Category:The Crooked Steps

Location
Although it is not it's original location, the Crooked Steps was reestablished in the forests South, South West of Brive-la-Gaillarde by the river Dordogne, where the coven grounds were built in a small regio.

Site
The Covenant of the Crooked Steps was built within a regio, which can only be entered by crossing and wetting ones feet in the river. To this end, one of the, now desceased, Covenmembers created a small item which creates a bridge of ice just underneath the surface of the river. A small village has been constructed in the area on the opposite side of the river wherein the majority of the covenfolk reside when they are not performing their duties.

Inside the regio stands a hexagonal manorhouse, with six towers erected at each corner, wherein the magi reside and have their laboratories.

Covenant History
The Covenant of the Crooked Steps was first established by the young perigrinatores Aculeus ex Flambeau and Maelic ex Bonisagus at the behest of Magister Tyrion ex Mecere, the two were tasked to find the long lost laboratories of Terebra ex Verditius, a Magus who had made many wonderous (and somtimes stupid) pieces of magical architecture. Terebrae was last seen sometime during the Schism War, and was presumed to have entered Final Twilight.

Reputations
Deathtrap: Considering it's age, a large number of Magi who have joined the Covenant of the Crooked Steps have lost their lives prematurely.

Militant: Although it is less the case now, the Covenant of the Crooked Steps had an extraordinarily high ratio of Magi specialized in combat under it's roof.