TEXT: History of the Order of Hermes 
  Introduction 
  This is a chronology and limited history of the Order of Hermes, intended as a free supplement 
  for the Ars Magica role playing game. It was created to serve as a research tool for storyguides 
  and players, not as an attempt to define the Mythic Europe setting or to alter the established 
  Order of Hermes. It is written mainly from the point of view of a particular magus of House 
  Mercere, Radulphus Stilus, writing in the later Arien Age, probably past the 15th Arien 
  Century (in other words, after 1360 AD). This magus is much more neutral than many 
  historians of his age, but hardly without his own opinions.  
  The Chronology follows the following format: Date AD, Date AA, Event, Gloss.  
  Dates are given in the ordinary common era AD dates and in Age of Aries dates. Most events 
  are noted as happening in a particular year and have no day or even month listed. Where they 
  do appear, mundane months are the commonly recognized ones, and the AA months are the 
  astrological ones. No attempt to use medieval months was attempted; there is no Kalends, Ides, 
  or other such period notation: May 3 is May 3. The same pattern applies to the astrological 
  months: III Cancer is the third day of Cancer. The astrological dates used assume that the 
  astrological month begins on the dates indicated in a common zodiac, and may not be 
  astronomically or astrologically correct.  
  Some actual historical dates may not coincide with other histories, mainly because authorities 
  and historians tend to disagree. Events were mainly entered in the order found, but events 
  inside the Order are usually listed before mundane events. Fictional events are noted in the 
  year that continuity or legend claims they occurred. In a few cases, continuity dates are not 
  consistent, and in these cases a range of years or an approximate date is indicated and a 
  comment entered in the gloss. In many cases no specific date is given for an event, and the 
  author has extrapolated an approximate date. Often, a range of mundane and Hermetic dates 
  do not quite agree; this is usually an artifact of approximation and rounding.  
  The events listed are all drawn either from Ars Magica published material, real history, and 
  real myth and legend. They are usually simple relations of the events as described in 
  continuity, but in some cases limited space has demanded encapsulation. The bulk of the 
  Peripheral Code is also included in the text, to give it historical context. Note: The author refers 
  to event dates in AA, not AD. Events considered of great import to the Order are in boldface.  
  The gloss and the introductions to the centuries contain short comments, exhortations, 
  references to related events, colour commentary, plot fodder, or unsolicited opinions. The 
  opinions noted in the gloss and the century introductions are strictly opinions of the fictional 
  and somewhat diffident author. Readers are encouraged to disagree with him!  
  The intent of the author is to accurately represent the timeline of events of and surrounding 
  the Order of Hermes, but despite being drawn from Ars Magica material this is not a 
  publication of Atlas Games, is not canonical, and should not be taken as such. That said, the 
  majority of the material herein is based on material under Copyright of Trident, Inc., doing 
  business as Atlas Games. The remaining material is public domain. This document may be 
  distributed freely without alteration so long as no charge or fee is assessed. It may be altered 
  
  freely, but an altered version may be further distributed only if the fact of that alteration and 
  the author of the alterations is noted in the introductory text.  
  This material herein is primarily the creation of a large number of writers and designers and a 
  few dedicated editors, and the compiler can claim only to stand on their shoulders.  
  Ins and Outs 
  This is not an absolutely inclusive chronology. Some events were considered too trivial, remote, 
  or secret to be included. Plot details of adventures have been generally excluded or included in 
  an opaque manner. The exact year, or even decade, of an event may have been unclear. In 
  some cases this has led to events not being noted.  
  The timeline includes events from all works for the 2nd Edition, 3rd Edition, and 4th Edition, 
  including all of Atlas Games pre-ownership material, except for Tales of the Dark Ages and 
  South of the Sun, and convention adventures. No attempt to judge the worthiness of these 
  works or events has been attempted. If the reader dislikes a particular work or plot, the reader 
  may choose to ignore the related events.  
  While the fictional author is assumed to be extremely well informed, he is not considered 
  omniscient, nor even morally correct.  
  One exclusion that may be annoying is the lack of index references. Unfortunately, the 
  compiler didn’t think of that until about half-way into the project. This may be for the best, as 
  indexing would have further cramped the text.  
  The fictional author is assumed to be interested in certain mundane events, especially in 
  relation to the Church and the other inheritors of the Roman Empire, and sweeping historical 
  events which may interest magi of the Order (like Crusades, plagues, and social movements).  
  Some legendary or rumored magicians, the sort of people who magi would call hedge wizards, 
  were also included, as were many classic philosophers, who proposed various concepts the 
  compiler considers fundamental to Hermetic Theory. A few historical items were included 
  because they seemed to be the sorts of things a mage would note: natural disasters, plagues, 
  famines, momentous events, and unexpected or unusual astrological phenomenon.  
  The Verdi Competition has been calculated and included, from the Foundation of the Order into 
  the future, based on established dates and historical clues. Similarly, the House Transylvania: 
  Tremere conference cycle was calculated from the death of Tremere himself, also based on 
  continuity dates and historical clues, but the other regular House meetings, for Tytalus and 
  Bjornaer, have not been, as the compiler is not certain when they started.  
  One of the more obviously controversial inclusions is likely to be events beyond the established 
  Ars Magica present  (1220 AD/1359 AA), most especially events generated under the 
  controversial 3rd Edition. Others may object to the inclusion of any historical events past the 
  4th Edition present,  1220 AD. The compiler has not taken it on himself to delete future events, 
  but has taken the liberty of softening some of them in presentation. A break line after 1220 AD 
  has been included to allow storyguides and players to more easily note this crossover into the 
  future  and, if they wish, delete it. Another break line is provided after the Grand Tribunal of 
  1228/1367 for the same reason. In the interest of having something more than the occasional 
  House meeting cycles in these historical periods, the compiler has included some additional 
  historical events and trends.  
  
  Naturally, some storyguides will wish to wander well away from both actual history and Order 
  history. Hopefully, this timeline will be of some assistance in that effort.  
   
  Historia Ordonis Hermae 
  A History of the Order of Hermes  
  by Radulphus Stilum filius Mercator scholae Mercandi Rerum Scriptor ab Harco  
  This History of the Order of Hermes is, sadly, incomplete. Accounts of many of the most 
  interesting and crucial events in our history are lacking, related mainly by tradition or 
  recorded only in the off-hand references of elder magi. Some of these events were not recorded, 
  magi usually being otherwise occupied with experimentation and enchantment. Others, 
  particularly Tribunals, were recorded, but the original records are lost, damaged, or destroyed. 
  Perhaps more detailed records languish still in the libraries of Durenmar, Magvillus, and lost 
  Val-Negra, but recovering them has not proved easy.  
  The following Chronology lists the mundane date, the Hermetic date, the Event, and the 
  comments of the author. The Tribunal location of the Event is noted first, if known. 
   
   
   10,920 BC 1 AV Age of Virgo. 
  According to the Egyptians the great 
  civilization of this age is Atlantis, a 
  continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules. 
  The island was larger than Libya and Asia 
  (probably meaning Asia Minor) combined,  
  and a center of great learning and 
  civilization. The Atlanteans mined the 
  metal orichalc, landscaped their continent 
  to their needs, worshipped Poseidon, and 
  were ruled by royal twins. The empire of 
  Atlantis extends as far east as Egypt. 
  [Plato] This civilizations reported age 
  seems to predate the Creation according to 
  many authorities. The author cannot say 
  which is correct. 
   Circa 9500 BC Circa 1400 AV 
  Sinking of Atlantis, according to the 
  ancient Egyptians. The sinking was 
  spurred by the recent impiety of the 
  Atlanteans. To punish them the gods sent a 
  great flood and sank the island. [Plato] The 
  Civilization of Atlantis seems to predate 
  that of the Old Ones, assuming they are not 
  identical.  
   8467 BC 1 AL Age of Leo. 6608 BC 1 AC 
  Age of Cancer. 
   C. 5000 BC C. 1600 AC 
  Date of the Creation of the World, 
  according to some Church authorities. 
  [HoH] The exact year of Creation differs 
  from authority to authority.  
   4451 BC 1 AG 
  Age of Gemini begins. The civilizations of 
  the age are Egypt and Babylon.  
   C. 4000 BC C. 450 AG 
  Fall of the civilization of the Old Ones, per 
  Arch-Mage Infamitus. Some magi equate 
  this culture with Atlantis. [HoH] Either 
  Infamitus or Plato seems to have the date 
  wrong.  
  
   3760 BC 691 AG 
  Creation of the World, according to the 
  Jewish calendar. [History]  
   C. 3000 BC C. 1500 AG 
  In Egypt, the Magus Imhotep counsels 
  Pharaoh Zoser, also called Tosorthros. 
  Imhotep raises the great Pyramids, 
  discovers powerful healing rituals, and 
  performs many wonders. His father was 
  the god Ptah and his mother a mortal 
  woman. [Legend, History] This great mage 
  may have founded the Cult of Thoth.  
   2294 BC 1 AT 
  Age of Taurus begins.  
   C. 2000 BC C. 300 AT 
  Egyptian Cult of Thoth at its height, as 
  indicated by the research of the Primus 
  Fenicil. [HoH]  
   C. 1300 BC C. 1900 AT 
  The ancient Kymric civilization flowers 
  around Britainnia, guided by magician-
  priests, headquartered at Cimbrinsula, an 
  island in the Irish Sea. In time, the Kymric 
  culture is destroyed by the invading Gaels, 
  the island of Cimbrinsula sinks under the 
  waves, and the Kymric and Gaelic cultures 
  merge into the Celtic people. The Kymric 
  priest-magicians become the Druids of 
  later years. [Tempest]  
   C. 1200 BC C. 1100 AT 
  An Age of Heroes in the Mediterranean 
  and Levant region. The great heroes 
  Hercules, Ulysses, Theseus, Achilles, 
  Aeneas, Jason, and Perseus roam the 
  world, performing great deeds and slaying 
  monsters. This is also an age of magic: the 
  witch Medea, the enchanter Daedelus, and 
  the sorceress Circe all belong to this period. 
  [Legend, History]  
   C. 960-930 BC C. 1335-1365 AT 
  The Reign of King Solomon the Magus, 
  King of Judea. He raised a great temple to 
  his God and a vast palace for himself. He 
  was a great magician, able to summon all 
  manner of spirits to work his will. His 
  Great Seal is still a powerful ward and 
  device for spirits and his Ring is said to be 
  able to command them all. He could fly on 
  the wind with a magic carpet and spoke 
  the languages of beasts and birds. His 
  wisdom was widely known; he answered 
  the riddles of the Queen of Sheba and 
  wisely judged the most perplexing cases. 
  He ruled over mortals and spirits, brought 
  the wealth of the world to him in his 
  capital of the Levant, and explored the 
  depths of the sea and the heights of the sky. 
  [Legend, History]  
   C. 900 BC C. 1400 AT 
  The dragon Pan Caudarax settles or is 
  hatched in what will become Flanders. 
  [TbF]  
   753 BC 1542 AT 
  Foundation of Rome by the twins Romulus 
  and Remus. The twins, raised by a lupa, 
  form a band of outcasts and found Rome 
  by abducting the women of the Sabine 
  tribe. Romulus kills his brother Remus and 
  reigns as Romes first king. [Legend, 
  History] Lupa  can mean either She-Wolf 
  or prostitute.  
   C. 600 BC C. 1695 AT 
  The time of the ancient Magi of Persia, 
  who have inherited the magic of the 
  Babylonian Chaldeans. [Legend, History]  
   C. 560-480 BC C. 1735-1835 AT 
  Lifetime of Pythagoras, philosopher, 
  magician, and mathematician. He was 
  trained in Egypt and Babylon, and taught 
  at his school at Croton. He postulated that 
  the universe was mathematical (Number is 
  All ) and measurable, determined the 
  ratios of music, proved his famous theorem, 
  discovered irrational numbers, and 
  
  founded a mystical brotherhood. [Legend, 
  History]  
   C. 515 BC C. 1780 AT 
  The Greek philosopher Parmenides argues 
  that the fundamental reality of the world 
  is timeless, unchanging, undifferentiated, 
  and motionless, and that the apparent 
  world is an illusion of the senses. His 
  student, Zeno, argues the same and 
  provides several paradoxes illustrating the 
  concept. [History] A key concept of 
  Hermetic Theory. Zeno provides several 
  classics of Criamon philosophy.  
   C. 500 BC C. 1795 AT 
  Greek Cult of Hermes at height, per Primus 
  Fenicil. [HoH]  
   C. 509 BC C. 1790 AT 
  The monarchy of Rome is overthrown after 
  the king of Rome, Tarquin the Proud, rapes 
  his friends wife, Lucretia, who commits 
  suicide. A Republic replaces the monarchy, 
  which conquers the known world in the 
  next five hundred years. [Legend, History] 
  In some ways the Order resembles the 
  Republic of Rome. Both are ruled by the 
  wise men selected by their elders. 
   C. 435 C. 1860 
  The Greek philosopher Emedocles proposes 
  that the universe is composed of four 
  elements: fire, air, water, and earth. He 
  also argues that love and hate (sympathy 
  and antipathy) cause interaction of the 
  elements. [History] Two key concepts of 
  Hermetic magic.  
   C. 420 BC C. 1875 AT 
  Flowering of the philosophies of Socrates 
  and his students. Socrates is credited with 
  developing the dialectic technique, 
  promoting investigation, and claimed that 
  Knowledge is intrinsically Good, and 
  Ignorance Evil. [History] Socrates is also 
  famous for his great wisdom, spurred by a 
  genius spirit; he knew his own ignorance.  
   C. 428-348 BC C. 1867-1947 AT 
  Life of Plato. He studied under Socrates, 
  travelled the world, and later in life 
  established his Academy, which lasts for 
  eight centuries. He publishes his Republic, 
  which advocates rule by philosopher-kings. 
  Finally, Plato introduces important 
  concepts of Hermetic Theory, including the 
  Realm of Forms, a realm of ultimate, 
  absolute, unchanging reality which 
  appears in mundane reality as lesser 
  manifestations; and the Chain of Being, the 
  concept that the universe is an ordered 
  whole hierarchy, descending from the 
  Creator. [History] Some magi regard Plato 
  as calling for magi to rule. Platos work is 
  based on the work of elder philosophers, 
  including Parmenides, Empedocles, Zeno of 
  Elcea, and most importantly Socrates.  
   C. 420 BC C. 1875 AT 
  The magician Asclepius, a great healer, 
  helps end a plague in Athens. [Legend, 
  History]  
   390 BC 1905 AT 
  Sacking of Rome by Celts, aided by the 
  Druids. According to Primus Fenicil this is 
  the impetus for formation of Cult of 
  Mercury. [HoH, Tempest] Contradicts 
  other writings, which place the Cult in 
  Italy as early as the year 1700 AT. 
   C. 384-322 BC C. 1911-1973 AT 
  Life of Aristotle. Student of many 
  disciplines, auctor of logic, founder of the 
  Lyceum school. He argues for the existence 
  of a Fifth Element, finer than the four 
  material elements, which make up the 
  heavenly bodies and influence the 
  mundane world. He argues against 
  predestination, but allows that the heavens 
  influence via the fifth essence. [History] 
  The Fifth Element is identified by some 
  magi as Vim.  
  
   336-323 1958-1971 AT 
  Alexander the Great, student of Aristotle, 
  conquers the known civilized world in the 
  east, from Greece to Egypt to Persia to the 
  frontier of India, in only 13 years before 
  dying of overeating. His empire divides 
  into petty kingdoms, but a new age of 
  civilization briefly flourishes. [History] 
  Some of the fundamental concepts of 
  magic, the ideas of Magoi and Philosophers, 
  met and mingled in this period.  
   C. 300 BC C. 1995 AT 
  Greek philosopher Democritus introduces 
  atomic theory, arguing that the world is 
  composed of ultimately indivisible tiny 
  essences, atoms. He also introduces the 
  democratic system, a political method 
  where participants rule by vote, a version 
  of which is used by the Order. [History] 
  Although Democritus was opposed to the 
  supernatural, his atoms are thought by 
  some magi as the fundamental components 
  of the elements.  
   287-212 BC 2008-2083 AT 
  Lifetime of Archimedes, mathematician 
  and inventor of wonderous devices. Killed 
  in the sack of Syracuse. [History, ME] 
  There is disagreement over whether he was 
  a magician. 
   C. 160 BC C. 2135 
  Plentarch codifies Mercurian Rituals into 
  thirty eight spells. [HoH] These spells are 
  lost to the common knowledge of the Order.  
   C. 150 BC C. 2145 
  Cult of Mercury at its height. The magic of 
  the cult is little understood now, but they 
  are credited in our history with supporting 
  the Roman Empire through its thirty eight 
  powerful rituals. It is known that 
  Mercurian magic required large numbers 
  of ritual participants, and it is believed 
  that the Roman roads served to 
  symbolically tie the Roman Republic and 
  later Empire together. [HoH] The rituals of 
  Mercury may have been to undermine the 
  gods of the enemy, or to bring the favor of 
  the gods to the Romans.  
   146 BC 2149 AT 
  End of 3rd Punic War; destruction of the 
  trading city Carthage by the Romans. The 
  Carthaginians are massacred and 
  enslaved, although some escaped to the 
  corners of the Empire, others beyond the 
  Ring of Fire, and others by sailing west 
  into the Atlantic, to the island of Antilia. 
  [History, Legend, SotS] The magi of 
  Carthage left behind fragmentary texts, 
  and some artifacts, now being investigated 
  by Sansaron covenant.  
   139 BC 1 
  Age of Aries begins. Little is known about 
  the history of the Cult of Mercury in this 
  era. Certainly the Cult began this period at 
  a zenith, active and powerful, the magic 
  lifeblood of the Roman Empire. [HoH]  
   C. 20 BC C. 120 
  Rome: The period of the poet mage Vergil, 
  in the city of Naples, who has learned 
  magic, possibly from the tomes of Solomon. 
  He is said to have prophesied the coming of 
  a golden age heralded by the birth of a 
  wondrous child. He owned a bronze head 
  and animated a statue that would bite of 
  the hands of unfaithful wives. He fell in 
  love with Pheobilla, who betrayed him and 
  arranged for the whole city to mock him. 
  In vengeance, he deprived the whole city of 
  fire for three days, except for fire gained 
  from between Pheobillas legs. [Legend]  
   1 139 
  Levant: Three magi, each a great 
  astrologer and wise man, one from Asia, 
  one from Europe, one from Africa, travel 
  from the ends of the world to witness the 
  birth of the infant Jesus and bring him 
  Gifts of frankincense, gold, myrrh. Each 
  mage is a king, Gaspar the Young of Persia, 
  
  Melchior of Saba, and Balthazar the Old of 
  Sheba.  
  The account relates that the Magi had met 
  King Herod, who sought the child Jesus to 
  kill him, and after finding the child had a 
  vision to evade the King, and returned to 
  the countries by a different route. [Bible, 
  Legend] Some claim that they abandoned 
  their crowns and went to India to die. 
  Others that they went to the city of Sewa, 
  where they died after living 100 years.  
  One author calls them Hormizdah, 
  Yazdegerd and Perozdh, another calls 
  them Hor, Basanater and Karsudan.  
   C. 30 C. 170 
  In the reign of Emperor Tiberius, Roman 
  law punishing poisoners is extended to 
  those who use magic to harm others, raise 
  storms, blast crops, raise the spirits of the 
  dead, or incite love. The penalty is death. 
  Note that all of these acts may be 
  considered baneful.  
   C. 33 C. 175 
  The grown Jesus of Nazareth, who has 
  become a wonder-worker, is executed by 
  mundane rulers. His followers spread word 
  of his wonders and found Christianity.  
   C. 45 C. 185 
  Rome: In the reign of Emperor Claudius, a 
  Samaritan named Simon Magus works 
  many wonders in Rome. He cures diseases, 
  raises the dead, makes himself invisible, 
  animates statues, summons corpses from 
  thin air, changes shape into animals, and 
  flies though the air. Church tradition 
  claims that he is exposed as a tool of the 
  Devil by Saint Peter. He is said to have 
  offered Peter silver for the secret of Peter’s 
  magic. Refused, Simon is then said to have 
  asserted his godhood, and announced that 
  he would fly to heaven to prove it. St. Peter 
  prayed to God and Simon Magus crashed to 
  the earth and died. [Bible, Legend]  
   C. 50 C. 200 
  Hibernia: Era of Cuchullain, a great hero. 
  [Legend]  
   61 200 
  Stonehenge: Destruction of the druid 
  sanctuary on the island Mona Insula by 
  Cult of Mercury and Romans, led by 
  Governor Suetonius Paulinus. This was to 
  break the rebellion of the Queen Boudicca, 
  the Iceni warrior queen. [History, Tempest] 
  Mona Insula, later called Anglesey, was 
  also the site of the Diedne covenant now 
  called Nameless Covenant.  
   C. 85 C. 225 
  The high priest of Apollo, Plutarch, 
  predicts a coming cessation of oracles and 
  the decline of the old gods. [Legend, 
  History]  
   98 237 
  Christian missionaries vanish on mission 
  through Ring of Fire. [SotS] The Ring of 
  Fire lies in the far south of Africa, 
  separating the World from whatever lies 
  south of it.  
   108 247 
  The dragon Pan Caudarax departs 
  Flanders for the Ice Land.  He leaves 
  behind a fabled hoard, including the 
  Rosewood Crown, an oracular device. He 
  vows to return on the day of the Crescent 
  Sun to defend his hoard against the 
  Warlock of De Panne. [TbF] The dragons 
  name may be a scribal error.  
   129-216 268-355 
  Lifetime of Galen, a great physician and 
  magician. [Legend, History]  
   154-222 293-361 
  Lifetime of Bar Daysan, a Syrian magician 
  possibly ancestral to Founder Criamon. 
  [Mysteries]  
  
   C. 250 C. 390 
  Alexandrine philosopher Plotinus founds 
  Neoplatonism, argues that magic is the 
  basis of all action and change, states 
  certain basic rules of sympathy and 
  essential nature, and further develops the 
  concept of the Chain of Being. His 
  followers, particularly Porphyry and 
  Iamblichus, develop these rules into 
  powerful rituals and divide magic into 
  Theurgy, higher magic based on invocation 
  of divine power, and Goetia, baser magic 
  using compelled spirits. [History]  
   C. 260 C. 400 
  Hibernia: Era of Finn Mac Cool and his 
  Fenian band, who patrolled their lords’s 
  lands against robbers and invaders. They 
  eventually become overbearing and are 
  suppressed. [Legend] 
   
