From: lwl@graphics.cis.upenn.edu (Lydia Leong)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 13:59:21 -0400
This is what the Covenant Charter is really useful for, I think. (Digging out Vespers arguments...)
The charter should probably make policies for things like:
1. Service owed to the Covenant each year. What counts as service, what things must be done each year, etc. (It's usually one a year. Junior magi often have to spend a season doing things like copying books.)
2. Access to vis. (I think we more or less hammered out that if you want access to it, you bring it up at a Council Meeting and it gets voted on?) Possible priorities (for example, Vespers has a charter which states that people who need to make longevity potions get dibs). Also, disposition of vis found by individual magi.
3. Access to books. By priority, by bargaining, by any method at all satisfactory to the parties involved (Certamen, probably)?
4. Disposition of personal property. How are funds allocated, and what gets done with money acquired from expeditions?
5. Punishments. How do we deal with magi (or Companions) who break the rules?
Come to think of it, I wonder if the Concilium, up to this point, even has much of a formal charter, beyond, "This is place of refuge. Your past is forgotten." It might very well make sense for it not to: Tariq was not trained in one of the Traditions, Elijiah is a Kabbalist, Asid was trained apart from the real formality of the Order (which reminds me -- Paul, you never specified a date for your characters to have arrived at the Rock), Alanus only arrived in 1324 (and is a hedge wizard anyway), Paul and Vasha were mostly trained after the collapse of the Order -- Cain, poor guy, is the only one with fully Hermetic training and he repaid the favor by blowing his Covenant to little itty bitty pieces.
If the Concilium lacks a charter, now that Cain's run into the Terginum, he's likely to attempt to insist that one be drawn up. :)
-- Lydia