Covenant's journal (1230-1239)

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This journal contains our Covenant's memory. It helps magi and their companions to remember the adventures which they have been main character of, the successes obtained on the field and the defeats they unfortunately suffered. Read the laboratory and the magi's personal pages for further informations.

1220-1229

1230-1239

1230	January	- Mavors of Tremere, after leaving Mistwood, visits Waterkeep to discuss with Olennius, his Pater, about the recent facts. - Yolhe leaves to Fudarus, Domus Magna of House Tytalus. Mavors leave the Covenant for personal reasons. - The Covenant, by spending a part of its funds and with members' auto taxation, buys a new boat. - Mavors calls an extraordinary Council. The Council is held on January 25th.
	February	- Tyrone of Bonisagus visits Cliffheart, called by his Filius Nascimentus. With him, he debates about the Tribunal policy and about the danger Mistwood hides inside.
	March	- Yolhe's back at the Covenant. - Yolhe of Tytalus goes to Greyforest to discuss about the recent facts happened at the old Mistwood and about the following political consequences within the Hibernian Tribunal.
	April	- During the last visit to Mistwood, Mavors had challenge Eileen in Certamen because she insulted him. The Certamen takes place when all the Members are at the Covenant. The challenger chooses the Rego Technique and Eileen the Corpus Form. Eileen defeats Mavors at the first attack. The Certamen is made in this day to remember Aswick of Tytalus' death. - Yolhe pays a visit to Greyforest. There, she makes pacts about exchanging books and resources between Covenants.
	May	- Mavors, using the Portal, goes to Silvergate to exchange books with one of the most large library in Ireland. But, unless any change in the actual political line of the Tribunal, Silvergate is not going to trade nothing with Cliffheart. - Mavors buys, from the Bishop of Corcaigh, terrains on the main land in front of the Covenant.
	October	- Mavors receives a letter from a banker in Dublin: a costumer of him wanted to build a villa in Bear Island. After investigating, Magi find out that the construction was guided by a Cornelius Steinhard, follower of the hermetic tradition. Cornelius was going to study interactions between regiones and to do it wanted a chapel built over a circle of stones. The group is divided: Mavors and Nascimentus investigate the Divine region, Graudius and Silvanus the magic one. The task for both of them is to come back to the mundane level and destroy the access to the other regio. Mavors and Nascimentus are the first to return back; they don't wait for their fellows and, destroying the circle of stones, cut the rest of the group out. Then, Graudius decides to fight the huge magical animal who rules the regio, the Anima Lunae, due to obtain the needed vis to tear the boundaries of the regio. His actions are to be remembered for years. During the fight, sadly, Joseph O'Connor dies.
	December	- Hics of Verditius is declared Member of the Covenant.

1231	February	- The Bishop of Corcaigh, Samson, dies. He's replaced by Fuberto from Pisa.
	March	- Greyforest visits the Covenant. A pact is made between the two Covenant. A first and sudden one yields Cliffheart the access to a source of vis Vim in exchange of money.
	May	- Three Magi, behind Greyforest indication, have to join a mixed commission to judge a book painter at Ard Feartha Abbey. The man is accused to deal with the Devil due to the weird drawings he's used to do. After the normal investigations, Magi find out that the man draws what he really sees, that is Manticores, Sciapodes, Cenopens, etc., directly from a near magical regio. Here, they also find out the source of vis Vim, as it was told them.
	June	- Rynagh, Aswick of Tytalus' filia, visits Cliffheart. - Lord Robert FitzStephen orders to build a lighthouse right in front of Sherkin Island. Yolhe goes to Corcaigh to demand that they move the construction.
	August	- Frederick of Jerbiton and Black Man of Quaesitor reach Cliffheart, as Ashenrise representatives. Important matters about the Tribunal policy are discussed. Ashenrise is unable to tear down an explicit agreement to its policy, neither mentioning the possible benefits. However, the delegations are satisfied by this meeting, a good base for the future.
	September	- Silvergate closes its own portal towards Cliffheart.
	November	- A boy, coming from …, asks Cliffheart for help. The wood around the valley where he and his father live is the set of strange events: a demon, Azthei'im of the many face, rules the zone to find a man, a priest with important diplomatic duties in Corcaigh. The man passes through the valley right in these nights, but the Magi are able to save him and, then, escort him to the city.

