Significatos - Convenant p.101 & Mythic locations p.43
Aligned Auras - RoP:M p.16
Mundanes have been doing pilgrims since before the times of the One God. Takes them to holy sites, places they can contemplate & pray to the Divine.
Hermetic Magi have the same potential to have routes protected by the code that allow Magi to access the best learning sites available to the Magic World. There are 10 forms to study. In the Early days of the order, it is said that many "Holy" magical sites existed for each of the forms but lack of vision, greed & wars have destroyed most of them to the point that in 1220, only few are known to remain.
Most of the Holy sites were under the patronage of the Rowan Gild. The Druids, Merinita and Bjornaers as care takers the site were kept pristine. Each of them was granted a protector that was initiated into the Forest Lore mystery to better serve his duties. When the Schism war erupted, the aggressors actively pillaged the sites in order to weaken the Diedne & to gather some needed vis supplies. By the end of the war, even protectors turned and sacrificed many sites in order to prevent them from falling into non-deserving hands. By 1220, the few remaining known Holy sites are controlled by powerful Covenants or currently inaccessible as powerful creatures guard them. It is known that the Hawthorn Gild has records for many sites as the Rowan Gild split from them in the 10th Century but the current leader of the Guild, Urgen of Bjornaer, has no interest in sharing or restoring the sites as he is dedicated to his war on Mundane encroachment. Can his filia, Ordorpes be convinced of the noble cause to restore the Holy Magical Pilgrimage Sites? Can Schadrit, the last surviving member of the Rowan Gild, be convinced to side step from his rivalry with Durenmar and join the endeavor?
Hawthorn Gild - Urgen of Bjornaer (ArchMage) - Odorpes filia Urgen of House Bjornaer. Odorpes is not exactly a model member of her covenant, and Fengheld has accused her at Tribunal more than once of failing to fulfil her duties, although they are reluctant to discipline her harshly for fear of her aggressive and powerful parens. Odorpes spends most of her time in her heartbeast (a bear), and hibernates for the whole winter.
Rowan Gild - Founded in 941 - Last surviving lineage of the Gild resides in Dankmar in the Rhine Tibunal. Schadrit of Bonisagus, Gauntlet in 1048.
Lets use this thread to create the site & their history & restore the Holy Pilgrimage route to it's former glory.
W