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The
Witching
Hour
A Sourcebook For
Vampire: The Requiem
The year is 1612.
For centuries the people of your tiny village have kept to the Old Ways, they
have served a strange, dark goddess and fought against the servants of the usurper
god.
Far away, in the cities and castles of the mighty, the followers of this new faith
squabble amongst themselves over obscure points of doctrine. Romans and
Lutherans, reformists and traditionalists, puritans and Jesuits. Very little of that
matters on the moors.
Or at least, it never used to matter.
But King James is cut from different cloth. He believes in witches and, worse,
fears them. Now like never before the machinery of the state is coming for you
and yours.
At the summit of Barrow Tor your coven gathers, calling out to the Crone for
guidance and protection. The stones you worship at are as ancient as the land you
stand on, they have stood since long before the cross came to this island.
These hills, these moors, and these lands are yours. And any who seek to take
them from you will pay.
Glossary
Assizes:
Travelling courts that follow a circuit around one or more counties, allowing criminals to be tried in the absence
of a permanent magistrate.
Augmentations Office:
Once the Court of Augmentations, the official body responsible for the suppression and
subsequent administration of the lands and properties formerly held by the Church.
Buffcoat:
A thick leather jerkin worn as armour during the Civil War.
Cenobites:
A type of monk focusing on communal living, also a faction within the Lancea et Sanctum advocating the use
of Theban Sorcery.
Covenanters:
A Presbyterian movement in Scotland, allied to the Parliamentarians in the Civil War.
Cuirassier:
Heavy cavalry of the civil war period.
Eremites:
A type of monk focusing on isolation and contemplation. Also a faction within the Lancea et Sanctum
opposing the use of Theban sorcery.
Harquebusier:
Light cavalry of the civil war period.
Holmgang:
A ritual duel in early Norse culture, still practised in some Kindred domains that retain Scandinavian
influences.
Presbyterianism:
A protestant movement growing in Scotland in this era, distinguished from Episcopalianism by its
rejection of the authority of bishops.
Recusant:
One who refuses to partake in Anglican mass.
Credits
Author: Michael Robartes
Developer: Rough Magic
Editor: Michael Robartes
Artist: White Wolf Stock Art, John Speed (1611)
Special Thanks
To far too many people to name at once.
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The Witching Hour
Table of Contents
Introduction: Something Wicked this Way Comes 6
Chapter One: The Hammer of Witches
9
Chapter Two: Scarborough Fair
Scene One: Life after Death
Scene Two: Barrow Tor by Night
Scene Three: Scarborough Fair
Scene One: On the Road
Scene Two: York
Scene Three: The Golden Hall
Scene Four: Holmgang
Scene One: A Lost Witch
Scene Two: The Herald
Scene Three: War in the Shadows
Scene Four: The Court of Constantine
Scene One: The Beginning of the End
Scene Two: King’s Blood
Scene Three: Blood and Shadow
Scene One: the Full Moon
Scene Two: Uninvited Guests
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Chapter Three: The Golden Hall
34
Chapter Four: Civil War
45
Chapter Five: Restoration
55
Appendix One: New Cruac Rites
Appendix Two: Early Modern Arms and Armour
Appendix Three: Dramatis Personae
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