Ars Magica Digital Codex

Vis Sources and other Resources

Castello del Selvaggio is situated within a level 2 Magical aura fed by a magical spring that runs from the hillside above it, and has the right to a number of resources in the local area. As these are potentially available for your troupe to claim during the course of this story you should design them according to your game's desired power level. The suggestions can be altered to fit. The Covenants supplement also provides ideas for vis sources and the Aquam vis source The Purest Stream is particularly fitting.

  • A small garden within a lacuna, a pocket of Magical aura, in the city of Verona. The white roses that grow there, if tended well, yield two pawns of Vim vis each year.
  • Once a year a distant scream can be heard coming from the mountains north of Selvaggio, as though a life has been suddenly brought to

an end. If the scream can be captured it distills into three pawns of Mentem vis.

  • The lake contains a gateway to a faerie court. Maximus held the faerie queen's favor, allowing him free access to the court. With Maximus gone, the queen's favor must be contested again. Whoever wins it has a seat at the faerie queen's court.
  • Maximus had little use for libraries or devices in his later years. Most of the books that remain have deteriorated a little, but the storyguide may take the opportunity to introduce books and devices that the player covenant might lack.

Matias can act as a source of information on all things Selvaggio, including the strength of the Selvaggio Aegis, which should be the same as that employed by the player covenant.