Castles and Covenants is a sourcebook for Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade.
Summary[]
- From the White Wolf Catalog:
- Not Storm, Nor Steel, Nor Sorcerers Power
- In the Dark Fantastic age, a sorcerers home literally is his castle. From the storm-blasted halls of mighty Doissetep to the craggy reaches of Portus Cruis, from the wagons of the Lickspittle Players to the ornate majesty of the White Tower of Langudoc, the Awakened cast their spells, gather their minions and secure their power.
- Shall Breach These Walls While I Yet Live!
- Castles and Covenants is a packed guide to strongholds, the magi who reside there, and the ins-and-outs of castle life in the Dark Fantastic world of Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade. This book is a must-have for starting chronicles, not simply because it allows players to design a fortress-home for their characters, but because it is the foundation for every battlement and keep that mages will ever stand atop or face in the fury of battle.
- Castles and Covenants features:
- A collection of important mystick sites
- Details of Covenant building, maintenance and politics
- Masters of the Arts, Skyriggers, dark intrigues - and more
Chapters[]
Black Moon[]
By Sian Kingstone.
Chapter I: Souls and Mortar[]
Why and how mages form covenants; the physical form of chantries, including descriptions of period architecture; daily life in a covenant.
Chapter II: The Order of Reason[]
The White Tower of Languedoc, Rowan Castle, Palazzo Thearini, Brandenburg Krankenhouse, Portus Crucis
Chapter III: The Council of Nine[]
Lord Cabot's Grange, Doissetep, Horizon
Chapter IV: Independent Covenants[]
The Lickspittle Players, the Magnus, Tower Nocturna
Chapter V: Other Places of Note[]
The Benedictine Monastery of St. Gregory, Koraghiss
Background Information[]
- Artist Jeff Laubenstein won a Chelsea award for his work on this book.
- Ads at the back of the book include Yeat of the Reckoning (1999), Vampire: The Masquerade (Revised), Vampire Guides (Deluxe Slipcased Guide Set: Feb. 99; Guide to the Camarilla: Deb. 99; Guide to the Sabbat: Mar. 99) and Aberrant (1999).
- The concept of Covenants being in Seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter) is taken straight from the Ars Magica Game Setting. Even if White Wolf at the time no longer owned the Ars Magica setting.
Memorable Quotes[]
Characters[]
- Black Moon
- Mary Prior - Mage "Red Hair" to Longshanks
- Kestral - Mage
- Longshanks - Mary's Wolf Familiar
- Dione - Queen of the Water Kingdom, Spirit
- Broken Tooth - White Wolf, Moon Wolf, Spirit
- Bright Tail - Longshanks' Mother, Wolf, Spirit
- Chapter II: The Order of Reason
- The White Tower of Languedoc
- Yoassmy of Brittany
- Gerard de Limoges, Les Ouvriers,
- Antoine Couvreur, Les Ouvriers
- Miguel Destro, Les Ouvriers
- Padraig O'Mara, The Villici, Doorman, Grand Artisan, Pythagori
- Judith Miller, Proavia of the Hippocratic Circle, The Villici
- Rugero Atharios, The Villici
- Elena des Tomasi, The Villici
- Rutger van Bergen, Ksitafai, The Villici
- Maxima Sabina Valmarana, Those Who Venture
- Wolfgang von Reismann
- Bonifacio Valle, Cabal of Pure Thought, The Marshals of the Light
- Eleanora Parvellides, Ksirafai, The Delegation of the Four Corners
- Sundiata Rashi, Dyula, The Delegation of the Four Corners
- Hsuan Hsi, Wu Lung, The Delegation of the Four Corners
- Hajji Abd-Ahhal ibn Sali'a, Void Seeker, The Delegation of the Four Corners