   Fifth Century of the Ages of Aries. 
  This is the first century of a five hundred 
  year dark age of magic. The century saw 
  the decline of the Cult of Mercury from the 
  vis vitae of Rome to a loose collection of 
  minor enchanters. Some blame the rise of 
  the Church and its rejection of the old 
  magic for this collapse; others consider it a 
  natural progression of life, from strength to 
  death. The Cult remained for some decades 
  as a dwindling political force and some less 
  powerful magical applications were 
  developed for individual uses. These 
  applications become the foundation of the 
  vulgar traditions that dominated before 
  the organization of the Order of Hermes 
  after the sack of Rome in 412. By the 
  middle of the century, it is certain that the 
  Cult could no longer cast its major rituals 
  due to insufficient numbers of priests and 
  low sacrifices.  
   272 411 
  Normandy: Three Christians beheaded on 
  the road to the Temple of Mercury, in the 
  city of Lutetia, now called Paris. [History]  
   275 414 
  A great plague severely reduces the 
  Roman Empire. [History]  
   284 423 
  Administration of Roman Empire 
  temporarily split between East and West. 
  [History]  
   C. 300 C. 425 
  Zosimus of Panopolis, and his sister 
  Eusebeia, both magicians, write a twenty-
  eight volume encyclopedia of magic and 
  alchemy, now largely lost. [Mysteries] The 
  great work may yet be recovered from 
  some dusty vault.  
   303 442 
  Emperor Diocletian begins suppressing 
  Christians and reviving the old religion. 
  This continues until the conversion of 
  Constantine in 451. [History]  
   305 444 
  Rome: Milan becomes capital of Western 
  Roman Empire. [History]  
   306 445 
  Iberia: Synod of Elvira forbids communion 
  be given to sorcerers who have killed others 
  via magic, which it claims can only be 
  performed through use of evil spirits. 
  [History] This century sees wide 
  condemnation of magic by the Church. 
   309 448 
  Another great plague reduces the Roman 
  Empire over the next five years. [History]  
   313 452 
  
  Christianity recognized as the official 
  religion of the Roman Empire by Emperor 
  Constantine. [History]  
   314 453 
  Synod of Ancrya orders five years of 
  penance for those who use magic for 
  divination or healing. [History] The 
  objection to healing is surprising. 
   330 469 
  Thebes: Capital of Roman Empire moved to 
  Constantinople by Emperor Constantine. 
  [History] 
   C. 325 C. 450 
  Levant: The bones of the Three Magi are 
  recovered from the Levant, and brought to 
  Milan as holy relics of the Church. 
  [History] 
   356 495 
  Emperor Constantine II closes all non-
  Christian temples. [History] 
   356 495 
  Normandy: Barbarian Alamanni invades 
  Gaul. [History] 
   357 496 
  Emperor Constantine II forbids magic of all 
  kinds, under penalty of beheading. 
  [History] 
   360 499 
  The Huns invade Europe. [History] 
   360 499 
  Picts cross Hadrian's Wall and invade 
  Britannia. [History] 
   
   Sixth Century of the Age of Aries. 
  This is a dark and little understood period. 
  The Empire was collapsing under the twin 
  pressures of barbarian invasion and civil 
  war, and the Priests of Mercury were hard 
  pressed to survive, much less record 
  histories. The magic of the Cult of Mercury 
  begins to change in this period, shifting 
  from a communal activity to an individual 
  craft. Each line develops an idiosyncratic 
  understanding of magic, leading to 
  vulgarization. 
   C. 370 C. 510 
  Normandy: King Gradlon of Brittany 
  builds the city of Ys in the Bay of 
  Douarnenez for his daughter, Dahut. Ys is 
  built below sea level, behind a great dike, 
  with sea locks to allow ships access to the 
  port. Ys becomes a powerful capital in a 
  short time. 
  Princess Dahut, a dissolute woman, takes a 
  new lover each night and strangles him 
  each morning. One day, a Red Knight 
  comes to Ys, and Dahut falls in love with 
  him. At his instigation, she steals the king's 
  key to the sea locks. The sea locks were 
  opened, and the city submerged, and only 
  King Gradlon escaped. The bells of Ys are 
  still said to ring on stormy nights. [Legend] 
  Details differ according to the tale teller. 
  The Red Knight is considered the Devil in 
  Christian tales, but is often presented as a 
  Faerie in Hermetic accounts. 
  Dahut is generally described as a druidess 
  or sorceress. She seems to have owned a 
  magical black mask her lovers were 
  required to wear. It strangled them when 
  she was done with their services. 
   391 530 
  Much of the Library of Alexandria burned 
  by order of Emperor Theodosius, who 
  wishes non-Christian works destroyed. 
  Many of the great Alexandrine 
  philosophers are persecuted, some killed. 
  [History] See 781 AA. 
   395 534 
  
  Final split of Roman Empire between East 
  and West. Emperor Arcadius rules in the 
  East from Constantinople, while Emperor 
  Honorius rules the West from Rome. 
  [History] 
   C. 400-500 C. 500-600 
  Transylvania: Sometime in this period, a 
  Balkan pagan named Muj undergoes a 
  series of adventures and becomes a 
  sorcerer. His line is eventually adopted by 
  Founder Tremere. [Mysteries] 
   C. 400 C. 550 
  St. Augustine of Hippo introduces many 
  higher philosophies to the Church, 
  including the idea that the Church exists 
  on a privileged level, removed from the 
  cares of the world. 
  Augustine also argues that the old gods are 
  utterly false, and that all spirits are evil 
  demons, and that magic is based wholly on 
  demonic aid. His opinions on magic 
  influence the Church still. [History] 
  Augustine’s principle of elevation is also 
  current among some magi of the Order, 
  who argue that the Order is above petty 
  mundane concerns. This theory was 
  influenced by the immunity of the Church 
  in Rome to sacking by the invading 
  barbarians. Rome is later viciously and 
  repeatedly sacked, and the churches not 
  spared. 
   400-410 540-550 
  Visigoths invade Italy and sack Rome. 
  Afterward they remove to Gaul, and 
  eventually come to rule Hispania. They 
  bring with them their magicians, members 
  of the tribe and advisors to their kings. 
  These magicians are said to be goetic 
  summoners and enchanters similar to the 
  Odin-followers of Ultima Thule. Their 
  tradition dwindles in the coming centuries. 
  [History, Iberia, Rome] It is not certain if 
  the magicians of the Visigoths survived the 
  conquest by the Moors. They may have 
  contributed to the magical line of 
  Flambeau, through Delendar. 
   C. 400 C. 550 
  Some Seekers claim that the Cult of 
  Mercury fights a great battle against a 
  dangerous and destructive old god, losing 
  the best magi of the Cult, leading to its 
  dissolution. [Rome] 
   C. 400 C. 550 
  A Sardinian mage of House Merinita 
  claims that the Cult of Mercury could see 
  the coming future and many fled into 
  Faerie to await a new age. [Rome] 
   C. 400 C. 550 
  Terith of Jerbiton claims that the Cult of 
  Mercury was corrupted by demons and the 
  Cult had become diabolists, forgetting their 
  old ways and ultimately disbanding. 
  [Rome] 
   412 551 
  Cult of Mercury officially disbanded, over 
  one hundred years after it became 
  ineffective. The remaining Roman magi 
  move out of the dangerous cities and 
  gradually disperse into the countryside. 
  [HoH] 
   429 568 
  Vandals invade Africa. [History] 
   452 591 
  Huns invade Italy. [History] 
   452 591 
  Venice founded. [History] 
   455 594 
  Vandals sack Rome. [History] 
   
   Seventh Century of the Age of Aries. 
  
  This century saw a brief flowering of 
  magic and heroic effort on the fringe of 
  Europe. The Enchantment of Britain and 
  the Court of King Arthur brought a thaw 
  in the Winter of magic. 
   C. 465-525 C. 605-665 
  Stonehenge: Career of Merlin, greatest 
  magician of Britannia. Son of a Faerie and 
  a mortal woman, born able to speak, he 
  first appears as a boy to King Vortigern of 
  the Saxons, issues prophecies, and resolves 
  a problem vexing the king. Later Merlin 
  makes great wonders, transports the 
  Stonehenge to England, and arranges the 
  getting of Arthur by Uther Pendragon 
  upon Igraine of Cornwall. He could change 
  shape and made prophecies still studied 
  today. Toward the end of his life he advises 
  Arthur in the early part of his reign. 
  [Legend] 
  The final fate of Merlin is disputed. Some 
  say he was betrayed and imprisoned by his 
  apprentice, Nimue, Others claim he retired 
  to the lands of Faerie or into a regio. Some 
  in the Church claim he was the son of the 
  Devil. 
   476 615 
  Fall of the Roman Empire in the West. The 
  Gothic conquest of Italy is finalized by the 
  deposition of Emperor Romulus Augustus 
  by the Goth king Odovacar. The Imperial 
  robes and regalia are transferred to 
  Constantinople. [History] 
   C. 510-575 C. 650-715 
  Stonehenge: Magical reign of King Arthur 
  of the Britons under the Enchantment of 
  Britain. This period sees a flowering of 
  magical achievement, the crowning glory 
  of Merlin, the wide influence of the 
  magical Ladies of the Lakes, and many 
  magical quests. [Legend] The Reign of 
  Arthur is held up by some as a shining 
  example of how mortals and magi can 
  coexist. 
   C. 520-575 C. 660-715 
  Ultima Thule: Era of Beowulf, who slew an 
  ogre and the ogre’s mother, and became 
  King of the Geats. Late in his life he slays a 
  dragon and is slain by it. [Legend] 
   540 679 
  Byzantine conquest of Italy. [History] 
   C. 555 C. 695 
  Stonehenge: Arthur’s kingdom is blighted, a 
  terrible curse eventually lifted by the 
  successful quest for the Holy Grail. [Legend] 
   C. 560 C. 700 
  Stonehenge: The Kingdom of Lyonesse, 
  formerly a land or island of Britain off 
  Cornwall, sinks into the sea after the death 
  of its last heir, Tristram, after his 
  treacherous murder at the hands of King 
  Mark. Some claim the Scilly Isles are the 
  mountaintops of this drowned land. 
  [Legend] This whole quarter of the world 
  seems to be sinking into the sea, if one 
  includes Atlantis, Cimbrinsula, and the 
  many Western Isles said to lie under the 
  waves! 
   C. 500-600 C. 650-750 
  Greater Alps: In this century, the Golden 
  Wyrm of the High Alps, Impothesse, begins 
  to collect a hoard of gold, silver, and gems, 
  seizing them from mortals. [WT] 
   
   Eighth Century of the Age of Aries. 
  Another bitter period in the Winter of 
  magic. 
   568 707 
  Lombard conquest of Italy. [History] 
   590 729 
  Pope Geoffrey I establishes an imperial rule 
  in Rome, repairs public works, and feeds 
  
  the masses with doles of grain. His 
  authority is strengthened after a plague 
  ends after he has had a vision of the 
  Destroying Angel sheathing its sword. 
  [History] 
   610 749 
  An Arab merchant, Mohammed, begins to 
  preach a new religion, Islam, in the city of 
  Mecca. [History] 
   622 761 
  The prophet Mohammed is driven out of 
  Mecca for promoting an alien god. He 
  settles in Medina. [History] 
   629 768 
  Mohammed and his followers, the Muslims, 
  begin a religious war that will eventually 
  conquer the whole of the Near East and 
  North Africa, and will reach deeply into 
  Iberia. [History] 
   636 775 
  Muslim conquest of Syria. [History] 
   638 777 
  Muslim conquest of Jerusalem. [History] 
   642 781 
  Muslims conquer Alexandria and destroy 
  its famous Library, burning 300,000 
  volumes to heat baths. This is the end of the 
  Alexandrine center of learning. [History] 
   C. 600-700 C. 750-850 
  Greater Alps: The Dragon Impothesse, 
  called the Golden Wyrm for her wondrous 
  golden scales, burns cities and the realms of 
  kings who oppose her continuing quest for 
  gold and gems. She is opposed by the mortal 
  kings, and brave knights are sent to slay 
  her, but she is not defeated. [WT] 
   
   Ninth Century of the Age of Aries. 
  This century is the seed of the Order and 
  the rebirth of magic. The majority of this 
  century belonged to the pre-Founders: 
  Guorna the Fetid, the Pater of two 
  founders; Delendar the fire-magician, 
  pater of Flambeau; the unknown forebears 
  of Bjornaer and Diedne, the two barbarian 
  magi who yet were inheritors of organized 
  magical traditions. The final third of this 
  century belongs to their heirs, the 
  disparate schools brought together by the 
  genius of Bonisagus, who likely only 
  developed his Parma Magica to live in 
  peace. 
   671 810 
  Thebes: The combustible called Greek Fire is 
  used to defend Constantinople from Muslim 
  conquest. [History] 
   698 837 
  Iberia: Birth of Reculed Annaeus Seneca, to 
  be Founder Flambeau, in Lusitania. 
  [Iberia] This per Flambeau tradition. No 
  documentary evidence. 
   711 850 
  Iberia: Moors invade Hispania. In time 
  they bring the remaining learning of Rome 
  to the cities of Hispania. [History] 
   712 851 
  Iberia: Reculed Annaeus Seneca 
  apprenticed to Magus Delendar. Delendar, 
  a powerful mage skilled in destructive 
  magic, intensely trains the boy. [Iberia] 
   C. 714 C. 853 
  Iberia: An archbishop and six bishops flee 
  the Moorish invasion by sailing west into 
  the Atlantic Ocean. They land on the island 
  of Antilia, and each founds a golden city, 
  the seven cities of Cibola. [Legend] 
   717-718 856-857 
  Thebes: Constantinople is besieged by 
  Arabs. During the siege the Emperor 
  
  Theodosius is deposed and replaced by Leo 
  III. Leo breaks the siege, destroys the Arab 
  fleet, and ends further Muslim expansion 
  into eastern Europe. [History] 
   722 861 
  Iberia: A glowing rider on a white horse 
  panics the Moors at the battle of 
  Covadonga. This rider is later identified as 
  St. James by Dominion. [ON] Possibly 
  Delandar? See related event in AA 983. 
   725 864 
  Rhine: The Donar Oak, a long standing 
  relic of German paganism, felled by St. 
  Boniface. [Legend] Or possibly by 
  Charlemagne. 
   730 869 
  Iberia: Delendar and Reculed battle Moors 
  and Moorish sorcerers in a battle in the 
  Pyrenees foothills. Delendar is killed in a 
  massive magical attack after being 
  separated from Reculed. Reculed destroys 
  the survivors in a rage, and crosses the 
  mountains into the south of France. Here 
  Reculed takes the name Flambeau. [Iberia] 
   731 870 
  Trianoma meets Bonisagus, who has 
  already developed a method of defending 
  against magical attack, the Parma Magica. 
  Trianoma becomes Bonisagus’ apprentice, 
  learns the Parma Magica and begins 
  approaching magi to come to his cave in 
  the Alps to share magical secrets. [HoH] 
   731?-767 870-906 
  Magi council Bonisagus in his Alpine cave, 
  debate many issues and develop Hermetic 
  theory and the Code of Hermes. Many of 
  these magi become Founders. 
  Bonisagus bases his Hermetic Theory on 
  the ancient wisdom of the classic 
  philosophers, moderated by the practical 
  advice of experienced magi. Many of the 
  Roman magi continue their old Mercurial 
  magic traditions, which gradually dwindle 
  as the Order grows and Hermetic theory 
  takes deeper root. [HoH] It seems likely 
  that Hermetic theory continued to be 
  developed for the remainder of Bonisagus’ 
  life. 
  Only Bonisagus is thought to have attended 
  the whole of this period; the other Founders 
  are believed to have come and go. 
   C. 731-767 C. 870-906 
  The mysterious maga Merinita comes out 
  of the wilderness, and convinces the 
  sorceress Bjornaer to abandon her 
  tradition and join the new Order. Bjornaer 
  is condemned by her former fellows, 
  including the sorceress Gyongy. [HoH] The 
  tradition that Bjornaer left still holds her 
  House a grudge. 
   732 871 
  Provence: Flambeau helps Charles Martel 
  defeat a Moorish army at the Battle of 
  Tours, near Poitiers. This ends the 
  expansion of the Moors into western 
  Europe. [History, Iberia] 
   733?-? 872?-? 
  Flambeau hunts and slays over fifty 
  wizards across Europe to sharpen his skills 
  for an eventual campaign against the 
  Moors. Afterward, he meets Trianoma, is 
  impressed with the Parma Magica, and 
  joins the magi counseling Bonisagus. At 
  some point in this period, Flambeau takes 
  his first apprentice, Apromor. [Iberia] 
  Flambeau was apparently impressed by 
  the Parma blocking his attack on 
  Trianoma! 
   C. 750 C. 890 
  Iberia: The high point of Muslim learning 
  in Iberia. [History] 
   754 893 
  
  Frankish conquest of Italy. [History] 
   C. 700-800 C. 850-950 
  Greater Alps: The Great Golden Wyrm 
  Impothesse, having collected a vast hoard 
  of gold through seizure and tribute, retires 
  to her cave in the High Alps, where she is 
  only occasionally disturbed by foolhardy 
  mortal knights. [WT] 
   
   The Tenth Century of the Age of Aries. 
  The Order was founded only six years into 
  this century and a new age of magic began. 
  Most of the Founders still called themselves 
  priests of Mercury, but in the coming 
  generations magicians would find the title 
  Magus enough. This was a century of great 
  conflict, as Founders Flambeau and 
  Tytalus hunted the greatest wizards of the 
  age and gave them the choice of a life 
  under the Order or death in Chaos. 
  The classic tale of this struggle is that of 
  Pralix, the Thirteenth Founder, who 
  organized a motley band of barbarian 
  hedge magi into an effective fighting force, 
  largely without additional aid from the 
  Order. With aggressive recruitment by the 
  Founders, this was also a century of great 
  growth for the young Order. Most of the 
  Domus Magnae were founded in this 
  period, and they proved to be strong: only 
  one has entered the Final Winter which 
  has consumed so many younger covenants. 
   767, Feb 21 905,III Pisces 
  Foundation of the Order of Hermes at 
  Durenmar. Bonisagus is the first to swear 
  the Oath. The Founders: Bonisagus, 
  Bjornaer, Criamon, Diedne, Flambeau, 
  Jerbiton, Mercere, Merinita, Guernicus, 
  Tremere, Tytalus, Verditius. [HoH] The 
  mundane and Hermetic date disagree in 
  the histories, for unknown reasons. 
   767 905 
  First Tribunal. Although magi counseling 
  Founder Bonisagus had been present for 
  decades, this is considered the first meeting 
  of the Order. Naturally, there are more 
  than the Twelve Founders attending the 
  Tribunal, including some or all of the magi 
  who had been adopted by the Founders. 
  Among the first decisions in Tribunal are 
  the rules for Wizard’s War: The War must 
  be declared on to the defending mage on 
  the full moon prior to its beginning. The 
  War begins on the night of a full moon and 
  continues until the following full moon. 
  Those who continue after this time are 
  rogue and shall be Renounced. [HoH, 
  WGRE] Trianoma may have performed the 
  practical duties of the Praeco. 
   After 767 After 906 
  Founder Flambeau collects a school of 
  apprentices in preparation for his long 
  delayed campaign against the Moors, 
  including Delendos and probably 
  Abydaros. Founder Flambeau and his 
  apprentices scour Europe for hedge 
  magicians to battle. [Iberia] 
  He also attracts some new followers, 
  including Maga Kypris of an Egyptian 
  tradition, whose Lineage seeks the Phoenix, 
  as she did. [Mysteries] 
  By this time Founder Flambeau’s first 
  apprentice, Apromor, had matured into a 
  full magus. He may have been a magus at 
  the time of the Founding. [HoH, Iberia] 
  Some accounts claim that Founder 
  Flambeau took his first apprentices after 
  the Foundation of the Order, others that he 
  had already trained Apromor. 
  Traditionally, Apromor is an Arch-Mage 
  by the time the rules for Wizard’s War are 
  developed. The order of events is variously 
  reported. 
   C. 767-770 C. 906-909 
  Founder Flambeau, hunting hedge 
  wizards, destroys a band of three such 
  
  hiding in the catacombs under Rome. These 
  wizards drew power from an artifact 
  called Vardian’s Skull. Flambeau shatters 
  the skull and slays the wizards. Later, these 
  catacombs become the site of Vardian’s 
  Tomb covenant. 
   768 907 
  Charlemagne becomes King of the Franks. 
  [History] 
   768-814 907-953 
  Reign of Charlemagne. This great mortal 
  king wisely ruled Normandy, Provence, 
  northern Italy, the Rhine, the Alps, and 
  northern Hispania, expanded the realm of 
  civilization, improved education, dealt 
  justly with mortals and magi, and was 
  considered a friend of the Order. His court 
  did not fear magi or magic, and did not 
  disdain to use enchanted devices. His 
  twelve great paladins sought adventure 
  across Europe and Africa. He was in time 
  crowned Emperor of Rome, but all his 
  works and wonders passed in two 
  generations after his death. [History, 
  Legend] Charlemagne’s court also clashed 
  with many hedge magicians of the era, 
  including the wizard Atlante. 
   770 909 
  Founder Mercere loses his Gift. He devotes 
  himself to delivering messages in the Order. 
  Unfortunately, Founder Mercere has 
  trained only two apprentices and his 
  magical secrets of transformation 
  eventually fade from the traditions of his 
  house. [HoH] 
  Founder Bonisagus spent many seasons 
  attempting to recover Founder Mercere’s 
  Gift, but no progress was recorded. 
   C. 770-774 909-913 
  Founder Flambeau visits Durenmar with 
  his train of apprentices. Inspired by the 
  value of a stable base, he founds Val-Negra 
  covenant in the mountains of the Pyrenees. 
  Here he intensely trains his apprentices, 
  pushing many into Gauntlets after only a 
  few years. [Iberia] One of Founder 
  Flambeau’s apprentices may have been 
  Ignis Festi, who fought in the war against 
  Dav’nalleous, but it is not certain. 
   772 911 
  Founders Tremere and Bonisagus develop 
  Certamen. Both are apparently pleased to 
  have developed a non-fatal method of 
  dueling. The reaction of the other founders 
  is unrecorded. [HoH] Some have pointed to 
  this as the start of Founder Tremere’s 
  machinations to control the Order. 
   773 912 
  Tribunal of 912: The Rights of Founder 
  Bonisagus ruled to extend to all members 
  of his House, including the right to claim 
  another mage’s apprentice, and the 
  requirement that magi of that House must 
  share their discoveries with the Order, and 
  that magi must share their knowledge with 
  members of Bonisagus, unless they can 
  convince a Tribunal that the magical 
  knowledge must remain secret. 
  Procedures for lesser Tribunals set: a 
  Tribunal shall consist of at least twelve 
  magi from at least four covenants. 
  Hereafter the term Tribunal comes to be 
  applied to territories ruled by lesser 
  Tribunals and the Tribunal of the Founders 
  and Primi is called the Grand Tribunal. 
  [WGRE] This early use of the term 
  Covenant indicates its antiquity. The term 
  is also used at the early point to refer to 
  the home of Founder Bonisagus, 
  Durenmar. There must have been at least 
  three others already, only five years after 
  the Founding. These early covenants were 
  mostly of a single House. 
   771 913 
  Rome: Charlemagne becomes King of the 
  Lombards. He confirms Papal lands 
  
