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When working together, an aggregate of mages is known as a “cabal.” A mage’s chances of survival increase enormously when she puts her solitary inclinations aside and works with at least one other Awakened. Simultaneously, her chances of descending unchecked into the madness that magical power can cause drop significantly as well. Most mages join a cabal, a group of other mages, usually peers at the same level of magical development. | When working together, an aggregate of mages is known as a “cabal.” A mage’s chances of survival increase enormously when she puts her solitary inclinations aside and works with at least one other Awakened. Simultaneously, her chances of descending unchecked into the madness that magical power can cause drop significantly as well. Most mages join a cabal, a group of other mages, usually peers at the same level of magical development. | ||
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==Current Cabals== | ==Current Cabals== | ||
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==Interdicts== | ==Interdicts== | ||
The Interdicts cover behaviors that cabal members are banned from doing. Using the Interdicts, a number of mages try to get their order’s traditions into the contract. This rarely works out well in multi-order cabals, since Interdicts highlight the differences between orders, sometimes to the detriment of all the mages involved. | The Interdicts cover behaviors that cabal members are banned from doing. Using the Interdicts, a number of mages try to get their order’s traditions into the contract. This rarely works out well in multi-order cabals, since Interdicts highlight the differences between orders, sometimes to the detriment of all the mages involved. | ||
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+ | ==Protocols== | ||
+ | See [[Lex Magica#Great Rights|Great Rights]] | ||
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+ | Few modern mages see the benefit in making individual sigils, but most cabals devise one. Heralds or ambassadors carry cabal sigils as an introduction to the people they meet, for a properly constructed sigil isn’t just an artistic showpiece. Like the knightly coat-ofarms, a sigil transmits fundamental information about the cabal: its experiences, its values and its intentions. Many claim that a sigil is more than a physical object — it represents Supernal concepts, actualized by the force of the cabal’s collective will. | ||
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+ | <big>Modern cabal sigils are used in most official transactions. At Consilium gatherings, a person carrying the sigil acts as a de facto voice for the cabal. When the bearer travels to another’s territory, the sigil shows that the bearer is a sanctioned representative of the sigil’s cabal.</big><ref>[[Sanctum and Sigil]], p.35</ref> | ||
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+ | {{info}} This is extrapolated into the '''Sigil Holder''' position for reference on EoD. | ||
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+ | ==Themes== | ||
+ | Cabals often have a mystical significance, chosen around a theme inherent to a group. Such symbolic cabals might base their theme on their number of members, the quality of their magical practice, their locale or any other factor that members’ orders recognize as a proper magical correspondence. A cabal might be formed along an elemental theme, with one member taking the position of fire, another water, and so on, until all four (or five, depending on the paradigm) elemental roles are filled. Other cabals might use astrological signs or Arcana roles as their symbolic unifier. | ||
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+ | {{plus}} The benefit of a symbolic cabal is if all members of the cabal participate in a spellcasting, each gains a +1 bonus to [[Teamwork]] rolls. This bonus only applies, however, if the cabal’s symbolic theme can be integrated into the spell<ref>[[Mage The Awakening Sourcebook|Mage]], p.129</ref>. | ||
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