If he is familiar with the topic- spending a season with the insight lab notes gave him this familiarity.
Aurthor's activities for 1136
SPRING
Insight roll: Int 5 + Magic Theory (Experiment) 11 + Inventive Genius 3 + Ancient Hyperborean 2 + _: 1D10 = [7] = 7 =23 -> Aurthor gets an insight for vis-less enchantment but is not interested and chooses not to proceed further.
SUMMER
Enchant THE PRODIGIOUS PLANT POT item for his lab (as for Covenants p. 121).
FALL
Invent a 40th level version of the new spell CIRCLE THAT MAINTAINS THE DEMANDING SPELL.
Hi raccoonmask!
For 1135, Andros taught Neleos Muto, not Creo.
Andros instructions for Neleos for 1137: he has a free season! But... he wants Neleos to increase his Latin to 5, he plans for the lad to spend a future season getting familiar with his writings, and then will have him scribe some Lab Texts in another season.
Updated and corrected. Regarding Andros's plan, Neleos begrudgingly read one of the Latin Tractati in his free season; He can get a MuCo/CrCo lab total of 32(39 with self-transformation), but Andros will have to let him have run of the lab for the season of familiarizing himself with his master's hermetic shorthand notes.
As an additional fun fact, Neleos hit 14 years old, and went on a plot-adventure, which manifested the latent peculiarities of his magic. Andros will learn his apprentice has Harmless Magic and Unnatural Magic, and developed Flawless Magic due to his instinctive perfectionism.
Silveroak, I need to replace his childhood virtues, Inconspicuous and Deft Intelligence; Would Piercing Gaze and Clear Thinker be acceptable?
definitely
•Andros will expect a 40 Lab Total; note that this is very doable: 17 TeFo + 3 Int + 8 MT (any specialization?) + 6 Aura + 4 Lab + 1 if Rego/Creo + hustling for that season with some Lab routine. +7 if Self-Transformation.
•Well, it occurs to me that Neleos can do much better than that: you could ask any of the teachers not teaching Magi for a private class on a subject that is more appealing, and simply divide the xp to get the 9 xp to 5 Latin. For example, Markus can teach AL, Philosophae, Teaching, Scribe, hell: how about this: 36 xp: Magic Theory 22 xp + AL 5 xp + Latin 9 xp is legal, I think. Of course, this would be in Andros's Lab, he would be present studying a book. You can check out the other teachers as well.
•Andros will find the the revelation of Neleos's flaws worrisome. At first. But he will then become enthusiastic at the prospect of finding tactical ways for the lad to use his powers. He will start talking about strategies, planning to invent some spells just to teach them to Neleos.
The lab total should be obtainable with just a little more work.
I always forget that rule; It was from A&A right? Don't have that book yet. Is Markus available for MT that season? Else he can take a class from Mentor, AL would be useful for ritual/ceremonial magic.
Neleos is worried about the philosophical implications of higher-levels of impermanent perdo. If he kills a lizard with magic, do they stay dead?
Found silveroak's take on this, it's not how I presented it, I'm afraid:
"Any season you take a class in Latin you can split your experience between the class topic, Latin, and teaching, but the class topic must be at least 50% of the points.
If you are taking a class of Latin (where Latin is the subject being taught) then the points may be split between Latin, Artes Liberales, and teaching, but again Latin must be the majority of the points. In both cases the majority value is calculated before any affinities, but after apt pupil."
