Well Scottish equivalent for the barrister but I am not sure there really are lawyers much in this time. (we aren't in ireland).
Wikipedia isn't the best source but it is a good start:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer#Middle_Ages mentions that it was only in this time period 1190-1230 that a few people started practicing canon law as life long profession (so church scholar). 1231 (france)/1237 (london) is when first lawyers were sworn to practice canon law before bishop's court.
Let me know if you do the faerie doctor or local noble. I was thinking of magic companion (some sort of magical beast) or a local noblewoman myself (one that had bought her right to rule her lands until she had a son to inherit)
As near as I can tell, in Scotland does allow women to inherit land on their own (probably if there are no surviving male issue), but that it's pretty new. The one page I was able to find that wasn't way past period indicates that it started in the 13th century, but didn't narrow it down any further than that. So, since I think it could make a good story, I'm gonna say go for it.
I don't know why, but this reminded me of a scene from Monday Night Raw, back around Christmas I think, when somebody was trying to insult-without-insulting Seamus (the first Irish-born World Champion) by giving him a gift – an Irish potato. They josh around, the guy takes off, Seamus takes a bite of the potato, and gets a disgusted look on his face. "This isn't an Irish potato. It's an Idaho potato!" he says with a sneer, then takes another bite.
Yep...and I made an observation about it, I believe, strongly hinting that it might be disputed/contested.
Or re-discover...among the items pilfered by Duncan was the paperwork showing/documenting the covenant's vis sources that they had been neglecting for far too long due to the covenant's decline.
I'm tracking all the books/vis sources/boons & hooks on my computer. If people want, I can make a placeholder post with what everybody's proposed/submitted so far...which isn't a whole lot, yet.
No, I would like you all to spend points on vis sources...it's just that they're either going to be sources that your character knows or has heard about or that the characters are going to have to track down and start harvesting again. The remaining magi haven't had to harvest vis themselves for years, and assumed that the vis source listing was still in the library...but since the catalog was among the first things taken, they didn't really have a checklist to work off of. Stuff that will come up once we get the saga rolling.
And the spring's location isn't that big a problem...the Covenant of Loch Leglean is a mile or two closer, they may or may not know about it and be harvesting it (their primary function is hosting the Tribunal every seven years). And even if they do/are, under the Pact of Crun Clach taking a covenant's resources does not deprive a member of the Order of Hermes of his magical power. So, feel free to beat them up and take their lunch vis.
Although ten pawns a year does sound a little high-end to me, but if the troupe doesn't mind, I got no problem with it.
