Rhine Tribunal
The Rhine Tribunal is the Regional Tribunal that includes modern-day Germany, the Low Countries, and Hungary north of the Alps. It is bordered on the east by the Novgorod Tribunal, on the south by the Transylvania Tribunal and the Greater Alps Tribunal, and on the west by the Normandy Tribunal.
Current Edition Resources Edition
The tribunal is described in detail by the Guardians of the Forest supplement.
- A fan-created spreadsheet, rhinetribunal.xls, collects the Hermetic populace of the tribunal; it is also available from Google Pages.
- Atlas Games provides the map of the tribunal as a free download.
Current Edition covenants
The Rhine Tribunal is a large tribunal, containing many magi residing in nine detailed covenants plus one to six storyguide-added covenants, and an undetermined number living as peregrinatores or eremites.
The canonic covenants are Crintera, Dankmar, Durenmar, Fengheld, Heorot, Oculus Septentrionalis, Roznov, Triamore, and Waddenzee.
Past Edition Resources
- The covenant of Crintera is partially based on the Animal Powers chapter in Mythic Places. Note that the description of the covenant and implied House Bjornaer structure is slightly at odds with certain aspects of the House as given in Mystery Cults.
Saga Links
The following Saga sites are set in, or otherwise related to, the Rhine Tribunal. Feel free to add your own site to the list; please insert it in alphabetical order.
- Animus Lupi
- On the Rhone, on the boundary of the Normandy and Rhine Tribunals.
- Dragon's Tooth Covenant
- Home of the Chains of Winter Saga. The magi have found themselves warden of an ancient Faerie Lord, bound by forgotten magics. The saga is set in Bohemia, during the struggle between Guelf and Ghibelline to succeed Henry IV.
- Dragon's Twilight
- Located in Bavaria.
- Falterhaus
- Located in Southern Germany.
- Nocturnus
- Located at the border to the Transylvanian Tribunal, the homonymous Covenant is a dark place where young magi try to establish and maintain a Spring Covenant.
- The linked site offers extensive material and resources, but is in German only.
- Pax Hermetica
- In the beginning of the 13th century, magi of the Order of Hermes are faced with many trials, new and old: a growing mundane presence, fierce competition for resources, an increasingly fractious Order, and the rise of competing magical traditions. As the oldest and most venerable Tribunal, these issues have become exascerbated in the Rhine. On the Hermetic landscape, more vibrant Tribunals such as Provençal have eclipsed the Rhine in power and importance.
- With the ascension of a new Prima to House Bonisagus, the old power structures of the Rhine Tribunal has begun to fracture. The powers that be of the Tribunal, in an attempt to preserve the peace, have briefly put aside their many and various animosities to charter the creation of the covenant Arx Basilica, dedicated to the preservation and strengthening of the Order.
- Rabenstein
- The authoritative source for historical fiction in Medieval Austria. The Rabenstein web site centers on the young covenant of Rabenstein in the Duchy of Steiermark, providing many story seeds, house rules, characters and background information of value to all Ars Magica players.
- The Saga is set mostly in the Greater Alps, although Covenant Rabenstein itself is located in the Rhine Tribunal.
- The Wendish Campaign/Virtusaga
- A saga set in the pagan lands at the north-east of the tribunal in the 12th century, against the background of the Wendish Crusade (a crusade against the pagan Wends of the region).
Based on material Copyright David Chart 1997-2000. Used with permission.