Order of Reason

The Order of Reason was founded in 1210, a group dedicated to the protection of humanity from the depredations of the supernatural &mdash; specifically mages, and more specifically the Order of Hermes.

Dark Ages
- Mistridge, Convention of the White Tower. Craftmasons and High Guild largely responsible.


 * Artificers
 * Cabal of Pure Thought
 * Celestial Masters
 * Craftmasons
 * High Guild
 * Cosian Circle
 * Solificati
 * Void Seekers

- Solificati kicked out

Renaissance
- Ksirafai developed as a sort of "secret police."


 * Artificers
 * Cabal of Pure Thought
 * Celestial Masters
 * Craftmasons
 * High Guild
 * Ksirafai
 * Cosian Circle
 * Void Seekers

- Cabal of Pure Thought purged due to Christian beliefs. - Craftmasons similarly wiped out.

- Ivory Tower, named after the White Tower, founded to direct the other Conventions. - Ksirafai fade into the shadows and arrange for their own disappearance (q.v. House Janissary).

Victorian Age
- Internal strife. - Voltarian Order founded on the precepts of Alessandro Volta. - Order nearly ready to collapse.

The Order of Reason underwent a reorganization in 1851 at the Great Exposition in London. Attending the Exposition were:


 * The Artificers, who believe the universe and everything in it is a machine.
 * The Celestial Masters, who take as their domain advanced forms of travel.
 * The Hippocratic Circle, dedicated to the improvement of human life through medical science.
 * The High Guild, who know that money is what drives not only progress and invention but all of society.
 * The Ivory Tower, who are the beacon of light in a world of ignorance.
 * The Void Seekers, who seek to map the unknown corners of the world.
 * The Voltarian Order, focused on the transmission of energy in all its forms.

After the Exposition, they first became the group known as the Technocratic Union. (MTA, Mage Storytellers Handbook, p. 158)