Ghostknight
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Ok, everyone post ideas, then i'll make a poll. We'lll ote and most votes go forward. Shall we say all ideas in Monday 12PM GMT? (I'm working GMT since I live in GMT +2. I think America lies across GMT -6 to GMT -8).
PbP Ars Magica- Recruiting [Closed] - covenant/character design on the go!
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Old Fezziwig
hell yes bro
I'm GMT -5 here in the Eastern US, but that sounds fine.
Nick
Nick
Old Fezziwig
hell yes bro
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taitzu52
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Excellent, everything sounds good. Does anyone have any interest in mapping the architecture of our House? If not, I'll at least start collecting pics and listing facilities whos descriptions need to be expanded.
Let me ask though, since a few of you are wanting to make characters that may be "unpopular" with the Hermetics at large, perhaps you could expound on this. I would rather see a group that has dissidents, and their supporters who have rallied around them, over just a group of rag tags who are just too goofy to get along with anyone else. An unpopular but unified cause, even with varying philosophies, would be preferable to just making a covenant of folks going 9 different directions. If we wanna do that, well there's always D&D.
Sooo...what is our little secret, and why would magi who didn't necessarily participate, still sympathize?
Let me ask though, since a few of you are wanting to make characters that may be "unpopular" with the Hermetics at large, perhaps you could expound on this. I would rather see a group that has dissidents, and their supporters who have rallied around them, over just a group of rag tags who are just too goofy to get along with anyone else. An unpopular but unified cause, even with varying philosophies, would be preferable to just making a covenant of folks going 9 different directions. If we wanna do that, well there's always D&D.
Sooo...what is our little secret, and why would magi who didn't necessarily participate, still sympathize?
Steve Gorak
Hero
taitzu52 said:
Maybe it could have something to do with the church. Ou goup could be openly denouncing something, that makes the Order frown upon us. Or maybe we're supporters of some kind of dissident (the beginning of protestantism?).
These are just ideas. Since I'm completely new to AM I hope this is not too far off standard lines...
Cheers,
SG
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Someone
Adventurer
It´s an idea. Though cathars´ philosophy differ a lot from protestantism, they started with the same idea, to stop the church´s corruption. Our group could want to support them; either some of the magi are cathars themselves, think that the pope holds too much influence and they are a good way to reduce the catholic church´s power, or some other reason.
Ghostknight
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Heres a curve ball, lets see who wants to go for it...
The Priory of Sion is one of those secret societies that get a lot of focus in some circles (That of the hunters of the Holy Grail- in this case they state that the Holy Grail is actually a woman -Mary Magdalene- wife of Jesus, that was actually meant to become the head of the Church- restoring the feminine angle to religion, but lost out in the political battle. The child of mary Magdalene and Jesus was brought up in France and their bloodline became the Mervoginian's (that ruled France for a while). In this version the Holy Grail is actuall a series of documents (gospels left out by the Council of Nicene, lineage of Mary and Jesus, family tree of their descendents etc. Jesus is still a prophet, but a mortal one rather than divine). The Priory of Sion suppossedly guards these documents (which for obvious reasons Catholic Church is said to want to destroy), and protect the family of Jesus and Mary.
Within the Priory, there is a Grand master and three senschals, as the only ones who know the location of the Grail and family (agents do work but do not necessarily know the purpose of the work they are doing).
Using this we could go with a campaign in which the characters and the covenant are part of the Priory. Obviously this needs to be kept hidden from the Church, the Order and the general populace. In this case the Covenant should probably be a summer covenant- at its full power and helping the Priory in its role of protecting and hiding. I would still keep it in the South of France- the closesness of the Cathars would be a major problem, bringing ecclesiastical focus where no one wants it!
(A google search using "Priory of Sion" returns 15600 results. So enough out there to flesh this out and provide extra info for those interested.)
The Priory of Sion is one of those secret societies that get a lot of focus in some circles (That of the hunters of the Holy Grail- in this case they state that the Holy Grail is actually a woman -Mary Magdalene- wife of Jesus, that was actually meant to become the head of the Church- restoring the feminine angle to religion, but lost out in the political battle. The child of mary Magdalene and Jesus was brought up in France and their bloodline became the Mervoginian's (that ruled France for a while). In this version the Holy Grail is actuall a series of documents (gospels left out by the Council of Nicene, lineage of Mary and Jesus, family tree of their descendents etc. Jesus is still a prophet, but a mortal one rather than divine). The Priory of Sion suppossedly guards these documents (which for obvious reasons Catholic Church is said to want to destroy), and protect the family of Jesus and Mary.
Within the Priory, there is a Grand master and three senschals, as the only ones who know the location of the Grail and family (agents do work but do not necessarily know the purpose of the work they are doing).
Using this we could go with a campaign in which the characters and the covenant are part of the Priory. Obviously this needs to be kept hidden from the Church, the Order and the general populace. In this case the Covenant should probably be a summer covenant- at its full power and helping the Priory in its role of protecting and hiding. I would still keep it in the South of France- the closesness of the Cathars would be a major problem, bringing ecclesiastical focus where no one wants it!
(A google search using "Priory of Sion" returns 15600 results. So enough out there to flesh this out and provide extra info for those interested.)
taitzu52
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Excellent. I think that the Grail legend, and the significance that it had in that time period, is enough of a cliché that we can work with it from there. I'm figuring that many of the covenant would have a direct religious association with the Church, or at least a philosophical tie to some of their beliefs, either in canon, or those more esoteric. This also allows for magi who view these beliefs as a metaphor for more arcane philosophies. Perhaps they believe in the Word, or perhaps they have more insidious reasons for promoting these beliefs (let's keep that in the huge minority, please. That should be an accent, not a foundation).
So where does that leave us in order of creative development?
So where does that leave us in order of creative development?
Old Fezziwig
hell yes bro
Just popping in to say that this sounds fine to me. I'm currently housesitting, so I'll be in about once/day until the weekend.
Nick
Nick
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