Welcome to Ars Magica - Pessi-Mythical
Old Erma
The Bishop banning Björn
Björn's response.
Kastor the Dwarf
Who died in the biers
The lands around the covenant
The plan for the covenant...
And what was actualy built
The year is 1199 and the Magi have been granted rights to Griefhaven, a former Covenant stronghold of the order which was run by one Björn of Flambeu, a magus of notoriety and great piety.
Björn however stole a man's wife... and got excommunicated. When his wife died in childbirth he might have gone slightly insane with grief and decided that if he could not get into heaven until the Good Lord's judgement... he would make his covenant into a hall for the dead to wait out judgement day.
... it might not quite have worked out for him or for those around him.
We now deal with the aftermaths. Like the gateway that swallows the living into a death-aura and the relics of Björns war with the local bishop Nicolas (who was short a wife and blamed Björn both for this and for her death).
The covenant has secured Björn's stronghold... the suspiscion that he had embezzeled the funds and the vis was unfounded... but there was more of a cost as all that entered that hold has until now died. Further exploration let them find the remains of Björn's apprentice... who turned on him before the ritual was concluded. It went as duels between master and apprentice tends to... and she was killed and caught in the perifiery of Björn's ritual.
Next they have secured resources to make it through the winter and made contact with the small hold of peasants/fishermen that was part of Björn's fief. Somewhere among all this a whole horde of vengeful ghosts were released. The situation... stinks. At the least Augustine thinks so.
The Selkie's of the area are becoming both a problem and an opportunity. The females of the tribe seems more interested in the males than is entirely plausible. And the Selki-king such as he is is courting Augustine. There is a bit of a confrontation between the Selkie Schaman and Karl which almost leads to disaster as the schaman's daughter fails to woo him well. It does seem that the females of the tribe are not entirely of the same status as the males.
Karl actualy apologizes to the schaman and is forgiven... and the courtships continue despite the great storm that the Schaman kalled down to punish the insolent land-dwellers.
They have dealt with the local giant by feeding it 15 kgs of Amanita mushroom extract in a small anchor of beer and also found the last missing maga who would have joined them. A victim of giant-violence. Karl animated her her body and brought it back to the covenant.. He also brought home a very ugly child.
Speaking of very ugly... a Quesitor comes calling, angrily so and is immediately throwing his weigt around. His Hopplite, Uma, is given to Karl for a night against her will. It seems everyone including Uma is ready to see the Quesitor gone.