venerdì 24 luglio 2020

Lore : Treaty of Alexandria


A treaty signed on January 12, 2000, by all the magi organizations. The philosopher and magus Anna Le Roy, teacher of the AMPM, met three months earlier with Wilfred Scholz, of the Rote Mäntel, and with Alessandro Longo, Elder of the Coven, the three wanted to end the conflicts between the organizations and so they drew up a list of laws that had to be respected by all the signatories of a possible agreement. Their plans culminated in the Treaty of Alexandria. Magi organizations were convinced by this ambitious political design and decided to sign the treaty.
The Treaty of Alexandria is made up of two hundred forty-two codes.
A close friend of Scholz's, Sigwald Stein, had begun to propose to the Rote Mäntel to abandon some of the old dogmas. Among the conservatives was Herbert Schmidt who opposed the progressive ideas of Scholz and Stein. Ullric Pohl and Stina Richter joined Schmidt and convinced Arvin Kraus to reject the ideas of the two magi. Stina and Ullric belonged to two very wealthy families and with an ancient heritage, thanks to their support Schmidt managed to attract all those members of the Rote Mäntel who were undecided.
The Treaty of Alexandria, until then a symbol of international peace, became an instrument that Scholz wanted to use to demonstrate that it was possible for the Rote Mäntel to abandon that retrograde mentality. Stein, however, obtained the support of a magus belonging to a family as rich and powerful as the Richters and the Pohls: Liesel Schäfer.
The tensions between reactionaries and progressives swelled up to explode on March 4, 2001, the day Wilfred Scholz was assassinated. Stein accused Schmidt of orchestrating everything together with his protégé Clovis Wolff, the latter was believed to be the murderer, however without proof it was impossible to prove their guilt. Sigwald Stein continued to fight the conservatives, but if initially he was considered annoying, over the years he got the support of Emory Pohl, Ullric's daughter, and even managed to have a meeting with Arvin Kraus.
But Stein's ardor died away when his son Erden was found dead in his bedroom. The boy was only sixteen.
Stein abandoned the fight against the conservatives of the Rote Mäntel and even stopped leaving the house. Sigwald Stein's degeneration was so rapid and sudden that the day after his suicide, Emory Pohl and Liesel Schäfer began investigating Herbert Schmidt and his involvement. The goal of the two women was to interrogate Clovis Wolff, who however committed suicide a short time later after the death of his daughter.
Anna Le Roy, after the signing of the Treaty of Alexandria, became famous among all the Magi but without realizing it she made enemies among the Rote Mäntel. When the woman learned of Wilfred Scholz's death, she demanded justice for her dear friend and contacted Alessandro Longo, the two left together but never arrived in Germany. Their bodies were found four months later in Lombardy.