For 1137
•Gloriana/MR have adventures in the Spring, must resolve. Done
SPRING: Adventure 6 lasted 15 days, that's -10 to Lab Totals, will invent Frozen Womb from Ev's Lab Notes MuCo 35, Lab Total MuCo 38+ 5 Int + 16 MT + 6 Aura + Lab 7 + Mercurio 10 + M Rabbit 11= 93 -10 distractions = 83, +2 Lab routine so will invent it, and
MuCo 25 Foe of Rabbits MuCo 25 Base 3 + 1 extra shrinking R: Voice, D: Conc, Target: Ind + 2 Size modifiers a humanoid up to size +6 is reduced by 4 sizes
SUMMER: Adventure lasts 14 says, so -8 to Lab Totals, Invent from Ev's Lab Notes Restore Fertility IV CrCo 40, Potent, Restore Fertility CrCo 45, and Purifying the Poisoned Host [CrCo 20], Lab Total: CrCo 64+ 5 Int + 17 MT Creo + 6 Aura + Lab 10 + Mercurio 10 + M Rabbit 11 -8 + 2 Lab routine= 115, just enough
FALL: Invent Wand of Childbirth CrCo-35, Lab Total CrCo 64+ 5 Int + 17 MT Creo + 6 Aura + Lab 10 = 102, + Charged item for Purification of the Festering Wounds CrCo 20 (67 Lab Total, so 10 total charges, 4 Co pawns for Wand
WINTER: Adventures lasted 19 days, that's -18 to Lab Totals, Invent Child of Last Night's Meeting CrCo 35, and also Swindling the Reaper (CrCo 40, ritual)R: Touch, D: Momentary, T: Individual Cheating the Reaper (ArM5 p.129), handling two higher levels of severity (up to terminal). Lab Total CrCo 65+ 5 Int + 17 MT Creo + 6 Aura + Lab 10 = 102 - 18 distractions = 85
Aging roll _: 1D10 = [8] = 8 +6 age - 2 Magi standards - 2 Healthy Feature - 1 Good food - 1 Good wine -1 Regimen - 4 Bronze cord =3, apparent aging, arghh.
1137 Aegis roll: _: 1D10 = [8] = 8
Mother Rabbit develops a new Major Magical Quality (after putting 30 xp on it over 4 years): Grant Affinity with Dead Languages; also develops a Minor magical Quality (after putting 10 xp on it) for this Major Quality, Variable Power, based on her Might (50) (Living Languages, Organization Lore, Spell mastery, Art of memory, Magic Lore)
•Andros/SR have adventures in Spring, Summer, must resolve. Done.
Invents in Summer: Break the Siege ReVi 35, as HP p.81, but R: Touch, D: Conc, suppresses a Hermetic Arcane Tunnel of level 25 or less; Arcane Seal 15, as Hermetic projects, but D: Conc, can suppress own Arcane Tunnels of magnitude 15 or less. ReVi Lab total: ReVi 44 + 3 Int + 10 MT + 6 Aura + 14 Lab + 11 neleos + 11 SR = 99 + 1 Lab routine. Done!
Warping shenanigans from Faerie materials: _: 1D10 = [3] = 3 , none!
Aging roll: _: 1D10 = [9] = 9 + 8 Age - 2 magi Standards- 2 healthy locale - 1 good food -1 good wine-3 familiar bond- 6 LR - 1 Regimen - 1 Palatial Lab = 0, nothing happens
•Danaë has adventures from the get go, must resolve. Done!
_: 1D10 = [3] = 3 + +5 Age - 2Magi standards - 2 Healthy feature -1 Good Food - 1 Good wine -1 Magic blood - 1 Regimen= 0, nothing happens (Unaging)
•Sandor in the eternal War, must resolve. Done!
•Lady A has adventures in Spring, must resolve.Done!
_: 1D10 = [4] = 4 + 6 Age - 2 Wealthy- 2 healthy locale - 1 good food -1 good wine - 14 LR- 1 Monstrous Blood - 1 Regimen = -12 no change.
Her husband's aging roll _: 1D10 = [2] = 2 + Age 8 - 2 Wealthy - 2 Healthy location - 1 Food - 1 Wine - 1 regimen= 3 apparent aging
•Sybilla has adventures in Spring, must resolve. Done for the year! She has 2 months left in Winter, will carve a wooden Figurine giving Adriana the Weaver Good Teacher for 1138
Whew!
silveroak, QPaC, since I've pretty much dropped any progress on this... if you're still interested in having someone else play Bravery, I can look into it again.
