.
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- December: Winter Solstice - cold and empty on the day, but next
day Joach cast The
Bountiful Feast
- January: The Vis
Hunters in the Peat Bogs become the Hunted,
rescued by a wandering Maga.
- Raiders smelling
of Sulphur and with a disappearing trick!
- February, and Lent
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| Spring 1222 |
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| Summer 1222 |
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- So many Hermetic Visitors, you might think something was going on...
Hear Speranda complain
as magi of the Tribunal visit, stay, watch and depart through the entire
season, as though no-one trusted or magi.
- Meanwhile, Constantine went out Vis Hunting, and went to investigate
the ruined castle at Lanrodec (initially reported by Joach). However,
they were attacked by Faerie archers, and driven back, wounded.
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| Autumn 1222 |
- September - Faeries in the fields!
- October
- November
- December
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| Winter 1222 |
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| Spring 1223 |
- March - a Troll Bridge appears, Joach returns
- May - our Quaesitor passes judgement
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| Summer 1223 |
- June - a Wolf hunter comes visiting
- July - Sir Achilles visit a possible father-in-law
- August - a Werewolf strikes and kills;
Sir Achilles gets married at the Full Moon
- September - Iuris Perita departs for a season at Objurgator
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| Autumn 1223 |
- September - rushing around the Regiones at the Equinox, trying
to trace the Bones, Speculor and Constantine end up in Nantes Cathedral.
- Harvest Moon - VI Faerie Daughters are born
- December - Council, the Bountiful Feast and the Feast of Misrule
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| Winter 1223 |
- December - Cierella invites her friends back for her Entertainment,
so they go despite the agreement with Fudarus that they would not.
- January - Iuris Perita returns from Objurgator, having met a strange
Knight on the road
Speculor is sent all the way back, to follow up the Knight's Treasure, and
returns with a Rose
- February - a blind beggar, inspired by the tales told in Quintin,
hopes to find miraculous Healing
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| Spring 1224 |
- March - at the Equinox, the magi rush around again, and eventually
Speranda and Speculor try to remove (holy) bones from the Divine Regio but
cannot find the Magical Regio while holding Relics.
- March - Constantine goes Vis hunting to the NW; Iuris Perita goes
Vis hunting to the SW.
- March - Faeries from the Valley of the Mists report Cierella kidnapped,
and seek assistance; the magi send Speranda.
Speranda enters a magical boulder and finds a hot, dark world within, and
enters an immense Tower...
- April - Iuris Perita mistakenly uses magic to spy on her sodalis
Urbanus Verbus Tytali, who is forced to point this out to her... and to
her sodales, and possibly anyone else who will listen to him...
- May - Maud arrives from Burnham to take her place as Constantine's Shield
Grog.
- June - Gwénolé le Guen visits Speranda to explain
Twilight effects to her.
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| Summer 1224 |
- June - Joach goes Vis hunting with Zane and the Wand.
- July - the trader Jourdain-the-Peddler
returns, saying he has a new trade: fancy inks and other scribes' materials.
- August - Lady Marta is pressured to swap some tenant's land with
one of her neighbour's. She refuses.
- September - fire-raisers strike repeatedly around Plaintel.
- September - births from last Midwinter: a single child, another
girl
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- Fire In The Fields - Lady Marta is beset by fire-raisers.
Suspicion falls on Alain de Robien, but there is no proof. (Shame!)
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| Autumn 1224 |
- September 29 - Harvest Moon and Festival; Gwénolé
le Guen visits
- September 30 - Feast by Baron Alain de Robien
- October - Lady Helissente gives birth to a healthy male child,
a boy (not a wolf, no fur, nothing funny, honest!)
- October - Tacitus Guernici ad Duresca, Aster Bonisagi ad Petrusca
and then Eleusinus Merinitae ad Odela visited to offer to meddle with the
Regio.
