Contents
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| Introduction 6 |
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| Earth and Sky 6 |
| The Mound 6 |
| Servants of God 6 |
| Summer is Icumen In 6 |
| The Traitor's Game 6 |
| Earth and Sky 7 |
| Expected Sequence |
| of the Stories7 |
| Pre-History 7 |
| Dramatis Personae8 |
| The Brotherhood |
| of Zenodorus8 |
| The History of the Cult 9 |
| Behold The Presence |
| Of The Symbol 9 |
| Forge The Lord |
| Of The Structure 9 |
| Desperations Of True Reverence 9 |
| My Symbol |
| Shall Come Unto Me 9 |
| Beneath Me, Folly Of Thetis! 10 |
| Story I: An Angry Wound 10 |
| Expanding Ombres10 |
| The Hook: Destiny |
| Comes Knocking10 |
| General Knowledge |
| about Ombres 11 |
| Local Beliefs about |
| Ombres L'assomption12 |
| Ombres L'assomption12 |
| The Perfidious Aura 13 |
| Denizens of |
| Ombres L'assomption 13 |
| Entering the Lands of |
| Ombres L'assomption 13 |
| Retracing Dium's Escape 14 |
| The Ruins of |
| Ombres L'assomption 14 |
| A Series of Avaricious Events 18 |
| The Sphere is Collected19 |
| The Sphere of |
| Caelus' Octahedron 19 |
| What to Do with the Ruins?20 | |||||
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| Interim 20 | |||||
| Story II: Water's Vista 20 | |||||
| Currents of | |||||
| Caelus' Octahedron20 | |||||
| Within Caelus' Octahedron20 | |||||
| The Mithraeum | |||||
| at the Inlet21 | |||||
| Plan 1: The Rite of Admission 21 | |||||
| Plan 2: Stealth Mission 21 | |||||
| Plan 3: Forcing Compliance 21 | |||||
| Revenant Grades 21 | |||||
| Onward!22 | |||||
| The Itius23 | |||||
| Above Deck 24 | |||||
| Below Deck 24 | |||||
| The Grass Crow n 24 |
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| Option: Piloting the Ship24 | |||||
| The Return24 | |||||
| A Petition25 | |||||
| Option: A New Home25 | |||||
| Interim 25 | |||||
| Story III: The Emperor Returns 25 | |||||
| Retrieving the Crow n 25 |
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| The Rise of the Colossus 25 | |||||
| The Pit of Nero26 | |||||
| Inside the Pit of Nero26 | |||||
| The Colossus27 | |||||
| The Story's End29 | |||||
| The Mound | 30 | ||||
| Story 1: The Missing Magus 30 | |||||
| Starting Things Off30 | |||||
| The Location, | |||||
| an Overview31 | |||||
| Templeport and Domnach | |||||
| Mór (The Big Church)31 | |||||
| En Route to the Mound32 | |||||
| Inside the Bog32 | |||||
| The Mound33 | |||||
| The Hall of Revenants Regio 34 | |||||
| The Chamber of Sacrifices Regio 36 | |||||
| The Obsidian | |||||
| Throne Room Regio 37 |
| The Return Trip37 | |
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| Lest we Forget the Barons38 | |
| Interlude One: Five Years Pass 39 | |
| Story Tw o: Red Knights Return 39 |
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| Setting the Infernal Stage41 | |
| The Basalt Tower 41 | |
| Involving the Magi41 | |
| To Templeport43 | |
| Hard Men and | |
| Cruel Mistresses 43 | |
| A Beacon in the Night 43 | |
| The Dogs of War44 | |
| Penetrating the Peat Bog44 | |
| The Mound Revisited 45 | |
| The Basalt Tower Regio 45 | |
| The Prison Regio 46 | |
| The Aftermath46 | |
| Five More Years Pass 47 | |
| Story Three: The Blessed Union 48 |
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| Prenuptial Visitations49 | |
| The McGovern Castle 49 | |
| The McTiernan Castle 49 | |
| The New Church 50 | |
| The Wedding50 | |
| The Night Before 50 | |
| The Morning 52 | |
| His Hellish Bonds Broken52 | |
| Dealing with the Dark One53 | |
| On the Field 54 | |
| Event One: Attacking the Line 54 | |
| Event Two: Awash | |
| among the Infantry 54 | |
| Event Three: Take | |
| the General's Head 54 | |
| Below Ground 54 | |
| Dealing with the Diabolist56 | |
| The Conclusion56 | |
| Servants of God | 57 |
| The Antagonist 57 | |
| The Plan57 | |
| The Catalyst57 | |
| Preparation 58 | |
| Geography58 |
| The Town 58 | Lady Gracia's Story84 | Galera's Gambit117 | |
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| The City 58 | Eloise, The Maidservant 86 | The Traitor's Fate 117 | |