- Shakla bint-Attar al-Rikab, Cosian, The Delegation of the Four Corners
- Father Yakov Andronovich, The Delegation of the Four Corners
- Fulmen, Ksirafai
- Suavium, Ksirafai
- Adolphus Gent of Bavaria
- Rowan Castle
- General Christopher Wyndgarde
- Father Roderick, Illustroferatores, The Magistrate's Gonfalon
- Cuthbert Shand, The Magistrate's Gonfalon
- Commander Northbridge, The Magistrate's Gonfalon
- William Harkness, Artificer, Maul, The Shield-Hand Lance
- Perkin Thorne, The Sword-Hand Lance
- Edgar Earlham, The Sword-Hand Lance
- Martin Young, The Turcoples
- Maria van Ruyter, Artificer, The Turcoples
- Zeebedee Welsh, The Esquire's Lance
- Florence of Worcester, Illustroferatores, The Esquire's Lance
- Father Paul, The Chancellery
- Chamberlain Andre of Sark, Artificer, The Chancellery
- Brother Luke, Illustroferato, The Chancellery
- Peter Jaspers, The Armory
- Charles of Westmorland, The Armory
- Gwen the Serving Woman, Consor/Servant
- The Palazzo Thearini
- Diego of Valencia, Diatelli's Apprentice
- Giovanni Thearini, High Guild
- Gabriel Lanier, Celestial Master, House of Prometheus, The Keepers of the Palazzo
- Carlo Thearini, High Guild, The Keepers of the Palazzo
- Roberto Thearini, The Keepers of the Palazzo
- Mariana Thearini, The Keepers of the Palazzo
- Carlotta Thearini, The Blades of Thearini
- Abraham Orafo, "Abraham de L'Oro, " The Blades of Thearini
- Antonio Thearini, Hippocratic Circle, The Blades of Thearini
- Captain Diatelli, The Knights of the Wave
- Jessemini Talos, The Knights of the Wave
- Alexnader Ekotherios, The Knights of the Wave
- Martin Thearini, Albatross Guild, The Knights of the Wave
- Ibn Tarlo, Consor
- Brandenberg Krakenhouse
- Knight Commander Hoffbraun, Captain of the Palatine Guard
- Lord Vanderneufen
- Count Hans von Rottenfeld, Herr Doktor, Died
- Elector of Brandenberg
- Thomas Erastus, Galenists
- Peter Severinus, Paracelsians
- Johannes Guinter, Vesalians
- Portus Crucis
- Averros
- Sebastian Castille, Society of Pilots
- Marco de Ravenna, Procurer's Guild
- Miquel del Ferrara, Shipwright's Guild
- The White Tower of Languedoc
- Chapter III: The Council of Nine
- Lord Cabot's Grange
- Lord Michael Cabot, Leader of the Scholars of the Wordless Book Cabal
- Nicholas of Norwich, Solificati, Member of the Scholars of the Wordless Book Cabal
- Blue John, Verbena, Member of the Scholars of the Wordless Book Cabal
- Donal of Mourne, Euthanatos, Member of the Scholars of the Wordless Book Cabal
- Mother Barnes, Leader of the Three of Lytton Dale Cabal
- Jane Woode, Verbena, Member of the Three of Lytton Dale Cabal
- Hilda Charnway, Verbena, Member of the Three of Lytton Dale Cabal
- John Carpenter, Leader of the Blazing Spear-Shaft
- Marie Jones, Euthanatos, Member of the Blazing Spear-Shaft
- "Lord" Celidas, Member of the Blazing Spear-Shaft
- John Welland, Lord Cabot's steward
- Doissetep
- Chancellor Thaler, Primis of House Regnatus
- Magus Rex
- Lawerence, Order of Hermes
- Master Ulrich von Falke bani Quaesitor
- Court of the Dragon Ascendant
- Magister Cosimo Borgia bani Tytalus
- Magister Xenophon bant Tytalus
- Adeptus Silvano Auric bani Flambeau
- Adeptus Admantios bani Flambeau
- The Drua'shi
- Magister Andras Locere bani Merrcere
- Adeptus Regimius bani Mercere
- Adeptus Valery d'Agneau bani Ex Miscellania
- Adeptus Aleksandr Koziol bani Ex Miscellania
- Adeptus Fausto Verri bani Ex Miscellania
