Liliana summons a huge hulking Redcap named Guglielmo to help summarise the pertinent bits of membership. The two cover much detail regarding council quorum, positions, membership rights and provisions, provisional membership status, and some weird regulations regarding pecking order (who has to stand aside for whom when meeting on a narrow path, and the like).
Main points being:
- Provisional status can be granted by princeps (or in this case, acting princeps)
- lasts two years during which three seasons' service is due (regular covenant service is five seasons for every seven years)
- unanimous vote required for provisional to become full member
- only full members may draw salary and have the right to vote at council
Full membership:
- vis stock minimum is 200 pawns. No salaries granted in the unlikely event that stocks fall below minimum. Pre-salary tally is taken after Aegis and any other annual rituals' costs are deducted. Salary is divvied according to how many shares a member receives based on position (this is truly arcane; basically shares are determined on how many hats you wear). Salary not to exceed five pawns per magus per year.
- All vis gathered on official covenant business is covenant property; failure to remand is considered theft. Covenant business is defined as anything taking up covenant resources (this includes costos). In gathering vis from non-Covenant sources, on unofficial covenant business or in a situation where covenant resources are used without the express intention of gathering vis, the finder retains half (rounded down) as a finder's fee but returns the rest to the stores.
- provisional members must wear yellow robes on covenant grounds
- everyone in the covenant must wear cobbled shoes on covenant grounds (exceptions being from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday, and certain high holy days)
- violation of covenant charter can be brought as a grievance before the council and a simple majority vote will expel the offender (no statute of limitations)
Apprentices:
- should never be addressed by name, only as "discipulus"
- must all wear apprentice's robes when on covenant grounds (these robes are puke green)
- are entitled to three square meals per day, and any parens who intentionally denies his apprentice this entitlement immediately forfeits all membership privileges
- may only dine in the magi's dining hall if invited to do so by a member of the council
There is a lot more, but that's what you get from Lily and William.
Guglielmo finds the appropriate segment and confirms there is no expiry on the claim of membership for magi who served their apprenticeships here; thus once Attravere signs the charter he is a full member.