Charles asked for a "family tree" of the covenants of the Order, and unlike everything else I have on my list of things I'd like to get up here, this one seemed relatively easy to whip out. So here it is.
Covenants in bold-face are the ones that still exist.
The Council of Cholae at Evasendia:- Sol Media Nox
- Trans Paludem
- Attica
- Alae Fractae
- Trans Paludem
- Lapidis
- Matercula
- Verbi Meliae
- St. Cyrynthia
- St. Anna on the Rye
- St. Cyrynthia
- Verbi Meliae
- Calvus Grigori
- Mille Lacus
- St. Kevin of the Apples
- Hall of Touccio
- Peppertree
- St. Pyrandor
- Matercula
- Annalum (I)
- Annalum (II)
- Tempestatem Sedare
- Council of 198
- Ne Interire
- Acus Doris
- Council of 198
- Linctus
- Bethelion
- Flos Crastinus
- Lord of Misrule
- Legatum Grigori
- Manu Tenere
- Nimus Animae
- Domus Octobris
- Tempestatem Sedare
- Annalum (II)
- (The South-Bound Diaspora Party)
- Melos
- Ultorum
- Isrillion
- Fumus et Specula
- Sphaera Musicae
- Fumus et Specula
- Chalcyphon
- Dove's Nest
- Ad Vim Per Veritatem
- Plenilunium Album
- Stony Hill
- Felchester
- Talchester
- Morchester
- Dunchester
- Talchester
- Felchester
- (The Elementalist Movement)
- Whitestone
- Rockroot
- Fenestra Arcadiae
- Papilio Aestivus
- Tinea Hiberna
- Papilio Aestivus
- Mare Aeneum
- Hart's Desire
- Niveum Pomeridianum
- Trethvys
- Hart's Desire
- Whitestone
- Nox Facis Caelestis
- Stony Hill
- Corbis Ovorum
- Aenigma Novalindenis
- Plenilunium Album
- Carnifex
- Inceptum
- Nonae Fidelitatis
- Inceptum
- Isrillion
- Ultorum
- Melos
- (The North-Bound Diaspora Party)
- Brellyn
- Trismagisti
- Antrum
- Prima Lux
- Virginis In Litus
- Praeterita
- Crepusculum
- Tres Regni
- Prima Lux
- Antrum
- Circulus Ruber
- Pilleus Gilvus
- Ambulator Caeruleus
- Sol Caeruleus
- Vomer Purpureus
- Sol Caeruleus
- Ambulator Caeruleus
- Quintus Opacus
- Pilleus Gilvus
- Westmarch
- Lingua Sophiae
- Imber Rufus
- Amnis Aureus
- Argutator Purpureus
- Imber Rufus
- Lingua Sophiae
(Leo Compulsus has no discernable "parent." The elder three of its four founders were all hermits.)
Very cool.
Thanks.
The descent of Ne Interire from Annalum is particularly interesting, as is the descent of Nonae Fidelitatis from Carnifex.
Is this mostly descent by origin (e.g. the mages at Aenigma Novalindenis left Corbis to found their covenant), or by sponsorship (e.g. the mages at Nimus Animae were never mages at Manu Tenere, but Manu Tenere provided support for the founding), or is it a mix?
Origin or Sponsorship?
It's a bit of a hodgepodge, which I guess is what happens when you try to do something quickly. :-)
For the most part, though, I was trying to constrain myself to sticking with origin, rather than patronage. (St. Kevin wasn't really too keen on the founding of Hall of Touccio, for example, and the Inceptum certainly didn't sponsor Nonae Fidelitatis! And as for Prima Lux => Virginis In Litus...well! In fact, quite a number of the parent-child relationships on this tree were extremely hostile ones.)
As you note, though, I did make a few slip ups here and there. Manu Tenere => Nimus Animae is one of them. Another might be Papilio Aestivus => Tinea Hiberna: although the Tinea Hibernan founders, like those of Nimus Animae, were really very scattered in terms of origin, I think that actually more of them may have come from Morchester than from anyplace else.
For the most part, though, I did try to stick with origin.
And then there are a few descents which, while they aredescents of origin rather than patronage, are also a little bit...fuzzy. The Verbi Melian founders came more directly from Lapidis than from Matercula (they were granted sanctuary at Lapidis after Matercula's desctruction and were there for several years before they left to found VM). Similarly, the Mille Lacusian founders were at Plenilunium Album for quite a number of years between their departure from Calvus Grigori and the founding of Mille Lacus. In both cases, though, I felt that I was sticking with the spirit, if not quite the letter, of the "origin by descent" rule.
Circulus Ruber was a tough call. You could make a good case, I suppose, for it being a descendant of either Brellyn or Trismagisti. In the end, because the divisions which led to its founding were already very much in evidence in the bickering and quarrels not only within the original north-bound diaspora party but also within both Covenants Brellyn and Trismagisti, I decided to make it its own line.
The Covenant at Attica was another tough call. Isrillion probably had just as good a claim as Trans Paludem did for the position of its "parent."
And it's very hard to imagine what might have happened to the Ultorum had it not been aided by so very many of the Savacion survivors of Sol Media Nox after 242.
Still.
Oh, and also: about Nonae Fid...
Forgot to add that Nonae Fid was another weird one. The three founders came from St. Pyrandor (via Lapidis), St. Kevin, and Ambulator Caeruleus. Since the covenant was founded as the outcome of a pact the three of them had made while victims students of the Inceptum together, though, I thought that it made the most sense to consider the Inceptum their "covenant of origin."
Fascinating and surprising
One thing I don't think I'd realized is the infrequency of covenants being founded by mixed groups (not all from the same covenant). Obviously many people move from existing covenant to existing covenant, so the lines of descent become blurred, but it is interesting that most covenants are founded by the memebers of a single covenant (with perhaps a few members picked up elsewhere).
It is neat.
Wow, Bethelion's prolific. —And I suppose it makes sense how much more successful the southern diaspora's been over the northern. Also makes the isolation of the Lemmites that much more visceral, as only Antrum and its odd offspring joined them in that general direction.
Also, I wonder what's up at Ad Vim these days. I keep forgetting how old it is.
Ad Vim
Ad Vim's in bad shape, actually. Only a handful of magi left, they're dropping like flies, and if no new blood shows up, they'll soon be left with no one but their Cristoferean vulture and their idealistic young "New Traditionalist" Touccian.
It's one of the things I've got in the works, actually: an open forum discussion on post-422 Order history stuff. We should talk about what we want to do about some of these issues (Should Ad Vim be abandoned? Should it be 'colonised' by youngsters [preferably ones ideologically inimical to Ad Vim's historic ethos] looking for a free lunch covenant structure? Should it...well. You get the idea.)
I've also been having some ideas about the erstwhile Ultorum that I'd like to explore, but I feel I should float them past folks first.