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Events[]
1440[]
- Gilles de Rais arrested and executed. Chateau de Rais becomes powerful Infernal Cray.[2][3][4]
- End of the Long Red Night. Trouble along the Silk Road leads to new conflict between Akashic Brotherhood and Hindu death-mysticks. Fearing new Himalayan Wars, both sides withdraw.[5]
- Burning of Baerwald. Cabal of Pure Thought destroys Baerwald. Pagan survivors swear vengeance. Open war breaks out along Black Forest.[5][6]
- Fall Breeze is born.[7]
- Cosimo de Medici reopens the Platonic Academy of Florence.[8]
- January 1: First Mistridge Convocation. Sh'zar, Valoran, Nightshade and Baldric LaSalle meet for the first time in the ruins of Mistridge, attended by retainers and fae allies. After long discussion, they decide to form a grand Council of Traditions, then depart to recruit others.[5][9][10][11][12][13][3][6][14][4]
- May 1: Consummating their alliance in a Great Rite, Nightshade and William Groth become the founders of the Verbenae.[15][16][14][17]
1441[]
- Mistridge attendees scatter. Nightshade journeys alone to the Americas through the Paths of the Wyck. Sh'zar, Valoran, and Baldric La Salle spread word from northern Europe to Middle East to Asia.[5]
- Seeking the cause of the plagues, shamanness Naioba (daughter of Kola'a Ti) stalks the white ghost through the Mo-Mo Keu dreamlands. There she encounters Star-of-Eagles. Both are nearly slain by the white dream-ghost. Later, she meets Sh'zar and Ali-beh-shaar; seeking an end to plague, she decides to join their Convocation. With her father's help, she strikes a truce between Madzimbabwe, Ngoma and other sects.[5]
- Portuguese voyages to the western coast of Africa reintroduce the slave trade to Europe.[18]
1442[]
- End of Wyndgarde's March. Christopher Wyndgarde sweeps Britain until an ambush outside Newry, Ireland, leaves his forces frozen solid. He dies at Nightshade's hands.[2][6]
- Decade of the Hunt. Pagan mages and fae stalk survivors of Wyndgarde's army until 1452, causing reign of terror across Britain.[5][19]
- P. Tetramegestus creates his fourth variant of the Hieratic Convolutions of Aron-hotep.[20]
1445[]
- The Council of Basel-Ferrata-Florence under Pope Eugenius IV is held, which fails to reunificate the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. Dissent within the Catholic Church over the role of the advising cardinals leads to the short-lived appointment of Felix V as rival pope, although he has to quickly stand down.[21]
- Wallachians led by Hunyadi win major victories. Janos Hunyadi overcomes the opposition of the Hungarian nobility and is chosen as “governor of Hungary.” He is considered the “true ruler of the Hungarian kingdom.”[22]
- The eighth meeting of the Order of Reason's Inner Circle, advancing the Time Table.[23][24]
- Lodge Wars of Tuscany end. Various guilds claiming to be "true Masons" have fought throughout northern Italy. Some possess Solificati secrets, Hermetic ties or Craftmason affiliations, but most are simply mortal guilds. Diplomat Luis takes charge of several feuding guilds and resurrects the Solificati under Hermetic patronage.[2][25]
References[]
- ↑ MTSC: Crusade Lore: The Storytellers Screen and Book, p. 64
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 MTSC: Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade Rulebook, p. 55
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 MTAs: Order of Hermes Tradition Book, p. 14
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 MTAs: Lore of the Traditions, p. 106
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 MTSC: Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade Rulebook, p. 56
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 MTAs: Mage Storytellers Companion, p. 11
- ↑ MTAs: Fragile Path: Testaments of the First Cabal, p. 18
- ↑ MTSC: Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade Rulebook, p. 42
- ↑ MTSC: Crusade Lore: The Storytellers Screen and Book, p. 63
- ↑ MTAs: Fragile Path: Testaments of the First Cabal, p. 9
- ↑ MTAs: Fragile Path: Testaments of the First Cabal, p. 12
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 MTAs: Horizon: Stronghold of Hope, p. 40
- ↑ MTAs: Cult of Ecstasy Tradition Book, p. 1
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 MTAs: Tradition Book: Verbena, p. 25
- ↑ MTAs: Dragons of the East, p. 76
- ↑ MTAs: Guide to the Traditions, p. 90
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Verbena, p. 81
- ↑ MTAs: Dreamspeakers Tradition Book, p. 19
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Verbena, p. 26
- ↑ MTAs: Horizon: Stronghold of Hope, p. 24
- ↑ MTSC: The Sorcerers Crusade Companion, p. 43
- ↑ VTM: Transylvania Chronicles II: Son of the Dragon, p. 81
- ↑ MTAs: Guide to the Technocracy, p. 81
- ↑ MTAs: Guide to the Technocracy, p. 86
- ↑ MTAs: Mage Storytellers Companion, p. 12
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