Levant Tribunal
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The Levant Tribunal is the Regional Tribunal covering the Crusader States in Asia Minor: Antioch, Jerusalem, and Tripoli, as well as the adjacent lands such as Syria, Edessa, and Egypt. It is a borderland of the order, adjacent only to the Thebes Tribunal to the northwest. Lands to the east and South are outside the territory of the Order of Hermes.
Current Edition Resources
There are no Fifth Edition supplements dealing explicitly with the Levant Tribunal. However, there is related material:
- the Cradle and the Crescent deals with Mythic Arabia, Persia, and points east
- Ancient Magic contains story seeds that lead to Mesopotamia, Persia, and the Near East
- Houses of Hermes Societates has rules for Hermetic sahirs, who would fit in well in the Levant Tribunal
- Realms of Power the Divine has Fifth Edition background and rules for Islamic characters
Past Edition Resources
The Levant Tribunal is described in the Fourth Edition supplement, Blood and Sand.
Saga Links
The following saga websites are set in, or otherwise related to, the Levant Tribunal. Feel free to add your own site to the list; please insert it in alphabetical order.
- Covenant of the Spear
- An Ars Magica 5th Edition saga. The covenant is set in Armenia, starting in 1214. The website is a wiki, containing both the background information for the saga, and the chronicles of the saga. Although a 5th edition saga much of the background information is derived from 4th edition sourcebooks.
- Porta Scarabae
- Link not working, August 2011 Porta Scarabae is a covenant in the Levant Tribunal, located on the outskirts of Memphis (modern-day Cairo.) Starting date - Winter, 1220
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Based on material Copyright David Chart 1997-2000. Used with permission.