- November - Brother Iacobus strays into an Elemental Grove and become
lost
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- Lost In Awe - Brother Iacobus discovers the wonders
of the Earth, and gets lost in the grove of an Elemental
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| Winter 1224 |
- December - Midwinter Council, casting The Bountiful Feast and the
Feast of Misrule afterwards
- January - trading books with Fudarus
- February - IV covenant hunters killed while out in the woods
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| Spring 1225 |
- March - at the Equinox, the magi rush around again, and manage
to lose Speculor - he returns several weeks later.
- March - Speranda returns to the Valley of the Mists to replay the
Rescue From Dark Summer
- March - Constantine visits the Abbey St. Maur de Glanfeuil and
the Nyphaeum Regio. He returns and arranges "pilgrimages" to send
(women) into the Regio to make votive offerings to the Nymphs to restore
their spring.
- March-June - F. Albertus visits while the Hermitage receives Canon
Philbert of St. Brieuc and the Inquisitor F. Mattheus. The Inquisitor is
exposed with a common prostitute and sent back in disgrace...
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| Summer 1225 |
- June - Gwénolé visits and tells Speranda of the Herms
in the sea-filled cave beneath Wirbelnia
- August - Iuris Perita is set to judge a dispute over a Vis site
once owned by Haeconius, now by Wirbelnia, and disputed by Odela.
While visiting Dextrovorsum, she finds herself thrown into a murder mystery
when their princeps is found dead in his sanctum.
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- Clocks & Automata - Iuris Perita is called on to judge a dispute,
travelling to Dextrovorsum in Britannia, on Dartmoor, to investigate documents
and witnesses. Speranda described
what she was told of the trip, and Iuris' judgement.
- Joachus wrote privately
to Dergorus, describing the events at Dextrovorsum, and cataloguing
his 3 Tractatus on
Craft Automata
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| Autumn 1225 |
- September - Hiring Fair at Dinan - 3
Hunters & 3 Archers hired to replace those murdered by Eleusinus
of Odela.
- September - Harvest Moon - 3 girls born from last year's Midwinter
Feast
- October - Sir Achilles hosts a Hunt
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- Joach presents "Little Saskia" and begs Vis to make her fly
- Achilles' Wyrm Hunt - Sir Achilles was sent news that Duc Pierre expected
him to host a Hunt and provide a Magical Beast for said hunt - much panic
ensued... however the new hunters shone in their performance and found a
small Wyrm for the Knights to butcher.
The magi even got to sneak the Vis out of the carcass before presenting
skull and hide to their Lordships
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| Winter 1225 |
- December - Midwinter Council, held without Speranda - no change
(all re-elected)
- December - renewed The Bountiful Feast, then celebrated
the Feast of Misrule in the evening.
This year we had several Merinita and Faerie visitors...
- January - Speranda (at Castellar) rescues Zinzibra, the cat familiar
of Soliferreus Bonisagi ad Castellare, and gains a kitten companion in turn...
- February - Helissente demands a tutor, and Achilles eventually
gives in.
Helissente finds herself pregnant...
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- Too Many Merinitae - An account of the Midwinter Feast
- Lady Helissente's account
of the Midwinter Feast, and her escapades around that time... and her thoughts
and pleas afterwards
- Speranda records her experiences
at Castellar, surrounded by her former superiors (now more aged) and grogs
from then and now-grown-up.
And, how she ventured into a Faerie Valley to rescue a Cat, thereby saving
the magi Castellaribus from a fate worse than, well, ... (women's ways!).
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| Spring 1226 |
- March - the Aegis of the Hearth renewed by Joachus
- March - a tutor is summoned, and "seems" perfectly normal...
- April - Speranda returns, and immediately rushes off to the Valley
of the Mists, to repeat the re-enactment of the Lady's rescue.
- April - strange tales of people hanging skeletons around the town
of Lamballe, and of grave-robbers
Iuris Perita and Elise filia Hadis investigate and uncover an Alchemist
(innocent) and a Diabolist - they defeat his dog-headed demons and force
him to flee.
