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Revision as of 06:35, 19 December 2013

This is a listing of important events in the Saga of Stranggore. It includes the activities of the player characters, especially stories, as well as major events in the Stonehenge Tribunal and England.

Note: This page is a timeline of fictional events for the fantasy role-playing game Ars Magica. The game is set in a fantastic version of medieval England. Events in the story line of the game have only slight relation to real-world history and should not be considered factual.

When editing this page, list seasons in reverse chronological order so the most recent events appear at the top of the list.

For each season, first list major historical events (wars, droughts, coronations) if there are any. Most years, there won't be. Next, add links to any stories that occurred. Finally list the publicly-known activities of the player characters.

Anno Domini 1204

Winter 1204

Autumn 1204

Summer 1204

News of the Realm: King's John's war against France has ended disastrously. Philip has captured the duchies of Normandy and Poitou, leaving John with Aquitaine as his only Continental possession.

Spring 1204

News of the Realm: King John's war in France is going poorly. Château Gaillard fell in March, and the King's mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, died in April -- unraveling many of England's alliances.

James spent much of the season summoning hounds, which caused some trouble in the forest.

Anno Domini 1203

Autumn 1203

John the Pedlar left Stranggore's service and became John the Merchant.

Angus the Dragonslayer retired from active adventuring.

Sandre and Godwyn searched Ozerk's sanctum and found the key to Settasper.

Spring 1203

George the Bastard, with some unenthusiastic help from Junior, took inventory of the covenant's mundane arms and armor. He spent much of the season carting it around to area smiths to get it cleaned, repaired, sharpened, and generally fit for use.

Joan of Barstow left the covenant to join the Fourth Crusade.

Anno Domini 1202

Winter 1202

Merewen had an episode of Wizard's Twilight that lasted a Moon.

Autumn 1202

King Philip of France summoned King John of England to court to settle a dispute between John and the Count of Eu (in northern France). King Philip claimed authority over John because of John's several French titles, including Duke of Poitou. John refused to answer the summons, so Philip stripped John of all his French titles and granted most of them to John's nephew Arthur. Thus began the second war between John and Philip.

Summer 1202

Valera, the wife of George, gives birth to a girl with favorable stars and there is much rejoicing.

Spring 1202

Anno Domini 1201

Winter 1201

A New Tradition is started where every year a lock of hair is cut from all covenfolk who directly serve the magi and kept in the Armory.

Autumn 1201

News of the Realm: His Holiness Pope Innocent III has declared a Fourth Crusade to recapture Jerusalem from the Mohammadeans. The Crusading army will depart from Venice, probably within the year. All Christian men of Britain are enjoined to take up arms. This was announced at the Tribunal of 1201 but the Order of Hermes is not formally involved. No magi announced plans to participate. Neither, apparently, is King John planning to led the English knights and sergeants after the glorious example of his brother Richard.

Summer 1201

Spring 1201

At the end of the season, Sandre eloped with Marie LaMont and she moved to the covenant.

Covenant Improvements

Anno Domini 1200

Winter 1200

Godwyn moved into the covenant, taking Peregrine's old sanctum.

Paul became the covenant librarian.

Renovation of the stable and kennel were completed. The covenant bought hounds to start breeding as a source of income.

Autumn 1200

Godwyn, Paul, and Thomas the Poacher returned from their pilgrimage to Rome.

Covenant Improvements

The covenant acquired four horses, captured in battle from the outlaw Osric the Black. The grogs renovated the stable building to house three of them, and the fourth is at Angus's house in Barstow.

Joan of Barstow hired five local girls from the village to clean the covenant for a whole season. The appearance of the place is much improved, and many old pieces of junk were patched up to usable condition or discarded.

Summer 1200

Fredegisa the Quaesitor visited Stranggore for the season to teach the Code of Hermes Ability to Caballus and Sandre.

Spring 1200

King John has made peace with King Philip of France after months of conflict with little actual fighting. The terms of the peace recognize John as undisputed King of England; his nephew Arthur has relinquished his claim. John made major concessions to Philip in return, abandoning his Continental alliances that contained French power. This has earned the new King the nickname "John Softsword" among the nobles of England.

Godwyn embarked with Paul and Thomas the Poacher on a pilgrimage to Rome.

Peregrine left the covenant of Stranggore and moved to Manar House.

Anno Domini 1199

Winter 1199

Spring 1199

News of the Realm: A great calamity has struck! Good King Richard has been killed in battle in France, laid low by a commoner with a crossbow. The succession is disputed between Prince John and John's nephew, Arthur of Brittany. War is certain, and the future of the Angevin "empire" hangs in the balance.

Anno Domini 1198

Summer 1198

Spring 1198

Anno Domini 1197

Winter 1197

Agnes set up the guest laboratory.

