Legacy items without Open License coverage
Note: Purge started with v2.50. Entries were removed but saved here until proper release. If anyone know these as references in Open License material (basically all Arm5e + the 3e and 4e Tribunal books), they can be fixed to that.
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All references to Grimgroth (allegedly Mark Rein Hagen's PC) removed from chronology to avoid trademark, and he doesn't exist in any of the Open License material anyway.
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All references to Doissetep removed from chronology to avoid trademark and legacy. There is only a single mention of it throughout ArM5 (in Guardians of the Forest).
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Ladkyis, Restitius, Caritopulus, Caecus, Gettra, Firento scrubbed from the chronology as they don't appear in any Open License material.
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Important events around the Schism War and The Tempest were rewritten to avoid using old material.
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1062 events around Blackthorn, Tagelyn and Ashenrise fixed to only conform to Heirs to Merlin. References from "Order of Hermes" and "Medieval Bestiary" removed.
Items from "A Midsummer Night's Dream":
1180 Rhine: Maga Alicia de Pahn Ex Miscellanea expelled from her covenant for consorting with mortals and bearing a child, in contravention of her covenant's rules.
Items from "Covenants" (ArsM2):
876 Provencal: Doissetep covenant founded.
Items from "Faeries Revised Edition":
1024 Rome: Joseph Pietro, bishop of Venice disappears.
Allegedly into Faerie.
1177 Greater Alps: Monstro of Criamon vanishes from his tower near the Cave of Twisting Shadows.
Items from "Houses of Hermes":
Note: Several of these are redone to conform to Open License content versions (including Blood and Sand, Covenants, Houses of Hermes - Societates)
C. 500 BC: Greek Cult of Hermes at its height, per Primus Fenicil of Guernicus.
390 BC: Sacking of Rome by Celts, aided by the Druids. According to Primus Fenicil this is the impetus for formation of Cult of Mercury. [HoH, Tempest]
C. 160 BC: Plentarch codifies Mercurian Rituals into thirty eight spells.
These spells are unfortunately lost to the common knowledge of the Order.
C. 150 BC: Cult of Mercury at its height. The magic of the cult is little understood now, but they are credited in our history with supporting the Roman Empire through its thirty eight powerful rituals. It is known that Mercurian magic required large numbers of ritual participants, and it is believed that the Roman roads served to symbolically tie the Roman Republic and later Empire together. The rituals of Mercury may have been to undermine the gods of the enemy, or to bring the favor of the gods to the Romans.
C. 1005: A conference of the leaders of the Houses is held. A senior Diedne magus publicly insults the Primus of Tremere.
C. 1005: Primus Pietre of Jerbiton isolates his House from the Order and largely integrates the membership with mortal society. This policy continue throughout his Primacy.
This was almost certainly done to insulate the House Jerbiton from the disintegration of the Order.
C. 1050: Primus Firento Ex Miscellanea attempts to convert his House to Hermetic traditions. He is killed on a quest for the Spinning Pearls, probably by members of his own House.
He may have forgotten his House motto.
C. 1100–1200 Gettra of House Bjornaer assumes the identities of many magi, for unknown reasons. She flees when discovered and has yet to face Hermetic justice.
The period of Gettra’s impersonation is difficult to research, and may be significantly shorter.
C. 1145–1150: Magus Agnis Nestiphilis tortures and kills three apprentices.
1151 Normandy Tribunal: Magus Agnis Nestiphilis acquitted of any wrongdoing in the torture and killing of three apprentices in five years, on grounds that apprentices are the property of the mage, to do with as he please.
1156: The leader of the line of Ex Miscellanea witches opens their ranks to male magi.
C. 1197–1220: At some point in this period, Primus Vancasitum dies and Tertious of Doissetep becomes the Primus of Flambeau. Traditionally, the Primus transfers residence from his former covenant to the domus magna, but in this case Val-Negra is lost and Doissetep becomes domus magna Flambeau.
How did Tertious know that Vancasitum was dead if Val-Negra is inaccessible?
Items from "Kabbalah":
1205 Thebes: Hoplitic Pact of Byzantium formed in the wake of the sack of Constantinople, allying House Jerbiton with the Order of Geonim to defend Jewish Quarters from mortal destruction.
1210: Appolonius of Jerbiton is given the gift of Arcane Memory by Order of Geonim.
1213: Arash of Criamon renounces the Order for Judaism. He is protected by Criamon magi until he can escape to a Jewish quarter in Baghdad.
Items from "Maleficium":
1052: The Apotropaic sect founded through agreement of Church and Order, and charged to slay demons. Pope Leo IX issues a secret bull on the matter and presents each of the original members with the Agnus Dei.
Possibly only legend. The inconsistent nature of the Church’s policies only serves to complicate the question.
