Here is a plot i am creating for our saga, i am posting it here to get advices and help because we are two Game masters on this saga and the other one know the ars magica universe a lot better than me.
I am creating a covenant that was founded on the year 1030. I need it as a long lasting quest for my troup.
[size=150]The one undred years covenant[/size]
The covenant was created in 1030 by three magi with a common goal : to protect the Mythic world from the mundanes.
They thougt that Mundanes would bring the end of the mythic world and wanted to find ways to protect all things magic and faeric from them. This is at best at odds with the hermetic code so they did nor reveal ther objective and created a covenant on a really isolated place in the alps mountains.
Magi of the covenant
Flavius ex Flambeau, Perdo/Corpus specialist
Flavius was the fillus of a powerful Flambeau magi who participated in most of the wars of is time. His parens made it really hard for him to pass his gauntlete because he thought that his apprentice was too weak for battle. Flavius conceived an incredible hate for the people his master fought to protect.
Faunus ex Merinita, Rego/Vim specialist
Faunus is the only son af a fae who got killed by Mundanes.
Alida ex Bonisagus, Mentem specialist
As a bonisagus Alida followed the path of Trianoma, she was more a politician than a lab rat. She foresaw the growing influence of the church and the mundanes, and the desastrous effect it would have for the magic aura and regio. She decided to found a covenant dedicaced to find a solution for this problem.
Spring
In the years of the first season the covenant grew in power, they acquired some vis sources, made allies and enemies, and wrote books.
Flavius's Pilgrimage
After a few years in the covenant Flavius left for a pilgrimage in the holy land. He spent about thirty years traveling around the orient in a quest for medical and magical knowledge. There he dicovered a book written by an old unnamed prophet, he had a vision that the world would be brought to his end by the mortals. Flavius was corrupted by the unholy writtings of the crazy prophet as it echoed with is own hatred for the mundanes. Little by little he drifted from protecting the magic world to destroying the mundane one.
Faunus's Aegis
During this period Faunus, with the help of Alida, created the ritual of Aegis that the covenant would be using. One that stays effective as long as the fire in the great hall is burning and that Faunus is alive.
Summer
It's at this time that something went wrong in the covenant, Flavius had an accident in his laboratory that led him to twilight for 2 years. When he came back he was a lot different a strange light burnt in his eyes, and his soul had become cold as ice.
The man that never dies
The covenant found a Corpus Vis source in the person of a man cursed to live forever by the fae, by skinning him once every season the covenant could harvest 2 pawns.
Alida's gates of lost memories
By fear of betrayal from the grogs, Alida enchanted the gates of the covenant.Anyone who pass through to leave the valley forget the location in the course of the next week.
Autumn
In those years Flavius's madness became more and more dangerous, he conducted experiments about deseases in is laboratory using some of the covenant's grogs. Alida and Faunus began to fear him for he had parted with there initial noble objective.
The last treachery of Alida
Alida used an Intellego/Mentem spell to discover what was this big experiment that Flavius was preparing. Horrified by her disovery, she comfounded him in the hope of bringing him back to reason. Enraged Flavius killed her leaving only a pile of bones and rotting flesh.
When Faunus saw what happened to his lover, he attacked Flavius with all is might. The fight was so devastating that the surviving grogs are still afraid of going inside the covenant.In the end Faunus was defeated cursed to death by his sodales. Flavius took everything he could take with him and fled leaving Faunus for dead...
[size=150]The Traveling years[/size]
After the destruction of the covenant Flavius disapaeard for years preparing for is final achievement. He traveled all across europe meeting with numerous covenant under a false name.
During this period the order declared the covenant as lost and the magi were thought dead.
The apprentice
During his travels Flavius met with a young hunchbacked man hated for his diformity, and discoverd that he had the Gift. He trained him as his apprentice to help him in his researches. The young lad was named Simeon and worshipped Flavius as a god. They settled in a deep forest and built a small house with a laboratory.
The Grand Ritual
After years of researches Flavius created a ritual that would unleash a mortal plague affecting mundanes only, killing them all.
And when everything was set he choose a small village to cast his curse...
Unfortunately for him, in the middle of the ritual the apprentice failed him and ran, leaving him alone to handle the terrible forces at work. He was killed in his attempt and the village was wiped off.
[size=150]Present day[/size]
The valley of St Faunus
Seclused in the valley the covenant his hidden from most mundanes and hermetic influence.
The village
The village count about a hundred souls it's ruled by the Coven and the life there is peaceful.
The strangest thing about it is the fact that every woman here looks exactly alike : beautifull with blond hair and green eyes, they may differ in weight or temper but that's all.
The coven of the Sacred Flame
The Coven of the Sacred Flame, is a cult that think that if the flame in the great hall die, Lucifer will break free of hell. They worship St Faunus who in the legend was betrayed by his own brother who killed his wife.
All the woman serve in the Maidens of the Sacred Flame from the moment they bleed to there wedding, they attend to the church of St Faunus, bringing offerings.
St Faunus
Faunus his still very much alive and live alone in his sanctum, a powerful ward protect him from the curse inflicted on him by Flavius but he can't leave the covenant or he will suffer the full effect of it.
He as enchanted the water of the valley so that every woman who drinks it looks like Aidla, and made them his personal harem as the Maidens of the Flame.
The ruined village of Raelon
Now the ruined village is a 5 levels infernal regio where the plague of Flavius and his ghost are traped. Some books and belongings of Flavius can be found in some levels of the Regio, his Laboratory text for the grand ritual is lying near his corpse on the fifth level.
Mundane level : The lost village
Infernal aura : 0
This level looks just like a ruined village, on the center of he place, around the well is a vaguely circular patch of corrupted earth.
There is no trace of any life within the boundaries of the village, except for insects.
No bird ever come here to rest on the walls, the trees are dead and there is no grass.
Level 1 :
Infernal aura : 1
Level 2 :
Infernal aura : 3
Level 3 :
Infernal aura : 5
Level 4 :
Infernal aura : 7
Level 5 :
Infernal aura : 9
The rogue wizard
Simeon, Flavius's apprentice, is unknown of the order, he is hiding in a deep forest, eager to finish his master's work. He is terrified by the village and won't go there at any cost. He possess a small laboratory and some of his master's writing but doesn't have all his arts open as his master only opened the ones usefull to him.
[size=150]Notes[/size]
I am using the supplement "More Mythic Places" as a basis for the ultimate demise of Flavius of Flambeau.
For now my players have found the place of death of Flavius, and are beginning to research about him.
The objective is to make my players interested in Flavius, then they will hear about his old covenant. Here they will investigate the terrible events that led to the place's destruction and discover Flavius's ultimate goal.
(after all, dry shit burns well enough, right?)