A timeline of events of importance to the Plenilunial Elementalist movement.
250
The elementalist Manerean Ebriola Pretia and her followers found a Covenant dedicated to Chalycidican studies on the island of Chalcyphon.
270
Accused of complicity in the Eleanorean conspiracy, the Covenant at Chalcyphon is destroyed, its members killed, and all of its works burned. Its writings are lost to the Order.
4th C.
Over time, it becomes acceptable to express doubts about Chalcyphon's alleged involvement in the Eleanorean conspiracy. By the middle of the century, many believe Ebriola Pretia herself to have been an innocent victim of the purge.
346
The Plenilunial Melian Muscula discovers one of Ebriola Pretia's lost works in the possession of a Vestran antiquities dealer. She brings it back to Covenant Plenilunium Album for study. The book outlines the elemental correspondences of the ancient Chalycidicans and their relationship to the peninsula's lost mystical practice.
348
Two students at Plenilunium Album -- Muscula's filia Maris and the Manerean Veprescula -- begin experimentation into combining Chalycidican elemental invocations with Cholaeic magical practice. They find that while the two mystical traditions are not entirely compatible, Chalycidican invocation can in some cases greatly enhance the power of Cholaeic magic.
355
Maris and Veprescula publish the results of some of their experimentation, which seizes the interest of young magi throughout the Order. Over the next three years, young magi flock to Plenilunium Album to join the two founders in their studies.
358
Maris and Veprescula's followers begin to consider themselves a movement. The new school gains the name "Plenilunial Elementalism."
362
The Plenilunial Elementalists leave Plenilunium Album to found their own twin covenants: Covenant Whitestone, on the Albian coast of Ventria, and Covenant Mare Aeneum, near to the ruins of the Covenant at Chalcyphon. Whitestone is dedicated to Elemental Earth and Air, Mare Aeneum to Elemental Fire and Water. Every aspect of their founding is carefully planned to create a mystical bond of polarity and tension between the two covenants, whose arcane connection to one another the Elementalists hope might enable them to further unearth the lost secrets of the Chalycidicans.
362
The disaffected Inceptumite Ossa, sympathetic to the elementalist cause, ignores the Inceptum's orders to deliver one of its students to Lapidis and instead gives him to the elementalists at Mare Aeneum for training. Maris takes the student on as her own apprentice in violation of House Aegidius' ban on cross-sex apprenticeships. Under her direction, the Plenilunial Elementalists as a whole begin to exhibit a preference for cross-sex training.
367
The leader of the Inceptum and First Speaker of House Aegidius, Tullius, first learns of Ossa's rebellion. He expells Ossa from the House and demands that Maris return her student to the Inceptum. When she refuses, he threatens her with expulsion from the House as well, but is opposed by the First Melian Speaker, who defends Maris' decision.
368
Tullius dies to be succeeded as First Speaker by Satis Homini, who chooses to abandon the dispute and reinstates Ossa as a member in good standing of House Aegidius. The event sets an official precedent for the adoption of male apprentices by members of the Melian branch of House Aegidius and is read as a political triumph for the Plenilunial Elementalists, who now begin a rapid rise to power within the Order as a whole.
373
The terram specialists of Covenant Whitestone, finding Plenilunial Elementalist conceptions of Elemental Earth inconsistent with their own understanding, leave Whitestone to found their own covenant, taking one third of Whitestone's resources with them. Later this year, Covenant Mare Aeneum is destroyed in a bizarre accident which leaves its survivors both decidedly eccentric and utterly incapable of describing precisely what transpired. Left without a covenant, the Mare Aeneans return to Plenilunium Album. The Manerean Venatrix Avia, however, chooses instead to remain a hermit in hopes of finding a place to found a new covenant to replace fallen Mare Aeneum.
