Would you have some details to share on the location and surrounding of this potential covenant, or is this something we'll build as a troupe? It might help me come up with a character concept. 
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I've been wanting to either play a mad experimenter or a Mystery Cultist for a while.
I will make the covenant based i part on the personalities of the characters. You will not know the year, but everyone should have gauntleted by the year 1210.As to what you know of the location from what I am currently considering it will be hot and dry.
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I'm leaning toward either a Jerbiton with particular interest in vocal music (solo and choral) or a Verditius jewelry maker. I'm reading up on these two houses now and am wide open to suggestions or warnings as appropriate.
I’m thinking of an ex misc vim specialist with a focus on something like metamagic (perhaps “controlling spells” to limit it?) and sponts, life-linked and life boost maybe? I’ve been hoping to try out these ideas that have been floating around recently where vim is used to extend spontaneous spells – would you be OK with this direction? Would facilitate magical investigation of the mystery. From the Rhein tribunal perhaps?
I’m thinking that the ex misc tradition might have Ghostly Warder as a free supernatural virtue, the idea being that the tradition is somehow focused on ancestor worship or something. It seems to me that this might prove an interesting fit with the sudden spring idea. Seem OK?
All of these ideas are fine- a name would be usefull to head teh character creation thread once we get the forum.
I am considering a Flambeau or Tytalus with a specaility in Perdo & Corpus, ambitious with a goal of being an Archmage and Hoplite... As well as having a family legacy as well, (Having several children and taking on any gifted children as an apprentice,) as being well socially connected within the Order.
Does that mean he would start with a family legacy (expectations on him) or he wants to establish a family legacy?
Yes, I am leaning towards the former , that he has a family legacy of some sort that he now has to deal with, I.e great grand children older than him in his current de-aged body.
And of course, in his younger form still has these same ambitions...
Too messy?
Try not to design ahead- you won't know what paths your character did or did not pursue the first time around. You won't know if you have descendants that are older than you or not. What you know about your character is who they were at the time of their gauntlet and what their ambitions were at that time- wanting a large family and to be an archmage and to be a hoplite is a lot of irons in the fire.
Now if you had a child during your apprenticeship that could certainly have some interesting implications.
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That's fair enough! We can stick with the ambitions at the time of apprenticeship just fine.
I was thinking a combination of Ambitious -3 and Gossip -1, but Lecherous -1 instead could have some... implications. 
Which are fine for personality traits but, aside from referencing the above, don't tell me what his ambitions are- in short "I want to have a large family, be an archmage and a hoplite" is probably unrealistic expectations, but they may well be what he wants, or you could decide that as an apprentice he knocked a girl up and has ambitions to be a hoplite and archmage...
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Gotcha. How about, in typical Tytalus dysfunction, as an apprentice he married his Pater's daughter in secret and they have had at least one child together?
And has the ambition of a naive youth of planning to accomplish too many things not being realistic about the time commitments each one entails.
Actually the idea I had was a Jerbiton as well, an artist who was terrible at spontaneous magic and was trying to make his art unique with magic.
Being bad at spontaneous magic forced him to do lab work, and always pushing his boundaries means he often would experiment.
@heaven's thunder that works, though I have questions about how he married his pater's daughter- did they sneak out to a church? (hermetic marriages are not always church blessed...) or some other method? also how did he persuade someone to marry them without her father's permission?
@racconmask are you talking about experimenting magically or artistically?
Honestly, probably both. Though I would have to finally read A&A.
I'm also not married to the idea. I also was thinking an experimental magus of a more Culty bent instead of a Jerbiton.
@raccoonmask I'm not locked into a concept yet, so no worries about you going forward with Jerbiton.. I'll focus more on a Verditius but will also look a little further afield in case someone else is thinking along the same lines.
And I don't suspect there is a problem with two Jerbiton magi. Not a great likelihood of a cabal forming. Or is there...
Yes, I was thinking of sneaking out and being married by a priest to whom the PC made a deal with. As for lack of her father's permission... The PC will have Puissant Charm! 
Or to add the backstory, somehow was able to finagle an argument that he had permission already without asking directly.(Though I'll also go with the daughter being full of youthful rebellion towards her overbearing and manipulative father.)
Question: Do any books talk in particular about the crafting of enchanted rings or other jewelry?
Not specifically, there are shape and material bonuses for rings, jewelry, certain gems and metals, and the general rules for enchanting.
@Heaven_s_Thunder_Ham I was thinking more about the priest needing her parent's permission than her wanting it. Youthful rebellion is notoriously unpersuasive with clergy. Not to mention that if te father finds out he may, under the code legally kill you out of hand.