Novus Mane is a desolate covenant that consists of two towers that are created by magical means. One tower is made out of white stone and are shaped as a dodegon (a geometrical shape with twelve sides), the white tower is both taller and wider than the other tower. The second tower is made out of grey stone and a simple round construction, it is still of magical origin and made out of a single block of stone.
Between the towers there are a temple that is dedicated to the Roman gods. It is a mundane building that once where in good shape but now is deteriorating and in overgrown by lichen and vines.
The towers are surrounded by a ring wall that is deteriorated. Within the walls there are numerous houses that contain the covenfolk and their families. The structures resemble a small town and are built in a haphazard way, what little planning that once existed is now lost. The streets are cramped and full of debris and they snake their way towards some distant goal. The streets seems to once have been made out of stone but now a days there are only mud and pieces of stone. In the town one can scent a distinct smell that is far from pleasant. There seems not to be any structures that suggest a mundane mean of income.
Near the gate, on the outside, there is a guesthouse for visitors. It is a small but rather well kept building made out of stone. When the covenant is expecting visitors there are a few servants there otherwise there is only the guard who man the gates.
Aura: 4 (6)
Feudal duty
• At tribunal the magi of Novus Mane must surrender half their sigils to a representative of Florum.
• Every year Novus Mane must supply Florum with five pawns of Vim vis.
• Every five year one magi from Novus Mane must perform a service for Florum. This service may not take longer than a season to perform and not put the magi in harms way. Experimental laboratory research is an exception from this.
Duties of protection
• Florum must not support any tribunal decision that is to the detriment of Novus Mane.
• Florum must not oppose any tribunal decision that benefits Novus Mane. Exception to this is when Florum can claim that the decision is harmful to them.
• Florum is obliged to answer one request from Novus Mane every seven years. This can be refused if the request does either of the following, require the expenditure of vis, interrupt a season or cause unreasonable risk to the magi of Florum. The magi of Florum decides what is an unreasonable risk.
Income
• 100 pawns of silver for preformed wizardry and sold vis. This requires at least three seasons of work from the magi of Novus Mane. (Thus there are a vis salary).
• 100 pawns of silver for 10 pawn of vis that are gifted to Florum.
Expenditures
Residents that are funded by the covenant
7 magi
7 companions
12 servants
7 teamsters
(there are a small town populations but they survive by other means, such as trading the covenant services. Example there are those who make a living out of selling the covenant food)
Costs
Buildings: 8,5
Consumables: 15
Inflation: 0
Tithes: 60 (75, the deal with Walter saves 15 pounds)
Laboratories: 20
Provisions: 57,5
Wages: 15
Weapons and armour: 1
Writing materials: 7
Pound of Enumerus: 1
Total: 185
Cost savings
1 magical oven, saves 4 pounds of consumables
Total: 4
Balance between income and expenditures: +19
Weapons and armour
In the covenants stores there are the following weapons:
• 10 pole arms
• 10 full suits of metal scale armour
• 10 short bows
• 10 full suits of partial quilted armour
• 10 axes
• 20 round shields
Vis salary
• Each of the magi who performs season of work for the covenant gets one share of the vis that are collected at the covenant. This vis are divided after expenditure for Aegis, trade deal to Florum and other communal necessities.
• The senior magi of Novus Mane gets an extra share of the vis regardless of their work for the covenant.
Boons
• Strong Community
• Aura +1
• Hidden Resources
• Hidden ways, there are many tunnels under the covenant excavated by elder mages in the hey day of the covenant these come out in many palces both within and without the covenant.
• Favors
• Criminals
• Ring works
• Edifice
• Aura (major) *2 (The hill where the towers and the temple stands)
Hooks
• Beholden (minor)
• Indebted (major, 75 pounds of silver are paid each year to Florum in interest alone. Thereby the trade deal where made to ensure the covenants survival.)
• Crumbling
• Castle
• Ford
• Uncontrolled Portal - As per the “Mystical Portal” Boon (The covenant controls a mystical gateway, such as a Mercere Portal, a gateway to Arcadia, or the entrance to a well-understood regio with friendly inhabitants), except that the portal is not under the covenant’s control.
• Protector - The covenant is responsible for protecting something such as a village, a magical grove or another weaker covenant.
• Fallen temple , a ruined temple from the days of Rome is located but a day away from the covenant overgrown in a patch of woods. It does not seem to have been investiaged by the earlier mages of the covenant.
• Regio with Unexpected Entires
• Vis Salary