1220

Important Past Dates:

  • 1/1220: Ismail passes the gauntlet on his first attempt

  • 6/1220: Alaz, Ismail, Xander, Laveur and Meno found the 'Pervigeo' covenant

  • 3/10/1220: The abandoned Trucage manor conquered and taken

  • 6/10/1220: Faerie artefacts successfully sealed in gallery

  • 16/10/1220: Covenfolk recruited. Manor repairs begin

  • 21/10/1220: Xander summons his tower

  • 11/11/1220: Aldo joins

  • 30/11/1220: Basement (Alaz's lab) deflooded

  • 11/12/1220: Living Quarters all secured

  • 20/12/1220: Trip to cherbourg to commission laboratory equipment (session 2 start)

  • 29/12/1220: Vis hunting with Lauver & Ismail on Écréhous. Stealing corpus vis


Following rumours of an intense magical aura to in western Normandy, the magi gather to form their covenant. Gathering on the hillside, the magi observed the manor from above. Decrepit at the surface but with strong foundations and a salageable structure, they are satisfied.

Appointed the temporary leader, Alaz sends Laveur who sends an animal to scout the mansion. The racoon comes back frostbitten, warning the Magi of other-worldly dangers.

Alaz bravely leads the troupe down to explore the mansion and bashes through the front door revealing a portal to some icy landscape. Ismail, with a combination of magical manipulation and insight, seals the portal against the floors and permits exploration to continue.

Xander and Meno explore the front while Ismail and Alaz plundered the central rooms. A gallery centralising 4 strange artifacts: A french fiction, a statue, an empty display-case and an empty lectern. Acting out of caution and experience, Alaz and Ismail destroy the statue with their flames before investigating the book.

The final quarter of the book is missing? The protagonists battle with the lizard men in the underground temple is left blank. Perhaps this is an incomplete copy? With no further obvious dangers, the rest of the mansion is explored. All is well until the troupe reaches the observatory and foreign hissings can be heards from behind the door. A fierce battle ensues where a lizard-man is killed at the cost of a great wound on Ismail's face.

The following months were spent making the manor fit for living in, setting up laboratories and analysing the three strange artifacts.