1121: Pope Calixtus II speaks on the topic of Diabolism.
1194: Hilden, the Pious Magus, writes on the nature of Heaven and Hell.
1203: Pilantius of Stonehill covenant writes letter to the deacon of a church near Lyon regarding Dark Magi.
Items from "Medieval Bestiary" and "Medieval Bestiary Revised Edition":
Note: Caprea is canon in Guardians of the Forest, some entries are kept.
1204: Causabon of Bonisagus completes his Physiologus Hermeticum, a bestiary based mainly on the classic Physiologus. He includes elements from other bestiaries to fill in and compliment his work.
It is not widely circulated, or at least Caprea seems unfamiliar with it.
1221 Rhine: Caprea filia Equus Minor of House Bjornaer completes her bestiary, based mainly on Pliny’s Historia Naturalis and the original Physiologus. She makes multiple copies, one to be placed in the library of Durenmar and the rest circulated throughout the Order.
It disagrees with the Physiologus Hermeticum of Causabon on some points.
Items from "Mistridge":
C. 1223 and later, Provencal: Refugees from the Albigensian Crusade, including magi of Bellaquin, find haven at Mistridge covenant. The population of Mistridge triples, and the council of Mistridge increases from four to twelve. The covenant becomes an important center of resistance to the crusaders.
Mistridge is eventually cautioned by the Tribunal against becoming overly involved in mortal concerns.
The tale of Mistridge gives an important caution against magi who think to oppose the crusaders of the Church.
C. 1244 Provencal: Mistridge covenant has drastically weakened in the face of the Albigensian Crusade. It has acquired new enemies both in and out of the Order and most or all of its senior magi have died or gone mad.
1246 Provencal: Mistridge covenant destroyed after an extended siege. The survivors flee deeper into the Pyrenees and refound the covenant with a new council, the senior magi all having Passed, died, or vanished.
The fate of magus Grimgroth is the most mysterious; after leading his covenfolk out of danger, he rode to nearby Mount Tierne, and vanished on its slopes.
Items from "Mythic Europe":
C. 1180–1200 Rhine: The Bishop of Stettin requests aid of the Order against wizards of the Order of Odin, aiding local pagans. A covenant of a dozen magi is founded (name unknown), but fails within two years due to disagreement between magi Ignibus Impervious of Flambeau and Wilhelm of Tytalus. The covenant site is abandoned, and later becomes quarters for hedge wizards. These squatters are eventually killed in a pitched battle.
The account of these events is very sketchy.
1198 Rhine: Rumor claims that a German covenant purchases twelve indulgences in one night, Allhallow’s Eve.
Unlikely.
1212 Iberia: Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, followed by the siege of Badajoz. Some magi are accused of interference, though nothing is proved.
Shortly after the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, Bishop Tello Téllez de Meneses urged Alfonso VIII of Castile to found the first studium generale of Iberia from the episcopal school of Palencia.
Muslim sorcerers living in Badajoz employed djinn to defend it. Magi serving the Castillians opposed them; a two day battle raged around the Tower of the Djinn, ending in a massive explosion destroying the tower and killing many. All the sorcerers die, along with many of their servants. Many Muslim devices were scattered across the city and nearby land, from the force of the explosion.
1214: Saracen sorcerers found a school of sorcery in Oran, in Africa, using the profits from defending the merchant ships of Oran from pirates.
Items from "Mythic Seas":
1120 Hibernia: Aquae Desilientes founded on a small island off the southern coast of the greater island, by Enoch of Bonisagus and his sodales.
Items from "Order of Hermes" (ArsM2):
1062 Stonehenge: Blackthorn seizes the caves of Tagelyn covenant as their own, a more defensible site than their old fortress.
The magi of Tagelyn move to Hibernia and later found Ashenrise.
Among the classic texts lost in the struggle is a copy of the rare Physiologus, a classic bestiary. It is generally assumed that Blackthorn had always intended this betrayal.
1179 Provencal Tribunal: Archmaga Ladkyis of Tremere complains that magus Asidnael of Jerbiton had endangered her by claiming to mortals she was possessed by a spirit, as it could have led to her being brought to the attention of the Church; magus Asidnael claims that she had been observed casting spells by mortals, and they had suggested that she was possessed, and that he claimed she was but that it was by a spirit that did no harm; each mage fined one pawn for endangering the other.
Magus Grimgroth of Mistridge fined Animal vis sufficient to heal a horse, for allowing his apprentice to go unsupervised and start a fire in a stable at the covenant of Bentalone.
1180 Provencal: Archmaga Ladkyis enters Final Twilight. Her body continues to function completely normally and behaves much as she had the day before her Passing.