  acquired in earlier decades, but asserts his 
  sovereignty even in Papal lands. [History] 
   774 913 
  Rome: Pavia conquered by Charlemagne. 
  [History] 
   775 914 
  Rome: Verdi covenant founded by Founder 
  Verditius in Sardinia. [Rome] 
   776 915 
  Rome: Harco covenant founded by 
  Founder Mercere in the foothills of the 
  southern Alps. [Rome] This likely marked a 
  reduction in Founder Bonisagus’ attempts 
  to recover Mercere’s Gift. 
   778 917 
  Iberia: Battle of Rencesvals. King 
  Charlemagne has conquered most of 
  northern Hispania in a long campaign, 
  except for Saragossa. He is approached by 
  the Moorish king of Saragossa, Marsile, 
  and convinced of Marsile’s good intention 
  to surrender his kingdom and become 
  Christian agrees to return with Marsile to 
  France for the Moor king’s baptism. The 
  Moors plot with a French traitor, Ganelon, 
  to fall on Charlemagne’s rearguard, 
  destroy it, and kill the commander, Roland, 
  one of the French paladins. The rearguard 
  is destroyed after a bloody battle in which 
  Roland refuses to sound his horn to recall 
  the main army until it is too late. 
  Charlemagne returns on hearing Roland’s 
  horn and slaughters the Moors. [History, 
  Legend] 
   778 917 
  Iberia: Founder Flambeau repeatedly 
  clashes with Founder Guernicus and other 
  quaesitores over his interference in the 
  wars between mortal Christians and 
  Muslims. He is prevented from 
  campaigning in 917 by a quaesitorial visit, 
  contributing to the final failure of a new 
  thrust into Spain by King Charlemagne. 
  [Iberia] 
   C. 780 C. 920 
  Normandy: Carolinus, vulgar name 
  Charles de Foix, the Mage-Smith of 
  Charlemagne, trains apprentices who are 
  adopted by Founder Jerbiton. Carolinus 
  worked many fine magical works, possibly 
  including the sword of Roland, Durendal 
  and the magic mirror of Galienne. 
  [Mysteries] The Mage-Smiths continue to 
  flourish in House Jerbiton today. 
   782 921 
  King Charlemagne orders the organization 
  of schools in his kingdom, and generally 
  promotes literacy and education. [History] 
  Sadly, the quality of mortal education has 
  been very inconsistent over the years. 
   785 924 
  Rome: Earliest possible date for the Verdi 
  Competition, perhaps to celebrate the first 
  decade of Verdi. This date is also eighteen 
  years after the Founding of the Order, 
  probably setting the period of the Verdi 
  cycle. The Verdi Competition is a House 
  Verditius contest held at Verdi to see who 
  has made the best enchanted device. 
  [Rome] Unfortunately, records of this early 
  period are fragmentary. 
   788 927 
  Iberia: Death of Founder Flambeau and 
  several of his filii at the Battle of the Tower 
  in Iberia; Magus Delendos is the sole 
  survivor. He reports that Founder 
  Flambeau struck down many spirits 
  fighting for the Moorish sorcerers and 
  finally struck down the whole of the enemy 
  with a final mighty spell powered by a 
  massive amount of vis, the first fons et 
  origo. [Iberia] 
  Magus Abydaros filius Flambeau was not 
  at this battle. He went on to study the less 
  destructive aspects of Ignem. [Mysteries] Of 
  
  course, we have only one witness to this 
  battle, and he is unlikely to be all-informed. 
  Abydaros vanished into far Ethiopia some 
  time after his pater’s passing. 
   789 928 
  King Charlemagne forbids sorcery and 
  divination, punishable by slavery, and 
  paganism and diabolism, punishable by 
  death. [History] Sorcery in this case 
  probably meaning maleficia, harmful 
  magic. 
   793 932 
  Rome: Auctus covenant founded in 
  Sardinia. [Rome] 
   C. 797 C. 936 
  Founder Tytalus bests the hedge wizard 
  Evander of Ravenna in a game, and 
  sponsors Evander to House Verditius, 
  where he teaches the construction of 
  astrological instruments. [Mysteries] 
   Prior to 799 Prior to 938 
  At an unknown point, Founder Merinita 
  leaves her House to seek the spirit of the 
  wilderness. [HoH] She is said to still appear 
  to magi occasionally. 
   799 938 
  Quendalon, First Primus of Merinita, 
  enters faerie woods, leaving Myanar in 
  charge of the House. [HoH] Whether he 
  entered at Maddenhofen Wood is not 
  noted, although it seems likely; the forest is 
  near to Irencillia. 
   799 939 
  Grand Tribunal of 938: Rules for Certamen 
  set; it is to be respected as a method of 
  resolving dispute; the guidelines for 
  choosing Technique and Form are set; 
  winning magi may not challenge again 
  over the same issue until they have been 
  challenged in turn; vis may be used in 
  formal certamen. [WGRE] The Grand 
  Tribunals following this one occur on a 
  cycle of thirty three years, barring 
  emergency Tribunals. 
   800 939 
  Rome: King Charlemagne becomes 
  Emperor of the Romans. This closes a 
  period of open friendship between the king 
  and the Order, as the Pope is jealous of wise 
  men outside the Church. However, 
  Emperor Charlemagne does issue laws 
  forbidding vigilante attacks against 
  suspected witches. [History] 
  Flavia filia Jerbiton reported in 
  attendance at the coronation. [HtM] 
   801 940 
  Rhine: Quendalon of Merinita exits faerie 
  woods with ruby eyes, and preaches a new, 
  faerie way of magic, which he claims 
  would revolutionize magical theory. 
  Primus Myanar claims that the Quendalon 
  is actually a changeling, and mobilizes his 
  faction to resist. An internal House 
  struggle ensues. [HoH] The debate over 
  whether this actually was Quendalon 
  continues to this day. 
   802 941 
  Quendalon retakes control of House 
  Merinita and converts it to his vision. 
  Myanar and his followers are declared orbi 
  of Merinita and adopted by House 
  Bjornaer, where the line eventually 
  dwindles and vanishes. [HoH] 
   803 942 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 942. 
   803 942 
  Flavia filia Jerbiton, vanishes from the 
  Order. [HtM] 
   807 946 
  
  Founder Tytalus enters Maddenhofen 
  Woods to challenge the Queen of Faerie, 
  and is not seen thereafter. [HoH] Hariste, 
  his favored filia, may have become the first 
  Primus of his House. 
   808 947 
  Normandy: Battle of Carnac in Brittany; 
  the hedge wizard Dav’nalleous (called 
  Damhan-allaigh in Gaelic) defeats a group 
  of Flambeau and Tremere magi. The dark 
  magician practiced bloody sacrificial rites 
  to power his magic, and refused to join the 
  Order, as it would mean giving up his 
  magic to avoid interfering with mortals. 
  [HoH, LotN] Human sacrifice was among 
  Dav’nalleous’ rites. 
   810-816 949-955 
  Normandy: The Order makes war against 
  Dav’nalleous. Some additional magi fight 
  the sorcerer while he remains in Brittany, 
  and are slain. [LotN] 
   810 949 
  Normandy: Dav’nalleous flees Brittany to 
  Caledonia. He is followed and fought by 
  magi, but they are defeated. [LotN] 
   810 949 
  Founder Jerbiton mentions his belief that 
  Flavia, his filia, has likely died. [HtM] She 
  had not. See 958. 
   814 (May) 953 (Tau) 
  War Against Dav’nalleous in Britain 
  begins, led by Pralix filia Tytalus, 
  including several other magi, including 
  Ignis Festi of Flambeau and a century of 
  grogs. The expedition lands in 
  Northumbria. The expedition is equipped 
  with stores of vis, and Pralix is given the 
  Robes of Dusty Dawn by Founder 
  Verditius, now the robes of office for House 
  Ex Miscellanea. [LotN] Most of the details 
  of the war against Dav’nalleous come from 
  the reports of Pralix herself, as she was the 
  lone Hermetic survivor of the war. 
   814 (June) 953 (Gem) 
  Pralix ambushed at Loch Oadh by 
  Dav’nalleous and his magical allies. All the 
  magi but Pralix and Ignis Festi are killed, 
  as are the fifty grogs; these two magi 
  escape. Pralix recruits local hedge wizards 
  in the battle, including Brude Deathless, a 
  powerful gruagach. In the coming year 
  Pralix teaches some of the hedge magicians 
  the Parma Magica. [LotN] Gruagach are 
  wizards of Caledonia, with power to curse 
  or gift, and to change shape. 
  There were many local hedge traditions 
  brought under Pralix’s banner. 
   814 953 
  Death of Emperor Charlemagne, marking a 
  decline in mortal scholarship. His empire 
  divides into chaos in three mortal 
  generations. [History] 
   815 (June) 954 (Gem) 
  Defection of Brude Deathless after 
  quarreling with Ignis Festi; Brude’s 
  gruagachan followers leave with him. 
  Battle of Loch Ochy; a near stalemate. 
  Pralix retreats to Loch Leglean and makes 
  a base camp. [LotN] 
   815 (July) 954 (Can) 
  Pralix guarantees Hermetic status for all 
  who follow her banner, and Brude 
  Deathless returns. [LotN] 
   815 (Aug.) 954 (Leo) 
  Battle of the Bloody Glen: Ignis Festi breaks 
  with Pralix over offering protection to 
  hedge wizards, storms from her camp, and 
  encounters and duels with Dav’nalleous. 
  The land echoes with their battle, in which 
  Dav’nalleous is wounded but Ignis Festi 
  killed. [LotN] 
   815 (Dec.) 954 (Sag) 
  
  Night of the Sluagh: Dav’nalleous 
  slaughters many wizards with a 
  treacherous attack using the spirits of the 
  dead. Fewer than a dozen magicians are 
  killed, and Dav’nalleous retreats to the 
  forest of Cad Gadu. [LotN] This attack is 
  said to have taken place on one of the 
  longest nights of the year, possibly the 
  winter solstice. 
   816 (March 21) 955 (I Aries) 
  Battle of the Great Light: Dav’nalleous 
  defeated and apparently killed after a false 
  sun summoned by the hedge magi banishes 
  his dark allies. His body is laid out for 
  destruction; before it can be destroyed it 
  disappears and the guards watching it are 
  slaughtered. Brude Deathless now reveals 
  that some gruagachan can hide their souls 
  and survive any fatal wound, unless their 
  soul’s hiding place is harmed. [LotN] A 
  great pity that Brude waited until this late 
  date to reveal this important gruagach 
  power. Research, magus, always research! 
   816 (June) 955 
  Ordo Miscellanea formed by Pralix filia 
  Tytalus at Cad Gadu. The new Ordo 
  includes an array of British hedge 
  magicians. Pralix may have intended her 
  organization to become the beloved rival  
  of the Order. [LotN, HoH] Cad gadu  
  means abandoned army  in Welsh, 
  referring to Dav’nalleous’s defeat. 
   816 955 
  Sporadic fighting as Dav’nalleous’ 
  followers are hunted down; Clan Mac 
  Gruagach joins Ordo Miscellanea. The 
  Northern Guard, Praeses Septentrionalis, 
  formed out of several new covenants to 
  maintain a vigilant watch for 
  Dav’nalleous’ return. [LotN] 
   817 956 
  After debate among the Founders and 
  Primi, Trianoma travels to meet Pralix at 
  Cad Gadu; Trianoma agrees to admit Ordo 
  Miscellanea to Order as House Ex 
  Miscellanea. [LotN, HoH] Apparently the 
  Clan Mac Gruagach breaks with Pralix, as 
  they are also noted as joining House Ex 
  Miscellanea in 1126 AA. 
   817 956 
  Grand Tribunal of 956: The admission of 
  House Ex Miscellanea confirmed. The 
  Tribunals of Stonehenge, Hibernia and 
  Loch Leglean created. Maga Pralix is now 
  Founder Pralix. [WGRE] From this date to 
  the Schism War there are Thirteen Houses 
  of Hermes. 
   817 956 
  Loch Leglean: Holy Oak, a covenant of 
  Diedne, founded. [LotN] 
   817 956 
  Stonehenge: The now Nameless Covenant, 
  of Diedne, founded on Anglesey. The vile 
  rites practiced here are best left buried. 
  [HtM] The name of the Nameless Covenant 
  was struck from all records after the 
  Schism War. 
   C. 817 C. 956 
  Magus Anegin, a Welsh bard-mage, 
  lawgiver, and seer, who had fought with 
  Pralix against Dav’nalleous, joins House 
  Bonisagus instead of House Ex Miscellanea. 
  His Line continues to be famous for its 
  political and mediation abilities. 
  [Mysteries] 
   818 957 
  Stonehenge: Blackthorn covenant founded 
  in south Cambria (Wales), sponsored by 
  House Tremere. [HtM] 
   819 958 
  Flavia filia Jerbiton reappears after a 
  sixteen year absence. She refuses to say 
  where she has been and begins to search for 
  a covenant site. [HtM] Flavia’s absence has 
  been the subject of speculation since. 
  
   820 959 
  Stonehenge: Flavia filia Jerbiton founds 
  Rosalba in the Yorkshire Dales. [HtM] 
   821 960 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 960. 
   821-823 960-962 
  Stonehenge: Concordia covenant founded to 
  meld the magical traditions of House Ex 
  Miscellanea. It fails and disbands in two 
  years. [HtM] 
   826-854 965-993 
  The hedge wizard Pendule refuses to join 
  the Order, but teaches his magic secrets to 
  several magi of the Order. Many rumors 
  surround Pendule, whose sensual 
  Imagonem magic is said to be diabolic or 
  descended from Eastern traditions, but the 
  effect of his teachings on his students are 
  unknown. [HoH] 
   Before 830 Before 969 
  Founder Guernicus dies. [Rome] 
   830 969 
  Rome: Magvillus covenant founded shortly 
  after the death of Guernicus. It is, or 
  becomes, Domus Magna of House 
  Guernicus. [Rome] 
   C. 831 C. 970 
  Saracen conquest of Sicily. [History] 
   832 971 
  Grand Tribunal of 971: The Rules of 
  Certamen restricted to forbid using 
  certamen to force a magus to violate the 
  Code or give up his established rights, 
  including the rights of praecones, primi, 
  and quaesitores. 
  Ruling that a mage must provide his 
  apprentice with three month’s training or 
  risk losing that apprentice to another 
  mage, if the apprentice agrees. [WGRE] 
  This is the second Tribunal to enter the 
  thirty three year cycle. They continue in 
  this cycle hereafter. 
   834 973 
  Loch Leglean: Well of the Head, a covenant 
  of Diedne, founded. [LotN] 
   Before 837 Before 976 
  Final Twilight or Death of Founder 
  Criamon. The manner of his passing is not 
  known outside his House. [HoH] 
   837 976 
  Death of Founder Verditius. This leaves 
  Founder Tremere as the last living 
  Founder. [HoH] Presumably Pralix is also 
  dead or Passed by this time. 
   838 977 
  Rome: Rellantali covenant founded on 
  Sardinia. [Rome] 
   839 978 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 978, the first 
  after the death of Founder Verditius. 
  Possibly the first competition, to 
  memorialize the Founder of the House. 
  Records are fragmentary. 
   839 978 
  Stonehenge: Cad Gadu chronicles notes the 
  visit of a group of wandering magi. The 
  wandering magi are noted in the records of 
  Stonehenge from time to time hereafter. 
  [HtM] This may be the wandering 
  covenant of Semitae, foundation date 
  unknown. 
   841 980 
  Rome: Calabria covenant founded. [Rome] 
   843 982 
  The tale Travels of Fedoso completed by 
  Verderis, Primus of Criamon. This classic 
  
  work has been used by generations of 
  masters to teach their apprentices Latin, 
  may be a ciphered prediction of the course 
  of the Order, and is the center of obscure 
  debate. [HoH] 
   843 982 
  Charlemagne’s empire divided among his 
  heirs. [History] 
   844 983 
  Iberia: A glowing rider on a white horse, 
  identified as St. James, appears to King 
  Ramiro on the eve of battle at Clarijo, and 
  assures him of victory. The next day the 
  rider leads Dominion forces to victory. 
  [ON] Magus or Saint? 
   847 986 
  Saracens nearly sack Rome. [History] 
   848 987 
  The Sundering of Tremere. Founder 
  Tremere, last living Founder, has almost 
  succeeded in dominating the Order through 
  political intrigue and application of 
  certamen over the previous decade, but is 
  stopped in this year by a band of magi who 
  strike his chief lieutenants by afflicting 
  their minds, the Sundering of House 
  Tremere. This strike was performed all at 
  once by magi who penetrated the 
  Founder’s covenant and broke key 
  elements of the lieutenants’ minds. The 
  identities of the Sunderers remain 
  unknown. [HoH] This is a pivotal event in 
  Hermetic history; the first serious inter-
  House conflict, the first known resolution 
  outside the Code, and the first major 
  negotiated settlement. 
   After 848 After 987 
  Stonehenge: Blackthorn covenant, allied 
  with House Tremere, suffers a drop in 
  political power following the Sundering. 
  Rosalba covenant seeks to further this 
  weakening. [HtM] This decline leads to the 
  harsh policies of Blackthorn in the coming 
  centuries. 
   849 988 
  Loch Leglean: Covenant of Peanhafel, 
  inhabited by Pictish magi of House Ex 
  Miscellanea destroyed by Diedne magi in 
  support of a mortal king. [LotN] No known 
  reprisal. Woe that Diedne was not 
  chastised before it descended further. 
   851 990 
  Rome: The Tribunal is subjected to a 
  violent earthquake. [History] It is not 
  known if this was a natural earthquake. 
   852 991 
  Stonehenge: Castrum Antiquum founded in 
  the ruins of a Roman fort on Hadrian’s 
  Wall. [HtM] 
   856 995 
  Thebes: An earthquake at Corinth kills tens 
  of thousands. [History] 
   857 996 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 996. 
   860s C. 1000 
  Loch Leglean: Activities of giants in 
  Scotland monitored; found to be no danger 
  to the Order. [LotN] 
   861 1000 
  Death of Founder Tremere, last of the 
  Founders. [HoH] 
   862 1001 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1001 
  (presumably at Coeris). This once in a 
  decade meeting brings together the House 
  for coordination of plans and operations. 
  [HoH] Probably the first ten-year meeting, 
  the year after their Founder’s death. 
   
  
   The Eleventh Century of the Age of Aries. 
  By this century the Founders were dead or 
  lost to Twilight. Their political positions 
  were filled by the Primi; their social 
  positions were in some ways filled by the 
  Arch-Magi. This century must have 
  seemed, to the magi living it, to be a period 
  of comparative calm, although the 
  ordinary struggles of life were certainly 
  everywhere. Dav’nalleous returned to 
  plague Loch Leglean, Wizard’s Wars flared, 
  including one of the earliest examples of a 
  covenant war, and the stability of the 
  Order was threatened by a collection of 
  scrolls found by Duresca. Although a time 
  of the Order’s growth, this was also a 
  century of growth pains, when House 
  Tytalus allowed itself to play fatal games, 
  magi made war on their sodales, and the 
  authority of the Quaesitores undermined 
  itself. 
   865 1004 
  Grand Tribunal of 1004: Magus Hercilion 
  reprimanded, but not punished, for serving 
  as a court wizard. Magi of the Order are 
  hereafter barred from serving as court 
  wizards. [WGRE] 
   866 1005 
  Stonehenge: Rector Maris covenant 
  founded on the Isle of Man. It is destroyed 
  within six months, apparently by the 
  Order of Odin. [HtM] This is the first 
  known attempt to establish a covenant on 
  Man. 
  It is tempting to assign this destruction to 
  magi of Diedne, as one of their main 
  covenants was on the nearby island of 
  Anglesey. 
   C. 867 C. 1006 
  The first meeting of the Arch-Magi of the 
  Order, one hundred years after the 
  Founding. They discuss many subjects, 
  supposedly charting out the future of the 
  Order. The only known result is an 
  agreement to create a tomb for their 
  deceased members. The covenant of 
  Magvillus is charged with protecting the 
  tomb of the Arch-Magi. [Rome] The 
  reported charting of the Order’s future is 
  unlikely to include such disasters as the 
  Corruption, the Schism War, or the 
  vampirization of Tremere. The influence of 
  the council of arch-magi is probably much 
  exaggerated. 
   870 1009 
  Rome: Potestas covenant founded in 
  northern Italy. [Rome] 
   872 1011 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1011 
  at Coeris. 
   873 1012 
  Stonehenge: Wizard’s War between 
  Blackthorn maga Diana of Tremere and 
  Rosalba magus William of Jerbiton. Diana 
  victor after death of William. A period of 
  skirmishing follows despite the efforts of 
  Flavia of Rosalba. [HtM] 
   875 1014 
  Primus Fenicil of Guernicus reports his 
  findings of decades of research: that the 
  Order of Hermes is a manifestation of an 
  order that dates back to beginning of 
  history. [HoH] Why Fenicil declares the 
  Order a manifestation, rather than an 
  inheritor, is unclear. 
   875 1014 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1014. 
   875 1014 
  Stonehenge: Covenant of Sursum founded 
  on the north coast of Cornwall. [HtM] 
   C. 875 C. 1015 
  Rome: Roman magi record in this period 
  that magic has seemed to dwindle. This 
  
  dwindling sets off a century of infighting 
  among the covenants and magi of the 
  Tribunal. [Rome] 
   C. 875 C. 1015 
  Rome: Juden of Verditius slays many 
  clergy on the island of Sardinia, thinking 
  to limit the influence of the Dominion and 
  revive vis sources. His victims are held up 
  as martyrs and he is Marched. Executed by 
  a Flambeau Hoplite, his death by fire is 
  credited to God by the mortal witnesses. 
  [Rome] Juden is only the worst of the lot. 
  Many other magi lash out against 
  mundanes and each other in this period. 
   876 1015 
  Provencal: Doissetep covenant founded. 
  [Covenants] 
   882 1021 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1021 
  at Coeris. 
   887 1026 
  Belin, the ideal Redcap,  dies. Her legend 
  grows with each passing century. [HoH] 
   888 1027 
  Rome: Auctus covenant destroyed by magi 
  of Verdi. [Rome] 
   889 1028 
  Loch Leglean: Several covenants of Praeses 
  Septentrionalis destroyed by followers of 
  Dav’nalleous, starting with Heart’s 
  Delight; Flambeau and Tytalus magi sent 
  to fight Dav’nalleous. [LotN] Little else is 
  known about the Praeses Septentrionalis 
  covenants. 
   890 1029 
  Loch Leglean: Dav’nalleous defeated at 
  Caithness, but he escapes. [LotN] Rumor 
  persistently places the Shetland Islands as 
  Dav’nalleous’ base. 
   890 1029 
  Stonehenge: Flavia filia Jerbiton, founder 
  of Rosalba, passes into Final Twilight, one 
  day after finishing her final tractatus. Her 
  covenant of Rosalba enters a new period of 
  war with Blackthorn. [HtM] Flavia 
  carefully prepared for her Final Twilight, 
  leading to speculation that she had 
  discovered a great secret about the last 
  veil. 
   891 1030 
  Iamitu’krielle of Criamon apparently 
  passes into Final Twilight. Nevertheless she 
  appears to magi thereafter to make 
  strange prophecies. [HoH] 
   892 1031 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1031 
  at Coeris. 
   893 1032 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1032. 
   893-897 1032-1036 
  Stonehenge: Covenant Occulta founded by 
  new magi, but withers in three years after 
  failing to secure resources. [HtM] 
   896 1035 
  Stonehenge: London covenant founded. 
  [HtM] 
   898 1037 
  Grand Tribunal of 1037: Quaesitores 
  required to maintain accreditation in 
  order to officiate at Tribunal, specifically 
  the mage must be known to at least one 
  other mage of the Tribunal, and must 
  present a document of good standing 
  signed by Primus Guernicus and dated not 
  more than seven years past. [WGRE] 
   899 1038 
  Stonehenge: Blackthorn covenant declares 
  Wizard’s War on Rosalba covenant. 
  
