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Massasa War

1022 CE: Goratrix announces his success to Tremere. Tremere gathers his six closest friends and heads to Goratrix Chantry, much to the objection of Etrius. Within hours they were all vampires. They began the conversion of the other Mages of their House secretly.

1133: Tremere discovers the havens of several sleeping Antediluvians. He chooses and drains Saulot. He and the Seven become Third and Fourth Generation vampires.

1160 C.E.: The Kitab al Alacir resurfaces in Moorish Spain.

1188 C.E.: Lorenzo Golo, bani Golo et Ex Miscellanea splits from the Order of Hermes and founds the Natural Philosopher's Guild with Gabrielite Simon de Laurent. In 1190, after Laurent's excommunication, the guild fragments. In 1193, it is absorbed by larger Artisan guilds. In 1195, Golo dies in an airship explosion.

1199 CE: The Order of Hermes discovers that the Tremere have nearly all become vampires.

1202 CE: The First Massasa War is declared.

1206-1280 C.E.: The life of Albertus Magnus.

1210 C.E.: The Craftmasons absorb several French trade and artisan guilds, begin to plan attack against the Order of Hermes at Mistridge. The Craftmasons attack and destroy the Hermetic Covenant at Mistridge, France.

Order of Hermes

House Bjornaer, Shapeshifting
House Bonisagus, Magical Theory
House Criamon, Enigmas
House Flambeau, War Magic
House Quaesitori, Justice
House Jerbiton, Mudane Affairs
House Mercere, Messengers
House Merinita, Faeries
House Tytalus, Will
House Verditius, Enchantment

The Order oversees 13 Tribunals:

Greater Alps (mountainous regions of Central Europe)
Hibernia (Ireland)
Iberia (Spain and Portugal)
Levant (the Holy Land)
Loch Leglean (Scotland)
Normandy (Northern France and the County of Flanders)
Novgorod (Russia and parts of Eastern Europe)
Provence (approximately Occitania, or le Midi of France)
Rhine (Northern parts of the Holy Roman Empire)
Rome (Italy)
Stonehenge (England and Wales)
Thebes (Balkans)
Transylvania (Parts of Eastern Europe)

Vampires

House Tremere, Hierarchy/Magical Duelling

Destroyed?

House Diedne, Druids, Suspected of Infernalism

Other Magical Orders

Natural Philosopher's Guild
House Fortunae
House Shaea
Messianic Voices eventually merge with Mithraic Singers to form the Celestial Chorus, founded 25 CE
Mithraic Singers
Spirit-Talkers: Sheikha, Baruti, Uzoma
Akashic Brotherhood (Jnani, Vajrapani)
Ahl-i-Batin: Darwushim, Khilwati, Ikhwan at-Tawid, founded 500 BCE
Aeduna
Nif'ur en'Daah (Nephandi)
Taftani
the Aided, Celtic
The Golden Chalice, Greek
Madzimbabwe, African
The Ixoi
The Valdaermen, Nordic Rune Casters
The Pomegranate Deme, Greek, are protected by the Gregorian Knights
The Pollottino family
The Knights of St. Gregory of Nyssa
The Seers of Chronos
The Lions of Zion

The Chakravanti comprise the:

Lahksmists (followers of the divine principle of fortune)
Sapindya Sadananda (the Fellowship's warriors and assassins -- also known as the Consanguinity of Eternal Joy. Cyrrently ruled by the necromancer Helekar).
Natatapas (your "average" Tantrist Chakravanti, somewhat matriarchal in outlook).

The Daedalans (proto-Order of Reason):