- May - Speranda's kitten proves able to pass through closed doors
in its quest to explore, and so "explores" the sancta of the other
magi. Joach & Iuris are on hand to protest at the intrusion, but Constantine
& Speculor are away (Vis hunting) and must wait until June to discover
the wreckage...
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- Kraken, Skeletons and Kitten - Speranda
notes that on her way back from Castellar, across the Bay of Biscay,
she was taken through a storm by the Redcap Jézéquel of Fudarus,
and watched Jézéquel dive down to some Leviathon-like creature
- Speranda went on to the Valley of the Mists, hoping to have Gwénolé's
assistance, but had to work alone
- Meanwhile, Iuris and Elise went to Lamballe to investigate a plague of
skeletons... (as also noted
by Helissente)
- Once home, the Faerie Kitten Speranda adopted proved to be an escapologist
and rampaging nuisance, until it was bound into a circle in Speranda's lab!
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| Summer 1226 |
- June-July - Joach off at Septem Montes and Fornacula
- August - Constantine returns with a bumper haul of found Vis!
- September - at the Harvest Moon IV babies were born (still all
girls!). Lady Helissente's daughter arouses special interest, as she
is obviously magical. (From the special time of her conception; and the
magical qualities of her father must have helped).
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- Kitten Escapes, and Phoenix Feathers - Alacritas
proves to be an escape artist until confined in a Warding Ring.
- Speranda notes
that Joach went to Septem Montes to present Dergorus his Parens, with Little
Saskia, the flying pig.
Dergorus in turn asked Joach to perform a small task for him and his associates,
and to travel to Fornacula and retrieve a feather from the Phoenix "automaton"
in the Sanctum of their Princeps, Evaristo - the prime Flambeau magus in
the Normandy Tribunal...
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| Autumn 1226 |
- September - Rubea (daughter or Helissente and "Sir Achilles")
shows that she can see invisible friends (the Field Faeries)
- Speculor spends Autumn at Petrusca, acquiring his longevity potion from
his overly generous parens
- Constantine takes a slow road to Burnham, making a pilgrimage along his
route
- November - Rubea's Faerie Friends take her away to play with them...
- December - with two magi away, the Council "elections"
are a foregone conclusion, stitched up between the three present.
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- Goblins and Dryads:
Helissente's new baby has the Sight, and sees Faeries. When only a few months
old, she is abducted by goblins, who take her to a Dryads' Grove, where
she settles down happily with the Dryads.
Helissente is rendered frantic with worry, and persuades Speranda to mount
a rescue mission.
- Speranda subsequently sent a written
account to Gwénolé le Guen
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| Winter 1226 |
- December - 3 Redcaps, a Quaesitor plus 1 each of Merinita, Jerbiton
and Tytalus, and 3 Dryads all come for the Feast
- Sister Agnes is met at the Hermitage and babbles of spiders and fallen
towers.
- Speculor helps Jovinus on an Important Project, and gets drawn into the
House intrigues.
Speranda exchanges several letters with Buviniolus and Jovinus wants to
know what's being discussed!
- Constantine acquires his longevity potion, and so sacrifices his fertility...
- February - huge numbers of spiders are found pressed against the
Aegis boundary - kept out fortunately - but why?
- The spiders are revealed as demonic spreaders of a web of gossip and lies.
Those with Second Sight are looking worried...
- March - Constantine sails down the coast of England, toasts some pirates
and changes ship at Boulogne
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- Guests & Rituals - Many visitors turn up for the Midwinter Feast,
but only one actually provides a "gift" of Vis - the rest are
assorted free-loaders.
Quercus leaves behind a Faerie oak tree "pavilion" in the village
fields
- Infernal Spiders - One Sister Agnes moves into the area and proceeds to
annoy everyone with her righteous attitude, and worry them with her uncanny
if erratic predictions and visions.
