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# Characters
## Virtues and Flaws
### Magister-in-Artibus

For the purposes of the Magister-in-Artibus virtue other scholars
consider the Schola to be conspicuously wealthy enough that this will
rub off on members and they only need to teach for one season; unless
they are conspicuously poor (the Poor flaw).

This doesn't recuse non-Wealthy companions from needing to earn their
keep in whatever manner is approopriate, but the second season a year
could, for instance, be a covenant role less easily visible to
outsiders.

### The Gift

I can't remember which splat it was, but one of them suggests that it
might be possible with mundane Animal Training to train horses to 
accept a normally gifted rider.  If this was true then all magi would
ride horses.  

**Houserule:** you *can* train the horse to be OK with a Gifted magi
as passenger in a cart or wagon provided they have a driver/handler
who is not Gifted, or otherwise **Inoffensive to Animals**.

If you want to ride a horse with the normal gift, then you'll either
need to use spells (which may warp the horse, just saying) or tame a
magical/fae horse.

# Expenses
## Points of Inhabitants

I'm using this slightly mashed up chart to replace the one on p63 of
*Covenants* to represent the two-tier structure of the Covenant.  PCs
should be free to argue that they ought to be in a different band
*in-character*.  Note that for companions this only covers ones
supported by the covenant, companions of independant means get LCM as
appropriate.

[[!table file="Rules/points.dsv"]]

## Writing Materials

Academics count towards this cost like scribes and magi.

# Mechanics
## Rule of Two

If, after rolling a sequence of 1s, a 2 is rolled it may be
re-rolled.  But only once; if you get another 2 that's fate.

## Target Boundary

The upper and lower boundaries of a boundary spell exist and are
something appropriate - e.g. a triangle might be a pyramid, a circle
might be a dome or a sphere.

## Group Learning

The ArM4 book *Kaballah* had a sidebar on group learning that was
overly powerful.  The ArM5 book *Realms of Power: Divine* had one that
was overly weak -- you'd never actually want to do it.  The Revised
Edition of that book no-longer has such a sidebar.  These rules
attempt to find a middle ground.  Comments welcome.

A group of people may study the same text and discuss it together.
The maximum size of the group is limited to twice the Communication
score of the highest member; excepting that it is always permissable
for two people to study together.

Each member calculates an Advancement Total normally; including
bonuses and maluses relating to both studying from texts and learning
from others.  

The totals for each member are summed, the communication of each
member is added, and if any member has the Good Teacher virtue then
that is added (+5) at most once.  This grand total is then divided by
(the number of participants + 1) and rounded up to produce the new
Advancement Total.

In addition each member may take an additional two points of exposure
experience in an appropriate skill related to the discussion (likely
to be one of Artes Liberales, Philosophiae, Theology, Magic Theory, or
an appropriate Language).

### Summae

Summae may be discussed only if all of the members are eligible to
discuss the summa in question.

### Tractatus

Tractatus may only be learned from once, whether through reading or
discussion.

### Florigelia

Seperately to the individual tractartus, a florigelium may be
discussed as if it were a summa with a level equal to the number of
included tractatus and a quality equal to sum the qualities of the two
best tractatus.

### Hermetic Arts

The maximum size of a group for learning Hermetic Arts is two.
Hermetic Arts can be group studied from vis, however this requires a
quantity of vis for each maga.