Once I get myself back home and can browse books/virtues/flaws/etc (I can't reasonably spend a lot of time looking up game pdfs at work), I'll build a sample Bravery for approval from silveroak and QPaC, with necessary story and personality flaws to turn him into a full character.
Following up on this (finally), it would seem the most appropriate story flaw for Bravery would be Heir. For personality flaws, I'd probably give the young Bravery either Secretive, Covenant Upbringing or Sheltered Upbringing (If the mother feels its appropriate), noncombatant or reclusive. Kind of looking for things that may tie into the Uncertain Faith.
Probably covenant upbringing over sheltered upbringing. Anna is mostly counting on servants and such to raise Bravery when she isn't teaching/watching him personally. Which still means quite a lot of mother/son interaction, but it also means quite a lot of Covenfolk/Bravery interaction.
Assuming silveroak gives an okay, I can take over Bravery's character with Heir and Covenant Upbringing added. I have no idea how we're balancing virtues and flaws with the Fertility Magic involved. Hopefully I can leave most of his 'education' decisions to you, I can figure out any free seasons he has and keep the character sheet updated.
For 1138,
Gloriana/MR have no adventures, will advance.
Spring: Invent Invent spells introduction of the male essence ReCo 20 + other ReCo spells. ReCo Lab Total w/o her assistants: 49 + 5 Int + 16 MT + 6 Aura + 7 Lab + 10 MR= 93 , 20 to Intro of the male essence from Lab Text, 73 + 7 similar spell to creating a Leap of the Homecoming with T:Touch, ReCo 40, Exeunt to Weal or Woe. Warping shenanigans: _: 1D10 = [8] = 8 none
Now that she has plenty of Me vis, and Mother rabbit has increased her Confidence, she will again spont cast her enhancement rituals:
Summer: Perception to 3, that's R:P, D: Mom, T:Ind, base 45. She has (CrMe 54 + Sta 5 + 21 Me again (Self Transformation) + 6 Aura + 10 cast ceremonially + 5 Props + _: 1D10 = [2] = 2)/2 = 51, done! 4 Me vis spent + 1 Creo vis from Mother Rabbit
Rest a couple of days, then Perception to 4 that's R:P, D: Mom, T:Ind, base 50. She has (CrMe 54 + Sta 5 + 21 Me again (Self Transformation) + 6 Aura + 10 cast ceremonially + 5 Props + _: 1D10 = [2] = 2 )/2 = 51, done! 4 Me vis spent + 1 Creo vis from Mother Rabbit
Fall: increase Pre to 4, that's R:P, D: Mom, T:Ind, base 50. She has (CrMe 54 + Sta 5 + 21 Me again (Self Transformation) + 6 Aura + 10 cast ceremonially + 5 Props + _: 1D10 = [6] = 6 )/2 = 53 done! 4 Me vis spent + 1 Creo vis from Mother Rabbit
Rest a couple of days
increase Com to 4, that's R:P, D: Mom, T:Ind, base 50. She has (CrMe 54 + Sta 5 + 21 Me again (Self Transformation) + 6 Aura + 10 cast ceremonially + 5 Props + _: 1D10 = [7] = 7 )/2 = 53 done! 4 Me vis spent + 1 Creo vis from Mother Rabbit
[size=150]Too late realize she has formulaic spells already for these 2, curses, could have raised Mother Rabbit's stats.[/size] 
Aging: Aging rol _: 1D10 = [3] = 3 +6 age - 2 Magi standards - 2 Healthy Feature - 1 Good food - 1 Good wine -1 Regimen - 4 Bronze cord =-2, no apparent aging
*Note that Gloriana gains 24 Insight points into Fertility Magic from having previously invented spells and gaining Insight on 1138 from her parens carefully written Lab notes.
Aegis roll for 1138 = _: 1D10 = [1] = 1 , _: 1D10 = [10] = 10, yay!
Andros/SR have an adventure in Winter, will advance through Fall.