Responsibility for the disaster at Mare Aeneum is laid at the feet of Whitestone’s departed terram magi, who by leaving Whitestone are believed to have thrown the delicate elemental polarity of the twin covenants out of balance by removing the stabilizing influence of their earth specialization. Nonetheless, the Elementalists choose to forego recriminations in favor of a public show of solidarity: the terram magi and their new covenant are recognized as merely an alternate branch of the Plenilunial Elementalist movement, rather than as a schism. This display of solidarity in the face of dissent cements the movement's rise as a power to be reckoned with within the Cholaeic Order.
374
The terram specialists found their own covenant, Covenant Rockroot, within a mountain deep in the Skulstorren. Almost immediately, they begin publishing ground-breaking treatises on terrammagic, physical enchantments, spells of motion, and the fae.
376
Venatrix Avia secures a land-holding on the Rhythnorian coast by winning a wager against the local noble. Her failed apprentice Coridas is granted title over the land at the tip of the peninsula known as Taleth’s Head. The survivors of Mare Aeneum leave Plenilunium Album to help to found their new covenant there.
377
Covenant Hart's Desire is founded at Taleth's Head. It begins its existence with a favorable reputation as the embodiment of a well-appointed modern covenant and quickly attracts members even outside of the Plenilunial Elementalist movement.
The magi of Covenant Rockroot provide the Order with its first teleportation spells.
378
The Rockroot magi create the Order's first teleportation portal linking their own remote covenant with Plenilunium Album.
Plenilunial Elementalism is recognized as an official sub-House on the Fourth Cristoferean Census.
380
Hart's Desire's Wendellian Savacions, the twins Vertagus and Meles, take on the joint-apprenticeship of a girl student. When House Savacion refuses to allow this by passing an edict against cross-sex apprenticeship in their House, Vertagus reveals that she is in fact a woman, having been taught since apprenticeship to conceal her sex and pass as a man. House Savacion is scandalized, and the Plenilunial Elementalists fall under attack from the Order's more conservative segments, who accuse its members of theocratism and sexual abomination.
383
The Society of the Students of the Elder Children, a group of magi interested in the study of the fae, is founded. The majority of its founders are members of the Elementalist movement.
385
The Manereans of Hart's Desire gain recognition from House Manere, which agrees to hold its next conjugation at their covenant.
Vertagus of Hart's Desire is found brutally murdered eight miles from the covenant. Her brother Meles vows to avenge her death and recruits posses of investigators to join him in traveling the Order questioning its members, particularly the conservatives whom he believes responsible. House Cristofer sends its own experts to conduct investigations into the murder. Late in the year, suspicion falls on the reactionary Savacion Siccoculus of Covenant Alae Fractae, who flees into hiding once he learns that he is being sought for questioning.
386
Under pressure from the Elementalists, the Plenilunial covenants unite to proclaim Siccoculus' guilt and demand that Order-wide action be taken against him. Their Cristoferean allies at Annalum join in the call. Only the magi of the Castrian Covenants refuse to cooperate, believing Siccoculus to be innocent of Vertagus' murder.
The elderly Antrum Savacion Scolopax, also convinced of Siccoculus' innocence, arranges a secret meeting between the fugitive and a select group of Cristoferean elders. Siccoculus, however, murders Scolopax and returns his body to Antrum along with a promise to treat in the same fashion "all those who have betrayed our Order." House Savacion declares Siccoculus rogue and calls upon its members to hunt him down and bring him to justice, an event known as the First Savacion Rogue Hunt.
Covenant Whitestone is destroyed by Siccoculus, who barricades the covenant's exits and poisons its air supply. Attempts to remove the barricades trigger a destructive spell which collapses the entire cave system. Whitestone's specialty in air and earth magics saves its magi, all but one of whom survives, but many of the covenant's apprentices and mundane allies are killed and the covenant itself is destroyed. Its survivors take refuge at Hart's Desire, where they will remain for the next four years.