  Rosalba is destroyed and all the magi 
  killed. One Blackthorn mage is killed by 
  magical defenses. The magically protected 
  site is abandoned and eventually lost. 
  [HtM] 
   899 1038 
  Rhine: Emperor Arnulf dies suddenly. Two 
  hedge wizards are accused of inflicting 
  stroke upon him and executed. [History] 
   900 1039 
  Loch Leglean: Diedne spells eradicate the 
  Pictish language, possibly to support the 
  conquest of Kenneth MacAlpine, a mortal 
  king. [LotN] Further evidence of Diedne 
  corruption. 
   902 1041 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1041 
  at Coeris. 
   907 1046 
  Rome: Calabria covenant disbands in 
  Rome, citing unbearable Roman politics. 
  The magi apparently scatter, or possibly 
  move to the Theban Tribunal. [Rome] 
  Calabria supposedly fled to Novgorod, but 
  that Tribunal did not yet exist. 
   911 1050 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1050. 
   912 1051 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1051 
  at Coeris. 
   915 1054 
  Stonehenge: Covenant Lux Draconis 
  founded in the Pennines. [HtM] 
   915 1054 
  Iberia: The fields of Iberia fail, causing 
  widespread famine. [History] 
   917 1056 
  Iberia: Duresca covenant founded in 
  Iberia. [Iberia] 
   919 1058 
  Iberia: A second famine in Iberia. [Iberia] 
   922 1061 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1061 
  at Coeris. 
   927 1066 
  Thebes: A famine rolls across the 
  Byzantine Empire. [History] 
   929 1068 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1068. 
   930 1069 
  Loch Leglean: Loch Leglean echoes with 
  rumor of Dav’nalleous’ return; they prove 
  baseless. [LotN] 
   931 1070 
  Grand Tribunal of 1070: Magus Hernis of 
  House Tytalus cast out at Tribunal and 
  executed by Magus Fax Ignis of Flambeau, 
  for abusing the right of Wizard’s War in 
  declaring three such in the space of 
  fourteen months. His reasons were 
  considered insufficient, but he refused to 
  consider the advice of his sodales. [WGRE] 
  Hernis would have evaded this fate had he 
  cooperated, but stubbornly refused to 
  admit error or cooperate. 
   931 1070 
  Stonehenge: Covenant Sursum falls to a 
  mortal king, Athelstan, for interfering in a 
  mundane revolt. Evidence recovered by 
  quaesitores points to Tytalus corruption. 
  [HtM] This evidence was some of the 
  earliest against House Tytalus. 
   932 1071 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1071 
  at Coeris. 
  
   937 1076 
  Iberia: The Duresca Scrolls are discovered; 
  they seem to be evidence of a plot by 
  Founder Guernicus to dominate the Order 
  and the World. [Iberia] The details of this 
  plot are either lost, unrecorded, or 
  carefully kept. 
   C. 937 C. 1076 
  Eight Quaesitores, two of Guernicus, others 
  of Flambeau, Tytalus, and Jerbiton, are 
  dispatched to investigate the Duresca 
  Scrolls. Three die en route, causes 
  unrecorded. [Iberia] 
   938 1077 
  Stonehenge: Rector Novus founded on Isle 
  of Man. Destroyed within the year, 
  presumably by the Order of Odin. 
  Alternately, this could be an early strike 
  by Diedne. [HtM] The second failure to 
  colonize Man. 
   C. 940 C. 1080 
  Normandy: The quaesitores uncover a plot 
  by a Maga of Tytalus, masquerading as the 
  Faerie queen Melisandre, apparently 
  furthering infernal ends. [ON] This is 
  another early piece of the Tytalus 
  Corruption puzzle. 
   940 1079 
  Iberia: Panel of Quaesitores declare the 
  Duresca Scrolls a fraud. This panel stays at 
  Duresca and eventually joins that 
  covenant. [Iberia] 
   941 1080 
  Greater Alps: Probable year in which 
  Magus Nerius passes his Gauntlet to enter 
  House Criamon. He goes on to be a most 
  controversial and storied figure. [PD] 
  Magus Nerius supposedly finished his 
  apprenticeship in only five years. 
   942 1081 
  Thebes: Expedition by Michael of Amastris 
  to found covenant in Kiev. [DatB] 
   942 1081 
  Stonehenge: Contact lost with London 
  covenant, which had moved in the city 
  repeatedly. [HtM] 
   942 1081 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1081 
  at Coeris. 
   943 1082 
  Normandy: Ergotism kills tens of 
  thousands and leaves many more mad 
  from visions. [History] This may have been 
  a Faerie joke gone too far or the effort of 
  some vicious mage. 
   946 1085 
  Stonehenge: Covenant Nova Roma founded 
  in Kent. The strongly Latin magi quickly 
  acquire a poor reputation among Bjornaer, 
  Diedne, and Ex Miscellanea magi. [HtM] 
  How they make enemies so quickly is not 
  noted, although it may have been from 
  generally poor manners. 
   947 1086 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1086. 
   951 1090 
  Rome: Sansaron covenant founded in the 
  ruins of Carthage. [Rome] 
   952 1091 
  Stonehenge: Nova Roma magi report 
  contact with magi of London covenant, in 
  a clash over a vis site. No further contact 
  with London covenant reported. [HtM] 
  London covenant had always been 
  mysterious. Its fate remains a secret, but 
  they left no one behind to care. 
   952 1091 
  
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1091 
  at Coeris. 
   954 1093 
  Loch Leglean: Caitlin Suil Uaine, half-sith 
  maga aged 61, wins a faerie hill from the 
  Prince of the Gray Jerkin in a shinty 
  match. She founds the covenant of Crun 
  Clach on the spot. [LotN] Praeco Caitlin 
  continues to head Crun Clach to this day. 
   956 1095 
  Loch Leglean: Well of the Head sponsors 
  Druids’ Dale, another covenant of Diedne. 
  [LotN] 
   961 1100 
  Special Tribunal: Tasgilla Prima Tytalus, 
  two other leaders of the House, and several 
  members of Tytalus tried, convicted, and 
  executed for Diabolism. This marks a 
  turning point in the Order’s relations with 
  Hell and a strict anti-diabolic 
  interpretation of the Code. House Tytalus is 
  severely reduced in numbers. The diabolists 
  also drag down many members of other 
  Houses, having corrupted them. 
  This event, more than any other, triggers a 
  decline of the Order and an increase in 
  intra-Order conflict, leading to the Schism 
  War. [HoH] The execution of Tasgilla 
  followed almost thirty years of 
  investigation by Quaesitores. 
  Many other magi were exposed as 
  diabolists: the other House that suffered 
  greatly in this purge was House Bonisagus, 
  some members led into diabolism through 
  spells designed by fallen Tytalus magi. 
   
   The Twelfth Century of the Age of Aries. 
  In this century, the tensions of the Order 
  grew in the wake of the Corruption of 
  House Tytalus. Tribunals were poorly 
  attended, the quaesitores had lost their 
  authority in spite of the exposure of 
  Tytalus, or perhaps because of their 
  extended investigations. House Bonisagus, 
  never large, had suffered losses second only 
  to Tytalus; the effect on magical thought 
  was chilling. House Diedne, always 
  secretive, was now seen as suspicious. Fear 
  and recrimination grew, culminating in 
  the Schism War. Fortunately, the spark of 
  war seems to have burned itself out, as 
  evidenced by the rejection of a war with 
  the Order of Geonim in 1157, only a few 
  years after the Schism. 
   962 1101 
  Thebes: Michael of Amastris, founder of a 
  covenant in Kiev, retreats to 
  Constantinople, fleeing local hedge wizards 
  called Volkvii.  Four other magi of the 
  covenant have been slain by the various 
  dangers of Russia. [DatB]  
   962 1101 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1101 
  at Coeris. 
   964 1103 
  Grand Tribunal of 1103. No important 
  rulings noted. It may have been poorly 
  attended in the wake of the Corruption. 
   965 1104 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1104. 
   972 1111 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1111 at 
  Coeris. 
   977 1116 
  Loch Leglean: Giants destroy covenant of 
  Uamh na Croig. Investigation shows that 
  the magi of Uamh na Croig had hunted 
  giants for sport, and no retribution is 
  made. The magi of Loch Leglean are 
  warned to leave the giants alone. [LotN] 
  Surely these magi paid no attention to the 
  
  history of the war against Dav’nalleous. 
  Learn from their example, magus! 
   978 1117 
  Iberia: Estancia-es-Karida covenant 
  founded. [Iberia] 
   982 1121 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1121 
  at Coeris. 
   983 1122 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1122. 
   984 1123 
  Stonehenge: Ungulus covenant founded in 
  the Lake District by members of House 
  Flambeau. [HtM] 
   C. 987 C. 1126 
  Loch Leglean: Clan Mac Gruagach joins 
  House Ex Miscellanea. Covenant leader 
  Callum Mac Lachlan begins sending his 
  clansmen among the magi of the Order. 
  [LotN] Evidently, Clan Mac Gruagach had 
  not joined the Order along with the rest of 
  the Ordo. 
   987 1126 
  Provencal: Calebais covenant founded. 
  [BCC] 
   992 1131 
  Thebes: Rodnya Covenant founded in Kiev, 
  sponsored by the Theban Tribunal. This is 
  the first colonization attempt since 
  Michael of Amastris failed. [DatB] 
   992 1131 
  Legend claims that in this year a 
  Northman, Leif the Lucky, son of Eric the 
  Red, journeyed to the lands west of 
  Greenland. [History] Whether these lands 
  are a Faerie kingdom or an unknown 
  continent is a mystery. 
   992 1131 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1131 
  at Coeris. 
   993 1132 
  Rhine: Grand Silesia Covenant founded in 
  Poland, sponsored by the Rhine Tribunal. 
  [DatB] 
   994 1133 
  Transylvania: Pripet Maior Covenant 
  founded on the south-western edge of the 
  Pripet marshes, sponsored by the 
  Transylvanian Tribunal. [DatB] 
   997 1136 
  Iberian Tribunal of 1136: Magus Pistulus of 
  Flambeau punished with the loss of his 
  familiar after slaying Magus Forcus of 
  Tytalus. Pistulus believed Forcus to be 
  threatening his laboratory and apprentice, 
  but presented no good evidence of this 
  intent. [WGRE] This is one of the few 
  Tribunals to occur in the same year as a 
  Grand Tribunal. 
   997 1136 
  Grand Tribunal of 1136: After the episode 
  with Pistulus, the Tribunal rules that every 
  sanctum shall be marked with a circle 
  within a square, with straight lines 
  connecting the square’s opposite corners, 
  with a symbol of the owner accompanying 
  the marker. [WGRE] 
   998 1137 
  Stonehenge: Lumen covenant founded. 
  [HtM] 
   999-1003 
   1138-1142 
  Papacy of Gerbert of Aurillac; he reigns as 
  Sylvester II. He is rumored to be a 
  powerful magician, and to have had the 
  advice of an animated bronze head, 
  possibly the one that advised Vergil. 
  
  [History, Legend] Some claim he was a 
  diabolist, others that he was a mage. 
   C. 1000 C. 1140 
  Maga Ucerta of Criamon creates the Box 
  of Wonders, a box said to contain fabulous 
  treasure. [WGRE] 
   C. 1000 C. 1139 
  Some chroniclers report a great and 
  widespread fear that the world is about to 
  end. The churches are packed with the 
  repentant and many give up their worldly 
  goods to the Church. Other chroniclers 
  make no mention of this phenomenon, 
  indicating it may have been of limited 
  scale. [History, Legend] 
   1001 1140 
  Rome: Literatus covenant founded with a 
  grant from Pope Sylvester II. The 
  relationship between this Pope and the 
  Order is comparatively friendly. [Rome] 
   1001 1140 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1140. 
   1002 1141 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1141 
  at Coeris. This meeting immediately 
  precedes the chaos of the Schism War. 
  Coincidence? 
   1003-1012 1142-1151 
  The Schism War. The early stages of the 
  war are simply chaos, with no known 
  trigger. Mage battles mage, assassinations 
  are performed, covenants turn on 
  themselves, forests burned, plains wasted, 
  and cities leveled in the war between 
  Houses and Covenants. 
  The war ends with a declaration of 
  Wizard’s War by Primus Cercistum of 
  House Tremere on House Diedne. House 
  Guernicus validates the declaration by 
  Renouncing House Diedne. 
  House Flambeau enthusiastically allies 
  with Tremere against Diedne. Primus 
  Entisimon rallies his followers with an 
  enflaming speech that remains stirring in 
  the reading. 
  Primus Aldico of Mercere works in this 
  period to restore peace. He was more 
  successful after the Tempest. [HoH] Diedne 
  had been mistrusted for years for its 
  secretive ways and adherence to alien 
  magic. If they had only opened their closed 
  doors, in the tradition of the Order, they 
  might have avoided their fate. 
   1003 1142 
  Stonehenge: Lumen covenant destroyed by 
  a Diedne attack after only five years of 
  existence. [HtM] 
   1004 1143 
  Normandy Tribunal of 1143: Probable 
  Tribunal at which Magus Nerius of 
  Criamon, the Pious Magus, who came to 
  urge restraint in the Schism War, is tried 
  for attempting to undermine the Order; he 
  is challenged by Malvon of Tremere to 
  certamen on the issue of his devout 
  Christianity and refuses; he is therefore 
  cast out of the Order for refusing to honor 
  custom, and killed. [PD] It is said that 
  Nerius had survived unscathed an attack 
  by the combined might of many magi, and 
  that he died only after delivering a final 
  sermon. 
  Some regard Nerius as a saint, others as a 
  heretic, theurgist, or madman. 
   C. 1004 C. 1143 
  Quaesitor Patrick of Dunderry, of Rodnya 
  covenant, refuses orders to attack a 
  covenant in the Carpathians. He leads first 
  Rodnya, then the other Slavic covenants, 
  on a peaceful path during the Schism War. 
  [DatB] Q. Patrick is not know to have 
  suffered any direct punishment for his 
  rebellion. 
  
   1005 1144 
  Rhine: Restas of Jerbiton has used magic to 
  aid him in negotiating prices for books, 
  thereby acquiring a substantial library at 
  little cost. He was found guilty of 
  interfering with mortals, as book dealers 
  would be wary of those seeking books and 
  might bring suspicion on others who sought 
  to buy them. He is punished by the loss of 
  his library. [PP] This Tribunal seems to 
  have been a year late, possibly due to the 
  chaos of the Schism. 
   C. 1005 C. 1144 
  A conference of the leaders of the Houses is 
  held. A senior Diedne magus publicly 
  insults the Primus of Tremere. [HoH] 
   C. 1005 C. 1145 
  Primus Pietre of Jerbiton isolates his House 
  from the Order and largely integrates the 
  membership with mortal society. This 
  policy continues throughout his Primacy. 
  [HoH] This was almost certainly done to 
  insulate the House Jerbiton from the 
  disintegration of the Order. 
   1006 1145 
  Himinis the Mad of House Verditius begins 
  to make cursed items. These items continue 
  to surface centuries after his death. [HoH] 
   1006 (Autumn) 1145 (Autumn) 
  The three Slavic covenants reconcile and 
  unite against outsiders. [DatB] These three 
  covenants had previously been at odds 
  over issues of land and Tribunal authority. 
   1006 1145 
  A new star is sighted in the heavens. It 
  lasts for several years before eventually 
  vanishing. [History] 
   C. 1006 C. 1145 
  The quaesitores begin to investigate the 
  Houses for diabolism, ostensibly to follow 
  up on the many accusations flying about, 
  and to check after the Corruption of 
  Tytalus. The Houses resist, none more 
  vehemently than House Diedne. Diedne 
  accuses House Tremere of using the 
  quaesitores to lay bare their magic secrets. 
  [HoH] 
   1008 1147 
  New Slavonic Tribunal: Slavic covenants 
  break ties with their sponsors and declare 
  themselves the New Slavonic Tribunal. 
  [DatB] Technically, the New Slavonic 
  covenants did not form a full Tribunal, 
  having only three member covenants. 
   1008 1147 
  Stonehenge: Nova Roma destroyed by 
  Diedne magi. [HtM] 
   1008 1147 
  Loch Leglean: The Schism War comes to 
  Caledonia. Many Magi Ex Miscellanea, 
  particularly the gruagachan, join with 
  Flambeau and Tremere magi against 
  House Diedne. Holy Oak, Well of the Head, 
  and Druids’ Dale, all Diedne covenants, 
  destroyed. [LotN] Diedne had made itself 
  the enemy of Ex Miscellanea for years. This 
  support of the efforts of Flambeau and 
  Tremere is little remarked on in those 
  houses. 
   1009 1148 
  New Slavonic Tribunal: Rodnya covenant 
  abandoned and destroyed by extra-
  tribunal covenants. The magi flee to the 
  city of Novgorod. [DatB] These magi later 
  found Three Lakes covenant. 
   1009 1148 
  Nuinsil of Criamon begins his travels 
  through Muslim lands, the first of many 
  such Criamon journeys in the Orient. Many 
  of his House have done the same and 
  brought back wisdom and strange 
  philosophies. [HoH] It seems likely that his 
  
  travels were spurred by a desire to escape 
  the chaos of the War. 
   1009 1148 
  New Slavonic Tribunal: Grand Silesia 
  covenant damaged in Schism War, refugees 
  flee to Pripet Maior. [DatB] 
   C. 1010 C. 1150 
  Descendants of the sorceress Gyongy, of the 
  original tradition that sired Bjornaer, join 
  House Bjornaer for protection from the 
  Schism War. The Line of Gyongy still runs 
  strong in House Bjornaer, and all of that 
  Line have the same heart-beast, a magpie. 
  [Mysteries] 
   1011 1149 
  Stonehenge: The now Nameless Covenant, 
  in Anglesey, is destroyed in one of the last 
  major conflicts of the Schism War. 
  Quaesitores investigating the covenant’s 
  remains find something or some things in 
  the ruins that lead them to obliterate the 
  site entirely and destroy most of its 
  records. [HtM] 
   1012 1151 
  New Slavonic Tribunal: Three Lakes 
  covenant founded by Quaesitor Patrick of 
  Dunderry and other former magi of 
  Rodnya, in Novgorod. [DatB] 
   1012 1151 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1151 
  at Coeris. The records are unclear, but it 
  seems likely that this meeting preceded the 
  declaration of Wizard’s War by House 
  Tremere on House Diedne. 
   1012 1151 
  The Quaesitores validate the declaration of 
  war by Tremere on Diedne and renounce 
  House Diedne and all her members for 
  refusal of quaesitorial investigation. [HoH] 
   C. 1012 C. 1151 
  Iarna of Flambeau, a mighty maga, swears 
  an oath to hunt down every last Diedne 
  mage. She disappears in the midst of the 
  Schism War. [HoH] Tradition claims that if 
  Diedne reappears, so will Iarna. 
   1012 1151 
  Battle of the Tempest: Flambeau, Tremere, 
  Tytalus, and quaesitor magi clash with 
  Diedne magi in a final battle. The Diedne 
  magi meet their enemies with summoned 
  monsters and storms but are ultimately 
  defeated. Most of Diedne’s surviving magi 
  are slain in this great battle, said to have 
  lasted a full month. [Tempest] 
  The leaders, including Primus Llewellyn, 
  are believed to have escaped to an 
  unknown land, possibly Faerie, possibly a 
  far-off mundane land. [HoH] 
  Some claim that House Ex Miscellanea 
  sheltered Diedne magi, but some Magi Ex 
  Miscellanea are known to have fought 
  Diedne with great vigor, particularly in 
  Loch Leglean. [LotN] The records are 
  confused in this period. Most chroniclers 
  say the Schism War began as general 
  chaos, culminating in the war between 
  Tremere and Diedne, but some chroniclers 
  seem to indicate that the Schism War was 
  fought between Tremere and Diedne from 
  1142 to 1151. 
   1012 1151 
  The Schism War ends with the destruction 
  of House Diedne. Houses Tremere and 
  Flambeau have both suffered losses of half 
  their number; House Mercere has lost at 
  least twelve Redcaps. Fighting declines, 
  and ends by the end of three years. The 
  emblem of House Diedne is struck from all 
  texts and records of the Order. Some claim 
  that Tremere gained access to ancient 
  Diedne secrets. If so, the evils of Diedne 
  may yet continue. 
   1013 1152 
  