1232	January	- Graudius and Mavors go to their Gatherings. The first comes back after three months, the latter after two whole seasons. Both of them show their good skills in the contests, winning a salamander and an arcane book.
	April	- Yolhe of Tytalus makes a diplomatic mission to Silvergate. After discussing the political clashes within the Tribunal and the situation of Mistwood, the Covenant of Dublin decides to open the portal to Cliffheart again.
	August	- The Ard Ri McCharty comes to Cliffheart again. He offers a 30 pounds prize to Magi to spy on a group of foreign soldiers riding through the country. The soldiers, coming from Germany, are intercepted near Bellinhover and there they are defeated. A little book, which McCharty seems to be very interested into, is retrieved and taken to Maigh Chromtha to have it translated. During the fighting, Yolhe, back on the field after years, shows new and astonishing spells; Mavors, using his Mentem spells, saves the group from a pack of wolves, magic allies of the soldiers. - Hics meets a Driad in the wood and accepts the invitation to join her in the future, to improve his skills. - J.B. Quick, a Mavors’ mercenary, tracks McCharty to steal the little book. Quick accomplishes the task and brings back the book to Mavors. The Tremere’s mind in astonished by the information contained in the document and tries to keep the book for him. After being uncovered, he keeps lying and so he’s punished. Mavors rejects the punishments and decides to leave Cliffheart.
	September	- Yolhe reads the documents provided by Quick: they contains the instructions to retrieve and important magic artifact, the Lia Fail, or Stone of Destiny. The Ard Ri is looking for this stone because it is the symbol of irish political power, the only one which can legitimate a new irish king. For the same reason, years before, the Anglo-Normans stole the stone and took it in a secret place, with the help of some Magi from the English Tribunal. The papers points to a place in Scotland where a Marcus of Bjornaer leaves, one of those who hided the stone. Yolhe of Tytalus, Prima of the Covenant, decides to ask two Magi from the Hibernian Tribunal for help: Guaire of Flambeau, from Greyforest, and The Black Man, from Ashenrise. After fighting some group of germanic soldiers, the Magi find Marcus, kept jailed into his house, and the body of McCharty. Marcus indicates to them a little and desert isle in the Orcades archipelago, where the ancient Covenant of Teine Eun stood. Arrived at the isle, thanks to a Prince of a Fairy Court interested in finding the Stone too, they gain access to the dungeon which hosts the Lia Fail. Yolhe demonstrates her courage, smartness and astuteness, Luigi is implacable against the golems; Nascimentus, instead, faces some difficulties and, once again, loses his custos. Retrieved the Stone, the Magi decides to take it to Cliffheart and, then, move it to Ashenrise. But before this adventure finds an end, there is still time for a mystery: what is the Brotherhood of the Bleeding Eye? And why is it so interested in the Stone to ask Yolhe and Nascimentus to steal and hide it? The representatives of the three southern Covenant, worried by the political consequences of this recovery, decides that they will meet at Ashenrise, in the next winter solstice. What would Henry III say if a new irish king is crowned? The columns of history tremble.
	December	- Two young Magi come to Cliffheart: Elizabeth of Jerbiton and Sentius of Criamon. The first is a noble woman from the FitzStephen family in Corcaigh; the latter is a Magus who looks for the Enigma in the endless time stream. With Elizabeth other grog arrive: Michael George, Shina O’Connor, Richard Ashley and Terence Darby. - The representatives of the three southern Covenants meet at Ashenrise to find a common opinion about what to do with the Lia Fail. It is decided that the Stone will be kept at Ashenrise, where it will be studied by a mixed commission. Nascimentus of Bonisagus will participate as representative of Cliffheart. - Hics of Verditius go to Arcadia (frozen character).

1233

April

- Eileen, after having studied for seasons, created a modified version of The inexorable search, able to find a person’s bloodline. With this spells she wants to find out where Khras-nagar’s tribe is settled. After several journeys, Eileen finds the tribe living on a small isle, called Cimbrinsula, which stands in the Irish Sea. The warrior’ curse ends. Now, he joins the Covenant to pay back his debt.
- During the last meeting on December, Elinor of Tremere gives a piece of advice to Yolhe to go and investigate the Cliffs of Moher to verify the existence of the mysterious Brotherhood of the Blooding Eye. There, the Magi find three uninhabited caverns but protected by spells and guarded by elementals of the water. Sentius of Criamon examines the past and finds out that five wizards have lived in these caves. They come back to the Covenant, but the Magi are puzzled by what they have found: the five wizards knew the hermetical arts and the spells used are known to the Order of Hermes. They take away, from the main cavern, a little statue representing an old goddess of fertility.

