End of Summer 1255.
We reminded ourselves that the Apprentices should Gauntlet in 1264.
The Rhine Tribunal is Next Summer Solstice (1256), and the Grand Tribunal will be in 1260.
Vincent has just arrived back from Trading.
(need to sort Out Pumillius's Commissions)
Unn has been visiting the Covenant, (she is now nine) for her sessions with Gunther. She is in awe of the tree, and often sits underneath it when she has free time.
The Magi are sitting at the Harvest Festival Feast when a runner from the Cats arrives. A play that they were putting on has gone ... wrong.
When they arrive it seems that the theatre was putting on "The Birds" by Aristiphanes, a copy of which was brought to Iceland by a
a Yazidi Scholar, Rewez Hilmi based in Byzantium. Rewez is trading books for Icelandic Gold and Scrimshaw, and is currently overwintering in Reykjavik. He was commissioned by the Cats to search for books that were linked to mechanica of Heron, but without a trained eye, he has brought artistic treasures instead. ("The Frogs" is still to be found)
The director Snorri Snorrisson, the cast and both cats have vanished, and a swirling vortex of light coruscates in the middle of the
stage.
Ahanah jumps in, and the rest follow. They follow the plot of the birds (The birds decide that they are the true masters of the world, and intercept the prayers that go to the gods. They set up the kingdom of Cloud-Cuckoo Land [
Nephelokokkygia] However, the exact charcters are constantly shifting. Sometimes the gods refered to are icelandic, sometimes Greek, Egyptian, sumarian. Most characters can't keep their names straight, except weirdly for Prometheus, the titan that sided with the gods.
Martin saw Loki's hand in this and was a bit vexed about it. The play was ended satisfactoraly when the magi besought the permission of the king of the birds for the relase of the Cats and the director. They then manage to depose the birds and restore the gods to their rightful place. The intervention of Horten Market as a practiioner of Hermetic Theurgy was invaluable to "seal" the play, as he summone the spirit of Aenerin the Bard to give his blessing to this rewriting of the play.
This reminded the Magi that they had outstanding issues to do with a "catastrophic threat to the entire order" that had stalled due to lack of a theurgist. (see session 35)
After the plays the sisters went shopping for cool stuff and jewellery and puppies.They were slightly drunk….