  New Slavonic Tribunal: Grand Silesia 
  covenant resettled. [DatB] 
   1014 1153 
  Stonehenge: Blackthorn sponsors Tagelyn 
  covenant in nearby caves, supposedly to 
  begin repairing the social damage of the 
  Schism War. [HtM] Here begins one of the 
  great betrayals by Blackthorn. 
   1014 1153 
  Rome: The independent covenant of 
  Vardian’s Tomb founded. [Rome] 
   1014 1153 
  Iberia: Jaferiya covenant founded. [Iberia] 
   1014 1153 
  Iberia: Jerbiton covenant of Barcelona 
  founded. In the next four years the 
  covenant repeatedly encounters the Jewish 
  magicians called Kabbalists. The 
  Kabbalists and Jerbiton magi live 
  peacefully until the covenant of Val-Negra 
  becomes involved. [Iberia] See 1157 
  regarding the Kabbalists and Val-Negra. 
   1016 1155 
  Provencal: Bellaquin covenant founded. 
  [Covenants] 
   1017 1156 
  The Enameled Horse, a legendary 
  enchanted statue, is seen in the court of a 
  noble of Baghdad. [WGRE] 
   1018 1157 
  Iberia: The battles between Val-Negra and 
  the Barcelona Kabbalists remain 
  stalemated until a huge Jewish grog tears 
  down the gates of Val-Negra with his bare 
  hands. The Kabbalists are apparently 
  ashamed of this action and offer a truce. 
  [Iberia] The magic of the Kabbalists 
  remains alien, but fortunately they seem 
  unthreatening. 
   1018 1157 
  Iberia: Treaty of Barcelona made between 
  Order of Hermes and Order of Geonim, the 
  Kabbalist magi of the Jews. [Iberia] This is 
  the first and only known peace between 
  magical Orders. 
   1019 1158 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1158. 
   1021 1160 
  Epidemics of St. Vitus’ Dance sweep 
  Europe. [History] 
   1022 1161 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1161 
  at Coeris. 
   1024 1163 
  Joseph Pietro, Bishop of Venice disappears, 
  apparently into Faerie. [Faeries II] 
  1025 1164 Stonehenge: A Criamon sponsored 
  covenant, Stellasper, is founded in the 
  Scilly Isles. They remain aloof from the 
  Tribunal. [HtM] 
   1028 1167 
  Provence: William of Aquitaine falls 
  mortally ill, and a sorceress is convicted of 
  inflicting the illness upon him. [History] 
   1030 1169 
  Grand Tribunal of 1169: The 
  Reconciliation.  This Grand Tribunal 
  settles most of the remaining matters of the 
  Schism War, and ratifies the existence of 
  the New Slavonic Tribunal. [DatB] 
   C. 1030 C. 1169 
  Stonehenge: Covenant Castrum Antiquum 
  mysteriously destroyed over the winter of 
  1169-1170. The site is annihilated, as if it had 
  never existed. Rumors run rampant and a 
  Diedne resurgence is feared, but no further 
  
  events develop. [HtM] This remains an 
  enduring mystery of the Order. 
  Among the lost magi at Castrum 
  Antiquum was Agricola, a mage who could 
  raise gold and gems from the plants of the 
  soil. 
   1032 1171 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1171 
  at Coeris. 
   1036 1175 
  The Enameled Horse bought by the 
  Covenant of Van. It was later ridden into 
  the mundane world by Jukolus of Jerbiton, 
  who was forced to abandon it to escape a 
  danger. Its survival or location is 
  unknown. [WGRE] 
   C. 1050 C. 1175 
  Primus Firento Ex Miscellanea attempts to 
  convert his House to Hermetic traditions. 
  He is killed on a quest for the Spinning 
  Pearls, probably by members of his own 
  House. [HoH] He may have forgotten his 
  House motto. 
   1037 1176 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1176. 
   1039 1178 
  New Slavonic Tribunal: Grand Silesia 
  destroyed by crusading anti-pagan knights, 
  refugees flee to Pripet Maior. Rhine 
  Tribunal begins agitating to gain Poland 
  shortly after. [DatB] 
   1039 1178 
  Normandy: A new wave of ergotism 
  strikes the Tribunal. Mortals go mad in 
  droves. [History] 
   1040 1178 
  Thebes: Magus Helios of Flambeau accused 
  of interfering with mortals by purchasing 
  books from them. It was found that he used 
  no magic in these purchases, and was 
  acquitted. [PP] 
   c. 1040 c. 1178 
  Loch Leglean: The Steward of Mormaer 
  and claimant to the Caledonian throne, 
  MacBeth, defeats and kills his rival, 
  Duncan, the enthroned king, with the aid 
  of Pictish wizards and renegade Magi Ex 
  Miscellanea. [LotN] Only one of many cases 
  of magical meddling in Loch Leglean. 
   1042 1181 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1181 
  at Coeris. 
   1047 1186 
  Himinis the Mad dies. [HoH] May his 
  many cursed items go unfound! 
   1048 1187 
  Loch Leglean: Rumors of Dav’nalleous’ 
  return plague Loch Leglean. [LotN] 
   1050 1189 
  Rome: Covenant of Rellantalli gains land 
  as fief from Pisa. [Rome] 
   1052 1191 
  New Slavonic Tribunal: Leczcya Covenant 
  founded by some of the former members of 
  Grand Silesia covenant. [DatB] 
   1052 1191 
  New Slavonic Tribunal: Many Grand 
  Silesia members choose to stay at Pripet 
  Maior, mostly Bjornaer. Strong links 
  between House Bjornaer and Pripet Maior 
  date from this time. [DatB] 
   1052 1191 
  The Apotropaic sect founded through 
  agreement of Church and Order, and 
  charged to slay demons. Pope Leo IX issues 
  a secret bull on the matter and presents 
  each of the original members with the 
  
  Agnus Dei. [Maleficium] Possibly only 
  legend. The inconsistent nature of the 
  Church’s policies only serves to complicate 
  the question. 
   1052 1191 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1191 
  at Coeris. 
   1053 1192 
  New Slavonic Tribunal of 1192: The 
  Tribunal changes its name to Novgorod 
  Tribunal. [DatB] 
   1054 1193 
  Novgorod: An emergency Novgorod 
  conclave agrees not to oppose Vseslav, a 
  prince and a Volkhv, who had recently 
  come to the throne. The Volkhv hedge 
  wizards were considered hostile to the 
  Order, but a policy of non-aggression is 
  adhered to. [DatB] 
   1054 1193 
  A new star appears, beginning about the 
  twelfth night of the month of Cancer, and 
  lasting for twenty-two months. [History] 
   1055 1194 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1194. 
   c. 1057 c. 1196 
  Loch Leglean: The mortal Caledonian King, 
  MacBeth, is overthrown by Malcom 
  Canmore, Duncan’s heir, with the aid of 
  two unidentified magi. [LotN] 
   1058 1197 
  Stonehenge: Gruffyd ap Llewelyn, a mortal 
  prince of Wales, lays siege to Blackthorn as 
  part of a campaign against England. 
  [HtM] 
   1060 1199 
  Stonehenge: Gruffyd ap Llewelyn sacks Cad 
  Gadu, burning it to the ground. [HtM] 
   1061 1200 
  Rome: A Wizard’s War is fought in the 
  streets of Venice between a Tytalus and 
  Verditius mage. [Rome] 
   1061 1200 
  Stonehenge: Siege of Blackthorn relieved by 
  King Harold Godwinson. [HtM] 
   
   The Thirteenth Century of the Age of 
  Aries. 
  This is a century of comparative calm but 
  increasing tension between magi and 
  mortals. Of particular concern to the Order 
  is the Church’s acquisition of standing 
  armies and its new willingness to use them 
  to further its ends. This century also sees 
  increasing concern over the availability of 
  vis and the impact of mortals on the magic 
  places of Europe. 
  In the aftermath of the Schism War, many 
  covenants are founded that do not follow 
  House divisions, and the covenants begin 
  to wield considerable political power 
  outside of the usual House and Tribunal 
  social structure. 
   1061-1068 1200-1207 
  Rome: Quaesitor Iernilus tours the Roman 
  Tribunal to investigate covenant 
  interaction with mortals. He discovers that 
  sale of enchanted items to mortals is 
  epidemic in the tribunal. [Rome] 
   1062 1201 
  Stonehenge: Blackthorn seizes the caves of 
  Tagelyn covenant as their own, a more 
  defensible site than their old fortress. 
  [HtM] 
  The magi of Tagelyn move to Hibernia and 
  later found Ashenrise. [OoH] 
  Among the classic texts lost in the struggle 
  is a copy of the rare Physiologus, a classic 
  
  bestiary. [MB] It is generally assumed that 
  Blackthorn had always intended this 
  betrayal. 
   1062 1201 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1201 
  at Coeris. 
   1063 1202 
  Grand Tribunal of 1202: The Rhine 
  Tribunal seeks to extend over Polish lands 
  at Grand Tribunal, claiming that the 
  territory is unclaimed after the fall of 
  Grand Silesia; the New Slavonic Tribunal 
  pushes through a measure granting final 
  authority over settlements of all covenants 
  in Slavic lands. [DatB] 
  The Primus of Jerbiton proposes that 
  demons be declared Enemies of the Order in 
  perpetuity; the Tribunal instead declares 
  that demons cannot be Friends of the 
  Order. [WGRE] This may be the Tribunal at 
  which the Larta mage  precedent was 
  established. 
  Durenmar has proposed adjusting the 
  boundaries of the Rhine and Novgorod 
  tribunals at several Grand Tribunals since. 
   1065 1204 
  Stonehenge: Cad Gadu refounds and 
  rebuilds, higher in its regio. [HtM] 
   C. 1065 C. 1204 
  Iberia: Influx of Moorish sorcerers into 
  northern Iberia, fleeing Almoravid 
  persecution. The Almoravids destroy some 
  southern covenants. After this period more 
  non-Flambeau magi oppose the Moors in 
  Iberia. [Iberia] The prior Moorish invaders 
  had been reasonably tolerant of sorcery. 
  The hard line of the Almoravids must have 
  been quite a shock to the Roman  
  covenants. 
   1066 1205 
  Stonehenge: A great comet is sighted in the 
  heavens. This is taken as a sign of victory 
  by Duke William of Normandy, who 
  conquers the kingdom of England under it. 
  [History] 
   1067 1206 
  Provencal: Maga Consuelia founds 
  Mistridge covenant, in the Pyrenees. 
  [Mistridge] 
   1066-1068 1205-1207 
  Stonehenge: Harold’s Vengeance covenant 
  founded in the Anglian fens to oppose the 
  Norman invasion. It repeatedly and 
  blatantly violates the Code and is Marched 
  within two years, all its magi suffering 
  death. [HtM] 
   1068 1207 
  Special Roman Tribunal of 1207: Treaty of 
  the Roman Tribunal negotiated by 
  Quaesitor Iernilus finalized and ratified 
  after great debate. It limits conditions of 
  sale of enchanted items to mortals, limits 
  such items to limited uses, limits 
  mercenary services, forbids revealing magi 
  to mortals, and mandates a review at 
  every Tribunal. 
  Since this time, all of the official covenants 
  of the Tribunal are required to maintain 
  lodgings in Venice, where this Treaty was 
  finalized. [Rome] The treaty becomes a 
  seminal precedent on sale of enchanted 
  items in Peripheral Code, but is riddled 
  with flaws. Most notably, the treaty 
  governs only cash sales, ignoring barter 
  and gift. 
   1071 1210 
  Thebes: Battle of Manzikert, between a 
  Byzantine Christian army of 60,000 and 
  an Arab army of 100,000. The battle ends 
  Byzantine power in Asia Minor. In the 
  aftermath, some local hedge magi join the 
  Order for protection, including the original 
  
  pater of Prima Ex Miscellanea Immanola. 
  [HtM, History] 
   1072 1211 
  Special Iberian Tribunal of 1211: At Val-
  Negra, the Iberian Tribunal debates the 
  presence of Barcelona covenant in the city 
  of Barcelona. After many hours an 
  agreement was reached for the Magi of 
  Barcelona covenant to have Hermetic 
  jurisdiction over the city and serve the 
  interests of the Order in it, and for 
  external magi to obey conventions of 
  subtlety while visiting. [Iberia] Barcelona 
  covenant had been situated for 58 years by 
  the time this issue came up. The issue was 
  probably spurred by inter-covenant 
  rivalry. 
   1072 1211 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1211 
  at Coeris. 
   1073 1212 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1212. 
   1075 1215 
  Rhine: A Cologne woman is accused of 
  sorcery for bewitching  men with her art, 
  and hurled from the town wall. [History] 
  Almost certainly Plebian hysteria. 
   C. 1075 C. 1200 
  A Muslim sect of Arabian wizards found 
  the Brethren of Purity, a mysterious group 
  of religious magi. [Mysteries] 
   C. 1070-1073 C. 1209-1212 
  Loch Leglean: Horsingas covenant founded 
  in Loch Leglean Tribunal by magi fleeing 
  the Norman Conquest. [LotN] Sources 
  conflict on the founding date. This is not 
  surprising, given the covenant’s generally 
  poor condition. 
   1082 1221 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1221 
  at Coeris. 
   1083 1222 
  Stonehenge: Voluntas covenant founded by 
  Norman magi in Yorkshire. [HtM] 
   1085 1224 
  Iberia: Fall of Toledo to Christian forces led 
  by the great mortal hero called El Cid. 
  Toledo was an important center of classical 
  and magical learning in Moorish Iberia 
  and home to several libraries. Many 
  important texts from fallen Rome are 
  recovered from the libraries of Toledo. 
  [History] The fame of Toledo as a center of 
  magical learning extends even to mortals. 
  Many famous non-Hermetic magicians 
  learned their craft here. 
   1089 1228 
  Normandy: Another case of ergotism. This 
  time only a small area is sent mad. 
  [History] Who was sending these curses? A 
  faerie lord, or one of our magi? 
   1090 1229 
  In the town of Votting, three women are 
  accused of blasting crops. They pass a trial 
  by ordeal, but the townspeople are 
  unconvinced. They are whipped to make 
  them confess, but maintain their innocence. 
  They are finally burned alive. [History] 
  Mortal justice in action. 
   1091 1230 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1230. 
   1092 1231 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1231 
  at Coeris. 
   1093 1211 
  Rhine Tribunal of 1211: Magus Borov of 
  Jerbiton, who had trained his apprentice in 
  the court of a mortal lord, is charged to 
  
  bring his apprentice fully into the Order or 
  risk Renunciation. [WGRE] Probably a 
  special Tribunal, as it is out of cycle. 
   1095 1234 
  Rome: In this year, a census indicates that 
  Independent Magi outnumber members of 
  official covenants in Roman Tribunal. 
  [Rome] 
   1096 1235 
  Grand Tribunal of 1235: House Jerbiton 
  complains of Flambeau support of mortals 
  in Iberia; the boundaries of Iberia are 
  redrawn to place Val-Negra in the 
  Provencal Tribunal, limiting the political 
  power of Val-Negra in Iberia. [Iberia] 
   1096 1235 
  First Crusade begins. This is the first time 
  the Church resorts to direct, aggressive 
  warfare, although by proxy. The Crusade 
  aims to gain the Levant from the Muslims, 
  for religious reasons. [History] 
   1099 1238 
  First Crusade ends after some considerable 
  success, including the capture of Jerusalem. 
  The Crusaders found kingdoms in the 
  Levant, to protect it from Muslim armies. 
  [History] 
   1099 1238 
  Loch Leglean: German and Spanish 
  Flambeau magi hunt non-Hermetic magi 
  in Scotland; they are stalked and defeated 
  one by one by Brude Deathless, a mighty 
  gruagach, who strips them of their Gift. 
  Threats to retaliate are met with unified 
  Tribunal resolve to defend Loch Leglean 
  hedge wizards against foreign magi. [LotN] 
  This served only to enflame tensions 
  between Flambeau and Ex Miscellanea. No 
  action was taken against Brude for these 
  act, a violation of his Oath. Of course, there 
  is no record of Brude having taken the 
  Oath. 
   1100 1239 
  Stonehenge: Lux Draconis enters Final 
  Winter when its last member dies. Its 
  property is claimed by Blackthorn over the 
  objections of Voluntas. The covenant is 
  otherwise undistinguished. [HtM] This 
  property conflict is the foundation of the 
  enmity between Blackthorn and Voluntas. 
   C. 1100 C. 1240 
  Provence: First recorded appearance of the 
  mysterious Stormrider, in the Val du 
  Bosque. This elemental being seems to be 
  the rage of a storm in the shape of a black 
  knight. [Stormrider, RotSR] The year is 
  very approximate. 
   C. 1100-1200 C. 1225-1325 
  Gettra of House Bjornaer assumes the 
  identities of many magi, for unknown 
  reasons. She flees when discovered and has 
  yet to face Hermetic justice. [HoH] The 
  period of Gettra’s impersonation is difficult 
  to research, and may be significantly 
  shorter. 
   1102 1241 
  Normandy: Tyrmander of Flambeau, 
  impressed by the recent Crusade, urges his 
  sodales to march against the Saracens, both 
  to crush them, who he sees as the enemies 
  of the Order, and to take from the Church 
  the mantle of protector of civilization, 
  before the Church declares a Crusade 
  against the Order. [MT] Tyrmander’s logic 
  is serpentine. 
   1102 1241 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1241 
  at Coeris. 
   1103 1242 
  Provence: Magus Pierre de Galve of 
  Jerbiton is accused of endangering his 
  sodales by copying books out of his 
  covenant’s library, and trading these 
  copies to mortals. It was feared that texts 
  
  of the Order may reveal the Order and 
  cause bad feeling against magi. Magus 
  Pierre was found to have only copied 
  comparatively mundane books, not 
  concerned with the Arts or magic theory, 
  and was acquitted. [PP] 
   1104 1243 
  In Iceland, Mount Hekla erupts, spewing 
  molten rock, smoke, ash, and poisonous 
  vapors. Tales of this wonder filter back to 
  Europe. [History] 
   1104-1107 1243-1246 
  Stonehenge: Blackthorn sponsors covenant 
  of Blackrose on the north York moors, near 
  Voluntas. It suffers multiple disasters, 
  including crop failures and vanishing staff, 
  and fails after only three years, the magi 
  returning to Blackthorn. [HtM] Voluntas is 
  widely considered responsible, but 
  Blackthorn presents no evidence. 
   C. 1107 C. 1246 
  Provencal: Val-Negra falls into Winter 
  after a mass exodus of its younger 
  members, following the Grand Tribunal of 
  1235 AA. [Iberia] 
   1109 1248 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1248. 
   C. 1110 C. 1250 
  Provence: St. Fabia of the Roses works 
  miracles in the Val du Bosque, and is 
  eventually martyred by the Stormrider. 
  [Stormrider, RotSR] Date is unclear. 
   1111 1250 
  Stonehenge: Blackthorn sponsors 
  Magnantum covenant in Salisbury. [HtM] 
  This is the second known attempt by 
  Blackthorn to establish a filius covenant. 
   1112 1251 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1251 
  at Coeris. 
   1116 1255 
  Hibernia: Beginning of the 'Supplicants of 
  Truth' cult in Hibernia. [WG] 
   1117 1256 
  Rome: The independent covenant of Feritel 
  founded in Genoa. [Rome] 
   1118 1257 
  Iberia: Magi of Flambeau join an attack by 
  Aragon forces against the Moorish city of 
  Saragossa. A few Moorish magi of the 
  Order defend the city to preserve the city 
  library. In the battle, the Moorish magi are 
  killed. [Iberia] 
   1119 1258 
  Iberia: Special Tribunal rules that the magi 
  of Flambeau involved in the attack on 
  Saragossa, in which their Muslim sodales 
  fell, must pay the loot gained to the 
  covenants of the victims. 
  Afterward the Quaesitores decree that 
  magi may not aid mortal powers overtly 
  or with any sort of magic that can be 
  detected by mortals,  leading to a covert 
  state of the war. [Iberia,WGRE] 
   1120 1259 
  Hibernia: Aquae Desilientes founded on a 
  small island off the southern coast of the 
  greater island, by Enoch of Bonisagus and 
  his sodales. [MS] 
   1120 1259 
  The order of the Knights of the Temple is 
  founded in the Levant to escort pilgrims. 
  The Templars come to be a powerful 
  crusading army and to hold vast lands 
  throughout Europe. [History] It is now also 
  one of the great forces backing the 
  authority of the Church. 
  
   1120 1259 
  Bernard of Clairvaux writes De Laude 
  Novae Militiae, arguing that the Church is 
  justified in using military force to achieve 
  its ends, including conversion of pagans, 
  opposition of the minions of Satan, and 
  defense of the Church and Christendom. 
  Bernard asserts that such defenders should 
  be military orders of monks who have 
  renounced the world and taken vows of 
  poverty, humility chastity, and obedience 
  as well as knightly vows. [History] 
   1121 1260 
  Pope Calixtus II speaks on the topic of 
  Diabolism. [Maleficium] 
   1122 1261 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1261 
  at Coeris. 
   1127 1266 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1266. 
   1128 1267 
  Normandy: A sorceress  of Ghent is 
  eviscerated and her innards paraded 
  around town. [History] Mob justice of the 
  commoners. 
   1129 1268 
  Hibernia: Supplicants of Truth cult 
  destroyed. [WG] 
   1130 1269 
  The order of the Knights of St. John, the 
  Knights Hospitaller, established sixty 
  years prior to defend pilgrims, is 
  militarized to defend the kingdom of 
  Jerusalem. [History] 
   C. 1130 C. 1270 
  Stonehenge: Geoffry of Monmouth writes 
  several books regarding the magus Merlin. 
  The popularity of tales of Merlin, his 
  student King Arthur, and the realm of 
  Enchanted Britain continues. [History] 
   1132 1271 
  Novgorod: Novgorodian covenants agree 
  to limit more contact with the mortal 
  House of Rurik. [DatB] This pact was to 
  head off accusations of interfering in 
  mundane affairs. 
   1132 1271 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1271 
  at Coeris. 
   1133 1272 
  Stonehenge: Natura Antiqua founded to 
  study nature in the Anglian fens. [HtM] 
   1137 1276 
  Provencal: Calebais falls, despite its 
  vaunted veil of illusions and the Bell of 
  Ibyn. Its library is said to have included a 
  faithful copy of the Physiologus, thereafter 
  lost. [BCC, MB] 
   1139 1278 
  Iberia: Matlus of Jerbiton arrives in 
  Barcelona and takes on the role of a cloth 
  merchant. [Iberia] He comes to be Praeco 
  of Iberia. 
   1141 1280 
  Stonehenge: Founding of Burnham 
  covenant in Northumberland. [HtM] 
   1142 1281 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1281 
  at Coeris. 
   1143 1282 
  Stonehenge: Natura Antiqua covenant 
  destroyed by a mortal, Geoffry de 
  Mandeville, during a mundane war. [HtM] 
   1145 1284 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1284. 
  
