Council Of The Eight

The council has one member for each of the school of magic. They all hold equal political power, but many try to strike deals and further their own goals as well. They all awnser to the temple of Illamin and the Shurtan.

Abjuration: Harkon Silverhand.
Male Dwarf, currently the Concil chairman. In charge the council administartion and the city magical defense. Probably strongest in raw power.

Conjuration: Atsu Bes. (The Curator)
Female Human. Head over the Halls of Illumination (biggest library in Amareen) . Keeps the teleportation network running. (very pricy transport for the most influential valdurian nobles etc). Atsu is also a lector for the Amdrasa Wizard Academy and a good friend of Nekht Hutabi.
Divination: Neferu Philinos.
Male Human. Very secretive and mysterious member of the council, only helping High Priest Saliman occasionally. Currenrly gone missing (on a trip to the ribcage)

Enchantment: Salis Ayob
Male Human. Salis is tasked to oversee the eights public relations. Greeting important diplomatic enoys to the city and brokerdeals with other political players in Valduria. His less official work is that of espionage and counterintelligence, considering his affinity to mind magic he is very adept at ganing an upper hand in these exchanges.
Evocation: Nalik Redscale.
Male Halfling. Dragon Sorcerer. Only non-wizard currently on the council. While not as knowledgable in the arts. He more than makes up for it in raw power. In times of peace he is mostly in charge of the city watch. However, people talk with hushed voices of Naliks time in the war with Norm. Rumors has it Nalik alone was behind the total destruction of Stillwick.

Illusion: Maister Wahum (dead)
Male Human. Before Wahums death he was the councils head of research and study of artifacts from the dead forgotten civilization. he had many agents out in the world and oversaw many of the ruin excavations in valdurias vast deserts.

Necromancy: Nekht Hutabi (The Alienist)
HumanThe headmaster of the Amdrasa Wizard Academy an by far the oldest member of the eight. His area of expertise is on entities from outside this world.

Transnmutatio: Sif & Len.
"Human" Twins. They are currently sharing one body. Overseeing the Angular Spire where they experiment on anchient tecnology and controlling the clockwork soliders defending Amareen.

Structure

Every member is equal, except for the chairman who have the swingvote and leads the meetings. Under the council many different people work on the administrative and physical labour of the day to day tasks the council oversees.

Public Agenda

To govern Amareen and help Valduria and its military in matters connected to magic.

Assets

Many buildings in Amareen and employees to staff them. among the largest is the Halls of Illumination.
While having no armed forces, the many powerful mages and strange artifacts in the service of the eight makes many noble familys wary of their rising influence.
As part of the government, the council get some of the taxes as funding to help educate the citizen of the land and research new helpful magic for the state.

The Intrigue
The Council have had many Eccentric members throughout its history. For exampel: The late Raginthul Bluestar who would always vote yes on any proposition at the meetings regardless of subject. Or Iseret Hotep who blew out the roof on the council meeting hall. To, as she calmly stated "Let in some air".
While plenty of the members tend to act wierdly. Most of them want to do good and improve Valduria. Sadly. There are some members who see their place at the council as a chance to further their own goals and agendas.
As a result, the eight have had a hard time gaining the upper hand in the lands political climate or getting any major changes in in place.
The Pharao and other parts of Valdurias government seems to be fine with the Mages squabbling among themselves.

Type

Guild, Mages

Alternative Names

The Eight

Location

Amareen

Controlled Territories

• Halls of Illumination