After reading one season of the Servant of the Common People you start to recognise the structure of the two scrolls also found in the chest.

The First Initiation

Grants

Puissant OL:Servant of the People (minor virtue)

Script bonus

+14

Ordeal

Restriction/Vow against harming ordinary people (Peasants and Townfolk etc) +9 (major flaw)

Other script elements

Sympathetic Bonus +5

Restriction/Vow

The initiate makes a vow never to harm ordinary people. This vow becomes inherently linked to the Gift, making it work effectively as a restriction major flaw. It may of course happen that the initiate accidentally harms ordinary people. This typically leads to the temporary loss of the Gift until suitable penance has been made. The vow is interpreted in line with the Ethical Principles below.

The Second Initiation

Grants

Good Teacher

Script bonus

+3

Script Elements

Special time and place +3 (Spring Equinox in the basement of Jerome’s Tower).

Comment

Jerome has intended this to come after the First Initiation which gives an extra +9 for the first initiation after major ordeal. In this case the bonus is +12.

The Third Initiation

Grants

Cautious Sorcerer

Script bonus

+6

Script Elements

Special time and place +3 (Summer solstice at the stones of Carnac)

and save a mundane community from dire threat +3

Comment

Jerome has intended this to come after the Second Initiation which gives an extra +6 for the first initiation after major ordeal. In this case the bonus is +12.

Other Information

The Vis Source

You also get references to the statue in the basement of his tower being a Rego vis source yielding 4 pawns on the Spring Equinox in the form of small spheres forming on the flat plate being served up to the washer woman by the kingly figure. They are noted to dissipate if not collected on the day they form.

Ethical Principles

These rules were posted on the table and the chest in Jerome’s chambers.

• The Gift is a blessing from God
• This blessing is to be used to defend the weak
• Power corrupts and those in power must be checked in their exploitation of the weak
• Defend the peasant and the towns folk from the oppressive overlord and the grasping cleric
• Righteous authority has the divine right to rule, hinder not the even-handed Lord or the honest churchman.