Minister House Chantry

London - Pax Britannica -VAL- Order of Hermes 1900: London

Questions

What type of chantry is it? What is its purpose? How powerful is it?

What does it look like on Earth? What does it look like in its own realm (if applicable)?

How many nodes does the chantry control? What are the nodes like? How powerful are they?

Does the chantry control a horizon realm? What is this realm like? Who or what lives there?

How old is the chantry? What is life like there?

How many Cabals belong to the Chantry? Where does the player character fit in? Does he belong to a cabal?

Location

51 Carlisle Place, Westminster, London (Vauxhall Bridge Road - between Victoria Street to the north and Francis Street to the south) - West facing facade

Appearance

Style (High Victorian Gothic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Victorian_Gothic

Like all the structures established during the building of Carlisle Mansion Estates, Minister House is a five story High Victorian Gothic high-rise of red brick alternating with white stone.

Character

Minister House is a Chantry of Ex Miscellanea. Due to the various nature of the cabals that live here, and the slightly Quiet nature of Holgram Barnes, the House has a strange, uncanny air about it. Strange shadows and voices are heard, and not every room seems to hold still. Sometimes the library is on the third floor, sometimes on another. Not every window shows the scenes of current London outside it, sometimes there are scenes from the under the ocean, sometimes from other places and times. Rufus Teage swears that once he saw a city of lights and strange flying conveyances.
Minister House Chantry is dedicated to the binding together of the disparate magics of the cabals who call it home. Many of them have begun to battle the rising power of the Technocracy, and several are wary survivors of the winnowing of the Order. All of the House understands that they are outsiders trying to get recognition by the main Order. Because of that there is an air of competition and desire to serve the Order and prove their worth. There is much research being done here. Minister House appears to be a upscale apartment building or a private hotel. In actuality this five story high-rise serves as a testing ground and harbor for potential Ex Miscellanea mages.
The Chantry is in Summer.
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<<<Reputation>>>3

Administration

Colonel Benjamin Pickering -- Deacon of the Chantry. He monitors and manages the miscellaneous Houses under him.

Theodore Masters -- Councilor

Wilfred Aten -- professor of Magic Styles

Imhotep Qi --

Keila Laurissa Lamar --

Ezra Hart -- Priest

Zayne Fulton -- Librarian

Resident Magi

Holgram Barnes -- Master of Correspondence (currently in Quiet)

Chantry Posts

[[]] -- Tutors -- are responsible for teaching students (also called Fellows)

[[]] -- Justices & Exactors enforce the Chantries' laws

[[]] -- Sentinels defend the Chantry from external threats.

[[]] -- Heralds act as the voice of the Chantry to other Chantries, allowing for communication.

[[]] -- Journeymen are members of the Chantry that are not part of one of the Cabals

[[]] -- Marats are Go-betweens of the Chantry and the mortal world

Cabals

• Cinquain -- A Grouping of Five

Students

• Bertram Yunus Emre Mac Aodha
• Levent Nolan
• Clive Batts
• Winnona Rites
• Ostanes

Guardians

Pets

There are two cats, Columba and Agrippa.

Layout

Administrative Offices

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Alchemical Laboratory

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Apprentice's Cubby

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Astronomical Observatory

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Adept's Common Room

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Chapel

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• -- Father Eyrhard Royden
• -- Sister Claribel Breckenridge
• -- Sister Johanna Hagnes
• -- Ste Calb (Altar boy/Gardener)
• -- Vincent Wiley (Altar Boy/Gardener)

Classrooms

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Dinning Hall

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The Dinning Hall is ran by Vincent Randall, who is more than a sleeper, less than a mage. He keeps his staff busy serving, washing/cleaning.

• -- Vincent Randall
• -- Lisa Smithson
• -- Holly Ringsdatter
• -- Anna Leeks

Kitchens

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Kitchen Staff are all sleepers unless an initiate is given kitchen duty for a punishment.

• -- Davina Lemoine (Kitchen Mistress)
• -- Kyriaki Leftiss Head Baker
• -- Alaya Jackson Meat Maiden
• -- Ottili Bourke Kitchen Work
• -- Weigand Jones Dish Keeper

Pantry

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Infirmary

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Initiate's Club

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Laundry

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Library

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Sometimes the library is located on the second floor, sometimes on the third and occasionally on the first. The library's dislocation presents problems to the initiates and apprentices who don't know the arcane formula for determining the library's current location. The Minister House library has an extensive collection of books, perhaps ten-thousand or more, and many are of an occult nature. The library is also home to the fifty-odd collected works of one Holgram Barnes: Order of Hermes magus, architect, Master of the Sphere of Correspondence and madman. It is said that Holgram transfigured the geometry of the library in order to make room for Minister House's growing collection of books.

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Sources

https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Chantry_(MTAs)

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