Resources

Campaign Information

• House Rules
• Expanded Sorte Rules
• Family timeline to Quartus 1668
• Game Log
• Calendar from Quartus 1668 and on

Vodacce History

• A short history of Mantua, the northern region of mainland Vodacce.
• The Lost Blood: What was so bad about the Lorenzo, the Serrano, and the Bianco families.
• Mad Queen Marietta is a figure of folklore and history both. All strega know her story.
• Sero tells the story of the benandanti.
• Rules for the benandanti.

Vodacce Life and Culture

• The Tessatore: why they do what they do, and why they don't rule Vodacce.
• What the Lord's Hands of each Prince are like.
• Heredity: ancestry versus inheritance.
• Some exerpts from Means to Ends, Scarovese's treatise on Vodacce politics.
• Some further thoughts on Senzavista women in Vodacce society.
• The Guild of Squeraroli and Gondoliers and the commodity - privacy - they sell on the islands.
• The courtesans of Vodacce.
• Love and lust and their place in society.
• What the Vodacce think of foreigners. (It's really no wonder the "How Can We Make You More Comfortable?" Vendel are winning the trade war.)
• The Inquisition in Vodacce.
• A page of Vodacce names.
• Simplified modes of address.

Montaigne Life and Culture

• Etiquette for arriving and departing via Portal.
• Gloves in Montaigne.
• Entertainers in Montaigne (and elsewhere)

Societies

• The Explorer's Society Ladies' Auxiliary allows noblewomen to dabble in fashionable archaeology without needing to get their hands actually dirty.

Science and Philosophy

• A summary of the pseudoscience and philosophy of alchemy.

Religion

• The Vodacce Inquisition - an alternate to the canonical Castillian version
• Religions of Theah
• A list of the feast days that fall on the 15th and 30th of every month.
• The Vaticine Church in Mondavi Lands
• A non-canonical history of Die Kreuzritter
• A non-canonical present for Die Kreuzritter
• The Old Ways of the Triple Kingdom

For GMs

• Artifacts of the Senators: Items enchanted by the Bargainers during the early days of sorcery.
• Strega: Seven strega NPCs, of varying ages and abilities, related to the princes of Vodacce.
• Legion's Prophet: A cabal of Legion-worshippers lead by a nefarious Bianco, lurking in the catacombs of a Vodacce Island and planning to raise Lorenzo Island from the deep. They can be used as a single-episode adventure or as recurring villains.
• Grand Master Sorte and Sorte/Porte Synergy: How I chose to work Beatrice Caligari's (and Mad Queen Marietta's) sorcery in my game.
• The Vodacce Inquisition - an alternate to the canonical Castillian version.
• Mondavi: Working out the prince's plan and its evolution, and fleshing out Mea, Gallisus and Nemise Mondavi.
• The Lorenzo Conspiracy: How I built the conspiracy using tidbits of canonical information as a starting point.

• Collecting music for the Red Ribbons Rock Opera.

Renaissance Italy

• An online copy of The Prince by Machiavelli; "Means to Ends" are just some choice quotes from here, reworded a bit into more modern English.
• Famous Renaissance Italians:
  • Brief Wikipedia biographies of the infamous Borgias: father Roderigo 'Pope Alexander VI' Borgia, son Cesare, daughter Lucrezia.
  • Another on Caterina Sforza, rather an infamous woman in her day.
  • Alfonso d'Este, Lucretiza Borgia's last husband, whose biography includes no random acts of cruelty whatsoever. (Included to show that there were important Renaissance Italian princes who didn't order random murders.)
  • Lorenzo de Medici rounds out our Famous Italian Names list, with another link to the failed conspiracy against him because, you know, it seems relevant...
• The Web Gallery of Art; use their search engine with fields School: Italian, Form: Painting, and Type: Portrait to find excellent character portraits; narrow the search to the years around 1450-1600 to cut down on the hits. (Most of the pictures I've used are in the 1500-1550 slot.)

• AEG's 7th Sea Homepage
• AEG Forum Page: 7th Sea stuff at the bottom
• Poison Shadows provides some really good homebrewed rules. My years of AD&D 2e made me suspicious of most fan-produced specializations ("kits," we called them), but these are exactly the opposite of the lame and overpowered crap I used to see. These are things that I would actually be excited about using in a game, and would add something past Kewl Powerz.
• Aldana Steel, a game homepage with a great layout and great content. Many of their house rules are thoughtful and useful tweaks to the core set.
• All That Glitters, an online 7th Sea game run by Yours Truly

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