Siccoculus attacks Hart's Desire itself in the autumn: as he had destroyed Whitestone by means of Air and Earth, so he tries to bring down Hart's Desire by means of Fire and Water. The Elementalists, however, are now prepared for just such an attack, and they are able to discover and defuse the devices planted at their covenant before any harm is done. Siccoculus' sense of "appropriate punishment" for the Plenilunial covenants he has targeted convinces the Order that it is dealing with a dangerous loon.
386-390
The Plenilunial Elementalists exert their influence to lead the entire Order against Siccoculus. By 388, the First Speaker of House Aegidius, the Primus Manere, the High Council of Cristofer, the magi of the Hall of Touccio, and the leaders of the Circulan and Imbrian Lemmites have all passed edicts forbidding their magi from aiding or abetting the rogue Siccoculus and exhorting them to lend the rogue hunters whatever aid or support they require. Those who refuse to express unqualified support for the hunt are themselves accused of being Siccoculus' co-conspirators. In the face of the rising hysteria, only a very few Savacion magi dare not to join the rogue hunt, and these few hold-outs are faced with increasingly hostile harassment by the rest of their House.
387
Siccoculus attacks Plenilunium Album itself, but fails to do any significant damage. His attack this same year on Covenant Bethelion, however, cripples a lecturer, kills two students, and seriously damages the University's relationship with its mundane patrons.
388
Bethelion students, led by the Savacion Javert of the class of 385, join the rogue hunters. Siccoculus infiltrates Covenant Praeterita and transforms the Savacion Perfidius, brother to Vertagus and Meles, into a woman. This act disgusts the Order, which redoubles its efforts to catch the rogue.
The Plenilunial Elementalists come to a parting of ways with their Cristoferean allies, who are made nervous by their sense that the rogue hunt is in danger of leading to a second purge. While the Elementalists hold to their belief that a right-wing conspiracy lies behind Siccoculus' reign of terror, Annalum insists that the rogue is acting alone, and House Cristofer begins to take actions to counter the Elementalists' accusations of conservative conspiracy. Nonetheless, Meles and his followers' harassment of the conservative hermit Oscularis and his filius Orichalcis -- both of them suspected of aiding and abetting Siccoculus -- continues to escalate throughout the year. After a group of Savacion magi seize him for questioning, Orichalcis feels so endangered by the rogue hunters that he seeks sanctuary at Covenant Ultorum, while Oscularis retreats deep into the Skulstorren and subsequently severs contact with the rest of the Order.
Even in the midst of the rogue hunt, House Manere’s Thirty-Eighth Conjugation is held at Covenant Hart's Desire.
389
The noose closes around Siccoculus, who is confronted and nearly killed by the rogue hunters after an unsuccessful attack on Covenant Fumus et Specula. He escapes and seeks refuge at the home of the Touccian Winnifred of Morchester, whose apprentice he holds hostage in exchange for her aid in eluding his pursuers. Winnifred helps Siccoculus to convince the rogue hunters that their quarry has headed for distant Virginis In Litus; they travel far to the Dawn in pursuit and lose his trail. Siccoculus fails to take advantage of his lead, however, remaining at Morchester for nearly a year; it is generally believed that in this time he and his Touccian captive became lovers.
390
Siccoculus breaks his long-standing ban on hostilities against the Castrian covenants and attacks the Covenants at Talchester and Felchester. The returning rogue hunters catch up with him in the town of Felchester, where Siccoculus is betrayed by Winnifred's sabotaged devices and flees to the moorlands above the town. After a brief but lethal confrontation, he is killed by Meles. His body is interred by his brother Cincinnatus, and the rogue hunters disperse to return to their home covenants. The First Rogue Hunt is declared to be at an end. The rest of the Order puts pressure on the Elementalists to close the file on Vertagus' murder and to cease their insistence on the existence of a conservative conspiracy against their own movement.
The magi of Whitestone refuse to grant Siccoculus victory by accepting the destruction of their covenant. They convince the Rockroot Touccians to return to Whitestone long enough to help them rebuild the covenant.