- The Fraternal Order of Guernicus
- Adjudicator Magister Mundi Aurelius bani Quaesitor
- Magister Domingos De Queiroz bani Quaesitor
- Magister Gheorghe Vasilache bani Quaesitor
- Magister Maximino bani Quaesitor
- Children of Pythagoras
- Adeptus Porthos Fitz Empress bani Flambeau
- Adeptus Miolvan Djuric bani Ex Miscellania
- Adeptus Panagos bani Flambeau
- Adeptus Rashepses bani Doniassus
- Discipulus Gotfired Holst bani Verditius
- Discipulus Hugh Wickham bani Ex Miscellania
- Lords of the Chamber
- Deacon Magistra Maeve Diannis bani Tytlus, Court of the Dragon Ascendant
- Deacon Primus Magister Mundi Alamantrah bani Flambeau, Court of the Dragon Ascendant
- Deacon Magister Erling Damask bani Boniassus, Court of the Dragon Ascendant
- Magister Deacon Raffaele d'Arezzo bani Verditius
- Magister Deacon Lord Auguste d'Aiguillon bani Mercere, Court of the Dragon Ascendant
- Court of the Dragon Ascendant
- Horizon
- Lisbet - Faerie/Spirit
- Urushlakhg'run - Umbrood Lord
- Qi-Nagi - Apprentice to Nightshade, died
- Im'Rihn - Dreamspeaker
- Don Horenzio - Mage, Died
- Merekades - Vernena Apprentice
- Devon Freemantle, Master Order of Hermes, The Order of Sanguinity
- Sirdar Rustam, Chakravanti
- Sylvian Lorilleux bani Boniassus
- Javier Ballesteros, White Lion Guild
- William Groth, Mage
- Mariano Rossini, Celestial Chorus
- The Council of Nine
- Ali-beh-shaar Murshid, voice of the Ahl-i-Batin
- Wu Jin of the Akashic Brotherhood
- Chalech, Primus of the Chakravanti
- Valoran of the Celestial Chorus
- Star-of-Eagles and Niaoba of the Dreamspeakers
- Baldric La Salle bani Quaesitor, representative of the Order of Hermes
- Sh'zar of the Seers of Chronos
- Adamu - Hawk Familiar
- Ka'bah - Peacock Familiar
- Kadishru - Peacock Familiar
- Diplomat Luis d'Estes of the Solificati
- Nightshade of the Verbena
- The Council of Nine
- Lord Cabot's Grange
- Chapter IV: Independent Covenants
- The Lickspittle Players
- The Magnus
- Olave Kethrisson - Void Seeker
- Tower Nocturna
- Bishop Felipe - Priest
- Gionni Lotario de Conte, the Dux Nocturna, Leader of the Lords of Nightfall Cabal
- Lucien Meyreaux, Leader of the Night Hand Cabal
- Isabella Paulini, Leader of the Twilight Whispers Cabal
- Chapter V: Other Places of Note
- The Benedictine Monastery of Saint Gregory
- Father Robertus - Monk
- The Island of Koraghiss
- Hajji Abu-Umar Abd-Allah al-Khanan - Chantry Founder, Disparate Mage
- The Benedictine Monastery of Saint Gregory
Terminology[]
876, 1325, 1375, 1376, 1415, 1422, 1429, 1440, 1445, 1448, 1450, 1452, 1453, 1454, 1456, 1460, 1461, 1465, 1987, Africa, Aided, Albigensian Crusade, Antioch, Aragon, Arcadia, Asia, Athens, Azores, Bacchante, Baghdad, Barbary Coast, Basel, Bath, Bedfordshire, The Benedictine Monastery of Saint Gregory (Maraud Chantry), Brandenberg Krakenhouse (Aeld Baele, el Jardin, Order of Ravens, Coachmen, The Moot Court, The Operating Theatre, Interioa Terra, Cabals: Galenists (De usu partium), Paracelsians (Grosse Wundartzney), Vesalians (De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Vesalius); Disputationes de Medicina Nova Paracelsi by Thomas Erastus, Ars Medica, Rottebritters, Highwaymen, Herr Doktor (Title)), Briganti, Bristol, Britain, Brussels, Cabal, Canaries, Cape Nun, Cape Verde, Cape Verde Islands, Castille, Ceuta, Charnwood, China, City of Brass, Code of Hermes, Compact of Callias, Constantinople, Covenant, Cray, Decade of the Hunt, Djinn, Doissetep (Pyrenees, Grand Chancery, Realm of Thunder and Twilight: Vadum of Forces, House Regnatus, Chamber of Deacons, Cabals: The Fraternal Order of Guernicus, Court of the Dragon Ascendant, The Drua'shi, Children of Pythagoras; Mistridge Tribunal, Judicium Hermeticum, Canna Annae (Treasure)), Egypt, Einsiedeln, England, Europe, Fae, Florence, France, Garou, Germany, Glamour, Glen, Hadrian's Wall, Heagdun, Hermes Trismegistus, Horizon, Horizon (Battle of the Flames, Columns of Power, Gediz Caves, Floating Tip of Lyonesse, Stonehenge, Chalice Hill, Glastonbury Tor, Loch Ness, Nemi Lake, Dragons of Guilin, Araxerxes Court, Persopolis, Canyon of Qu'Dali, Library of Alexandria, Keyhole Pass, Concordia, Crystal Bastions, Council Chambers, Three Tests of Faith, Diamond Wall, Taeo Temple, Sruth na Mblath, Dijiionondo-wanenake Cabal, The Spiral Arches, Storm's Center, Qi-Nagi River, Merekades' Tavern, Posht, Cabals: The Order of Sanguinity, The Horizon Guard, The Builders of the Dream, "Urgency" Spell), House Fiona, Hrossheim, Iceland, Ireland, The Island of Koraghiss (Greece, Disparate Chantry), Italy, Jerusalem, Khanaqah, Kindred, Knights Templar, Lancaster, The Lickspittle Players, Lisbon, London, Lord Cabot's Grange (Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lytton Dale; Cabals: The Scholars of the Wordless Book, The Three of Lytton Dale and The Blazing Spear-Shaft), Madeiras, The Magnus (Saint Magnus, Sailing Vessel), Mediterranean, Mercy Schism, Moon Realm (Llun, Aewella, Great Hall, Mugher), Morocco, Mount Qaf, Newry, Nice, Norway, Orkney, Otherworld, Oxford, Padua, The Palazzo Thearini (Locus Praesidii, Cabals: The Keepers of the Palazzo, The Blades of Thearini, The Knights of the Wave), Perseus Sanctum, Persia, Portugal, Portus Crucis (Mt. Crucis, Cabals: Sailor's Brotherhood, Society of Pilots, Procurer's Guild, Shipwright's Guild; Dead Reckoning, Ranks: Ship's boy, Swabs, Seamen, Specialist, Non-commissioned Officer, First Mate, Second Mate; Guild des Pilotos,, Ars Geographica, Deep Void, University (Chartroom), Royal Atlas (Treasure), Piloto Mayor, Pillars of Solomon, Counting House, Ships of the Line: The Carrack, The Nao, The Carvel, The Galley, The Galleass, The Galleon, Skyriggers, Cloudships, Clockwork Automata, AEtherships, Fighting Kites, Ghostships, Voidships; Skyriggers: Eye of Horus, Belle Donna, San Andreas (Prototype);), Raglan, Realm, Redcap, Rome, Rowan Castle (Venatores Maleficorum, River Severn, Fall of Mistridge, Cabals: The Magistrate's Gonfalon, Libera Familia, Commandery, The Shield-Hand Lance, The Sword-Hand Lance, The Turcoples, The Esquire's Lance, The Chancellery, The Armory), Sagara, Sagres, Saint Columbia, Salzburg, Scotland, Seasons: Spring, Summer Autumn, Winter; Shetland, Sidhe, Siege of Stonehenge, Snowdonia, Spain, Sussex, Tattershall, Tower Nocturna (Cabals: The Lords of Nightfall, The Night Hand and The Twilight Whispers), Towton, Tree of Life, Tuatha de Danann, Turkey, University of Padua, University of Paris, Unseelie, Valencia, Vampire, Venice, Veracruz, Wales, White Lion Guild, The White Tower of Languedoc (Seven Rings, L'Espérance, Council of Fourteen, Hall of Arrival, Viasilicos Primus, Cabals: Les Ouvriers, The Villici, The Followers of Heraclius, The Marshals of the Light, The Delegation of the Four Corners, Those Who Venture), Winchester, Wyndgarde's March, York, Yorkshire,
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