Mercurian Aegis contractors - is this remotely plausible?

[Jonathan.Link]

@Michael Cule

@Jonathan.Link

Penetration is a problem for the sole practitioner... So, such a character may not be as likely to exist in a world where wards must penetrate. Also, magi may be uncomfortable that this magus has the keys to their covenant.

Doesn't he need a covenant of his own? Isn't vagrancy a minor crime in most tribunals? And won't they want him to be at home on at least one of the four days a year to help cast their Aegis?

A maximum profit of, say, six pawns of Vim Vis a year doesn't seem much.

Not sure where I follow vagrancy in this, and canonically the only Tribunal that has defined Vagrancy is the Greater Alps. In Tribunal of the Greater Alps vagrancy is any magus who doesn't have a vis income of 12 pawns per year, 10 pawns for themselves and the traditional two that go to House Guernicus and Mercere, the two is on a per covenant basis, so a solitary magus would be responsible for it himself.

And then there's what Chris said about flitting around from covenant to covenant...