Invent Eyes for the Lurking Assassin InVi 45 from Hermetic Projects : Andros has InVi 38 + 3 Int + 10 MT +6 Aura + Lab 13 + SR 12 + 11 Neleos = 93, enough. Warping shenanigans _: 1D10 = [7] = 7 , none,
Aging roll: _: 1D10 = [2] = 2 + 8 Age - 2 magi Standards- 2 healthy locale - 1 good food -1 good wine-3 familiar bond- 6 LR - 1 Regimen - 1 Palatial Lab =-7, nothing happens
Sandor has the eternal war, must resolve. Done!
Sybilla has adventures in Spring, must resolve. Done!
Lady A has adventures in Spring, must resolve. Done!
Aging roll: _: 1D10 = [2] = 2 + 6 Age - 2 Wealthy- 2 healthy locale - 1 good food -1 good wine - 14 LR- 1 Monstrous Blood - 1 Regimen = -14 no change
Her husband: _: 1D10 = [2] = 2+ Age 8 - 2 Wealthy - 2 Healthy location - 1 Food - 1 Wine - 1 regimen= 3 apparent aging
Danaë has adventures in Spring, must resolve. Done!
Aging roll: _: 1D10 = [10] = 10 +5 Age - 2Magi standards - 2 Healthy feature -1 Good Food - 1 Good wine -1 Magic blood - 1 Regimen= -3 nothing happens (Unaging)
1138
Busy year for Arduino, in Spring Aurthor teaches him the Inventive Genius virtue (and Ibis gifts the young magus with puissant on MT).
Class with Anvy in Summer.
Craft of five Charms Against the Rain for Mercere House during Fall, for an income of 8 Re vis.
Invent Chirurgeon's Healing Ring from lab text in Winter.
Hi all,
I asked on Recruitment: Players Looking for Games whether there is a Maga or Magus interested to take an apprentice and silveroak responded that Praesidium Orae has some Maga offspring that might need a player. I wouldn't mind waiting another 5 years to take over a completely blank sheet character or take Bravery if raccoonmask is only planning to take him because nobody else is (not sure from briefly following the discussion what is the case).
If the troupe is interested in having me as a player, how should we best proceed?
I am new to PbP and relatively new to ArM5 (I started or am about to start playing in Bad Apples), I played a bit of ArM4 back in the days. After that we played WoD and nobody took the task to lead another Ars Saga.
If I see that correctly the Ex Miscelanea tradition will be Praxologist, involving
Virtues: Inventive Genius, Comprehend Magic
Flaw: Chaotic Magic
not Fertility Magic in particular, is that about right? My long term goals would then probably involve following my mater and her parens in integrating some ancient magic into hermetic magic myself (I thought about Canaan Necromancy). WDYT?
I am completely blank on Fertility Magic, so I have no idea how that interacts with character creation. What is the most important thing I should read about?
Best
Jan
Hi eldarin and welcome!
In case Bravery is not available Aurthor ex Miscellanea (a magus played by me) intends to take another apprentice in the next few years.
He is a Praxologist too.
I was planing on taking him over because I think its more interesting for people not to run their own apprentices. 
I'm happy to have someone else do it, so I'm not running two equivalent age apprentices. As far as non-apprentices, the Lustful members of the covenant are always doing their best to ensure more opportunities for companions to adopt.
Hey eldarin!
Well, we have yet to see if that's a thing in silveroak's Saga, but currently there's Aurthor on Hyperborean magic, Gloriana is about to learn Fertility Magic (Anna has that virtue already), there are lots of Defixios in storage (Gloriana wanted to explore this in the future, but hasn't had the time), there are a few Heron's Mechanica items as well.
Fertility Magic: Anna has that virtue, so she can create a Lab Total and spend some vis and preselect some traits for her offspring, or somebody who she aids. So Bravery already has some traits, including being Gifted. These traits are extra, and do not count against the usual balance of a characters Virtues and Flaws.
You mean to the Virtues and Flaws he already has we can add +10/-10 on top?...