1181 Rome: The twenty-second Verdi Competition: Won by Restitius of Doissetep, with his creation of a bronze dog which can bark, wag its tail, and urinate wine. It also has a paralyzing stare, useful for guarding.
1193 Hibernia: Lombard covenant reprimanded for interfering in mortal affairs.
C. 1197 Hibernia: A magus of Cliffheart covenant revealed to be a diabolist. The other magi of Cliffheart are cleared by a Quaesitoreal investigation.
1198: Magus Caritopulus of Flambeau issues a call to destroy hedge wizards across Europe to prevent them from gaining power and destroying the Order.
His call is widely ignored, as he is considered easily alarmed.
Items from "Ordo Nobilis":
722 Iberia: A glowing rider on a white horse panics the Moors at the battle of Covadonga. This rider is later identified as St. James by Dominion.
Possibly Delandar? See related event in 844.
844 Iberia: A mysterious glowing rider on a white horse appears before the Asturian king Ramiro I on the eve of battle at Clarijo, and assures him of victory. The next day the rider leads Dominion forces to victory. The king defeats the Saracens and declares that the horseman was St. James the Apostle.
A magus or the actual Saint?
C. 940 Normandy: The Quaesitors uncover a plot by a maga of Tytalus, masquerading as the Faerie queen Melisandre, apparently furthering Infernal ends.
This is another early piece of the Tytalus Corruption puzzle.
Items from "Pax Dei":
941 Greater Alps: Probable year in which magus Nerius, patron saint of Christian magi, passes his Gauntlet to enter House Criamon.
He goes on to be a most controversial and storied figure. Magus Nerius supposedly finished his apprenticeship in only five years.
1004 Normandy Tribunal: Probable Tribunal at which magus Nerius of Criamon, the Pious Magus, who came to urge restraint in the Schism War, is tried for attempting to undermine the Order; he is challenged by Malvon of Tremere to certamen on the issue of his devout Christianity and refuses; he is therefore cast out of the Order for refusing to honor custom, and killed. Some regard Nerius as a saint, others as a heretic, theurgist, or madman.
It is said that Nerius had survived unscathed an attack by the combined might of many magi, and that he died only after delivering a final sermon.
Items from "Saga Pack":
1227 Hibernia: Magus Caecus of Tytalus visits and speaks to the Hibernian Tribunal on the subject of grogs, urging their humane and just treatment. His speech is received with mixed opinions.
Magus Caecus is known to be overly sympathetic to grogs and mundane soldiers.
Items from "Stormrider" and "Return of the Stormrider":
C. 1100 Provence: First recorded appearance of the mysterious Stormrider, in the Val du Bosque. This elemental being seems to be the rage of a storm in the shape of a black knight.
The year is very approximate.
C. 1110 Provence: St. Fabia of the Roses works miracles in the Val du Bosque, and is eventually martyred by the Stormrider.
Date is unclear.
Items from "The Tempest":
Note: All mentions of Cimbrinsula and Kymr (spelled with a "K") came from it and had to go.*
C. 1300 BC: The ancient Kymric civilization flourishes around Albion (Britannia), guided by magician-priests; they were a peaceful, nature-worshiping people. In the tradition of their ancestors, the Kymry captured the magical essence of nature in their cave paintings and engravings. The most powerful of these could directly control many natural phenomena, and could be found at the sacred isle of Cimbrinsula between Albion and Hibernia.
In time, the Kymric culture is destroyed by invading Gaels and Brutus, the island of Cimbrinsula sinks under the waves, and the Kymric and Gaelic cultures merge into the Celtic people. The Kymric priest-magicians become the Druids of later years.
C. 560 Stonehenge: The Kingdom of Lyonesse, formerly a land or island of Britain off Cornwall, sinks into the sea after the death of its last heir, Tristram, after his treacherous murder at the hands of King Mark. Some claim the Scilly Isles are the mountaintops of this drowned land.
This whole quarter of the world seems to be sinking into the sea, if one includes Atlantis, Cimbrinsula, and the many Western Isles said to lie under the waves!
1012 Battle of the Tempest: Flambeau, Tremere, Tytalus, and Quaesitor magi clash with Diedne magi in a final battle. The Diedne magi meet their enemies with summoned monsters and storms but are ultimately defeated. Nearly all of both sides’ magi are slain in this great battle, said to have lasted a full month.
The Diedne leaders - including the last Primus of the accursed House, Llewellyn - are rumored to have escaped to an unknown land, possibly Faerie, possibly a far-off mundane land. Others claim that House Ex Miscellanea sheltered Diedne magi, but some magi Ex Miscellanea are known to have fought Diedne with great vigor, particularly in Loch Leglean.
