Free Council

Free Council
Modernists in every sense of the word, the Free Council claims neither ancient texts nor links to the ancient island of Atlantis. Instead they forge ahead feeling that Sleepers have touched on the supernal through modern ideas, science and technology. By learning these ideas the Free Council hopes to change the face of magic and revitalize it for the modern age.

The Free Council began as small, disparate groups and cliques of Apostate mages who were taken with new ideas circuating through Sleeper society at the dawn of the twentieth century. The origins of those ideas weren't completely new; mages were familiar with the concepts of 'republic' and 'democracy' and other popular phrases coined by the ancient Greeks. However, they were largely used among the initiates and apprentices of the Paths, and once the reach the rank of disciple largely forgotten once they grew out of such fantasies. But, for the first time in recorded Awakened history, mages began discussing the possibility that Awakened society might benefit from implementing thses heretical ideas among themselves. While these groups were somewhat in agreement about the limits of the feudal system of Awakened society, there was no unifying banner under which these groups could organize; the Atlantean Orders of the day contemptously called them ''Nameless. ''The breakthrough came in the form of invitations from various representatives of the Seers of the Throne, asking these Nameless mages to join them in opposing the Diamond Orders and sealing Sleepers off from their rightful magical heritage forever. The emphatic, and rather insulting nature of the Nameless' response became known as the Great Refusal, marking them as intractably opposed to the Seers' goals. The screams of the Seers could be heard on the moon, and many junior Seers were executed, because Seers do kill the messengers. The Diamond Orders with considerable reluctance and concern about 'polluting" the legacy of Atlantis, accepted the Free Council as a vaild Order.

Since then, Atlantean mages and the Seers of the Throne, the former with pride, and latter with hate, refer to the Pentacle Orders. Still from time to time, a Free Council mage or cabal commits a spectacular error, and members of the ancient orders rumble about how the incident proves that the Coucil isn't worthy of inclusion with the Diamond Orders. So far, the Free Council has reamin a unified front, and keep its members in line.