[ArM5] Re: Templar Saga

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From: "Eivind Vetlesen" <veivind at hotmail.com>




> Anything really!
>
> Especially details on Venetian politics, the Templars, the Teutonic order 
> and the various connections to the Order of Hermes. Possibly thoughts on 
> what implications finding Arius would have. Details on historical and 
> hermetic personalities if you have any (not so much gamestats) would be 
> most interesting.
>
> Thought about presenting it to Atlas for a possible publication?

I haven't thought about sending it to Atlas. I may convert it into Hermes 
Portal articles, but that would require a lot of work, and I write my games 
tailored specifically to my players and their characters.

As for the implications of finding Arius' remains... that's not in the 
gambit of the game. They are due to be uncovered in around 1250+ in 
Lithuania by the Teutons. This is well past the time I see the game 
covering, since there are no longevity potions. My saga won't go much past 
1230 or so. The Arius thing in Byzantium is really just an excuse to have 
Teutons dealing with House Tytalus and hunting down heretical manuscripts 
and mausoleums, etc.

IMO, there is no systematic connections between the Order of Hermes and the 
Templars or Teutons-- it is entirely on a personal, individual basis, 
although some senior members in the military orders are aware of the Order 
and have dealings with individual covenants. No one IMS is aware of the true 
extent of the Order (ie, 1200 members!).

I've populated the Theban Tribunal with a mixture of Jere Genest's Eastern 
Breath saga from the late 1990s and some mages needed for my stories, as 
well as NPCs from my last saga. Most of the mundane NPCs are historical 
figures-- Boniface of Monferrat, Innocent III, Enrico Dandalo, Hermann Von 
Salza, etc.

I'm still writing up a background on most of them, but I have details on the 
background of all three main plotlines.

~Alex