Consilium Charter

Declaration

Disparate people, and yet, we are one. We may come from all walks of life. But, we are all members of the Awakened Nation. It is opportunity and fate that calls us together. Be it that we arrived through customs at the airport or were born to Sacramento, we walk the same soil for this reason. Encompassing all the area of the City of Sacramento; it is this Consilium’s solemn promise and it’s solemn necessity to protect those cabals that call Sacramento home.

Responsibilities of the Consilium

• Currency of the Awakened of the Consilium of Sacramento are both Favors and Tass.

• The Consilium of Sacramento is charged with hearing the ideas, suggestions, and grievances of it’s associated cabals to increase the quality of Awakened Life.
  • This may be done in a few ways:
    • Consilium Meetings: New business is scheduled to the agenda ahead of time via a Herald or Provost.
    • Through a Provost or Councillor of the Cabal or Individual’s choosing at any time.
    • Through a Herald, should the provosts and councillors be not available.

• The Consilium is charged with the protection of the associated Cabals and Awakened of the Consilium of Sacramento.
  • The Consilium is charged with the protection of the associated Cabals of the Consilium from outsides threats: those who are servants of the Lie, as well as those who are servants of their own insanity and servants of the Abyss.

• The Consilium is charged with the task of maintaining the peace between the Associated Cabals. It is charged with the task of moderation between individuals and cabals, recognized by the Consilium’s Aegis.
  • The Consilium must do all in its power to keep conflicts from escalating to the point of declaring Right of Nemesis. It is that drastic step, that takes our minds off of the task all Awakened are charged with.
  • The Consilium is charged with appointing a mediator to attempt to solve the problem before it escalates to the declaration of Nemesis.
  • However, the Consilium does recognize the need for the Right of Nemesis under the Precept of War.
  • Member Cabals are charged with bringing such a conflict to the Consilium prior to Right of Nemesis being enacted so that such mediation might take place.

• The Consilium must work by it’s own, or in conjunction with its associated Orders in the protection of the Veil.

Lex Magica Interpretation

• The Consilium is charged with the interpretation and the execution of the Wisdom of the Lex Magica. It is the wisdom of the Lex Magica and it’s Great Rights, that are protected by the will of the Consilium.
  • The Consilium of Sacramento recognizes all of the Great Rights to it’s Member Cabals.
  • Precedents set by decisions of the Consilium’s Councillors and the Hierarch alone may be added to the Lex Magica; as they are the wisest amongst us.
  • Should any of the polity of the Consilium of Sacramento breach the Precepts in anyway: the perpetrator will be brought before the Consilium’s Council for a Hearing.
  • The Councillors shall convene and hear the case.
    • Perpetrators are innocent, until proven guilty by the Consulate.
    • Should the Party be found guilty the Council will, after consulting the wisdom of the Lex Magica, draw their verdict from the Tetragrammaton.
      • These Verdicts are final.
    • Perpetrators may request a Factotum to argue their cases for them.

Membership

• Membership to the Consilium of Sacramento is open to all Cabals who maintain a membership of three individuals or more. Once a cabal is recognized as having the numbers in membership, may approach a Herald and declare their intent to join the Consilium as a cabal in acceptance with this Charter and its Lex Magica.
  • All members are given an Oath to uphold the vision of the Awakened Nation and to work in tandem with the Consilium of Sacramento. This Oath is recorded as Iron Law.
  • Members who are vaunted to a position may be given another oath to the Consilium of Sacramento.
  • These Oaths of Service should work in tandem with already existing oaths the Mage might keep.
  • Solitaires may not be full members of the Consilium of Sacramento.
  • Solitaires are solely afforded the following Great Rights in full:
    • Right of Crossing
    • Right of Emeritus
  • Solitaires are only partially afforded the following Great Right:
    • Right of Sanctuary
      • Solitaires may maintain their own Sanctum, but may not declare Territory.

Duties

Note

No Member of the Sacramento Consilium may hold more than one Consilium Office. Thus, to illustrate several examples, no Councilor may be both Councilor and Sentinel, or Councilor and Herald. Likewise, no Provost may be both Provost and Sentinel, and Provost and Herald, nor could a Herald be both Herald and Sentinel, and so on.

The Hierarch

• • The Hierarch is chosen from amongst the Councillors and is recognized as the wisest amongst them.
  • The Hierarch may appoint Heralds to act as the voice of the Hierarch and the voice of the Consilium.
  • The Hierarch issues verdicts upon those found guilty of breaching the Precepts.

Councilors

• Councillors are the wisest of the Paths. Chosen and ascended to their positions in anyway the Path chooses.
  • Prospective Councillors must otherwise maintain membership through their Cabals. A Councilor elected to their post without a cabal has three months to find one before they are ejected from the Council. A Councilor who ceases to be a part of a cabal likewise has three months to become a member of a new one, starting from the date at which they lost their last cabal.
  • No Councilor may be an Apostate, Apostasy being the rejection and opposition to the Orders and all they stand for. However, an Independent, that being a mage who accepts the Orders but is not a part of them, may be elected to the post of Councilor.
  • Should a case of a possible breach of the precepts come to them, Councillors must hear and decide upon guilt or innocence.
  • Provosts may be chosen by Councillors in any way the Councillor deems. There are no restrictions upon who may be elected Provost, save the ban on Apostasy.
  • They are allowed a single (1) Provost.

Heralds

• Heralds, may recognize new member cabals of the Consilium.
• Heralds, are charged with informing the Council of any new Solitaires and Cabals who have been recognized.
• Heralds, are charged with informing the polity of any news and changes.
• Heralds, are charged with keeping open channels to other Atlantean Consilii.
• Neutral heralds, are charged with overseeing the Rite of Requite should two members of the Consilium wish to undergo it.

