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Some things I'd like to see happen during the hunt, and a general starting point for planning what is going on in the upcoming play.

Thinking about the little war with the Judges, I think it might be interesting to ignore the actual war between the mages and the Judges (unkillable killers with no moral qualms to genocidal war and script immunity battling it out with a mix of common mortal fodder and unkillable rabble rousers with no moral qualms about leading the fodder into battle again and again doesn't seem that interesting to play more than one session of). Instead, I'd like to focus on some of the low power characters. I can see two ways to go with it: 1 would be to pick up some soldiers in the war and get them bloodied without script immunity, and perhaps with qualms about slaughter (unlike the Savacions, most of the soldiers have probably never killed a human being). The other possibility would be to focus on the home front in the village. The priests have a lot to deal with (particularly if the covenant takes in refugees, who I plan to dump on the covenant shortly), and the issues that the judges raise are probably more interesting to deal with from the vantage point of the locals than from the vantage point of the mages.

Let's brainstorm some motifs for the Gaetani Mythology lexicon game!

So I thought I'd lay out Sonata's plans and see who I can get involved in this (actually, with the various monkey's in her head and the former Wolf Priest, I think I've got everyone but Matt and Jenn already participating in Sonata's little quest, but I want to give a head's up on where I am planning on pushing it, so people know what to help me play off of).

The Day of Ascension is the holy day most directly associated with Wisdom itself, the transcendent creator of the Universe and the instiller of purpose into everything. It is an abstruse holy day, with rituals which are often difficult for any but the most devout to truly comprehend. A good holiday for pomp and ceremony, for colored smoke and mirrors and flames.

Sea and Sun, the Great Dragon, the Moons, the Wolf and the Monkey, lots of incestuous God children.

So I think we could use a richer and deeper mythology for the Gaetani, both for dealing with the Monsters and the Monkeys, and with the local priests. Also, it is always good to have stories for characters to tell their own versions of.

Thank you Sarah! Thank you tech support!

Another scanned covenant map. The location of Argutator is wrong, and many covenants are unlabelled.

The Holy Church Calendar consists of 18 months of 20 days, plus six High Holy Days. The calendaric cycle describes the creation of the world, and the liberation of humanity from the Theocracy. It focuses on the imperfect nature of humanity, expressed through the person of the Priest King of Vestra.

Some simple descriptions of some regions, cities and countries.

Map of the world with places names and contours

Map of rivers, coasts, countries, cities and names.

So maps of the known world from Gaetan to Qunitillica with names and regions shown are now available. Also a gazetteer with simple descriptions of the areas shown on the map (some of them, anyway). I'll get the covenant maps...

House Savacion is the military house of the Order. Savacion mages are generally interested in combat magic, either personal or military, and are rarely interested in theoretical issues. They have only one, recently founded, single house covenant (Leo Compulsus), and most covenants (with the exception of the Lemmite covenants and the single house covenants of Touccio and Christopher) have Savacion members. Although Savacions are generally associated with conservative politics within the Order, there are Savacion mages associated with the Plenelunial movement as well. Fueding between the conservative and Plenelunial Savacions in the late 4th century (starting around 50 years ago) resulted in the Rogue Hunt. Leo Compulsus was founded in the aftermath of the Rogue Hunt in order to police the House. After a long struggle to select a single house ruler (the First Sword), a political settlement was reached in which the house was organized into (predominantly lineage based) Gens, each with a single Dux. The question of inheritance of the Ducal title has yet to be answered.

House Lem is the most isolationist of the houses. Most of its members belong to pure Lemmite covenants (e.g. Westmarch, Ambulator Caeruleus and Sol Caerulius, Argutator Purpureus and Quintus Opacus), and Lemmites who belong to mixed house covenants are viewed...

Jake is going to be playing the Bookbinder, who was previously at Manu Tenere and therefore knows the visiting mages well. It seemed to me and Matt like a good first character, connected to the current plot line, a decent potential regular character who we have never seen in play, and an in to a caste within the covenant we have largely ignored (the educated Tympanians, the psuedo-Tympanians from Manu Tenere, and the urban professionals recruited from the capital city) which also includes the Chatelian, Robert (Calvus's scribe), the Finger's scribe, the chief Mason, and the secular Glassworkers.

The shadows are a relatively weak form of monster native to Gaetan. They appear as shadows, but are capable of motion independent of their source. Generally, they are only capable of frightening and confusing, but at their greatest strength, they are capable suffocating and killing the old, the weak, and the particularly susceptible.

Late in the Blue Book of Lem, there is a longish section describing the islands of drowned Chalycidice in wildly imaginitative and confusing detail. Frequently mined by all of the schools of Lemmitism, it is generally not regarded as a coherent whole.