The Tribunal of 1214

Remembered as one of the most discordant gatherings since the Schism War, the Tribunal held after the outbreak of the Crusade led to violent disagreements between Provençal magi. Originally scheduled to be held in Toulouse, the violence of the intervening years and the presence of de Montfort's army outside the city's walls required an alternative and the gathering shifted to Castra Solis, much to the chagrin of the Mercurian magi. Recent Hermetic responses to the crusade and charges of mundane interference against various magi who claimed to be defending their magical power in the face of the Crusade dominated discussion. Many accused magi from the Normandy Tribunal of clandestine interference, some Flambeau magi boldly claimed that their Tytalan rivals engineered the crusade.

The outspoken Tolomae of Jerbiton argued for a coordinated Hermetic response to the crusade, amounting to blatant magical interference in mundane and Church affairs. Although many sympathized, he was ejected from the discussion, vowing revenge upon the Mercurian conservatives and his peacemaking former covenant, the Coenobium. The magi of Aedes Mercurii threatened to withdraw from the meeting entirely, a move which risked invalidating the Tribunal, and anarchy was only averted by the actions of the late Presiding Quaesitor Tibaut, aided by skilled political maneuvering by the Chief Redcap Azalais, who threatened the suspension of all Redcap services.

During the Tribunal an attempt was made to bring charges against the magus Tres of Ex Miscellanea, who had armed a company of mercenaries with magical weapons claiming they were all his grogs, and employed them to destroy the covenant of Mistridge, leveling the magically conjured tower with magical siege artillery. Despite the fact Tres' actions were deplored by many, they were part of a justly declared Wizard's War, and no ruling exists restricting the employment of grogs in the pursuit of such an action. The vote was narrowly in his favour, and Tres wisely fled in to hiding to escape the vengeance of the friends of Mistridge.