- An Infernal web spreading lies and gossip, manifesting as demonic spiders
and their invisible webbing, is found, traced and destroyed with the help
of the Hermitage.
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| Spring 1227 |
- March - Speculor returns from Petrusca, released by his Parens
- March - Maud arrives at the gates without Constantine, babbling
of his capture by Hags
- March/April - Speranda returns to the Valley of the Mists
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- Constantine and the Siren Hag - Constantine is caught in an unnatural
storm as his boat approaches Brittany, and thrown onto the offshore rocks.
He and his companions wake to find themselves the prisoners
of Siren-like Hags, in a Faerie Regio
Maud is rejected by the Hags, and escapes, then returns with a female-only
rescue party, to save Constantine's skin (and broken ribs!)
- Iuris Perita finds VI Pawns of Perdo Vis in icicles at the heart of the
maze in the Regio, and contemplates returning in the hope of more!
- Constantine is brought home, temporarily mended by Elise's necromancy.
Council make the unusual decision to allow IV pawns of Vis to be used to
heal the worst of his wounds, so that his subsequent recovery might only
take 1 Season!
- Meanwhile, Speranda repeats her re-enactment of saving Cierella from the
Dream Stone, aided by Maga Gwénolé le Guen
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| Summer 1227 |
- June - Council session - more devices to be made!
- June - Speranda visits the ruins of Haeconius
- September - Julian, Voice of Fudarus called, with a letter to the
magi, inviting them to a gathering of Breton Magi. It seems Fudarus fancy
forming a voting bloc, and think the Breton Bloc would be the largest faction
within the Tribunal, aiding its members in getting motions approved at the
coming 1228 Tribunal - visions of Eleusinus suffering...
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- The Abandoned Covenant of Haeconius - Speranda takes her cue from Letitia
and Buviniolus and goes to investigate
the fallen covenant of Haeconius, to discover it plagued by Faerie "Twilight
Blooms". She is thrown into Twilight, and returns scarred and warped:
she is now Burned-by-Iron and her Touch Rusts Iron. Letitia is delighted
that Speranda should sacrifice so much to become one with the Fae that she
immediately invites Speranda to visit and enter the secret ways of Faerie!
- Inspired by his wounds of the previous Season, Constantine enchants a
magical Healing Bed!
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| Autumn 1227 |
- September 16th - Council meets to discuss moving the Kitchen out
of the Council Chamber - passed nem con.
Constantine departs for Fudarus, returns on the 26th
- September 20th - glove frenzy starts
- September 26th - Harvest moon, and 6
girls are delivered.
- September 28th - 3 hunters stop in Caribet for the winter. One
is a storyteller.
- October 12th - Georges Silverwright steals the acorns
- October 30th - last gloves delivered (to Lady Marta)
- November 9th - Gwénolé storms in on Speranda, berating
her for the loss of Séanna.
- November 30th - Naimes is uncovered, and passed to Jimena to exchange
tips on cross-dressing.
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- Iron, Silver,
Gold and Bronze: Speranda tells of her continuing problems with iron
and her efforts to purge the Covenant of its taint.
- The ladies of the manors, and Speranda, try to out-compete each other
for the finest gloves.
- Constantine visits Fudarus for talks about a "Breton Faction"
at the coming 1228 Tribunal, and makes arrangements for an exchange of copied
texts with Wirbelnia.
- The Oak that Quercus left produces Golden Acorns (containing Herbam Vis)
but these are stolen by the greed-riven Silverwright. He is pursued, captured,
returned, tried, and hanged.
- One of the visiting huntsmen sits in the Faerie Aura under the Oak, telling
tales of the Old Ways. The women of the village find the story teller quite
absorbing... Rubea and Amelle stop by often to learn more.
- Speranda learns that Buviniolus is to further his studies of Faerie Magic
by claiming the apprentice of Gwénolé le Guen. Gwénolé
is furious and blames Speranda.
