[ArM5] New Covenant

[Olli Wilkman]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Jason Tondro wrote:

> Last night my players and I got together and made characters. For everyone 
> but me, this was their first exposure to Ars Magica but they're giving it an 
> open mind. The players have decided to set their Covenant in Poland, making 
> the Mongols and the Teutonic Knights major plot elements.
>
> If anyone has any ideas or comments or previous experiences with this 
> particular part of Mythic Europe, I'd love to hear them. I don't yet have 
> Novgorod Tribunal, but now it looks like I'll be picking it up.

The first saga I played in was also set in Poland. The covenant was 
located just around the edges of Christendom, with most of the nearby 
villages following pagan religions. Our major problems were with a local 
faerie queen whom a certain easily angered Flambeau managed to offend
and with diabolists converting the pagan villagers into diabolism.

In our first adventure we were sent out to find and capture/kill a (fairly 
weak) runaway diabolist magus who was believed to be in our area. We found 
him in the court of the faerie queen who had taken the diabolist as his 
bard because she liked his music. Trying to take the magus away our 
Flambeau killed him which earned us the anger of the queen. We then pretty 
much spent the rest of the saga with faeries playing nasty tricks on us 
with us trying get back into the queen's favour.

-- 
Olli Wilkman