Summary[]
From the back cover:
Forged in Fire
Deep beneath the frozen ground lies the seed once-fallen. Still and cold, it awaits life that only Spring's thaw permits, and only Spring's kindness grants. In life the tree and your Covenant are one. Your stone foundations as your cold seed, and only through struggle and fate's kindness may your Spring thorns turn to Summer's branches, branches reaching like your burgeoning power and influence.
Forged in Magic
A Midsummer Night's Dream is an Ars Magica Third Edition Saga supplement, the first in the Four Seasons Tetralogy. In this series of tales, the characters and their vulnerable Spring Covenant must persevere through apocalyptic war and delicate faerie intrigue to survive magical infancy. Only by succeeding in their efforts may the characters know the glory of Summer.
Contents[]
Introduction: A Midsummer Night's Dream[]
- The Canons:
- Dietrich von Braden
- Ramon d'Uverre
Chapter One: The Tribunal[]
The characters learn of an impending crusade that threatens the survival of their Tribunal.
- The Redcap: Aestrius - House Mercere
- Doissetep Guard: Gorodon
- Quaesitor Guards
- The Refugee: Godfroi de Ferrers
- Factions within the Tribunal:
- The Procrustean League
- Consilium Maximus
- Corpse Candle - Spell
Chapter Two: The Arrival of Captain Hagen[]
The crusade comes to the characters' door. The malicious Captain Hagen arrives in the characters' locale to impose the Pope's rule.
- Hagen's Soldiers
- Adversaries:
- Roland
- Captain William (Guilliuom) of Hagen
- Alicia de Pahn - House Ex Miscellanea Magus
- Alicia's Spells: Medallion of the Enchanted Heart and Ligature
Chapter Three: Massacre at Horn's Hill[]
The full weight of the crusade is brought to bear on the characters as Captain Hagen assaults villages partaking in a pagan festival, a festival marginally tolerated by the Church.
- Villager: Gillet
- Faerie: Coffa
- Treasure: The Shawl
- Attacking Crusaders
- The Beast (Hagen Transformed, cursed by the Shawl)
Chapter Four: The Vengeance of the Fay[]
The characters realize the full extent of the damage done by the crusaders as local faeries take revenge for the desecration of the pagan festival.
- Mad Hermit: Gerald of Aachen
Chapter Five: Pact with the Faeries[]
The characters must determine their fate by dealing with the faeries, stopping the growth of the forests, ending the curse, and defeating Hagen.
- The Fae:
- Sprites
- Spriggans
- Queen Eleri - Seelie Faerie
- King Car-Veor - Seelie Faerie
- Osric - Human minstrel of the faerie court
- Picolet - King Car-Veor's pet wolfhound
- Caradoc - Faerie
- Padern - Faerie
Background Information[]
The setting takes place in Provence, France and at Doissetep.
Memorable Quotes[]
Characters[]
- Tyler Gill
- Felix - Magus
- Grimgroth - Magus
- Luc
- Protantus - House Quaesitor, filius of Germanicus
- Valenus - chief butler of Doissetep
- Oxioun - House Tytalus, The Praeco, leader of Doissetep
- Vancasitum - Former leader of Doissetep
- Sarimarcus - House Merinita, Ally to the Fae
- Demetrius - House Criamon
- Tolomae - House Jerbiton
- Gaumadras the Anatomist - Companion, pupil of Oxioun
- Adolpho - Master of Baths at Doissetep
- Lysander - Squire, member of Doissetep's Grog
- Nysakean - House Tytalus
- Cerebus Facto - House Merinita of Doissetep
- Herot - House Tytalus
- Egeus - Translator
- Quince - Master Carpenter
- Alexander Du Quill - House Verditius
- Andre - Tyler's Shield-Mate
- Mawredd - Stag
References[]
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