Autumn 1197

With great difficulty, Hywel used the spell Freeing the Striding Tree to walk the covenant's enchanted pear tree halfway across Somerset, from the Weld to Stranggore. The tree now stands on the covenant grounds.

George the Bastard married Valera.

Eustace finished his apprenticeship. He is now both a journeyman stonemason and a grog of Stranggore.

Summer 1197

Spring 1197

Anno Domini 1196

Winter 1196

Autumn 1196

Story: Frightened Villagers - introduced Paul

The covenant repaired the third-floor laboratory in the northwest tower. They also constructed a wooden gate across the opening to the rampart around the covenant.

Summer 1196

Spring 1196

Anno Domini 1195

Winter 1195

  • Junior suffered his third Aging Crisis and was forced to retire as "doorman" (chief grog). He assumed the new ceremonial post of Master of the Armory.
  • The turb selected George the Bastard to replace Junior as leader of the turb. George proclaimed Bloody Bill as Champion of Stranggore.

Autumn 1195

Summer 1195

Anno Domini 1194

Autumn 1194

Also,

  • Eustace received tutoring from Valera, the foreign scholar living in Barstow. She began teaching him Latin. This was Brian the Mad's idea; he noticed Eustace was smart and wanted to learn to read, so he started educating the lad.

Summer 1194

Spontaneous celebrations broke out across England as good King Richard returned from Crusade, putting an end to five years of misrule by his rebellious brother John.

Three young magi were invited to the covenant of Stranggore. They will remain guests of the covenant for one year, after which the current members of the covenant will vote whether to admit them permanently. Exceptional service to the covenant may prompt the council to admit a member earlier than that. Each newcomer is provided with lab space and equipment.

  • Hywel Mawr passed his Gauntlet and moved to Stranggore and arrived mid-season, too late to do anything else.
  • James (Caballus) joined Stranggore at Argus's invitation. He arrived early in the season and spent the rest of the time studying the tractatus, Parma Magica.
  • Peregrine also joined Stranggore at Argus's invitation.

And, the new magi came with grogs.

Also,

Spring 1194

Story: The Certamen Tournament

Anno Domini 1193

Winter 1193

Story: Highland Holiday

  • Edgar the Good received two Medium wounds in the story, Highland Holiday. He recovered but not in time for the Hermetic tournament at Stormwatch early the following season.
  • Agnes was taught Latin by Torkel
  • Eustace got caught doing repair work at the covenant in violation of Stonemason's Guild rules -- apprentices are not allowed to work on their own. However Eustace's father decided to take over the job and Eustace is allowed to work alongside him.

Autumn 1193

Caballus passed his Wizards' Gauntlet.

  • Sandre Paen joined the covenant.
  • Godwyn finally prepared his set of leather clothes for enchantment.
  • Agnes helped Merewen gather herbal ingredients (Exposure in Apothecary)

Summer 1193

Spring 1193

Eustace, an apprentice stonemason from Barstow, began working on maintenance and light repairs of the covenant's main building.

A severe thunderstorm pounded the covenant with wind, rain, and hail. The northwest tower suffered some slight damage.

There was a story this season involving Agnes and Eustace.

Anno Domini 1192

Winter 1192

Good King Richard was captured by Duke Leopold of Austria while returning from Crusade in the Holy Land. This is a great calamity for England because wicked Prince John rules as regent, and now the people despair that his tyranny will ever end.

  • Agnes helped Merewen invest Unraveling the Fabric of Mentem into her Talisman
  • Junior suffered his first aging crisis and was bedridden for a month.
  • Godwyn finished setting up his laboratory

Autumn 1192

Summer 1192

  • Agnes helped Merewen improve her laboratory by adding specimens (potted herbs, roots, and fungi)
  • Godwyn studied 1 pawn of Vim vis, substantially increasing his formerly pitiful Vim score.
  • Junior taught Great Weapon to Torkel

Spring 1192

  • Agnes formally became Merwen's apprentice as Merewen began her tutelage in the Hermetic Arts.
  • Godwyn extracted Vim vis in his lab.

Anno Domini 1191

Winter 1191

  • Story: Two Faces of Love
  • Merewen branded Agnes with the mark of her clan and initiated her into the secrets of Mythic Herbalism.
  • Godwyn finished setting up his lab in the cave.

Autumn 1191

Summer 1191

Spring 1191

The bodies of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere were reportedly found and exhumed at Glastonbury Abbey. Some dispute the claim on the belief that Arthur was transported to Avalon and will one day return, so he could not possibly be buried in England.

Anno Domini 1190

Winter 1190

Autumn 1190

Summer 1190

Spring 1190

Nothing happened. Godwyn was still finishing up his apprenticeship, Torkel was still a prisoner in Faerie, and the covenant of Stranggore was still slowly and stoically crumbling to pieces.

Before A.D. 1190

For events that occurred before the player characters joined the story line, the Stranggore History and Stonehenge Tribunal History pages.

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