   1145 1284 
  Partitio Monaviae: Repeated conflicts over 
  vis sources on the Isle of Man lead to a 
  conclave between Stonehenge, Hibernia, 
  and Loch Leglean. They agree to stop 
  harvesting vis on Man and that the island 
  and its vis would go to whatever Tribunal 
  could first found a covenant there. 
  [LotN,FA] There have been at least three 
  attempts to found a covenant on Man, all 
  disasters. This Pact instigated by Crun 
  Clach? 
   C. 1145 C. 1285 
  Stonehenge: Burnham covenant given a 
  grant of immunity by a mortal king, 
  Stephen, later confirmed by the king 
  Henry II. [HtM] 
   C. 1145-1150 C. 1285-1290 
  Magus Agnis Nestiphilis tortures and kills 
  three apprentices. [HoH] 
   1147-1149 1286-1288 
  The Second Crusade assembles half a 
  million soldiers, marches them on the 
  Levant under the flags of France’s Louis 
  VII and Germany’s Conrad III, and loses 
  them to plague, starvation, and battle 
  wounds. [History] 
   1147 1286 
  Iberia: Almohad invasion of Spain. 
  [History] 
   1147 1286 
  Slaughter of Jews in France, Germany, and 
  Bohemia in religious hysteria. [History] 
  Does such a fate await magi if exposed? 
   1147 1286 
  Novgorod: Roslav Lavickovich summoned 
  from Pripet Maior to Crintera, to assume 
  Primacy of Bjornaer. [DatB] 
   1148 1287 
  Quaesitor Simprim of Guernicus founds the 
  Transitionalist faction of House Quaesitor. 
  The Transitionalists argue that the Code 
  should be more flexible, and take into 
  account circumstances that more 
  traditional quaesitores would ignore. 
  [HoH] 
   1149 1288 
  Emperor Conrad III issues a call for each 
  scholarly institution to send a 
  representative to his court. [Triamore, 
  History] 
   1150s C. 1290 
  Novgorod: Expeditions as far as the Urals 
  reveal vast reaches of little settled 
  territories. Three Lakes Magi visit area 
  where Thousand Caves covenant is later 
  founded. [DatB] The vis wealth reported 
  sounds staggering. 
   1150s 1290s 
  Roman Tribunal of 1290 or 1297: The 
  Tribunal requires that all foreign magi, 
  other than Quaesitores, passing through the 
  Roman Tribunal must announce 
  themselves to each of the Covenants at 
  their embassies in Venice. [Rome] This 
  requirement is widely ignored, 
  particularly by magi passing through by 
  ship. 
   1151 1290 
  Stonehenge Tribunal of 1290: The Covenant 
  of Semitae, led by Magus Gerfallon of 
  Criamon, appears at Tribunal and ask the 
  quaesitores to note their attendance. They 
  refuse to answer questions about their 
  background. This may or may not be the 
  same group as appeared at Cad Gadu over 
  the centuries. [HtM] This is one of the few 
  quorate Stonehenge Tribunals of the 
  century. 
   1151 1290 
  
  Normandy Tribunal of 1290: Magus Agnis 
  Nestiphilis acquitted of any wrongdoing in 
  the torture and killing of three apprentices 
  in five years, on grounds that apprentices 
  are the property of the mage. [WGRE] 
   1151 1290 
  Rhine Tribunal of 1290: Durenmar fined 
  ten pawns of vis to every other covenant in 
  the Tribunal for plundering faerie sites of 
  the Black Forest for vis, thereby making 
  the Black Forest a hazard for magi, and 
  restricted from taking further vis from 
  faerie sites for fourteen years unless a 
  peace was made with the fae. [WGRE] 
  Magi Anaxagoras of Tremere, Ulisterius of 
  Jerbiton, and Forba of Bonisagus are 
  granted a charter to form a covenant, 
  Triamore, attached to the court of Emperor 
  Conrad III. [Triamore] 
   1152 1291 
  Rhine: Emperor Conrad III dies, upsetting 
  the plan for Triamore. [Triamore] 
   1152 1291 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1291 
  at Coeris. 
   1154 1293 
  Stonehenge: Magus Flumen of Tremere, of 
  Blackthorn covenant, traps the Wild Hunt 
  in an iron mine fitted with iron-bound 
  doors, near Wales. The hills echo with their 
  howls for weeks. [HtM] 
   1154 1293 
  Iceland’s Mount Hekla erupts for the 
  second time in fifty years, again spewing 
  molten rock, smoke, ash, and poisonous 
  vapors. Rumor claims that the pore is an 
  entrance to Hell. 
   1156 1295 
  The leader of the line of Ex Miscellanea 
  witches opens their ranks to male magi. 
  [HoH] 
   1158 1297 
  Hibernia Tribunal of 1297: Magus Caesus of 
  Tytalus ordered to disband eight of his nine 
  sancti, and reminded that he should have 
  only one. [WGRE] 
   1158 1297 
  Thebes Tribunal of 1297: The apprentice of 
  a dead maga of Merinita is awarded to 
  another maga of Merinita, Mondrasine, 
  instead of the amicus of the dead maga, 
  Nykolis of Jerbiton. [WGRE] 
   1158 1297 
  In this year, Founder Merinita is rumored 
  to be sighted alive in the wilderness. [HoH] 
  Rumored, but not supported by witnesses. 
   1158 1297 
  Frederick Barbarossa grants the incipient 
  covenant of Triamore a manor in Namur 
  county. [Triamore] 
   1160 1299 
  Zurenzialle of House Merinita disappears, 
  and is proved to have been an elf. His 
  objective, if any, is a mystery. [HoH] 
   1160 1299 
  Stonehenge: Founding of Servus Maris on 
  the Isle of Man. Destroyed within six 
  months by a dragon. One mage is allowed 
  to live to deliver the message to not return. 
  [HtM] If the Order of Odin can control 
  dragons, there is no assailing them. It 
  seems unlikely to have been Diedne; there 
  would be no warning. 
   1160 1299 
  Provencal: Passage of Magus Belraphazor 
  of Jerbiton into Final Twilight at his 
  
  covenant, Windgraven. [Mistridge] The 
  Order is well rid of him. 
   
   The Fourteenth Century of the Age of 
  Aries. 
  The first half of this century sees the 
  continuance of relative calm, although 
  tension mounts within the Order, and 
  friction between Order and Church grows. 
  This period also marks a disturbing trend 
  in the Church of Crusading: the Third 
  Crusade to the Levant, the Albigensian 
  Crusade, the continuing Crusade in Iberia, 
  and the Crusade in the Baltic point to 
  increasing Papal involvement in temporal 
  matters and willingness to use force. 
  Furthermore, the Church spends much of 
  its energy in conflict with the Empire and 
  other mortal kings. Some magi become 
  concerned that this violent bent will 
  inevitably turn against the Order. 
   C. 1160-1180 C. 1300-1320 
  Maga Susan of Wicklow, House Mercere, of 
  the Line of Patrick of Dunderry, 
  accompanies Sadko the merchant and 
  Georgi Yurivich on travels across eastern 
  Europe. She journeys from Sweden to 
  Constantinople on her travels. [DatB] 
  Susan’s forbear, Quaesitor Patrick, is likely 
  to have been of Mercere as well, partially 
  explaining his aversion to the Schism War. 
   1162 1301 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1301 
  at Coeris. 
   1163 1302 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1302. 
   1163 1302 
  Stonehenge: Stellasper covenant, in the 
  Scilly Islands, destroyed by a cataclysmic 
  storm of apparently magical origin. No 
  bodies found. Whether the covenant was 
  attacked, attacked something, or an 
  experiment went wrong is undetermined. 
  As the covenant had no allies and no 
  friends, no further investigation was done. 
  [HtM] Cultivate allies, magus. They may 
  aid you in life, and even avenge you in 
  death. 
   1164 1303 
  The Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick 
  Barbarossa, takes the Relics of the Three 
  Magi from Milan. They are later installed 
  in a golden shrine in the Cathedral of 
  Cologne. [History] 
   1165 1304 
  Greater Alps Tribunal of 1304: Magus 
  Snadstrich Ex Miscellanea ordered to 
  establish no more than one sanctum per 
  season, after complaints that he had 
  established seven sancti in series. [WGRE] 
   1165 1304 
  Hibernia Tribunal of 1304: Magi of 
  covenant Vigil claim the apprentice of one 
  of their Passed sodales; the apprentice is 
  also claimed by Magus Caerfloron, who had 
  recovered the apprentice after his master’s 
  Passage; the Tribunal rules that a mage of 
  Vigil must duel Caerfloron for the 
  apprentice. [WGRE] 
   1165 1304 
  Normandy Tribunal of 1304: Magus 
  Stephios of Tytalus, of Burnham covenant, 
  of Stonehenge Tribunal asks the Normandy 
  Tribunal to rule on an issue, as his 
  Tribunal is routinely inquorate. 
  Normandy Tribunal declines to intervene. 
  [WGRE] The failure of Stonehenge to reach 
  a quorum seems to plague it through the 
  first half of this century, but the records 
  are spotty. 
   1165 1304 
  Provencal Tribunal of 1304: Maga Calonogi 
  Ex Miscellanea tried for endangering the 
  
  Order after preaching that magi are 
  divine, as indicated by their Gift; her 
  accusers also claim she has thereby 
  blasphemed. On the latter count, no ruling; 
  on the former, guilty. Ordered to cease this 
  preaching, she refuses and is exiled for 
  seven years. [WGRE] The Maga is most 
  fortunate; this could have resulted in a 
  death sentence. 
   1169 1308 
  Rome: Magus Kaldorias of Jerbiton 
  banishes a demon which had been 
  terrorizing certain villagers. [WGRE] 
   C. 1170 C. 1309 
  Stonehenge: The Primus Ex Miscellanea 
  dies. Maga Immanola Ex Miscellanea 
  arrives shortly after, claims the Robes of 
  Dusty Dawn, and is given them, making 
  her the Prima. [HtM] There is no internal 
  mechanism for selecting the Primus Ex 
  Miscellanea. The first apprentice of the 
  previous Primus might have pressed a 
  claim, but apparently chose not to. 
   C. 1170 C. 1309 
  Rhine: Roslav Lackovich, Primus of 
  Bjornaer, dies. [DatB] 
   1172 1311 
  Iberia Tribunal of 1311: Magus Trentus of 
  Flambeau is accused of killing several 
  mortals and burning two ships in 
  Barcelona during his gauntlet. The 
  Quaesitor suggests that Trentus be held 
  accountable as a mage for his actions in 
  the gauntlet. The Tribunal rules that 
  during a gauntlet an apprentice is not yet 
  a mage and cannot be held to the Code, but 
  cannot be guided by his parens either, and 
  neither Trentus nor his parens is punished. 
  [WGRE] 
   1172 1311 
  Normandy Tribunal of 1311: The Duke of 
  Brittany is declared an Enemy of the 
  Order, after extensively persecuting magi. 
  A tribunal of quaesitores immediately 
  after declares that any mage who acts 
  against the Duke can be held accountable 
  nevertheless. 
  A Redcap complains that magi of Fudarus 
  covenant plundered his message bag while 
  he slept as their guest. Fudarus is stripped 
  of its rights to a certain magical site, these 
  rights granted to House Mercere. 
  Magus Anton Roettar of Tytalus asks to be 
  relieved of his unending labor at Fudarus, 
  assigned by his sodales; the Tribunal finds 
  that the covenant has not violated its 
  charter or the Code. [WGRE] 
   1172 1311 
  Roman Tribunal of 1311: Luctatio covenant 
  founded, sponsored by Verdi. [Rome] 
  Magus Kaldorias brought to trial for 
  banishing a demon, his accusers claiming 
  that other demons may be moved to act 
  against the Order; Kaldorias argues that 
  the Order should be the enemy of demons 
  (dismissed), that demons already work 
  against the Order (granted), and that he 
  had demonstrated that magi do not serve 
  demons; Kaldorias convicted, but not 
  punished. [WGRE] 
   1172 1311 
  Rhine Tribunal of 1311: Maga Tandaline 
  complains that Magus Quintus Vergilius 
  has denied her access to her own sanctum; 
  the Tribunal rules that Quintus Vergilius 
  has deprived her of magic power by 
  keeping her from her sanctum and is 
  punished through the loss of familiar and 
  fined. [WGRE] 
   1172 1311 
  Rhine: The lands of Triamore covenant 
  raided by mortal lords fighting over 
  mortal issues. [Triamore] 
   1172 1311 
  
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1311 
  at Coeris. 
   1174 1313 
  Provencal: Magus Questus of Criamon, 
  Bellaquin covenant, disappears without 
  explanation. [WGRE] 
   1177 1316 
  Greater Alps: Monstro of Criamon vanishes 
  from his tower near the Cave of Twisting 
  Shadows. [Faeries II] 
   1179 1318 
  Levant Tribunal of 1318: Magus Henry Le 
  Barre of Jerbiton summoned to the Levant 
  Tribunal charged with interfering with 
  mortals by participating in a Crusade, and 
  drawing the wrath of the Moors by using 
  magic in the campaign; Henry argues that 
  he fought to save his soul; the Tribunal 
  allows that he may fight, but not use magic 
  on Crusade, and fines him 20 pawns. 
  [WGRE] 
   1179 1318 
  Normandy Tribunal of 1318: Magus Damon 
  Le Mont accused of scrying on his sodales 
  of Ad Vis Per Veritas covenant. Damon 
  admits to spying on the covenant’s mortal 
  servants, but that he had excluded the 
  words of magi; the Tribunal rules that 
  indirect spying constitutes actual scrying 
  and fines him three pawns to each mage 
  thereby offended against. 
  A maga is accused of a low crime by the 
  magi of Fudarus. She is convicted in 
  absentia, having been delayed to Tribunal 
  by mortals. [WGRE] 
   1179 1318 
  Provencal Tribunal of 1318: Arch-Maga 
  Ladkyis of Tremere complains that Magus 
  Asidnael of Jerbiton had endangered her 
  by claiming to mortals she was possessed 
  by a spirit, as it could have led to her being 
  brought to the attention of the Church; 
  Magus Asidnael claims that she had been 
  observed casting spells by mortals, and 
  they had suggested that she was possessed, 
  and that he claimed she was but that it 
  was by a spirit that did no harm; each 
  mage fined one pawn for endangering the 
  other. 
  Magus Grimgroth of Mistridge fined 
  Animal vis sufficient to heal a horse, for 
  allowing his apprentice to go unsupervised 
  and start a fire in a stable at the covenant 
  of Bentalone. [WGRE] 
   1180 1319 
  Rome: Literatus covenant moves from 
  Bologna to lands outside the city, but 
  maintains facilities in the city. [Rome] 
  Literatus is said to have the finest 
  mundane library in the Order. 
   1180 1319 
  Novgorod: Pripet Maior, long the home of 
  the Praeco, cedes right to host Tribunal 
  meetings to Three Lakes. [DatB] 
   1180 1319 
  Provencal: Arch-Maga Ladkyis enters 
  Final Twilight. Her body continues to 
  function completely normally and behaves 
  much as she had the day before her 
  Passing. [OoH] 
   1180 1319 
  Rhine: Maga Alicia de Pahn Ex 
  Miscellanea expelled from her covenant for 
  consorting with mortals and bearing a 
  child, in contravention of her covenant’s 
  rules. [MND] 
   C. 1180-1200 C. 1340-1360 
  Rhine: The Bishop of Stettin requests aid of 
  the Order against wizards of the Order of 
  Odin, aiding local pagans. A covenant of a 
  dozen magi is founded (name unknown), 
  but fails within two years due to 
  
  disagreement between magi Ignibus 
  Impervious of Flambeau and Wilhelm of 
  Tytalus. The covenant site is abandoned, 
  and later becomes quarters for hedge 
  wizards. These squatters are eventually 
  killed in a pitched battle. [ME] The account 
  of these events is very sketchy. 
   1181 1320 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1320: Won by 
  Restitius of Doissitep, with his creation of a 
  bronze dog which can bark, wag its tail, 
  and urinate wine. It also has a paralyzing 
  stare, useful for guarding. [OoH] 
   1182 1321 
  Iberia: Praeco Matlus of Jerbiton retires 
  from Barcelona after 43 years playing 
  Louis the cloth merchant.  [Iberia] He 
  remains Praeco, of course. 
   1182 1321 
  Stonehenge: Covenant Schola 
  Pythangoranis founded in Norfolk, in the 
  university town of Cambridge. [HtM] 
   1182 1321 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1321 
  at Coeris. 
   C. 1185 C. 1324 
  Novgorod: Malincka Capek achieves a key 
  insight into Volkhv magic; that it relies on 
  faerie and mortal interaction, particularly 
  worship. [DatB] 
   1185 1324 
  Novgorod: Charter for a new covenant 
  granted. Thousand Caves Covenant, in the 
  Ural Mountains, is swiftly settled. [DatB] 
  This covenant later fields theories that rock 
  Hermetic theory. 
   1186 1325 
  Normandy Tribunal of 1325: A maga 
  convicted of a low crime in 1318 appeals, 
  bringing evidence that she was innocent; 
  the ruling is reversed. [WGRE] 
   1186 1325 
  Hibernia Tribunal of 1325: A maga Ex 
  Miscellanea submits a written request that 
  she have a mortal translator present for 
  the Tribunal, as she spoke no Latin; the 
  Tribunal refuses, notes that she should 
  learn, and rules that no mortals should be 
  present at Tribunal. [WGRE] See the Grand 
  Tribunal of 1334 for an additional ruling on 
  this. 
   1186 1325 
  Iberia Tribunal of 1325: Magus Trentus of 
  Flambeau is charged with killing at least 
  one hundred mortals in several battles and 
  raids with magic blatant and spectacular, 
  thereby endangering the Order. Magus 
  Trentus admits to slaying them, but that he 
  had left no witnesses to identify him. He is 
  acquitted. [HoH] 
   1186 1325 
  Provencal Tribunal of 1325: The magi of 
  Windgraven and Mistridge accuse each 
  other of scrying. Mistridge had captured 
  an invisible spy of Windgraven; 
  Windgraven had captured two scouting 
  grogs of Mistridge. Mistridge is acquitted, 
  as it had used no magic to aid the grogs. 
  Windgraven convicted for making their 
  spy invisible and fined 20 pawns. 
  Magus Hammas convicted in absentia for 
  kidnapping pilgrims, thereby interfering 
  with mortals; punished with the loss of his 
  familiar. [WGRE] The Tribunal notes that 
  Windgraven might simply have slain the 
  Mistridge spies without breaking the Code. 
   1186 1325 
  Rhine Tribunal of 1325: Magus Antonio 
  Manecis is accused of summoning a demon 
  and negotiating with it; the Magus claims 
  he had done so to protect his covenant, and 
  that the agreement was to assure the 
  
  safety of the covenant so long as they did 
  not interfere in its plots against mortals; 
  convicted and Marched. [WGRE] The 
  Tribunal notes that the Magus’ intentions 
  were worthy. 
   1186 1325 
  Iberia: Farusca of Jerbiton becomes head of 
  the council of Barcelona covenant. [Iberia] 
   1187 1326 
  Levant: Saladin conquers Jerusalem. 
  [History] 
   1187 1326 
  Stonehenge: Magnantum covenant 
  disintegrates under internal tensions, and 
  the magi remove to new covenants or 
  Tribunals. [HtM] 
   1187 1326 
  Stonehenge: Master Flumen of Tremere, 
  Blackthorn covenant, passes into Final 
  Twilight. [HtM] Master Flumen is famous 
  for capturing the Wild Hunt, in 1293.  
   1188 1327 
  Provencal: Magus Teslil of Jerbiton finds a 
  Gifted girl and, having his own apprentice, 
  sells her to Magus Gentric of Jerbiton. 
  [WGRE] See 1331 for additional 
  developments. 
   1189 1328 
  Iberia: Baruch becomes head Quaesitor of 
  Iberia Tribunal. [Iberia] 
   1189 1328 
  The Third Crusade begins. Many of the 
  great mortal kings, princes, and nobles of 
  the age join. It is generally successful, but 
  ends after its forces dwindle away in a 
  desert. [History] 
   1189 1328 
  Loch Leglean: Pact of Crun Clach forbids 
  magi from dabbling in politics, aiding kings 
  or invaders, and sets rules on raiding. 
  [LotN] Naturally, this Pact only reinforces 
  the Code as it stands. 
   C. 1190 C. 1329 
  Novgorod: Stolitzya "The Swimmer," a 
  famous and respected Maga of Bjornaer, 
  loses herself in Final Twilight. [DatB] Her 
  giant turtle Heart-Beast is said to have 
  roamed the marshes for decades. 
   1190 1329 
  Rhine: At Triamore covenant, the 
  apprentice Pietre is found to have scried 
  upon Maga Daria of Tremere. The boy flees 
  before being punished. Pietre is expelled 
  from the tutelage of his master, Aline of 
  Bonisagus. [Triamore] 
   1190 1329 
  Emperor Frederick Barbarossa dies on 
  Crusade, while crossing the river 
  Calycadmus. [History] 
   1190 1329 
  Rhine: A fire at Triamore kills Forba of 
  Bonisagus. Not long after, the covenant is 
  besieged by the army of Henry of Brabant, 
  a mortal lord who wishes the covenant’s 
  land and castle. The siege is broken through 
  intervention of the new Emperor, Henry 
  IV. [Triamore] 
   C. 1190 C. 1330 
  Novgorod: Leczyca Covenant fined heavily 
  for providing Silesian nobles with 
  intelligence about German raids. [DatB] 
  This was presumably at either the Tribunal 
  of 1325 or 1333. 
   1191 1330 
  Magus Avarret of Bonisagus elevated to 
  Primus of his House. [HoH] 
   1191 1330 
  
