Guardians of the Forests

Guardians of the Forests: The Rhine Tribunal (often abbreviated to GotF) is a supplement for Ars Magica Fifth Edition released by Atlas Games in 2005. It details the canonic Rhine Tribunal. See also the official product page.

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GotF introduces the concept of Journeyman on p. 20, to denote a magus not far past his gauntlet, as well as rules for becoming an Archmage on p. 24. In between it introduces the idea of a Master magus (p. 22-23), which is intended to be limited to the Rhine tribunal but seems to me to be applicable to many tribunals (although not all).

GotF introduced the idea of a Genius Loci, the spirit of a place.

Information on Forest Path of power, a means to obtain virtues preceding the Mysteries version and involving the Forest Lore arcane ability, is given on p. 35-40. Note that this system was later expanded.

Rules for studying in the Great Library of Durenmar are on p. 55-57. Note that True Lineages expands on the contents, by including folios and the "tabula geographica magica" (a catalogue of magical magical sites and regiones; p. 13).

Specific books include a mention of "Principia Magica", the authority on Magic Theory written by Bonisagus (p. 57).

New Spells include several shortly-described ones on p. 60, and a new Mentem spell on p. 72.

The Order of Odin is briefly discussed on pages 112-113.