Due to pressures of work and extremely long and harassing email from pickles on another topic, I have been unable to do detailed descriptions for this week. I...
Friends, the Autumn term of this our centre of learning is upon us, and I propose to hold lectures, symposia, and other learned discussions, with the purpose...
Well if even Seb can do it ... I am getting too distracted by Warmachine (no guesses as to which faction I have been playing) Companion to the covenant is...
To Abbot Simeon of the Most Holy Monastery of St. Demetrios the Areopagite Konstantin Bugarov, Ordained Brother, sends greeting. Most Reverend Father, I have...
On this day the 3rd March 1221 Cean Babka did take Stana Saadakoi as his lawfully wedded wife. The ceremony was slightly marred by the consistent fidgeting of...
OK the face to face game has been running for almost 2 months now, and yet the email game hasn’t really come together. So hopefully this email will inspire...
I have 270 levels of lab texts to allocate. Do we want a great many very low level spells across as many arts as possible, or do we want fewer really chunky...
Ludmilla in persomal conversationj with the other mages. Apparrently either a new lynx or old lynx has been seen again this spring. It is clear to me that the...
... as possible, or do we want fewer really chunky higher level spells that are currently beyond our reach? ... former. Ludmilla prefers the former, Or lets go...
Cautellus to the other Magi I recall now my Master Stanislaw refusing to allow me to copy any text beyond the 5th magnitude. He did imply that the trading of...
Of the myriad reasons for an intrepid group of young wizards to form a covenant in the marshes of Novgorod, one of the most significant was the plentiful...
Edmund, torn away from his latest love, Weronika, a striking Polish warrior maiden (well... not quite a maiden), is directed to the library by Perchnosius, to...
For the last 2 weeks I have been conducting experiments into the nature of the mute boy discovered on the night of the beasts. I am afraid I am at a loss to...
... slightly above average height and a quite well developed build. There is a distinct magical aura around him, akin to that of those who possess the gift but...
This is a write up of Ivan’s notes regarding fleshing out the Covenant in 5th Edition Ars Magica. These notes have been supplanted by events in the game,...
from lumilla i agree with cautellus about obligations towards the covneant more proposals a council of mages is needed to meet as needed councils functions...
THE ROMAN MODEL OF GOVERNMENT - "FIRST AMENDMENT" I propose we adopt an adapted version of the Roman republican model We take the traditional Roman hierarchies...
My fellows, my studies and observations have lead me to believe that we will be able to garner 5 to 7 pawns of Creo Vis from the nests of the small birds that...
get a hunter to watch under the supervision off Lumilla? ludmilla ... From: Ivan Hartley To: trialsofnovgorod@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005...
After lots and lots of work, and merging together the my notes, Pickles brainstorms, Ivan's notes and Seb's orginal ideas, I have written up the Covenant and...
Matters for Discussion Before we examine details as to how our brave new covenant is to govern itself, I believe we should look to the fundaments of why we are...
... obligation to be true. All accredited magi of the covenant must at all times have an apprentice in training, or must spend at least one season a year...
In the summer of 1220, between making the acquaintance of the fine women of Novgorod, I took the precaution of copying 3 out of the 4 tomes I have used as lab...
While this is better than that republican rubbish it still assumes too much. A good leader should be appointed & the rest of you should do what he says. Of...
(I have not quoted the expansive Morbius in full pease refer to his treatise on the Constitutional forms of the Romans in the library_ it was seen propping up...
... distil 4 pawns of imagino vis, per year, from the first rays of sunlight to shine through the stained glass window in the east wall of the covenants...
The notable magus Yakov of Chernigov has yet to join our covenant at Paparotno, and I believe we should redouble our efforts to attract him to our growing...
Magus Morbius would like to report he has discovered a most unusual source of Auram vis. It issues forth from Magus Tamislav's orifices at periodic intervals ...
It has been rumoured that any creature who dies on the night of the solstices or equinoxes and is buried before sunrise in the soil within the Standing Stones...