  Provencal: Magus Questus of Criamon 
  returns to his covenant, Bellaquin, and 
  claims seventeen years of vis and monies, 
  per the covenant charter. The covenant 
  refuses to pay. Magus Questus complains; 
  Quaesitor Jerines called in to settle the 
  matter, and after reviewing the charter 
  rules in Questus’ favor. [WGRE] Beware of 
  the hidden traps and agreements in your 
  covenant charter, magus! 
   1191 1330 
  Stonehenge: Monks at the Abbey of 
  Glastonbury claim to have discovered the 
  Tomb of King Arthur on Glastonbury Tor. 
  [History] The claim is disputed. 
   1192 1331 
  Provencal: Lariander covenant founded in 
  a Faerie forest, five Tremere and one 
  Merinita. [Covenants] 
   1192 1331 
  Provencal: Magus Gentric dies. His 
  property is disposed of in the manner of his 
  covenant, and his apprentice taken by 
  Magus Alarmon of Tytalus. [WGRE] See 
  the Provencal Tribunal of 1333 for 
  additional developments. 
   1192 1331 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1331 
  at Coeris. 
   1193 1332 
  Hibernia: Lombard covenant reprimanded 
  for interfering in mortal affairs. [OoH] 
   1193 1332 
  Third Crusade ends after being reduced by 
  an ill-fated journey in the desert. [History] 
   1193 1332 
  Tribunals delayed one year to allow 
  preparation for the Grand Tribunal of 1334 
  AA. 
   1194 1333 
  Hilden, the Pious Magus, writes on the 
  nature of Heaven and Hell. [Maleficium] 
   1194 1333 
  Iberia Tribunal of 1333: A magus formerly 
  of Barcelona covenant accused of theft of 
  fifty marks during his departure; the 
  covenant argues that such theft diminishes 
  the covenant members ability to study; the 
  Tribunal orders the magus to repay twice 
  the amount taken. [WGRE] 
  Magus Trentus is charged with slaying a 
  magus near but outside Trentus’ sanctum; 
  Trentus claims the other was intending to 
  steal from his sanctum and that he was 
  defending himself; the Tribunal convicts, 
  but instead of slaying him only takes his 
  familiar. [WGRE] 
  The issue of support for combatants in the 
  Reconquest of Hispania is debated, ending 
  in dissension between Reconquista and 
  Roman covenants. [Iberia] Magus Trentus 
  may have been better served to wait until 
  the mage had entered his sanctum, where 
  he could have slain his enemy without fear. 
   1194 1333 
  Stonehenge Tribunal of 1333 at Blackthorn 
  inquorate and no representatives sent to 
  the Grand Tribunal of 1334. [HtM] Very 
  much to the embarrassment of the 
  Tribunal! 
   1194 1333 
  Normandy Tribunal of 1333: Quaesitores 
  bring proof that the maga convicted in 
  1318, acquitted in 1325, was kidnapped by 
  mortals under the influence of Fudarus. 
  Fudarus covenant is fined 24 pawns for 
  misleading the Tribunal and wasting its 
  time. 
  Magus Damon Le Mont complains that his 
  former apprentice, now Magus Aramin, 
  had wasted six pawns of vis and destroyed 
  
  mundane artifacts in anger, and 
  demanded compensation from the new 
  mage. The Tribunal rules that a mage is 
  responsible for his apprentice’s actions and 
  that he has only himself to blame. 
  Magus William Fireheart of Flambeau, of 
  Ungulus covenant in Stonehenge, accused 
  of killing three knights by use of magic, 
  enraging the nobility of Normandy and 
  endangering the magi of the Tribunal. 
  Magus William is fined sixty pawns 
  against his Renunciation. 
  Magus William Fireheart is also accused of 
  killing an apprentice of another magus and 
  destroying valuable laboratory equipment 
  in her care. William claims he was 
  ignorant that she had been an apprentice 
  and that she was killed and the equipment 
  destroyed accidentally while she stood near 
  a mortal he did seek to kill. The Tribunal 
  rules that, intent aside, he had reduced the 
  mage’s magical ability and fines him three 
  pawns. [WGRE] 
   1194 1333 
  Loch Leglean Tribunal of 1333: The Tribunal 
  declares the Knights Hospitaller to be 
  Enemies of the Order following a feud 
  between those knights of the Priory of 
  Torphichen and certain magi. [LotN] See 
  the Grand Tribunal of 1334. 
   1194 1333 
  Greater Alps Tribunal of 1333: After 
  slaying many faeries while seeking the 
  release of valued grogs and covenfolk from 
  a faerie lord, Valnastium covenant accused 
  of molesting Fae. Valnastium argues that 
  they have the right to protect their 
  servants. They are narrowly acquitted. 
  Magus Syrestus of Bjornaer, of the Rhine 
  Tribunal, accused of endangering his 
  sodales while a guest of other covenants by 
  killing the livestock of nearby mortals 
  while in the shapes of several animals. 
  Fined ten pawns. [WGRE] See the Rhine 
  Tribunal of 1333 and the appeal of 1334 for 
  additional events on Syrestus. 
  The Syrestus case leads to an important 
  precedent in inter-Tribunal rulings. 
   1194 1333 
  Provencal Tribunal of 1333: Bentalone 
  covenant accused of aiding a mortal lord 
  against another; Bentalone claims that one 
  mortal served their interests while the 
  other opposed them, and they should be 
  permitted to back one against the other. 
  The Tribunal rules that so long as the 
  magics used were not detected the Code 
  was not violated. 
  The magi of Bellaquin are accused of 
  preventing a Redcap from taking an 
  announcement of Tribunal to the magi of 
  Lariander. The Tribunal refuses to 
  condemn or punish Bellaquin. 
  Magus Teslil claims that the former 
  apprentice of Magus Gentric, died 1331, 
  should be granted him, as Gentric had been 
  of his House and he had found the girl to 
  begin with. The Tribunal rules that Teslil, 
  having sold the girl, had given up all claim. 
  [WGRE] See the Grand Tribunal of 1334 for 
  an additional ruling on the Redcap 
  complaint. 
  Regarding Magus Teslil, the Tribunal noted 
  its disapproval of selling apprentices, but 
  did not forbid it. 
   1194 1333 
  Rhine Tribunal of 1333: Maga Marguerite 
  of Flambeau charged with endangering the 
  Order for attacking a mortal baron and his 
  household. Marguerite claims she had done 
  so to punish the mortal for the murder of a 
  Redcap. The Tribunal rules that Redcaps 
  must be protected, and acquits. 
  Magus Taedetus of Bonisagus accused of 
  stealing vis; he sends word that he cannot 
  appear because of a delicate experiment 
  requiring his attention, and asks for a 
  
  postponement. The Tribunal rules to allow 
  a delay to the next Tribunal, but threatens 
  to fine him ten pawns if he does not bring 
  proof of the need for a delay. 
  Magus Syrestus of Bjornaer, of the Rhine 
  Tribunal, accused of endangering his 
  sodales of the Greater Alps while a guest of 
  other covenants by killing the livestock of 
  nearby mortals while in the shapes of 
  several animals. Fined three pawns. 
  [WGRE] The Tribunal also notes that 
  starting a feud with the baron would not 
  improve relations. 
  Magus Syrestus is also tried in the Rhine 
  Tribunal; see the Quaesitorial Ruling of 
  1333 for its resolution. 
   1194 1333 
  Quaesitorial Ruling: Magus Syrestus 
  appeals his convictions to the quaesitores, 
  saying that he should only be subject to the 
  fine of his home Tribunal, where he was 
  fined three pawns. The quaesitores rule 
  that he should pay the fine of the Greater 
  Alps, where the crimes were committed, 
  not the Rhine. [WGRE] 
   1195 1334 
  Grand Tribunal of 1334: Regarding the 
  declaration of Loch Leglean that the 
  Knights Hospitaller are Enemies of the 
  Order, the Grand Tribunal rules the 
  declaration too broad, and that only the 
  knights of Torphichen Priory be considered 
  enemies. 
  The Grand Tribunal orders Bellaquin 
  covenant to pay seventy pawns to House 
  Mercere for interfering with a Redcap. 
  Avarret, Primus Bonisagus, proposes that 
  Tribunals conduct business only in Latin; 
  the Tribunal criticizes Loch Leglean for 
  often conducting business in Gaelic, but 
  refuses to compel tribunals to conduct 
  themselves in Latin. [WGRE] Regarding 
  language, the quaesitores note that they 
  must use Latin to officiate. 
  This was the smallest Grand Tribunal in 
  centuries, as Stonehenge was not 
  represented, other than by Prima Ex 
  Miscellanea. 
   1195 1334 
  Stonehenge: Quaesitor Trutina joins 
  Burnham covenant. [HtM] 
   1196 1335 
  Rome: Quaesitor Tamgor tours the Roman 
  Tribunal. [Rome] 
   C. 1196 C. 1335 
  Provencal: Maga Consuelia, founder of 
  Mistridge covenant, vanishes on the slopes 
  of Mount Tierne. The maga apparently 
  went there willingly, and no evidence of 
  violence is noted. 
   1197 1336 
  Hibernia: Ashenrise covenant destroyed by 
  demons. [WGRE] 
   C. 1197 C. 1336 
  Hibernia: A magus of Cliffheart covenant 
  revealed to be a diabolist. The other magi 
  of Cliffheart are cleared by a quaesitoreal 
  investigation [OoH]. 
   C. 1197-1220 C. 1337-1359 
  At some point in this period, Primus 
  Vancasitum dies and Tertious of Doissetep 
  becomes the Primus of Flambeau. 
  Traditionally, the Primus transfers 
  residence from his former covenant to the 
  Domus Magna, but in this case Val-Negra 
  is lost and Doissitep becomes Domus 
  Magna Flambeau. [HoH] How did Tertious 
  know that Vancasitum was dead if Val-
  Negra is inaccessible? 
   1198 1337 
  Innocent III named Pope. [History] 
  
   1198 1337 
  A new Crusading order is founded to 
  defend a hospital in Acre. The order, the 
  Teutonic Knights, is open only to Germans. 
  [History] 
   1198 1337 
  Magus Caritopulus of Flambeau issues a 
  call to destroy hedge wizards across Europe 
  to prevent them from gaining power and 
  destroying the Order. His call is widely 
  ignored, as he is considered easily alarmed. 
  [OoH] 
   1198 1337 
  Rome: Quaesitor Jarane travels to Rome to 
  investigate the activities of the tribunal 
  covenants. His investigations and 
  intervention amount to little. [Rome] 
   1198 1337 
  Rhine: Rumor claims that a German 
  covenant purchases twelve indulgences in 
  one night, Allhallow’s Eve. [ME] Unlikely. 
   1199 1338 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1338. 
   1199 1338 
  Hibernia: Ashenrise refounded and 
  dedicated to fighting demons. Magus 
  Caecus of Ashenrise removes to Provencal 
  Tribunal. [WGRE, OoH] 
   1200 1339 
  Iberian Tribunal of 1339: The subject of 
  support for Christian and Moorish mortals 
  again ends the Tribunal in dissension 
  between Reconquista and Roman 
  covenants. [Iberia] 
   1200 1339 
  Stonehenge Tribunal of 1339 at Blackthorn 
  inquorate. [HtM] 
   1200 1339 
  Normandy Tribunal of 1339: Maga 
  Pugnatis found guilty of interfering with 
  mortals, and ordered to enchant items to 
  allow magi to hide from them. [WGRE] The 
  details of her crime are curiously absent. 
   1200 1339 
  Thebes Tribunal of 1339: Magus Aescliops of 
  House Jerbiton, itinerant, is noted to have 
  marked any room he resided in as his 
  sanctum; the Tribunal rules that although 
  no mage may mark a covenant room as a 
  sanctum without permission, any mage 
  may mark a sanctum for any period, so 
  long as it marks his true residence. [WGRE] 
  Compare to the ruling of the Greater Alps 
  Tribunal, 1304. 
   1200 1339 
  Rhine Tribunal of 1339: Covenant Fengheld 
  complains that Maga Odorpes of Bjornaer 
  had failed to collect and provide six pawns 
  of vis per season as she had agreed; 
  Odorpes argues that she had provided six 
  pawns each season except for Winter, when 
  she hibernated in the shape of her heart-
  beast, a bear; Tribunal rules that she is still 
  responsible for her obligations, since she 
  chose to spend her winters as a bear, and 
  must make up the difference within seven 
  years. [WGRE] 
   1200 1339 
  Rome: Rebelling Italian cities ask for 
  Hermetic aid, offering silver and 
  patronage if they aid in their battles. 
  [Rome] 
   1200 1339 
  A new Crusade announced against the 
  pagans of the Baltic coast. A new order, 
  the Knights of the Sword, is organized to 
  prosecute the Crusade. [History] 
   1201 1340 
  The Fourth Crusade to the Levant begins, 
  poorly. The Crusade gathers at Venice, but 
  
  lacks the money for passage. The doge 
  agrees to transport them if the Crusaders 
  will help him return the city of Zara to his 
  control and give him half of any booty. 
  [History] 
   1201 1340 
  Stonehenge: Covenant Nigrasaxa founded 
  in Suffolk. [HtM] 
   1201 1340 
  Stonehenge: The new covenant of 
  Nigrasaxa calls for a tribunal and several 
  covenants agree to attend. Blackthorn 
  hosts the tribunal. Each Stonehenge 
  Tribunal thereafter has been a year late. 
  The local Redcap network is reorganized to 
  prevent further inquorate meetings. [HtM] 
   1202 1341 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1341 
  at Coeris. Around this period, some 
  followers of Tremere are now known to 
  have experimented with vampirism, and 
  possibly other forms of unliving existence. 
   1202 1341 
  The whole of the Fourth Crusade is 
  excommunicated for the sack of Zara. 
  [History] 
   1203 1342 
  Pilantius of Stonehill covenant writes letter 
  to the deacon of a church near Lyon 
  regarding Dark Magi. [Maleficium] 
   1203 1342 
  Normandy: A mortal monk named Eustace 
  puts aside his vows to inherit his father’s 
  lands. It is said that in earlier years 
  Eustace the Monk had learned magic in the 
  city of Toledo. [History, Legend] See 1344. 
   1204 1343 
  Thebes: Fall of Constantinople to the 
  Fourth Crusade, Constantinople sacked. 
  [History] 
   1204 1343 
  Causabon of Bonisagus completes his 
  Physiologus Hermeticum, a bestiary based 
  mainly on the classic Physiologus. He 
  includes elements from other bestiaries to 
  fill in and compliment his work. [MB] It is 
  not widely circulated, or at least Caprea 
  seems unfamiliar with it. 
   1204 1343 
  The remaining Crusaders of the Fourth 
  Crusade disbands after being decimated by 
  plague and desertions. The Crusade had 
  been foiled by morale problems, lack of 
  funding, and poor leadership. It has sacked 
  two Christian cities, been excommunicated, 
  and failed to impact the Saracens at all. 
  [History] Thus demonstrating that 
  Crusades can be fragile. 
   1205 1344 
  Thebes: Hoplitic Pact of Byzantium formed 
  in the wake of the sack of Constantinople, 
  allying House Jerbiton with the Order of 
  Geonim to defend Jewish Quarters from 
  mortal destruction. [Kabbalah] 
   C. 1205 C. 1344 
  Ruprecht de Solange of House Tremere, 
  Leczya covenant, claims his sigil. [DatB] 
  Frania Popovich of Tremere, also of 
  Leczya, is also a sigil-holder in 1360, 
  making Leczya a notable center of power 
  in House Tremere. 
   1205 1344 
  Novgorod: Most recent claimed sighting of 
  Stolitzya "The Swimmer," by Susan of 
  Wicklow. [DatB] 
   1205 1344 
  Normandy: Eustace the Monk quarrels 
  with the Count of Boulogne and enters the 
  
  service of John of England as a sea captain. 
  He spends several years plaguing the 
  Count with his ship, cunning, and magic. 
  [History, Legend] See 1351. 
   1206 1345 
  Novgorod: Yannes Kolski suffers a 
  prolonged Twilight and issues an extended 
  series of prophecies, the Yannes Discourse. 
  This may have been his Final Twilight, but 
  the issue is not settled. [DatB] Magus 
  Yannes disappeared in 1355, while 
  returning from Thousand Caves. His fate 
  remains a mystery. 
   1206-1280 1345-1419 
  Rhine: Lifetime of St. Albertus Magnus, 
  philosopher and possible mage. Teacher of 
  St. Thomas Aquinas, authority, lecturer, 
  wise man, preacher, and papal legate. 
  [History, Legend] 
   1207 1346 
  Normandy Tribunal of 1346: Maga 
  Pugnatis, having failed to produce the 
  items she was ordered to by the Tribunal of 
  1339, and failing to present herself to 
  Tribunal, is expelled from the Order. 
  [WGRE] 
   1207 1346 
  Iberia Tribunal of 1346: Laertia of Jerbiton 
  reports to the Tribunal on shamanism and 
  the spirit world. [Shamans]  
   Just before the close of the Tribunal, 
  Terrace of Jerbiton brings illegally 
  obtained evidence of diabolism. Baruch of 
  Guernicus uses Summoning the Distant 
  Image to examine the grounds of Jaferiya. 
  Magi of Jaferiya covenant cast out for 
  diabolism. The magi of Jaferiya escape the 
  Tribunal through magic and diabolic aid. 
  [Iberia] No known penalty assigned to 
  Terrace or Baruch. 
   1207 1346 
  Provencal Tribunal of 1346: Praeco Oxioun 
  and Chief Quaesitor Protantus order the 
  covenants of Provencal to remain hidden 
  and uninvolved in the expected Crusade 
  against the mortal heretic Cathars. [MND] 
   1207 1346 
  Iberia: Start of the Shadow Wars in Iberia: 
  Diabolic Flambeau, "The Flaming Shadow," 
  in Iberia hunted and gradually eliminated. 
  The Flaming Shadow destroys two 
  covenants and slays most of their 
  inhabitants by the Tribunal of 1353 AA. 
  Fifty magi are slain by the Shadow in 
  seven years, and only three of the 
  renegades are destroyed. [Iberia] 
   1207-1214 1346-1353 
  House Flambeau investigated for diabolic 
  activity after discovery of the diabolic 
  Flaming Shadow band. [Iberia] 
   1208 1347 
  Stonehenge Tribunal of 1347: Glenius of 
  Bonisagus reports on encounters with 
  shamans in Novgorod. [Shamans] 
  The Tribunal rules that no covenant may 
  put more than two pounds of magically 
  created silver per resident, magus or 
  mortal, into circulation. [HtM] 
   1208 1347 
  Albigensian Crusade declared against the 
  Cathars of Provencal. These Cathars are 
  heretics in the eyes of the Church, the 
  dispute concerning whether the world and 
  its creator are intrinsically evil. [History] 
  How different from the Hermetic view. 
   1208 1347 
  Iberia: Arch-Magus Karendos forms a 
  group of Flambeau to hunt his filius, Rasus, 
  a Renounced magus of Jaferiya. He 
  confronts Rasus in this year, but the 
  renegade calls on demons to oppose his 
  Pater and escapes. Karendos suffers 
  
  Twilight and must retire from the hunt. 
  [Iberia] 
   1208 1347 
  Stonehenge: The mortal kingdom of 
  England is placed under an interdiction by 
  Pope Innocent III, forbidding the 
  administration of the sacraments, for the 
  interference of King John in Church 
  elections. [History] 
   1209 1348 
  Provencal: The city of Bezier destroyed in 
  Albigensian Crusade. [History] 
   1209 1348 
  Stonehenge: King John is excommunicated 
  for interfering in Church elections. 
  [History] 
   1210 1349 
  Iberia: Matlus of Jerbiton, Praeco of the 
  Iberian Tribunal, is found dead with ash on 
  his hands and a circle of ash on his right 
  temple. Cause of death unknown. Terrace 
  of Jerbiton, now eldest, elevated to Praeco. 
   1210 1349 
  Appolonius of Jerbiton is given the gift of 
  Arcane Memory by Order of Geonim. 
  [Kabbalah] 
   1210 1349 
  Stonehenge: Foundation of Libellus, in 
  Suffolk. [HtM] 
   1210 1349 
  Rome: The Holy Roman Emperor is 
  excommunicated by the Pope for his 
  military adventures in southern Italy, but 
  the Emperor finishes his conquest of the 
  territory. [History] 
   1210 1349 
  Two Seekers, Alphonsus and Tabitha Ex 
  Miscellanea, tour Ultima Thule. [UT] 
   1211 1350 
  Special Tribunal: A Wizard’s March is 
  declared against the vampiric Tremere. 
  The Quaesitores had been investigating 
  these magic-vampire hybrids for some 
  years. [HoH] The events around the March 
  are unclear. 
   1212 1351 
  Provencal: Children's Crusade: Thousands 
  of children march on the Holy Land, 
  eventually sold into slavery in the city of 
  Marseilles. [History] 
   1212 1351 
  Last report of a Tremere Vampire. [HoH] 
  The last Tremere vampires destroyed 
  exactly two hundred years after the 
  destruction of Diedne. 
   1212 1351 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1351 
  at Coeris. 
   1212 1351 
  Novgorod: Three Lakes Covenant celebrates 
  its bicentenary, and decides to take on 
  apprentices. They are attentively trained, 
  and flourish. [DatB] This dedicated 
  training is rare and laudable. 
   1212 1351 
  Iberia: Magi of the Flaming Shadow 
  support a Christian army at the Battle of 
  Las Navas de Tolosa. [Iberia] 
   1212 1351 
  Iberia: Seige and Fall of Badajoz to Castile, 
  following the Battle of Las Navas de 
  Tolosa. Muslim sorcerors living in the city 
  employ djinn to defend it. Magicians 
  serving the Castillians oppose the Muslim 
  sorcerors; a two day battle rages around 
  the Tower of the Djinn, ending in a 
  massive explosion destroying the tower 
  and killing many. All the sorcerors die, 
  
  along with many of their servants. Many 
  Muslim devices are scattered across the 
  city and nearby land, from the force of the 
  explosion. [ME] 
   1212 1351 
  Rhine: Magus Carolus of Jerbiton visits 
  Crintera, Domus Magna of Bjornaer. While 
  there, his familiar is blinded by Maga 
  Caprea of Bjornaer when it enters the 
  covenant library. [MBRE] 
   1212 1351 
  Stonehenge: King John of England and the 
  Count of Boulongne make an alliance. The 
  sea-captain Eustace the Monk, the Count’s 
  enemy and John’s former man, departs 
  John’s service, enters the service of Prince 
  Louis of France, and bedevils both the king 
  and count with his wits and magic. 
  [History, Legend] See 1354. 
   1213 1352 
  Maga Murion of Bonisagus elevated to 
  Prima of her House. [HoH] 
   1213 1352 
  Arash of Criamon renounces the Order for 
  Judaism. He is protected by Criamon magi 
  until he can escape to a Jewish quarter in 
  Baghdad. [Kabbalah] 
   1213 1352 
  Stonehenge: King John is absolved by the 
  archbishop he had opposed. The king 
  becomes a Papal vassal and all his lands 
  become Papal fiefs. [History] 
   1214 1353 
  Novgorod Tribunal of 1353: A delegation of 
  shamans & shapechangers arrives at the 
  Novgorod Tribunal seeking alliance with 
  the Order. The issue is discussed at length, 
  but the matter of bringing it up to the 
  Grand Tribunal is tabled. In the 
  meanwhile, the visitors are told to join 
  House Ex Miscellanea. [Shamans] 
  The quaesitores of Three Lakes are asked to 
  consider if Yannes Kolski has entered Final 
  Twilight. 
  Thousand Caves accuses Pripet Maior of 
  brutally suppressing mortals in the Pripet 
  Marshes. Pripet Maior accuses Thousand 
  Caves of despoiling wilderness. 
  Finally, the Tribunal is stunned by the 
  revelations of Thousand Caves covenant, 
  which shares with the Tribunal its 
  investigations and success in affecting 
  Auras, involving Faeries, mortal worship, 
  and magi-priests. 
  The tribunal is closed after the quaesitores 
  announce that they will investigate both 
  Thousand Caves and Pripet Maior. [DatB] 
  The reason for the shamans and 
  shapeshifters to seek an alliance was not 
  made clear. Possibly they recognized the 
  influence of the Order, or sought protection 
  from another influence. 
   1214 1353 
  Iberia Tribunal of 1353: Iberian Covenants 
  form a pact of mutual defense in response 
  to the Flaming Shadow. [Iberia]  
   1214 1353 
  Loch Leglean Tribunal of 1353: Magus 
  Erdras Tan-Gwyllt of Flambeau is cast out 
  of the Order for setting her apprentice a 
  gauntlet that kills several of her mortal 
  enemies; the Tribunal absolves Magus 
  Curwin, the former apprentice, and rules 
  that magi are responsible for their 
  apprentices even in gauntlet. [HoH] 
  Compare to the ruling of the Iberian 
  Tribunal of 1311. 
   1214 1353 
  Rhine Tribunal of 1353: Maga Caprea of 
  Bjornaer is found guilty of harming Magus 
  Carolus’ familiar and is sentenced to 
  produce a bestiary using her own 
  resources. [MBRE] 
  