Some said that eventually, when the druids concluded that they could neither win nor survive the battle, they decided to take their enemies with them - like in their oldest legends where their ancestors the Kymryc sealed their own fate by calling up on the ocean to overwhelm their sacred island, Cimbrinsula.
The Tempest was the primary reason the Schism War came to an end.
Items from "Triamore":
TBD if removals actually needed, as it's integrated and repeated in ArM5 canon.
Items from "Twelfth Night":
C. 500–600 Greater Alps: In this century, the Golden Wyrm of the High Alps, Impathis, begins to collect a hoard of gold, silver, and gems, seizing them from mortals.
C. 600–700 Greater Alps: The Dragon Impathis, called the Golden Wyrm for her wondrous golden scales, burns cities and the realms of kings who oppose her continuing quest for gold and gems. She is opposed by the mortal kings, and brave knights are sent to slay her, but she is not defeated.
C. 700–800 Greater Alps: The Great Golden Wyrm Impathis, having collected a vast hoard of gold through seizure and tribute, retires to her cave in the High Alps, where she is only occasionally disturbed by foolhardy mortal knights.
Items from "The Wizard's Grimoire":
1116 Hibernia: Beginning of the 'Supplicants of Truth' cult in Hibernia.
1129 Hibernia: Supplicants of Truth cult destroyed.
Items from "The Wizard's Grimoire Revised Edition":
C. 1000: Maga Ucerta of Criamon creates the "Box of Wonders", a box said to contain fabulous treasure.
1017: The Enameled Horse, a legendary enchanted statue that can be ridden as a well-trained war horse, is seen in the court of a noble of Baghdad.
It seems to have disappeared for a while when the noble fell out of favor.
1036: The Enameled Horse is bought by the Covenant of Van. It was later ridden into the mundane world by Jukolus of Jerbiton, who was forced to abandon it when using spells to escape danger.
The Horse was presumed destroyed, but various rumors suggest that presumption may have been hasty. Its survival or location is still unknown.
1169 Rome: Magus Kaldorias of Jerbiton banishes a demon which had been terrorizing certain villagers.
1172 Iberia Tribunal: Magus Trentus of Flambeau (apprentice name Vermbar) is accused of killing several mortals and burning two ships in Barcelona during his gauntlet, as he was abandoned in Barcelona lacking clothes, provisions, and money, and was told to get to Sicily within a month. The Quaesitor suggests that Trentus be held accountable as a mage for willfully interfering with mundanes in the gauntlet. The Tribunal rules that during a gauntlet an apprentice is not yet a mage and cannot be held to the Code, but cannot be guided by his parens either. Neither Trentus nor his parens is punished.
1174 Provencal: Magus Questus of Criamon, Bellaquin covenant, disappears without explanation.
1188 Provencal: Magus Teslil of Jerbiton finds a Gifted girl and, having his own apprentice, sells her to magus Gentric of Jerbiton.
See 1192 for additional developments.
1191 Provencal: Magus Questus of Criamon returns to his covenant, Bellaquin, and claims seventeen years of vis and monies, per the covenant charter. The covenant refuses to pay. Magus Questus complains; Quaesitor Jerines called in to settle the matter, and after reviewing the charter rules in Questus’ favor.
Beware of the hidden traps and agreements in your covenant charter, magus!
1192 Provencal: Magus Gentric dies. His property is disposed of in the manner of his covenant, and his apprentice taken by magus Alarmon of Tytalus.
See the Provencal Tribunal of 1194 for additional developments.
[Part] 1194 Provencal Tribunal:
Magus Teslil claims that the former apprentice of magus Gentric, died 1192, should be granted him, as Gentric had been of his House and he had found the girl to begin with. The Tribunal ruled that Teslil, having sold the girl, had given up all claim.
Regarding magus Teslil, the Tribunal noted its disapproval of selling apprentices, but did not forbid it.
1197 Hibernia: Ashenrise covenant destroyed by demons.
1199 Hibernia: Ashenrise refounded and dedicated to fighting demons. Magus Caecus of Ashenrise removes to Provencal Tribunal.
[Note: Entries for maga Pugnatis at the Provencal Tribunals of 1200 and 1207, as it's canon in The Lion and the Lily]
1214 Loch Leglean Tribunal: Magus Erdras Tan-Gwyllt of Flambeau is cast out of the Order for setting her apprentice a gauntlet that kills several of her mortal enemies; the Tribunal absolves magus Curwin, the former apprentice, and rules that magi are responsible for their apprentices even in gauntlet.
Compare to the ruling of the Iberian Tribunal of 1172.
1220 Provencal: The controversial Wizard's Grimoire assembled at Doissetep, compiled through the efforts of Occultis of Bonisagus and others.
The wise Occultis is to be praised for his efforts!