May

- The Magi go the Calf isle to meet the mermaid and do, once again, an exchange: human meat for vis aquam.
- Lethan, the little dumb sister of Liam Roch, one of the grogs of the Covenant, disappears and her mum asks Liam to come back to his village for some day. When Liam arrives, Lethan in there again. But something makes him suspicious and he asks his Masters for help. The child has been replaced by a nymph while Lethan has been conducted in the wood where the Little Folk desire to give her the voice back. To access the wood Liam has to show his courage to a huge faerie creature. Earned the respect, the group is taken to Lethan. The child is dying: the faeries, to "fix" her opened the throat. Eileen takes the responsibility to heal her horrible wounds and, with a little of fortune, everything goes well. The faeries, to be forgiven, bless Liam’s family.

1234	January	- Jerome K. Rome comes back to the Covenant, after he spent seven years in jail for having murdered an english soldier. Cliffheart accepts him.
	June	- Yolhe of Tytalus, Nascimentus of Bonisagus and Sentius of Criamon go to Waterkeep for the Tribunal. The Tribunal shows gratitude for the former two.
	September	- It has been heard the the English Crown has expropriated the cave which Cliffheart was used to exploit. Yolhe writes to FitzStephen asking why; Elizabeth goes to her uncle for asking the returning of what has been taken away. She receives elusive answers which convince her that it was a revenge after Lia Fail discovered.
	October	- A sea creature infests Cliffheart surrounding waters. Magi's prompt intervention (especially Silvanus of Ex-Miscellanea's), gives an end to the threat. During the night, an abominable creature sneaks in the Covenant. After he had enjoyed setting some roofs off, the demon warned the Magi that their enemies were several and much closer than they imagined. It was a strange behaviour for a demon… The conviction that this creature was in some way, connected to Gaia of Ex-Miscellanea's life spreads amongst the Covenant members.
	December	- Graudius of Flambeau go to Arcadia (frozen character).

1235	September	The Commission to study the Lia Fail powers, has accomplished the mission: the stone contains some powers able to modify the surrounding landscape, according to fairy tradition. But the signs on the stones encrypted a message that has been hardly deciphered: there are some pieces of information to find an ancient papyrus which keeps in the "Old Ones" secrets. Nascimentus of Bonisagus comes back to Cliffheart.
	October	- An Elizabeth Fitzstephen of Jerbiton servant reports a sudden apparition of the Evil on the premises of Kilnurry. Once Magi arrived there, they heard an interesting the story about a strange child, Stephen and his presumed powers. Furthermore, they heard that many children had disappeared form the nearby villages. Sephen's plane, inspired by a divine vision, is conducing a multitude of pure souls to the Holy Land, crossing the sea on foot. He thought the sea would have opened once he had arrived there, as it has been told in the Bible. Yolhe convinces the child that the mission he has received doesn't come from God, but it really is a mirage caused by the wild Gift, not refined yet. She decides of taking him with her as apprentice. He still remains a strong Catholic. After few days Stephen joins the covenant as apprentice.
	December	- Southern Federation Covenants meet at Ahenrise to discuss the important informations comin from the Lia Fail study. It has been decided of calling an Extraordinary Tribunal to inform other Irish Covenants.