| The Neighboring Covenant 59 | Finding the Comte86 | Interval One 117 | |
| Hardship and Blessing59 | Travelling to Montcuq86 | Research118 | |
| Divine and Infernal Influence60 | The Gates of Montcuq 87 | Giaro's Claw 118 | |
| Political Climate60 | The Church 87 | Damhan-Allaidh 118 | |
| Story I: A Fire in the Tow n 60 |
The Market Building 88 | Actions of the Antagonists118 | |
| Eutropia Arrives61 | The Castle 88 | The Fate of Giaro's Claw 118 | |
| What is Known61 | Meeting Little Valentin89 | The Fate of Galera 118 | |
| Aftermath62 | Talking to the Citizens89 | Story Tw o: The Tangled Web 119 |
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| Observing the Inhabitants63 | Finding Sir Vital90 | The Swarm119 | |
| Pious and Successful Group 64 | Finding Galafre90 | Option One: | |
| Sinful and Unsuccessful Group 64 | What If The | Averting the Plague 121 | |
| The Town Council 64 | Comte Returns Early?90 | Option Two: Village of the Dead 121 | |
| The Town Church65 | Resolving the Story91 | Caught Red-Handed122 | |
| The Priest 65 | Galafre91 | A Battle in the Village 122 | |
| A Traitor in the Order? 66 | Part Tw o: Lhude Sing Cuccu! 91 |
Lord Abel's Castle122 | |
| Reporting to the Archdeacon 66 | A Redcap Arrives92 | Galera Under Lock and Key 122 | |
| The Report67 | Formal Inquiries 123 | ||
| Petrus the Archdeacon67 | Questioning Jacobella 93 | Galera's End124 | |
| Investigation Concluded67 | Arriving in Montcuq93 | At the Castle 124 | |
| Interlude: Silence | The Haunted Castle94 | ||
| Follow s Thunder 68 |
The Bishop's Response94 | At the Hideout 125 | |
| The Clue, the | Resolving the Problem95 | Surrender 126 | |
| Bait, and the Trap68 | Part Three: Grow eth Sed 96 |
Interval Tw o 126 |
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| Story II: The Urban Church 70 | What Has Transpired97 | Simon Runs Away126 | |
| The Crypt and Sanctum71 | Involving the Magi97 | The Dark Passenger127 | |
| The Holy Mystics72 | Arriving at Lolmie97 | Story Three: The Captured Fly 127 |
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| Resolution and | Talking to Valentin's Troops 99 | A Stalking Killer127 | |
| Finding Gracia100 | Reunion with Simon 128 | ||
| Legal Matters73 | What Follows Lolmie100 | Return to the Ruined Fort128 | |
| Staying in the Shadows74 | The Meeting in the Forest101 | Galera's Hidey-Hole 130 | |
| Interlude: Preparation for Tribunal 74 |
The First Day 101 | At the Stones131 | |
| Story III: Tribunal 76 | The Second Day: The Hunt 102 | Inside the Tumulus 131 | |
| Running the Tribunal76 | Resolving the Story103 | The Ritual Begins 131 | |
| Charges Against Fabianus77 | The Traitor's Game 107 |
On the Horns of Dilemma132 | |
| Background 107 | The Characters Fail 133 | ||
| Scrying 77 | The Death of Damhan-Allaidh107 | The Characters Kill Simon 133 | |
| Spreading Parma Magica 77 | Galera107 | The Characters | |
| Voting 77 | Prequel: Introducing Rufus 109 | Kill Damhan-Allaidh 133 | |
| Wizard's War 77 | Story One: | Appendix: The Spider War 134 |
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| A Petition to Join the Order78 | A Tale of Tw o Redcaps 110 |
The Isle of the Mighty134 | |
| A Holy Societas 79 | Rufus's Vision110 | First Contact 135 | |
| New Alliances, New Tension 80 |
Galera's Arrival111 | Early Battles135 | |
| Conclusion 81 | Uncovering Galera's Plan 111 | The Massacre in | |
| Consequences for | On The Redcap's Trail112 | Bowland Forest 135 | |
| the Player Magi81 | Searching the Room 112 | The Battle of Hunnum 136 | |
| The End81 | Encounters on the Road 112 | The Battle of the Wounded Glen 136 | |
| Summer Is Icumen In | 82 | Caught (Kid-)Napping113 | Three Years of War137 |
| Locating the Story82 | Cob's Band 113 | The Battle on the Irthing 137 | |
| Part One: Sumer Is Icumen In 82 | The Trail to the Lair 114 | The Siege of Goole 137 | |
| What Has Gone Before82 | A Grisly Fate114 | The Battle of the Awful Hand 138 | |
| Lady Gracia Arrives83 | A Web-Shrouded Ruin 114 | The Battle of Clennell Street 138 | |
| What is known about | Beneath the Ruin 115 | ||
| Lady Gracia St. Daune? 83 | A Redcap's Ghost 116 | The Night of the Sluagh 138 | |
