Historical Events

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Spring

• Artal and Claas go to find Bastion, following a letter from his dying adoptive father, Fridrich, in German.
• Bastion lives with his brother Jäger
• Bastion is about 9, Jäger about 30
• The hut is warded with a ring of stakes
  • Transylvanian style
  • Jäger seems to be a vampire hunter, although the PCs don’t know of vampires
• Friedrich had promised his second son to Johan, a vassal of the Wild Hunt.
  • hunting people
• Jäger considers himself a hunter, both of prey and of knowledge
• Source Quality 8

Advancement

• Claas: 8xp in Etiquette (5) and Swedish (3)
• Andreas reads Corpus L18Q11 - 16xp assuming Ilse’s body suffices for the study bonus
• Honeystocker: Practice Finesse - 4 xp
• Artal: 8 xp, 3 in East Norse, 5 in Concentration

Summer

• Claas teaches Latin to Bastion. SQ 20(-3 due to Gift)
• Andreas: Longevity ritual CrCo 35 with help from Honeystocker
  • Spends 6p Creo + 1p Corpus
  • Exposure 2xp Magic Theory
• Honeystocker: Help in lab, 2 MT exposure.
• Artal invents spell “Melt the Knight’s Accoutrement” - exposure in Ignem

Autumn

Defeated Johann of the Wild Hunt.

• Vis reward: 6p Corpus + 5p Corpus (added to covenant vis accounts)

• Source Quality 10

• Three confidence points

• Artal spends 10 adventure XP (5 xp in Penetration, 5 xp in Brawl in Eagle Form)

• Gertrude teaches Artes Liberales to Bastion. SQ 11(-3 due to Gift)

Winter

Ilse’s blessing

In late Autumn 1230, Ilse tells you that her divine gifts seem to have deserted her. But she received a vision that she can restore them if she collects the blood of a saint. And it seems to be buried in a marble statue in a cave, but she has no idea where that cave is. Naturally, she is quite distraught. A few days into Winter, a message arrives from the mine, that they have come across a natural cavern, but there’s some metal gate, and on it what appears to be letters in a strange language. Upon hearing this, Ilse will say this must be the cave from her vision.

Session 2024-04-09

Cast Andreas. Werner. Honeystocker, Volkert

The mine is three days’ travel from the covenant.

In the mine they find the metal gate, locked and in pristine condition. Andreas opens the lock with a spell. Inside they find the skeletons of four people, one fairly intact and the others more scattered. The cavern is round, 3m diameter, with a cross carved in the wall opposite the entrance. The wall around the cross is smooth, in an area 1½m wide and 2½m high.

The cross marks a door which Honeystocker is able to open, after sensing a room behind it, and the find stairs leading down to a square room, six meters by six. A marble statue rises out of a hole in the floor, from the floor below.

Stairs lead down to the floor below. About half way down there is a tunnel leading away, that looks as if it has been dug out by some monster eating through the rock.

Beyond the room with the statue, there is a small room with three chests. + The largest one, a meter wide, contains coins, mainly silver, and a few gems. The make of the coins is unknown. + One chest contains a sword and a silk shirt with divine powers + The last chest contains a book with obscure writing. It could be a lab text, but probably not one useable to ordinary Hermetic magi.

Upstairs there is a short flight of stairs leading up into a room full of wrecked furniture. There is a sanctum marker on the wall, but the sigil is unknown, and the room is too small for an ordinary lab. A book is found in the debris. + Holy Magic Summa L4Q8

• Source Quality 8
• Confidence points +2
• Duration 8 days

Downtime

• Artal reads Perdo Tractatus “Occidere Magicis” 8Q8
• Gertrude teaches Artes Liberales to Bastion. SQ 11(-3 due to Gift)