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. See the Map of Mythic Europe.

Current Edition Resources

Guardians of the Forests

The Rhine Tribunal is described in detail in its official Tribunal sourcbook.

Map of the Rhine Tribunal

The official map of the Tribunal, from Guardians of the Forests, is available for free from the Atlas Games Web site.

• Houses of Hermes: True Lineages mentions a scheme by which senior magi of the Rhine Tribunal amassed excessive numbers of proxy votes

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.

Community Resources

File:Rhinetribunal.xls

This fan-created spreadsheet collects the Hermetic populace of the Rhine tribunal. The spreadsheet is also available from Google Pages.

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 Houses of Hermes: 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 Rhône, 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 (Deutsch)

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.

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 Tribunal|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 12^^th^^ century, against the background of the Wendish Crusade (a crusade against the pagan Wends of the region).

References

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Based on material Copyright David Chart 1997-2000. Used with permission.