390-392
Covenant Whitestone is restored to some semblance of livable condition by the Rockroot Touccians. It is never, however, to be completely rebuilt, and its amenities remain poor. While the Rockroot magi work on rebuilding Whitestone, the fae-specialized members of both covenants discuss the possibility of founding their own covenant in the Lake District.
393
Covenant Fenestra Arcadiae is founded to serve as the covenant of the Society of the Students of the Elder Children.
395
Vertagus and Meles' female apprentice, Pantera, graduates to magehood and is accepted at the newly-founded regulatory covenant of House Savacion, Leo Compulsus, where she speaks for Elementalist and Wendellian concerns.
390s
The Order as a whole begins to have misgivings about its domination by the Plenilunials, who are now perceived to have become arrogant and unjust in their power. The behavior of the Plenilunial Elementalists on the rogue hunt is particularly cited, and with the reemergence of traditionalism as a dynamic political force, the Elementalists begin to fall from power.
399
The magi of Hart's Desire organize an archaeological expedition to one of the drowned cities of the Chalycidican peninsula. The expedition is a disaster, killing one of its participants and throwing the others into temporary twilight. News of the event is read by many within the Order as just punishment for Elementalist hubris, and it hastens the Elementalists' political decline.
5th C
Many within the Order come to the eventual acceptance of the Elementalist view that Siccoculus could not have been acting alone, and that Vertagus was indeed murdered by a conspiracy of magi. This change in opinion does not do much for the Elementalists politically, however, as the fifth century is characterized by the rise of the movement's enemies on the traditionalist right.
402-406
The Elementalists take an active stance in opposition to the Inceptum's recall of its students for questioning and investigation. Its Cristoferean members are nonetheless the primary negotiators of truce between the Inceptumites and Opacans and the rest of the Order at the end of the Nonae Fidelitatis Incident.
404-407
As the elderly magi of Covenant Whitestone fall into the final stages of Twilight, the covenant seems in danger of imminent abandonment. In response, the Whitestone magi extract vows from their descendants to honor their last wishes by promising to remain at Whitestone and keep the covenant alive. Most of the covenant's current members remain at the covenant only in adherence to their parentes' final requests.
406
Two of the aging founders of elementalism, Meles of Savacion and Sappira of Touccio, exhausted and disheartened by the Nonae Fidelitatis Incident and by the decline of their movement as a whole, decide to leave Hart's Desire to seek a peaceful place to die. The young Manerean Varia Pavida leaves with them to serve as their helpmeet. They end up joining with similarly depressed Castrian Amicitians from the Westmarch, with whom they found Covenant Niveum Pomeridianum as their final resting place. By the end of the year, however, the elderly magi have rediscovered their will to live, taken on new apprentices, and begun deep research into restorative magics designed to extend their life-spans.
409
Two young Manereans, Vermiculus of Hart's Desire and Vespertilio of Plenilunium Album, are killed while exploring one of the mysteries of the Chalycidican islands. Their deaths convince Vermiculus' parens Votivus Coccyx that the islands are simply too dangerous, and he leads the rest of Hart's Desire's Council to ban its members from independent research on the sunken peninsula. This decision frustrates a number of the covenant's Chalycidican-interested magi, who begin to discuss the possibility of founding yet another covenant out on the islands.
410
With the aid of new arrivals from Rockroot, Whitestone and Hart's Desire construct a teleportation portal connecting their two covenants.
The young and emotionally unstable Cristoferean Susurrus of Covenant Whitestone commits suicide by drowning. The notes she leaves behind reveal her to have been developing complicated and advanced new theories of aquam. Included among her writings are notes for aquam spells of astonishing destructive power. Elementalists Concheus and Chirothecarum Caesiarum, both of Covenant Hart's Desire, complete her last works, while her parens Stiria adopts her orphaned apprentice.
411
The portal connecting Covenant Rockroot to Plenilunium Album ceases to function, and all messages to Rockroot go unanswered. The covenant is found to have vanished, along with all of its members.
