Houses of Hermes: True Lineages

Houses of Hermes: True Lineages is a supplement for Ars Magica Fifth Edition published by Atlas Games in 2005. It details the four true lineage Houses of the Order of Hermes: House Bonisagus, House Guernicus, House Mercere, and House Tremere. HoHTL was written by Erik Dahl, Timothy Ferguson, Matt Ryan and David Woods.

The first in the Houses of Hermes series, HoHTL is considered very valuable in that it provides important information on Hermetic society, in particular in its depiction of Hermetic Law and House Mercere. Its depiction of House Tremere was heralded as a great improvement, cleansing the edition from the Vampiric Tremere of Third Edition and presenting a sensible House not bent on tyrrany. The Bonisagus chapter presented rules for Original Research that were somewhat criticized, and were later partially supplanted by the Ancient Magic rules.

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The optional rule of Continual Research is presented at p. 18. (see HoHTL Bonisagus)

Rules on using Intrigue are on page 24. These are combined with notes on Guile and Folk Ken.

References [Edit]

• See the official product page.
• See also the books' game index page on RPGNet. As of 18 March 2008, it contains 1 review and 3 comments.