Free Council

The Free Council is one of the five Orders of the Pentacle.

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The Free Council in Blackmouth

For much of the twentieth century, mages of the Free Council have been the lower orders of the Concilium. The detente between the Mysterium, Guardians and Arrow that ended the Upheavals, an inevitability after the Great Refusal and the formation of the Council as a part of the Pentacle, was engineered to keep power in the hands of the establishment. Yet despite this inequity, the Free Council flourished in Blackmouth as a melting pot of disparate occult traditions and cabals, networking among themselves and caring very little for the pronouncements of the Ruling Council, and were treated with barely-veiled contempt in return.

The rise of the Civil Rights movement among Sleepers lit the fuse for change. Libertines began to foment about the lack of representation among the Councilors and the Majoris. They asserted that the Free Council was an equal partner in the Pentacle, one which nearly half the cabals in the city owed allegiance to, yet they had no say in how the Concilium was run. Things finally came to a head when the Silver Ladder ended their century of exile from the city and the possibility of a théarch-libertine alliance forced the Ruling Council to take action. A few select libertines were brought into the establishment as a placatory measure, but the floodgates were opened and the politics of the Concilium began to change.

The enigmatic solitary Cephalophore is the only libertine currently sitting on the Ruling Council, though he is far from the first to hold such high office. Cephalophore is the Councilor of the Gauntlet and generally considered to be the de facto head of the Free Council in the city, master of many secrets and information broker among the Order, respected for his ability to mediate between the disparate libertine cabals.