  After the Tribunal, three magi, Signum 
  Irruptus of Criamon, Theoderich of 
  Jerbiton, and Pancrestis of Bonisagus, 
  decide to establish a covenant in Denmark, 
  on the island of Zealand, in the ruins of 
  Lethra town, which they name Heorot 
  covenant, after the Hall of King Beowulf. 
  [UT] 
  The magi of Heorot did not seek any 
  permission to colonize, which may yet 
  cause them difficulty, as Denmark lies 
  within Ultima Thule, which is ceded to 
  Novgorod Tribunal. That Tribunal is ever 
  fearful of Rhine magi expanding into their 
  territories. 
   1214 1353 
  Saracen sorcerers found a school of sorcery 
  in Oran, in Africa, using the profits from 
  defending the merchant ships of Oran from 
  pirates. [ME] 
   1214-1294 1353-1433 
  Life of Roger Bacon, monk, inventor, and 
  reputed magician. He is said to have the 
  advice of a bronze head, which may or 
  may not be the one that advised Pope 
  Sylvester II. [History, Legend] He is also 
  said to have constructed the bronze head, 
  as are Vergil and Sylvester II. 
   1215 1354 
  The Fourth Lateran Council prohibits trial 
  by ordeal and requires Jews and Muslims 
  to wear distinct clothing or patches, frees 
  Christian debtors from interests on loans 
  from Jews, excludes Jews from positions of 
  authority over Christians, and requires all 
  Christian orders to hold regular meetings. 
  Pope Innocent III calls for a new crusade to 
  the Levant at this council. [History] 
   1215 1354 
  Stonehenge Tribunal of 1354, one year late, 
  but quorate. [HtM] 
   1215 1354 
  Stonehenge: Prince Louis of France invades 
  England. The sea-captain Eustace the Monk 
  lands knights, soldiers, and siege engines 
  for his lord. He is said to know how to 
  make his ships invisible to mortal eyes. 
  [History, Legend] See 1356. 
   1215-1216 1354-1355 
  Novgorod: Quaesitor delegation visits 
  Pripet Maior and Thousand Caves. They 
  intend to issue findings at the Tribunal of 
  1360. [DatB] 
   1216 1355 
  Novgorod: Magus Yannes Kolski, possibly 
  in Final Twilight, disappears after visiting 
  Thousand Caves Covenant. [DatB] His fate 
  remains mysterious. 
   1216 1355 
  Loch Leglean: Thomas Verus of Mercere 
  writes about Loch Leglean Tribunal. [LotN] 
   1217 1356 
  Fifth Crusade begins. 
   1217 1356 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1356. 
   1217 1356 
  Novgorod: Pripet Maior raids Thousand 
  Caves, in direct violation of Tribunal 
  traditions. [DatB] 
   1217 1356 
  Stonehenge: A great sea battle at 
  Sandwich, on the second day of Virgo, in 
  which Eustace the Monk is killed. His 
  invisible ships are revealed to the English 
  sea captains by a mariner, Stephen Crabbe 
  of Winchelsea, formerly under Eustace’s 
  command. Stephen battles his old captain 
  and kills him by beheading. The French 
  fleet is then destroyed by a tempest, 
  apparently at the instigation of St. 
  Bartholomew, or perhaps a mage calling 
  
  himself Bartholomew, who appears in air 
  above the English and tells them to fear 
  not. [History, Legend] 
   1218 1357 
  Iberia Duresca, Barcelona, Estancia-es-
  Karida linked by Hermes Portals under 
  Iberian Defense Pact. [Iberia] 
   1218 1357 
  Innocent III dies. [History] 
   
   1220 1359 
  Rhine: Magus Sicero of Tremere joins 
  Triamore covenant. [Triamore] 
   1220 1359 
  Provencal: The controversial Wizard's 
  Grimoire assembled at Doissetep, compiled 
  through the efforts of Occultis of Bonisagus 
  and others. [WGRE] The wise Occultis is to 
  be praised for his efforts! 
   1220 1359 
  The German king Frederick is crowned 
  Holy Roman Emperor after promising to 
  undertake a new Crusade. The Emperor is 
  quickly embroiled in restoring order in 
  Sicily. [History] 
   1220 1359 
  Magus William Fireheart of Ungulus, last 
  of that covenant’s line of Flambeau, killed 
  in Wizard’s War with a mage of Fudarus. 
  [HtM] The volatile William Fireheart had 
  dodged Renunciation for years, and was no 
  doubt pleased to die in battle. 
   1220 1359 
  The hedge wizard Michael Scot becomes 
  court magician for Emperor Frederick II. 
  [HM] 
   1221 1360 
  Rhine: Caprea filia Equus Minor of House 
  Bjornaer completes her bestiary, based 
  mainly on Pliny’s Historia Naturalis and 
  the original Physiologus. She makes 
  multiple copies, one to be placed in the 
  library of Durenmar and the rest 
  circulated throughout the Order. It 
  disagrees with the Physiologus 
  Hermeticum of Causabon on some points. 
  [MBRE] 
   1221 1360 
  Fifth Crusade ends. 
   1222 1361 
  Stonehenge Tribunal of 1361: Late but 
  quorate. [HtM] 
  1222 1361 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1361 
  at Coeris. 
   1222 1361 
  Novgorod: A new terror out of the East: a 
  barbarian people called the Mongols 
  appear in the east of the Tribunal. 
  [History] 
   1223 1362 
  Novgorod: The Mongols defeat a large 
  mortal army of Russians and Cumans, then 
  mysteriously depart. [History] 
   C. 1223 and later C. 1362 and later 
  Provencal: Refugees from the Albigensian 
  Crusade, including magi of Bellaquin, find 
  haven at Mistridge covenant. The 
  population of Mistridge triples, and the 
  council of Mistridge increases from four to 
  twelve. The covenant becomes an 
  1220 1359 
  Official Campaign 
  Start Date 
  
  important center of resistance to the 
  Crusaders. 
  Mistridge is eventually cautioned by the 
  Tribunal against becoming overly involved 
  in mortal concerns. [Mistridge] The tale of 
  Mistridge gives an important caution 
  against magi who think to oppose the 
  Crusaders of the Church. 
   1224 1363 
  Rome: Emperor Frederick II offers 
  patronage to the covenant of Literatus. 
  [Rome] This emperor is noted for his 
  learning and patronage of the wise. 
   1224 1363 
  Rome: Filii of Literatus found a new 
  covenant in Naples. [Rome] Naples 
  covenant may have been founded with the 
  Emperor’s aid; the issue is not clear. 
   1226 1365 
  Rome: Other covenants in Rome seek to 
  undermine the alliance of Literatus and 
  the Emperor. [Rome] 
   1227 1366 
  Tribunals of the year 1367 held in 1366, to 
  prepare for the Grand Tribunal of the next 
  year. Presumably the Stonehenge Tribunal, 
  late one year since 1341, will synchronize 
  with the Order. [WGRE] 
   1227 1366 
  Hibernia: Magus Caecus of Tytalus visits 
  and speaks to the Hibernian Tribunal on 
  the subject of grogs, urging their humane 
  and just treatment. His speech is received 
  with mixed opinions. [Saga Pack] Magus 
  Caecus is known to be sympathetic to grogs 
  and mundane soldiers. 
   1227 1366 
  Sixth Crusade: Emperor Frederick II 
  embarks on crusade, seven years after 
  promising it. His army is stricken with 
  fever and delayed; Frederick is, after 20 
  days delay, excommunicated for 
  malingering. [History] 
   1228 1367 
  Grand Tribunal of 1367: No rulings noted. 
   1228 1367 
  Pope Gregory IX invades the Emperor’s 
  lands. [History] 
   1228 1367 
  The Sixth Crusade finally departs under 
  the Emperor’s command. It lands in Egypt 
  with little opposition. [History] 
   1229 1368 
  The Sixth Crusade secures Jerusalem, 
  Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and a corridor 
  of land, all in six months. [History] 
   1229 1368 
  The Emperor returns and quickly drives 
  out his foes. [History] 
   1230 1369 
  The Pope and Emperor reconciled; the 
  Emperor is absolved. [History] 
   1230-1234 1369-1373 
  Novgorod: A civil war between the 
  Knights of the Sword and the Church, over 
  the conduct of the Knights toward their 
  ecclesiastical superiors. [History] This 
  points to a disunity in the Church, possibly 
  of use if a Crusade is preached against the 
  Order. 
   C. 1231 C. 1370 
  Papal Bull Excommunicamus forms the 
  Inquisition to root out heresy. They focus 
  initially on the Albigensian movement, 
  under the guidance of the Dominicans. 
  [History] 
   1232 1371 
  
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1371 
  at Coeris. 
   1232 1371 
  Normandy: A mortal, Hubert de Burgh, is 
  accused of taking from the vaults of the 
  king of France a magic gemstone that 
  conferred invincibility in combat, and 
  delivering it to an enemy of the king. 
  [History] The origin of the gem is 
  uncertain. 
   1235 1374 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1374. 
   1237 1376 
  Rome: The magi of Literatus oppose a 
  group of diabolists in Milan. [Rome] 
   1237 1376 
  Novgorod: The Knights of the Sword 
  subordinated to the Teutonic Knights. This 
  is intended to resolve lingering problems of 
  obedience by the Knights of the Sword. The 
  Teutonic Knights descend hereafter into 
  brutality and barbarism. [History] 
  Indicating deep corruption among the 
  Crusaders by this point. 
   1237 1376 
  The Mongol Horde returns and conquers 
  much of eastern Europe. In the midst of 
  this, the Teutonic Knights wage war on the 
  Russians, who are caught between two 
  invading armies. [History] 
   1238-1311 1377-1450 
  Life of Arnold of Villanova, physician and 
  alchemist. [History, Legend] 
   1239 1378 
  Emperor Frederick II excommunicated for 
  the second time. The Pope calls him a 
  heretic, rake, and the Anti-Christ. [History] 
   1240 1379 
  Rome: Magi of Literatus covenant help 
  Frederick II capture hundreds of clergy. A 
  special Tribunal disbands the covenant 
  later in this year. [Rome] 
   1241 1380 
  Novgorod: County of Leczyca raided by 
  Mongols, effect on Leczyca covenant 
  unclear. [History, DatB] 
   1241 1380 
  Novgorod: The Mongols devastate the 
  nobility of eastern Europe at the Battle of 
  Liegnitz. They withdraw later in the year, 
  as mysteriously as they had come, but keep 
  control over Russia. [History] 
   1242 1381 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1381 
  at Coeris. 
   1243 1382 
  Rhine: Famine sweeps Germany, spurred 
  by a plague of rats. [History] 
   C. 1244 C. 1383 
  Provencal: Mistridge covenant has 
  drastically weakened in the face of the 
  Albigensian Crusade. It has acquired new 
  enemies both in and out of the Order and 
  most or all of its senior magi have died or 
  gone mad. [Mistridge] 
   1245 1384 
  Emperor Frederick II deposed by order of 
  the Pope. Civil war breaks out across 
  Germany. [History] 
   1246 1385 
  Provencal: Mistridge covenant destroyed 
  after an extended siege. The survivors flee 
  deeper into the Pyrenees and refound the 
  covenant with a new council, the senior 
  magi all having Passed, died, or vanished. 
  [Mistridge] The fate of Magus Grimgroth is 
  the most mysterious; after leading his 
  
  covenfolk out of danger, he rode to nearby 
  Mount Tierne, and vanished on its slopes. 
   1247 1386 
  Rome: Some magi of this tribunal move 
  against demons afflicting the court of 
  Emperor Frederick II. [Rome] Whether the 
  Emperor himself is influenced by demons is 
  hotly disputed. 
   1248 1387 
  Seventh Crusade, led by Louis IX of France 
  begins. 
   1248 1387 
  A new Cathedral is begun in Cologne to 
  more greatly honor the Relics of the Three 
  Magi. Their reliquary has become a great 
  pilgrimage site, and the old cathedral is 
  considered inadequate. [History] This new 
  cathedral remains unfinished at the date of 
  this History. 
   1248 (May 22) 1387 (II Gem) 
  A total eclipse of the sun progresses across 
  Europe, beginning in Hibernia and 
  crossing to Levant in the space of four 
  hours, ending over Jerusalem. [History] 
  Effect hotly debated and highly 
  anticipated. 
   1250 1389 
  Seventh Crusade ends with the rout of the 
  French in Egypt. [History] 
   1250 1389 
  Emperor Frederick II dies. [History] 
   1252 1391 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1391 
  at Coeris. 
   1253 1392 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1392. 
   1254 1393 
  The Great Interregnum. The Imperial 
  Throne remains empty from the death of 
  Conrad IV to the reign of Rudolph, 
  nineteen years later. [History] 
   C. 1258 C. 1397 
  Germany and Italy afflicted by crop 
  failure, famine, and disease. These disasters 
  are thought to be Divine punishment for 
  widespread sin. This in turn gives rise to 
  the flagellant movement, whose members 
  live in strict discipline, wear uniforms, and 
  conduct public and private self flagellation 
  to atone for the sins that have offended 
  God. [History] 
   1259 1398 
  Rome: Some magi of this tribunal wage a 
  campaign against demon-influenced rulers 
  in northern Italy. [Rome] 
   1261 1400 
  Grand Tribunal of 1400: No rulings noted. 
   
   The Fifteenth Century of the Age of Aries. 
  In the mortal world, this is a century of 
  increased conflict between Church and 
  kings. The Church presses a claim of 
  universal authority stemming from its 
  spiritual authority, but falls increasingly 
  under the influence of the French crown, 
  who it has come to rely on for military aid. 
   1262 1401 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1401 
  at Coeris. 
   1266 1405 
  Rome: A mortal, Charles of Anjou, was 
  some years before crowned king of Sicily by 
  the Pope. In this year he arrives to press 
  his claim, and among his advisors are the 
  magi of Windgraven. This leads to a period 
  of Roman-Provencal Tribunal friction. 
  [History, Rome] 
  
   1270 1409 
  Eighth Crusade, led by Louis IX of France. 
  The army is afflicted by plague after 
  landing in Carthage, and the king dies. 
  [History] 
   1271 1410 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1410. 
   1272 1411 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1411 
  at Coeris. 
   1273 1412 
  The Great Interregnum ends after nineteen 
  years with the election of Rudolf I. 
  [History] 
   1282 1421 
  Rome: In this year, the magi of the 
  Provencal covenant Mistridge begin a 
  campaign to oppose their old enemy, 
  Windgraven, in the Roman tribunal. 
  [Rome] 
   1282 1421 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1421 
  at Coeris. 
   1284 1423 
  Rhine: A strange piper leads away the rats 
  of Hamelin using the magical music of his 
  pipe. After the people of that town refuse 
  his fee, he leads away their children. 
  [History, Legend] Whether he was Demon, 
  Faerie, or Hedge Wizard, we know not. 
   1289 1428 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1428. 
   1292 1431 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1431 
  at Coeris. 
   1294 1433 
  Grand Tribunal of 1433: The Roman and 
  Provencal Tribunals clash over issues of 
  cross-tribunal interference and meddling in 
  mortal affairs. [Rome] 
   1294 1433 
  Stonehenge: Famine in England, possibly 
  due to excessive exporting of grain. 
  [History] 
   1300 1439 
  Iberia: Last of the known diabolic Flaming 
  Shadow magi killed. [Iberia] 
   1302 1441 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1441 
  at Coeris. 
   1307 1446 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1446. 
   1307-1314 1446-1453 
  The Knights Templar are accused of heresy 
  and idolatry, discredited, tried, and the 
  leaders of the order executed. The 
  surviving Templars are spread through 
  other Crusading orders and the lands of the 
  Templars seized by local mortal 
  authorities. [History] It seems that the 
  kings to whom the Templars loaned money 
  did not wish to pay it back. 
   1309 1448 
  Papal seat removed to Avignon. [History] 
   1312 1451 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1451 
  at Coeris. 
   1315 1454 
  A three year famine strikes western 
  Europe. [History] 
   1320 1459 
  
  Pope John XXII issues Bull Super Illius 
  Specula, condemning ritual magic as 
  diabolism and heresy. [History] 
   1322 1461 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1461 
  at Coeris. 
   1325 1464 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1464. 
   1327 1466 
  Grand Tribunal of 1466: No rulings noted. 
   1327 1466 
  Rhine: A great fire burns much of Munich. 
  [History] 
   1332 1471 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1471 
  at Coeris. 
   1337 1476 
  Beginning of the Hundred Year’s War 
  between England and France over English 
  claims to the throne of France and the 
  French holdings of the English king. 
  [History] 
   1342 1481 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1481 
  at Coeris. 
   1343 1482 
  Rome: Verdi Competition of 1482. 
   1346 1485 
  Normandy: Reports of a new mundane 
  engine employed at the Battle of Crecy. The 
  engine propels a solid stone or metal ball 
  with a thunderclap. [History] 
   1347-1351 1486-1490 
  The Black Death comes to Europe, killing 
  roughly one-third of the mortal population. 
  [History] 
   1352 1491 
  Transylvania: Tremere conference of 1491 
  at Coeris. 
   1357 1496 
  Iberia: Destruction of Estancia-es-Karida 
  covenant by its own magi, fleeing the 
  Inquisition. Most of the covenant escapes 
  through its Hermes Portal, but one stays 
  behind to collapse the building. [Iberia] 
   1360 1499 
  Grand Tribunal of 1499: No rulings noted. 
   
   The Sixteenth Century of the Age of Aries 
   
   2017 1 AP Age of Pisces begins. 
   
   
  
  Works Cited 
  Most of the works cited are Ars Magica supplements, but a few mundane texts were consulted. 
  Most of the abbreviations of the titles are likely to be fairly obvious to the long time Ars 
  Magica player, but for the less experienced a full list of supplements is provided. 
   
   
   
   
  Ars Magica Texts:  
  BaS: Blood and Sand  
  BCC: The Broken Covenant of Calebais  
  Covenants: Covenants  
  DatB: Dragon and the Bear  
  FA: The Fallen Angel  
  HoH: Houses of Hermes  
  HtM: Heirs to Merlin  
  Iberia: Tribunals of Hermes: Iberia  
  Kabbalah: Kabbalah: Mythic Judaism  
  LotN: Lion of the North  
  Maleficium: The Maleficium  
  MB: Medieval Bestiary  
  MBRE: Medieval Bestiary, Revised Edition  
  ME: Mythic Europe  
  Mistridge: Mistridge  
  MND: A Midsummer Night’s Dream  
  MS: Mythic Seas  
  ON: Ordo Nobilis  
  OoH: Order of Hermes  
  PD: Pax Dei  
  Rome: Tribunals of Hermes: Rome  
  Saga Pack: Saga Pack  
  SoI: Sanctum of Ice  
  Stormrider: Stormrider  
  RotSR: Return of the Stormrider  
  Tempest: The Tempest  
  Triamore: Triamore: The Covenant at Lucien’s 
  Folly  
  UT: Ultima Thule  
  WG: The Wizard’s Grimoire  
  WGRE: Wizard’s Grimoire, Revised Edition  
  WT: A Winter’s Tale  
   
  Mundane Texts  
  These are some of the texts used to prepare 
  the non-Mythic Europe specific entries.  
  Legends of the World, Edited by Richard 
  Cavendish  
  Magic in the Middle Ages, by Richard 
  Kiekefer  
  The People’s Chronology, Edited by James 
  Trager  
   
   
   
   
  Other texts were consulted and titles not noted; this is particularly true of the Era of entries for 
  Charlemagne, Beowulf, Arthur, etc. Several entries of legendary historical characters were 
  extrapolated, and no authority is claimed or cited. If Lyonesse sank toward the end of Arthur’s 
  Reign, and Beowulf’s predecessor’s sent Saxons to England in Arthur’s predecessor’s period, 
  then all three are roughly contemporary. Similarly, the fall of Troy is a historical event around 
  1200 BC, and is in the later Greek Heroic Age, so the Heroic Age occurred around 1200 BC. The 
  exercise of confirmation is left to the reader. 
  
SOURCE: textdata/thevault/Ars Magica [multi]/5th edition/3rd Party/The History of the Order of Hermes.pdf