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| Winter 1227 |
- December - Hermetic and Faerie visitors arrive for Midwinter. Council
meets and the Bountiful Feast is renewed.
- January - damp in the grain
- February - outlaws and Faerie floods
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- Of the Fae -
both charming and angry
Magi gathered at Caribet for the Midwinter feasts - friends and rivals;
and 2 newcomers: Tremere magi from Transylvania.
Quercus again set up his pavilion at the Faerie Oak.
- Redwald is sent to the Peat Bogs to gather Vis, as punishment for carrying
the sleeping Constantine down to the Troll's Cave.
- The weather turned damp and grain rotted, outlaws roamed the area. Speranda
tried spells to help, botched, and was scarred by her Twilight so that the
sweet orange-blossom scent of her Sigil is joined by the smell of mouldering
grain.
- 3 Outlaws were slain in what turned out to be the Regio of a Faerie-of-the-waters,
who flooded the river past Plaintel in her efforts to wash away the taint
of Iron.
Speranda was able to share sympathy with her, as well as clearing the rubbish
so that the waters went down.
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| Spring 1228 |
- March 13th - Council meeting, and plans for Tribunal
- March - Redwald caught courting(?) the Bridge Troll(!)
- April - Bertrand saved by Necromancy
- May - Speranda travels to Germany
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- Redwald And The
Bridge Troll:
Council makes plans to send Joach to the 1228 Normandy Tribunal at Petrusca
- Redwald keeps going missing, found sleeping with torn clothes and bruises.
He's not a werewolf - he's off visiting the Bridge Troll for nookie!
- Speranda visits the Valley of the Mists without Gwénolé
- Speranda then leaves for an extended trip to Montes Plani in Germania
where she hopes to learn the secret of Faerie Magic
- Bertrand Saved
By Necromancy: Bertrand is arrested on trumped up charges of murder
- set up, it turns out, by the brothers of his deceased wife Eloise. Eloise's
ghost is contacted by Maga Elise's companion spirit "Cat". Elise
then took charge and shepherded her new maids into Necromancy body snatching
and a bit of Haunting.
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| Summer 1228 |
- July 4th - New Moon and the 1228 (AA 1367) Normandy Tribunal
- June-September - Speranda variously in Germania or Arcadia
- September 15th - Full Moon and Equinox
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- 1228 Normandy Tribunal - Speculor
wrote to Speranda, passing on to her Joach's account of his attendance
at the 1228 Tribunal. He tells of meeting Séanna (now apprentice
to Buviniolus), and of the problems when a Faerie broke into the Aegis at
Petrusca and caused mischief.
- Speranda
spent much of Spring travelling to the Harz Mountains in Germany, to Montes
Planis;
then spent all Summer learning the Mystery of Faerie Magic;
then spent much of Autumn travelling back
- In the course of their travels they acquired Reinfeld the Translator,
and saved the True King of Summer from the demonic False King who had usurped
his place. (Don't tell Iuris Perita!)
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| Autumn 1228 |
- September-mid-October - Speranda returns
- December - reports of bands of Flagellants roaming the area
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- At the Harvest
Moon - 4 more daughters.
Quercus, Lord of the Oaks, came for the birth of his daughter, with Sir
Achilles looking on...
- After returning,
Speranda then extracted Alacritas from the warding spell which had penned
her for so long, and took her away from the Covenant, into Faerie lands,
where she was released.
- Lady Helissente records
the birth of her beautiful daughter, Fleur, and her curly leafed "hair"
and leaf green eyes...
She also records the intrusion of Flagellants into the village in December.
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| Winter 1228 |
- December 13th-14th - Midwinter: getting rid of the band of Flagellants
- December 15th - failed Feast of Misrule
- December to March - all Turb soldiers on active patrol ensuring
barriers at cross-roads deflect travellers (i.e. other bands of Flagellants)
on to other roads.
No grogs can be spared to hunt in the Peat Bogs...
