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title: Covenant Mechanics
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# Silver Resources

**Silver Stocks** £500 or a bit more

**Silver income** £140/year (typical source: cattle, lesser source; mining)
With the new magi joining, this is not sufficient, and the covenant will
run at deficit of about £20/year not conunting travel expences and other
irregular and semi-regular costs.  This is not an immediate problem, and
the stocks can sustain this for some time.

# Vis

Following continental practice, the magi of Elk's Run tend to harvest and
stock up on Vis.  This is controversial though, and the practice varies 
somewhat.

| Art       | Sources | Stocks | Comments |
|-----------|--------:|-------:|----------|
| Creo      | 4       | 6      |          |
| Intellego |         | 8      |          |
| Muto      |         | 8      |          |
| Perdo     | 6       | 6      |          |
| Rego      |         |        | Rego has been scarce for years |
| Animal    | 6       | 5      |          |
| Aquam     | 6       | 5      | Contested source |
| Auram     | 3       | 12     |          |
| Corpus    | 6       | 5      |          |
| Herbam    | 2       | 12     |          |
| Ignem     |         | 16     |          |
| Imaginem  |         | 12     |          |
| Mentem    | 6       |  5     |          |
| Terram    | 3       | 12     |          |
| Vim       | 6       | 12     | Reserved for Aegis and Emergencies |
|-----------|---------|--------|----------|
| Total     | 48      | 124    |

The sources are on Hermetically recognised property unless
stated otherwise.

*The table is up for review*  There should probably be more stocks.

## The foul pits (Perdo)

Behind the covenant there are several muddy and foul-smelling pits,
3-6 feet deep.  The mud should be stirred on All Saint's Eve,
and a number of shiny stones, shaped like human skulls, surface during
the night.  Each one is worth 1p Perdo vis.


# Boons

- 2x Aura (Site, minor).  The covenant has a magical aura of 5.
- Important Buildint (Fortification, minor)
- Secondary Lesser income (Resources, minor reduced) A copper mine worth £40/year, run by some native Irish clansmen and some immigrant English miners.  The mine is close to the border of the covenant lands and the crew keep manage themselves.


# Hooks

- Contested Resource (Resources, minor).  The covenant has a vis source outside its own land, so that it is not protected by Hermetic law.
- Superiors (Inhabitants, minor). The resources are controlled by the three senior magi. The junior magi (PCs) have well-regulated rights, which are linked to obligations. 
- Vis Salary (Resources, minor). (Part of *Superiors* above)
- ? Suffrage (Inhabitants, minor) The covenant grants equal rights to men and women. This is, theoretically, sinful and likely to incite contempt of the covenant’s officials by outsiders.
- ? Public Vis Source (Relations, minor): One or more of the covenant’s vis sources has had its location and method of harvesting precisely written into a ruling of the Peripheral Code. The covenant unquestionably owns the source, but any enemy wishing to make mischief knows exactly where the covenant’s vis comes from.
- Outbuildings (Fortification, minor)
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