Resources on Ireland:

General Resources:

Maps - History of Ireland - Irish names

Sheets - Adventures - Home Rules - Spells - Links - Various

Maps

All maps, we put at your disposal, regard Ireland, but if you look among links, you could find an excellent website that contain all maps you need. In a special section of this site you could find also the maps of the Hibernian Tribunal.

Small physical map of Ireland
Large physical map of Ireland
Map of ancient catholic irish abbeys and monasters in 1200

Ireland

The second largest island in the British Isles is Ireland. Ireland bears two extensive mountainous regions covering the northern and southern thirds of the land. The nortern mountains cover the counties of Donegal and Mayo, while the southern mountains cover the counties of Kerry and Cork. The central land, between the mountain ranges, is a low-lying plain which holds the majority of the Irish population. Thi island's climate is cool, wet, cloudy, and windy in winter. The climate is livable, but even a single year of unusual cold or heavy rain weakens crops and causes famine. The Irish people are fierce; many consider them inhuman, a savage, slightly magical, faerie people. The Irish also intermarried with Viking settlers on the east coast. Most Irish or Irish-Vikings are fair of skin, with red or brown hair and slight builds. Ireland was independent for many centuries. Not even the Romans invaded the island, and Viking raiders could only conquer small coastal areas, establishing port cities, leaving inlands alone. However, the east coast of Ireland fell to Norman adventurers less than a generation ago. Many of the Irish resent English rule (as the kings of Ireland are now subservient to English kings), but the English maintain sufficient troops in Irish cities to forestall rebellion.

Brief history of Ireland

Early people of Ireland were assimilated by Celts, in the third century b.c.. Many legends contain stories about this period. The Gaelic Ireland was divided in several kingdoms, ruled by leaders elected by tribes or by the Brehon Law. Irish people were ruled by the Ard-ri, or High Kings, but they were used to fight internal wars. Ireland, or Hibernia, was never a part of roman empire, but after the romans' departure, many Scots, an irish tribe, left to the "Pictish Caledonia", after known as Scotland and Wales.
St. Patrick introducted the Christian belief in 432 a.c. and Ireland was largely christianized since 600, though the irish Church was, initally, divided from the roman one. The celts missionaries were instruments to spread the christian religion into the germanic people who were settled in the rest of England and in Europe; their monasteries were attacked by the vikings since VIII century.
Norwegians constructed several fortifications in Ireland, in Dublin too, built in 841, and they controlled most of harbours. Irish people were socially and politically divided and they were slow making a their own society. Brian Boru, High King since 976, was defeated by Danes at Clontarf in 1014 but Normans, who conquered the saxon England, conceded a peace in 1066.
Anglo-normans adventurers came in Ireland in 1167 and Henry II managed to achieve a a position in Ireland in 1171, but only Plae (the aread surrounding Dublin) was considered english domain. Since 1215, all the oriental coast (Ulster, Meath, Leinster) is under the norman control, and Connaught will be in 1235.

History of Ireland

You can download a longer version of these brief notes in .rtf format: Ireland.rtf

Irish names

Sheets

You can get these character sheets.

scheda.zip
scheda.xls

sheet.pdf
am4xls.zip

tribunal.pdf

Characters sheet in italian, III edition, in .pdf format, by Maurizio Treppo
Characters sheet in italian, III edition, in Excel format by Claudio Ferrarin

Characters sheet in english, IV edition, in .pdf format
Characters sheet in engish, IV edition, in Excel format by John Garay

Character Sheet for Tribunals by Shannon Appel

Adventures

Home Rules

Home rules are "hand made rules": sometimes, manuals and book are not so detailed on some aspect of the game; and so, the Storyteller has to create these particular kind of rules. You can download rules and use them as they are, you can modify them as you prefer or you can read them to built your own too. If you made some home rule, send us what you wrote: we'll put them in this list.

Rules for the creation of vampires in Ars Magica (italian) - these were created by our Storyteller with the fundamental aid of Diego Martelli, webmaster of La Torre del Mago.

Rules for the creation of ancient books (italian) - these rules were created by Stefano Zambelli, Pater of our Storyteller.

Rules for the construction of weapons (italian) - these rules were created by our Storyteller with Spampo.

Spells

Spells, A bunch of spells created by Ars Magica's players. They are a good source of inspiration; being not certain about the game's edition they are based on, check them out before using them

Wizard Grimoire, The list of the spells contained into Wizard's Grimoire

Net Grimoire v2, .pdf and .doc version: 120 pages full of spells!

Various stuff

Tribunals, description of the thirteen tribunals in the Mythic Europe

House Diedne,

The fantastic bestiary useful for you Storytellers. Creatures have stats for attack and defence, magic powers and anything you need, everything calculated for Ars Magica

Storyteller' screen in Word format by Chad Hooper

List of ancient books, real and fictional, with Ars Magica stats by Erik Inge Bolsoe

Ars Arabica, supplement for Ars Magica, by Gene Alloway with Steve Castanien

Abilities, combart rules and laboratory rules in Ars Magica, by Shannon Appel

Giant Pricelist, pricelist for a lot of medioeval stuff by Darin Lea

List of titles in Middle ages

Equipment.doc, All the weapons and the armors at a glance, with all the stats

Medicinal and magical herbs of medieval Europe, from Saxum Caribetum