1236	March	- Si tiene il Tribunale Straordinario presso Ashenrise.
	April	- Di ritorno dal Tribunale, Elizabeth, Sentius ed Eileen si imbattono nella carovana di Padre Jop Kepp, braccio destro del Vescovo Fuberto, il quale è diretto nei pressi di Killarney per giudicare una piccola comunità accusata di seguire la confessione catara. Il gruppo, accortosi che le intenzione del Padre trascendono quelle di fare giustizia e temendo l'ennesimo atto di rappresaglia contro la gente d'Irlanda, lo segue. Il tribunale ecclesiastico, al quale avrebbero dovuto presenziare altri due messi vescovili, non ha modo di tenersi perché i Magi, nella spasmodica voglia di mettersi in luce, interferiscono catastroficamente già durante la fase di accertamento dei fatti. Padre Kepp abbandona il luogo minacciando di riferire tutto al Vescovo. Si temono conseguenze politiche e la multa del Tribunale Hiberniano. C'è solo una certezza: il braccio destro di Fuberto non è chi dice di essere.
	May	- Ricevuto l'incarico dal Tribunale Straordinario, Yolhe e Nascimentus partono per Cartagine. Tyrone, Pater di Nascimentus, sfrutta la sua influenza per permettere loro di attraversare Arcadia e risparmiarsi buona parte del lungo tragitto. Il gruppo supera con qualche affanno l'impatto con la terra dei Mori, i loro usi e la loro lingua, e in qualche modo raggiunge Cartagine. Nell'acropoli della città antica risolvono i complicati meccanismi che nascondono l'accesso alla parte sotterranea del Grande Tempio. Il gruppo affronta i sette sacerdoti che proteggono l'antico papiro di Thoth. La battaglia è durissima e costringe gli scudieri a molti sacrifici. Durante il viaggio di ritorno, la nave su cui viaggia il gruppo viene intercettata dalla Confraternita dell'Occhio Insanguinato. Lo scontro viene evitato ed i Magi tornano sani e salvi all'Alleanza. Si scoprono le sottovalutate abilità di Shina O'Connor.
	June	- Al Solstizio d'Estate Nascimentus di Bonisagus, Elinor di Tremere, Avitius di Verditius ed Eileen di Merinita restituiscono la Lia Fail al Grande Popolo delle Fate, mantenendo fede alla promessa fatta da Yolhe di Tytalus. La cerimonia di restituzione avviene nei pressi di Greyforest.
	September	- Matrimonio tra Enrico III e Eleanor, figlia del Conte di Provenza.
	October	- Tribunale Straordinario presso Ashenrise.

1237

October

- While they were investigating strange robberies in Kinsales, Cliffheart's members clash with some powerful fairy creatures, whose powers had been increased by means of eating flesh and tears of Trakan-Dar, the dying crystal dragon. Thanks to Eileen of Merinita's fairy powers, Magi defeated the Red, head of the fairy group and awake the dragon. They renew the friendship with Kinsale's town chief and gain a new strong friend. During the mission, Elizabeth of Jerbiton challenges Eileen in Certamen, but she will be defeated once back at the Covenant.

1238	January	- Somebody tried to poison Cliffheart food supplies. Once in Schull, the town which regularly sends food to the Covenant, the group finds out that the supplies were poisoned by a mysterious groups of jugglers. The Magi can't discover their clues. The Cliffheart's enemies grow in number day by day.
	February	- Vergerus, a self-styled healer, is working miracles close to Sherkins. Elizabeth of Jerbiton and Sentius of Criamon reach the village of ...… and figure out that Vergerous is a necromancer who keep his victims under a sort of half-life, after he stole their souls. Richard Ashley died trying in having his evil eye healed, while Elizabeth, Sentius and Bloodblade risked to die fighting the guardian demon of Vergerous Necromancy book.
	Ottobre	- Sulla città di An Scoil (Skull) grava una pericolosissima minaccia: secondo una legenda, un drago millenario, Pancadaurax, tornerà a distruggere la città, per vendicare la profanazione della propria tana ed il saccheggio del proprio tesoro. I magi di Cliffheart, nel tentativo di scongiurare tale minaccia, si trovano a confrontarsi con un Mago proveniente dalle terre del Nord che nel rubare il tesoro del Drago, una corona di legno che permette di prevedere il futuro, soddisfa l'ambizione della sua vita. Durante le indagini, il nuovo membro dell'Alleanza, Brascus di Flambeau, mostra particolare coraggio nel salvare Sentius di Criamon nei cunicoli della tana del Drago. Una volta scoperto l'accaduto, i membri dell'Alleanza, forti della collaborazione dei nobili della città, organizzano la guardia. La minaccia scema grazie alle trattative condotte con il Drago da Elizabeth di Jerbiton, ed all'epico recupero del tesoro rubato da parte di Yolhe di Tytalus.

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