Merovech

From Project: Redcap

derived from Lion and the Lily page 8

Legendary sorcerer king of the Salian Franks who is eponymous with the first dynasty of French kings (Merovingian).

Born in the first half of the fifth century AD, offspring of King Clodio of the Franks and his wife, after his wife went swimming and encountered "a beast like a Quinotaur".

The early Merovingian Kings were sorcerers were said to be to be vested in their long hair, which they never cut. As a consequence of their ancestry, most of the descendants of Merovech have a Supernatural Virtue. This is most commonly the Major Supernatural Virtue Greater Immunity: Drowning, and quite often goes undetected.

All of the Merovingians bear a curious birthmark in the form of a red cross.


The Royal Touch (the ability to cure Scrofula) is a divine gift bestowed upon Merovingian monarchs when they are properly anointed on ascension to the throne.


Speculation - the Mythic Blood of Merovech may technically exist, but it comes with a Prohibition or Restriction that the magus have long, unshorn hair, something unlikely to occur in Latinised Europe, thus does not express in apprentices after the first time their parens has them washed and groomed.