| The Battle of Blencathra138 |
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| The Battle of the False Sun139 | |
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| Repercussions 139 | |
| The Ordo Miscellanea139 | |
| The Saxon Runes 139 | |
| A, Ac, "Oak"139 | |
| Sample Ac Rune Spells 140 | |
| Æ, Æsc, "Ash"140 | |
| Sample Æsc Rune Spells 140 | |
| Yr, Yr, "Arrow"140 | |
| Sample Yr Rune Spells 141 | |
| Ea, Ear, "Grave"141 | |
| Sample Ear Rune Spells 141 | |
| G, Gar, "Spear"141 | |
| Sample Gar Rune Spells 142 | |
| K, Calc, "Chalk"142 | |
| Sample Calc Rune Spells 142 | |
| Q, Cweorth, "Fire-twirl"142 | |
| Sample Cweorth Rune Spells 143 | |
| St, Stan, "Stone"143 | |
| Sample Stan Rune Spells 143 | |
| Or, Ior, "Water monster"143 | |
| Sample Ior Rune Spells 143 |
| Demonic Weaknesses7 |
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| Dium Manesica Penater8 |
| Giuseppe10 |
| Plinth and Stylobate Cult Member Creation11 |
| Giuseppe14 |
| Lemures15 |
| DuPurin's Ghost16 |
| DuPurin's Black Dogs17 |
| Father Carth's Ghost18 |
| Manes: Lost Souls of Ombres L'assomption19 |
| The Rest of the Sphere22 |
| Strategic Truth22 |
| Lodestones of Caelus' Octahedron22 |
| Spirits of Fraud23 |
| Revenant of Caelus24 |
| Manes: The Oarsmen of the Itius25 |
| The Crown Sinks26 |
| Larvae27 |
| Nero, the Infernal Ghost28 |
| Green Snakes of Malebolge29 |
| The Grass Crown29 |
| A Warmer Beginning32 |
| It's All in the Names33 |
| Father Pádraig35 |
| Father Uallachán35 |
| Tadhg36 |
| Bog Revenant37 |
| Aillén Trechenn39 |
| Storyguide Character |
| Advancement, Five Years Later40 |
| The Red Knights42 |
| Hell Hound46 |
| Fiona McTiernan48 |
| Where is Lord Scirlin?48 |
| Storyguide Character |
| Advancement, Five Years Later51 |
| Pádraig's Entrancement52 |
| Uallachán's Ars Goetia53 |
| List of Inserts |
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| Crom Dubh, The Dark One55 |
| Holy Societas: Servants of God58 |
| Expected Sequence of Play59 |
| Involving the Player Covenant61 |
| Quaesitor Eutropia of Guernicus63 |
| What Caused the Fire?64 |
| Alternative Crises65 |
| The Guild66 |
| Father Charles67 |
| Magical Investigation69 |
| The Divine Effects70 |
| Archdeacon Petrus72 |
| Clerical Personnel73 |
| Resources for the Servants of God74 |
| Holy Mystic75 |
| Holy Magic75 |
| Edward the Apprentice76 |
| Fabianus, Magus ex Miscellanea78 |
| Zurfiel, a Guardian Angel79 |
| Decarius of Tremere80 |
| Arctura of Flambeau80 |
| Alternative Legal Interpretations81 |
| Why Do Cathars Despise Mothers?86 |
| Comtes and Counts in the Provence Tribunal87 |
| Montcuq: Why is this Funny to the French?88 |
| The Shield of the Trencavels89 |
| The Cherry Bough Crown90 |
| Sir Vital's Lute91 |
| Galafre of Merinita92 |
| Flashback: An Option93 |
| Who is the Bishop of Cahors?95 |
| Is this a Poltergeist?95 |
| Hork the Hobgoblin96 |
| The Faerie Host98 |
| Rebellion!99 Varying the Setting100 |
| If Everybody Died100 |
| Who Is The King?102 | |
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| The Treaty of Paris103 | |
| Dramatis Personae104 | |
| Damhan-Allaidh, The Spider108 | |
| Galera, Redcap of House Mercere110 | |
| Rufus, Redcap of House Mercere111 | |
| A Redcap's End112 | |
| Magical Investigations112 | |
| Cob's Band114 | |
| Monstrous Spider115 | |
| Expanding the Caves116 | |
| Spiders in Mythic Europe118 | |
| Rufus, a Redcap's Shade119 | |
| Spider Swarms120 | |
| The Jars of Galera121 | |
| The Morbid Ague122 | |
| A Lord in the Covenant's Pocket124 | |
| Running the Court Case124 | |
| Galera After Five Years125 | |
| Simon Spidersoul127 | |
| Simon129 | |
| Inspiderwiht130 | |
| What if Simon's Master is a Player Character?132 | |
| The Origin of the Tumulus132 | |
| Is Damhan-Allaidh Truly Dead?132 | |
| Giaro of Mercere134 | |
| Who was Damhan-Allaidh?136 | |
| Ac Guidelines138 | |
| Æsc Guidelines140 | |
| Yr Guidelines140 | |
| Ear Guidelines140 | |
| Gar Guidelines141 | |
| Calc Guidelines141 | |
| Cweorth Guidelines141 | |
| Ior Guidelines142 Stan Guidelines142 |
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