ribunal Hispania has a well-deserved reputation as a contentious and violent Tribunal. Since it formed in the early years of Ordo Hermei, Hermetic culture in Hispania has been dominated by the incessant conflict between Christian and Islamic magi.

Recent decades have seen dramatic gains in territory by the Christian kingdoms: Portugal has ejected the last Muslims from the Algarve, Castile and Leon have driven the Muslims from most of Andalusia, and Aragon has seized the Balearic Isles. Along with the exodus of the general Muslim population from the conquered territories, Islamic magi have left as well, retreating into strongholds in the far south of Iberia. One abandoned conventum has been occupied by a group of young magi Flambonis and Tytali, while others have simply been ransacked and their resources claimed by other conventa.

The Hermetic legality of this looting is questionable at best, and most of the Quaesitores in the Hispania are investigating various charges of Hermetic theft, interference with mundanes, and several murders. Quaesitores in Hispania have generally been sympathetic to the Reconquista, but the recent carnage has caused many to reconsider their tacit support of Christian magi at the expense of Islamic magi.

Politically, most magi Hispaniae belong to one of three factions: magi Militantes, magi Pacati, or magi Andaluum. Militantes favor elimination of Islamic magi from Ordo Hermei, and support, tactily or actively, reconquista by the Christian Iberian kingdoms. Pacati, in contrast, favor peace and cooperation between Hermetic magi, regardless of religion, and oppose reconquista. Andaluum are Islamic magi, who by definition oppose their elimination from Ordo Hermei, and also oppose reconquista.

Hispania borders Aquitania to the north and Roma to the east, across the Sardinian Sea.