Bedo Mnemosyne 1

From Ars Magica

   [In Latin, written in a neat formal hand]

Salve Sodale,

I thank you for your letter which found me well, and fills me with much interest, and a few questions.

Your timing is good, for while Durenmar has been a fine home, and my parens, the Archmage Caelicus a great tutor, it is time I should leave that place and take my search out into the wider world.

Yet, I have questions that I must ask before I can agree to join you in this task.

The first would be one of policy and of the nature of the covenant you seek to establish. You speak of being free from the restrictions and politics of older, more established covenants. Although my interest lie more in the works of Bonisagsus than of Trianoma, I do consider that a degree of organisation and control is necessary in the affairs of the order, and would like you to confirm that your hope to be free of the restrictions is not a statement that you would stand against the good practices of the order?

I am sure that your answer to the above will be true, and given that I do have the following questions.

Who is to sponsor this covenant, in materials, and land, and in their support? Do you have a Covenant which wishes to see us as a chapter house? or do you have access to the resources that would allow us to strike out alone?

Do you have plans as to where you would find a home for this covenant? I would hope it is not further East of my present Tribunal, in the dangerous and freezing East, and I have no tolerance for the heat of the firey South.

What others have you approached? And of them, which have expressed an interest? If you cannot yet speak of their names, for reasons of their confidentality should they not have decided to tell their present covenants yet, can you at least allow me to know what houses they do represent?

For myself, I seek a covenant where I may continue my search for knowledge, where I will not be torn apart by crusading and rampaging armies, and where the weather is neither to hot, too cold, nor too dry. I have no cares as to whether it be in the moor, the forest, or the city, save only that I have a quiet ans spacious place that I may study, and the food be not too spiced.

If you can find me those things and to not seek to upset the tenets of the order, then yes, you have my interest, and it is well that we discuss this further.

Bedo, ex Bonisagus, Filius of Caelicus

--OldNick 08:12, 15 February 2006 (PST)

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