Provosts

• Provosts speak with their Councillor’s voice.
  • Provosts must escalate cases of possible Breaches of the Precepts to the Council.
  • Provosts, must be members of the Consilium via their cabals.
  • Provosts must be of the same path as their Councillor.

Sentinels

• It is the Sentinel’s duty to be informed and be ready for possible threats to the Consilium and its members. Be they of the Void, the Mad, and the Liars.
• It is the Sentinel’s duty to be ready for threats from within as well.
• The Sentinels may be called upon by the Consulate to execute the will of the Consilium.
• Sentinels are to be chosen by the Hierarch.
• Sentinels are able to deputize magi temporarily without the need of formal permission from the Hierarch or Consulate.
  • This deputization lasts for the extent of the problem, or 72 hours, whichever comes first.
  • Deputies may be created again (reactivated) if the problem is not solved at the end of 72 hours, but the Hierarch and Council must be notified at this time and approved by the Hierarch for the continuation of the deputization for the remainder of the problem.
  • Deputies, while active, act at the authority of the Sentinel which deputized them. As such, any action taken by the deputy during this time is also an action of the Sentinel which deputized them.

Members

Those member cabals within the Consilium of Sacramento, are asked of the following, so that the Consilium may prosper and flourish as a whole and greater than the sum of its parts:

• It is asked that those member Cabals of the Consilium of Sacramento respect the edicts and mandates of the Consilium.
  • Member Cabals have a duty to adhere to any and all verdicts either for or against them.
  • Members of Member Cabals are required, via their cabal’s membership oath, to adhere to any judgement by the Consilium of Sacramento.

• Should the Consilium be attacked by outside forces and a call to action is declared, it is the duty of the member Cabals to heed and accept the call to action.

• It is asked that those member Cabals of the Consilium of Sacramento may ask for a favor of its member cabals. Ranging from access to its resources to its expertise. This is a favor that is repaid over time by the Consilium.

• Member Cabals are requested a pawn of Tass be donated to the Consilium each quarter, for the Consilium’s upkeep. Those cabals that are unable will not be penalized, but instead may be asked to assist the Consilium in other ways, including but not limited to the following:
  • Member Cabals may instead request to provide security for a Consilium Meeting.
  • Member Cabals may instead wish to bolster the defenses of the Consilium’s Meeting Grounds.

• Consilium Meeting Grounds are provided to the Consilium by its member cabals.
  • The following locations are recognized as Meeting Grounds.
    • Circle of Creation

• Failure by any member of a Member Cabal or any total failure by an entire Member Cabal to adhere to their duties to the Consilium of Sacramento may result in the following or more determining on the nature of the Lex Magica of the Consilium of Sacramento:
  • Revoking of protection by the Consilium of Sacramento
  • Freezing of the Member or Member Cabal’s assets.
  • Forced Service to the Consilium of Sacramento.

Trial Procedures

A Trial occurs when an accusation is made by one Recognized member against another Recognized member. The accusation must be made in regards to a Law of the Consilium. An accusation, and thus a trial, may be brought against anyone who was a Recognized member of the Consilium at the time of the crime they are accused of. Thus, even if a Sentinel strips a member of the Consilium of their recognition before or after an accusation was brought forth, the accused would still be brought to trial so long as they were Recognized when the supposed crime was committed.

• The Council will declare the date of a Trial after the Accusation has been heard and Factota have been assigned to prosecute as well as advise and defend the Accused. The Trial must take place within a year of the Council hearing the Accusation.
  • The Heralds are charged with informing the polity of the charge.
  • The Heralds or Provost are charged with bringing the Accusation immediately (within 24 hours by written message or telephone call) to the Council.
  • A Councilor who has been accused, or who has brought accusation against another member of the Consilium, must appoint a Provost, or, in the case of a Provost being one of the accused, the accuser, or an assigned Factotum, another member of their Path to Represent their Path and act as Judge during the trial.
  • In the case of a Councilor being aware of an accusation, they must also inform the rest of the Council, as well as the Heralds within 24 hours.
  • Any Member of the Consilium involved in an Accusation or a declared Trial is exempt from any Duel Arcane challenge issued over a matter which involves the Accusation or Trial.

• All Accused are not innocent nor guilty until stated by the Council during the assigned Trial.
  • The Council is tasked with finding the Truth.
  • Accused may plead either Guilty or Not Guilty.
  • Should the Accused plead Guilty, the Council will move directly to the penalty stage as required by the Tetragrammaton.
  • Should the Accused plead Not Guilty, the Council will further hear the case.

• When the Accused pleads Not Guilty the Council must judge the Truth of the Accusation and the events involved therein.
  • One Factotum, assigned before the Date of the Trial, will prosecute the case.
  • One Factotum, assigned before the Date of the Trial, will defend the Accused.
  • Sentinels are charged to assist the Prosecutor in investigating the accusation.
  • The Defense may retain assistance to prove innocence.
  • Witnesses called by the Prosecution or Defense are required by Law to stand and give evidence.

• Once all evidence is received, the Council will deliberate.
  • All evidence must be presented during the Trial. The Council must examine all evidence.
  • If cleared or convicted of the accusation, the accused is protected from any retribution under the Precept of War.
  • The Council is charged with using the Tetragrammaton and Prior Judgements to decide on any necessary punishment.
    • All decisions are final. There is no appeals process.
  • Should the Accused be found guilty, a failure to adhere to the punishment may result in the removal of protections of the Consilium, banishment, or forced servitude to the Consilium.