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- Famine and Flagellants:
crops failed and damp rotted grain in the stores... poor peasants driven
from their land formed bands of Flagellants wandering from place to place,
preaching the Wrath of God.
- Midwinter approached, magi from Brittany, Cornwall and Petrusca gathered
in Caribet Village to socialise, conduct business and enjoy the Midwinter
Feast
- Just before Midwinter, a band of Flagellants arrived in Caribet village,
despite the magi's attempts to distract them, bringing a roving Dominion
Aura - with a Wrathful Temper!
F. Edwin recorded what he saw in
Caribet.
- With the visiting magi and all Faerie Blooded characters camping in and
around the Tower, the situation seemed dire... help from the Hermitage came
in the form of the hellfire brother Petrus, who would rather preach damnation
to the magi than aid them, but had been instructed by his Prior to persuade
the Flagellants to leave peacefully.
- Once free of the Dominion, all that remained was to cast The Bountiful
feast and wait for the faeries to hop into the wine cups and make Muto Vis...
but none came!
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| Spring 1229 |
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- The Haunted Forest
- the Forêt de Lorge lives up to its reputation and scares away the Bishop
of St. Brieuc.
Speranda also spent the season studying Faerie Sight with Amelle, and suffering
the indignity of having Amelle, Rubea and Fleur, and the wet-nurse, all
move into her sanctum for the Season!
- F. Edwin recorded his own experiences, visiting Quintin and meeting the
Bishop and Canon Philbert there. It seems people have noticed the vacancy
in Ploeuc and seek to fill it!
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| Summer 1229 |
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- The Quest For
A Gardener - attempts to draw back the missing Field Faeries lead Speranda
on a quest into Arcadia. There they found a curious series of walled gardens
and three gardeners (or one gardener in three guises?).
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| Autumn 1229 |
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- F. Albertus Is
Saved... by Speculor and Industria, when he gets possessed by a Fire
Elemental. The Covenant acquires a set of books, spells and raw Vis from
a deceased Spirit Master (well, a dead Hedgie, anyway... very dead... quite
messily really... and a Hedgie...)
- Some notes on what Speculor really go
up to... the bits Speranda was not told, but which can be revealed here...
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| Winter 1229 |
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- The Wind Man in the Peat Bogs
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- Jimena searches for an Apprentice, and finds one.
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| Summer 1230 |
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- The Midsummer Regio plays up - we have a Faerie Aura in the village!
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| Autumn 1230 |
- September the 3rd: Speranda hears from Wirbelnia - they have problems
with magical water currents, around the Herm pillars in their lower caves.
- September 12th-17th: exploring the caves at Wirbelnia, and the links to
the Caribet Glades
- September the 16th - Autumn Equinox: Alain Kerbol botches (deliberately?)
a spell using a huge stash of Herbam Vis (possibly much of the store at
Wirbelnia). When the flux clears, he has passed into Final Twilight, leaving
behind a Great Oak.
- September the 23rd: Iuris Perita returns from "further training"
at Objurgator.
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| Winter 1230 |
- December the 14th: Winter Solstice, and the Village enters an Aura of
Bright Winter. Dewdrops turn to diamonds, and similar magics... unfortuantely,
it all only lasts until Christmas Eve when the Dominion took over again.
- The Midwinter Feast was infested with fairies, but not the cute Field
Faeries - rather then sharp spiky cruel Frost Faeries. Oops! (Much muttering
about the wisdom of Speranda's plan!)
- December-March - Floristan searches the Peat Bogs in competition with
the party led by Zane.
- January the 17th: Lady de Robien visits
- January the 25th: assorted magi work out that Robien's problems relate
to ancestral bargains with the Fae, and find a solution (a replacement groom).
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- Bright Winter
& Foul Bargains: Lady de Robien pleads for assistance for her peope
(in her busband's absence at Court). It turns out to be a "7th Son"
problem with a Water Hag... and a twin cousin...
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