The Covenant of Ungulus
- Location: overlooking Ennerdale Water
- Charter
The Tower
- Basement (presumably) is used only by the covenfolk, probably storage rooms and larder.
- First floor: sick room and reception area
- Second floor: kitchen and a common room where the covenfolk usually eat.
- third floor there turb barracks and two small sanctums for the redcaps (Maine and Chronos).
- fourth floor, library (see below), council room with a cramped haphazard lab. Smaller rooms and alcoves with spare beds.
- The haphazard lab is size -2 with the cramped flaw and missing equipment for experimentation and familiar.
- Fiftth floor: Tessa's sanctum. This is a standard Hermetic lab, with trophies on the wall (see Chapter 7).
- Sixth floor: Frederic's sanctum. This is has a magic item providing excessive heating and a big fireplace making a minor focus/feature for Ignem. There is a chest of untranslated lab texts, and a little vis, 3p each of Imaginem, Animal, and Aquam, and 2p Herbam.
- Seventh floor: Tacitus' sanctum. (to be designed.)
The Hermetic cottage.
There is a spare lab in a cottage. This is full size with the following virtues and flaws: dedicated building, damp, poorly insulated, infested (with ivy, for Herbam specialisation). It has clearly not been used for a long time.
Silver
- Standard Income Source £100 from livestock and agriculture.
- In the past, they have often received support from Blackthorn when there have been many hoplites and mercenaries in residence.
- £100 stocks
Vis (end of Autumn 1013)
- Vis stored in the library
- 11p Vim
- 4p Auram
- 4p Aquam
- 2p Creo
Sources
This information is detailed in an attachment to the charter.
- Three secure sources nearby, which can be collected within a day at most.
- 4p Vim (Summer)
- 4p Auram (Autumn)
- 4p Aquam (Winter when it is at its coldest)
- less reliable vis sources; will take a story for first harvest
- 2p Creo. A Gifted individual has to pray at the statue of John the Baptist in the Cathedral of Carlisle on his feast day at midsummer, without drawing undue attention to themselves. The statue will pour two ounces of water from his hands, and this water can be collected for vis. It has happened that magi have accidentally drawn attention to themselves, and to avoid a scene, have let the canons take the water as holy water instead.
- 5p Corpus (Summer) in a faerie regio in the West Pennines, 3-4 days South of Carlisle, a few miles East of Kendal. As far as the magi of Ungulus knew, it can only be entered during the three days following midsummer, and it is often guarded by a faerie champion who has to be defeated in combat.
- 2p Mentem available from a faerie queen on the Southern edge of the Lake District (a mile or two South of Coniston Water), in exchange for a piece of creative art. The work has to impress the queen, and she seems to be increasingly hard to please after each successful trade, particularly if less than a year passes. The last exchange was in 1011. Ungulus has typically made the trade late Summer or early Autumn, but there is no evidence that it could not happen at any time. It takes about two or three days to get there from Ungulus, but grogs are usually sent to make the trade.
- 3p Herbam is available from a petrified flower in a deep cave near Edinburgh. The journey takes at least a week, easily two in foul weather, each way. (Gargoyle's Blossom [Cov:79].)
Covenfolk
You will learn that there are the three senior covenfolk,
- Osgar the autocrat
- Mildred the stewardess, married to Osgar
- Clarissa the head chirurgeon
- turb of half a dozen (use standard soldier template [core] with no additional minmaxing, we should rather develop Jack, Iago, and the Pomeranians)
- half a dozen servants (no particular skill other than housekeeping and the like)
- four rangers, mostly occupied with foraging
There are also shepherds and peasants who serve the covenant but never set their foot in the tower.
The library at Ungulus
- Tablets
- The chirurgeon’s healing touch CrCo20
- heal heavy wound CrCo30
- heal incapacitating wound CrCo35
- Purification of the festering wounds CrCo20 (+9 recovery bonus
- Inexorable Search InCo20 +21 penetration
- Leap of Homecoming ReCo35
- Aegis of the Hearth L25 +26 penetration
- The chirurgeon’s healing touch CrCo20
- Lab Texts for Lesser Enchanted Devices
- Invisibility Cloak [canon spell]
- Flaming Sword [canon spell]
- Incendior Homine CrIg40 [Cov:53]
- Weightless Chain [canon]
- Flying Broomstick Cr(Re)Au39
(also explains how to get a +5 shape bonus to flight from the broom)
based on Wings of the Soaring Wind Cr(Re)Au30, maintains concentration and 12 uses/day
- Tractatus
- Area Lore: Highlands Q10 (10C) +Q8 (9C)
- Area Lore: Scottish Lowlands Q11 (10C)
- Area Lore: Scottish Lowlands (Q7) The March in Loch Leglean by Vera the Redcap, dated Ungulus 1012
- Area Lore: Wales Q9 (10C)
- Area Lore: Northumbria Q11 (10C)
- Area Lore: Northumbria (Q7) Battles in Northumbria by Vera the Redcap, dated Ungulus 1012
- Area Lore: Mercia (Q8): The Cleansing of Mercia by Tacitus of Tremere, dated Ungulus 1012
- Diedne Lore: Know thy enemy by Tacitus of Tremere Q8, dated Blackthorn 1010
- Finesse 2xQ10
- Penetration 2xQ10
- Magic Lore Q11 (10C)
- Magic Lore Q10 Legacy of the Lochs by Ulma filia Pralix 889
- Vim, Ignem, Creo, Intellego Q7
- Spell Texts
- Pilum of Fire
- Wizard's Sidestep
- Demon's Eternal Oblivion L5 + L20
- Faeries's Eternal Oblivion L5 + L15
- Magic's Eternal Oblivion L5
- Gather the Essence of the Beast
- Circling Winds of Protection
- Circular Ward against Faeries L20
- Circular Ward against Demons L20
- Circular Ward against The Beasts of Legend L30
- Heal Medium Wound
- Aegis of the Hearthy L25 and L30
- Crystal Dart
- Invisible Sling of Vilano
- Veil of Invisibility
- Leap of Homecoming