412
A group of Rockroot-descended Bethelion magi travel to the Skulstorren to investigate the covenant's disappearance. They never return. Cristoferean investigation reveals that the Rockroot magi were destroyed by some powerful non-Cholaeic magical force. Many within the Order begin to suspect that in their last years, the Rockroot magi had dabbled in theocratism, a charge hotly denied by the rest of the Elementalist Movement.
418-421
Pantera of Leo Compulsus emerges as one of the candidates for the role of First Sword of House Savacion. The Savacion Elementalists make up the core of her faction.
420
A group of elementalist magi attempts to acquire for itself the land rights to the Chalycidican island of Trethvys, hoping to found a new covenant there. Their negotiations with the Duke Rhythnor, however, fall through and they fail to gain title to the land.
421
The Wendellian Perfidius is murdered by his filia Tenellus at Leo Compulsus. Tenellus flees the covenant and is declared rogue. The House calls a Second Rogue Hunt, which follows Tenellus' trail into the Lake District. A number of Elementalists join the hunt, eager to counteract the adverse effects of Tenellus' parricide on Plenilunial reputation within the Order.
Tenellus is found to be at Covenant Isrillion, whose members had never been informed of the rogue hunt and who had therefore accepted her as a member of their covenant. Fearing Savacion reprisals, Isrillion calls upon House Cristofer to adjudicate in the matter. House Cristofer sends investigators to Isrillion prepared to hold a formal trial for Tenellus, hoping to use the event to force an Order-wide acceptance of the Cristoferean Code as procedural for intra-Order conflict. Meles travels to Isrillion to question his niece Tenellus about the murder of his brother Perfidius.
Investigations at Isrillion reveal a diabolist conspiracy, and accusations are leveled against the Elementalist Pantera at Leo Compulsus. The Elementalists are soon, however, revealed to be among the conspiracy's intended victims. Meles himself is killed by demonic assault at Covenant Isrillion.
The Order learns of a conspiracy led by the hermit Oscularis and bent on the discrediting and eventual destruction of the Wendellians and their Elementalist\ allies. Members of the conspiracy, which goes by the code name "Last Hope," are found to be raising apprentices secretly deep in the Skulstorren and using diabolic magics to destabilize the Order in preparation for an eventual coup.
421-423
Aestus Fornax of Covenant Whitestone emerges as Pantera's foremost champion and aid in driving the investigations into the Last Hope Conspiracy forward, serving as the prosecutor and eventual executioner of the conspirator Javert and as one of the military leaders of the Second Rogue Hunt, now directed against Oscularis and his followers in the Skulstorren. Elementalists who join the rogue hunt are particularly targeted by the diabolist conspirators, and a number of the movement's Savacion magi are killed while on the hunt.
423
The last of Oscularis' followers are put to death and the investigations into those suspected of membership in the conspiracy are concluded. The Order's concerns that the event might trigger a second purge are laid to rest when even several magi strongly suspected of involvement in the conspiracy are released for lack of strong evidence. Nonetheless, traditionalists throughout the Order are now put on the defensive, and the Elementalists regain quite a bit of their fallen status within the Order as a whole.
423-424
House Savacion undergoes a complete restructure, dividing itself into separate tribes, each led by its own Dux. The Elementalist Savacions return from the Savacion House Conference in 424 claiming membership in the newly-founded Gens Meles, led by Pantera of Leo Compulsus.
424
The Manerean Votivus Coccyx of Hart's Desire steps up his campaign for support as the next Primus Manere, hoping to use the events of the Second Rogue Hunt to bring about a return to Elementalist power within his House.
Chalycidican-interested magi still interested in founding an new covenant on the island of Trethvys receive word of a new opportunity to gain title to the land, this time through negotiations with the Prince of Ventria, who has recently entered into an agreement with Tyr to grant Ventria jurisdiction over the Chalycidican islands. The Covenant at Trethvys is founded late in the year.
