[Mage: The Awakening 2nd Ed] San Diego Order Caucuses

Out of Character (OOC):

Chronicle: Mage 2: The Dethroned Queen

Venue: Mage: The Awakening 2nd Edition

Chronicle Storyteller: Jerad Sayler

Assistant Storytellers: Hannah Nyland & Alex Van Belkum

Concilium of the Cerulean Peace:

               Order Caucuses

                                  Written and designed by Lucas Powell

The Adamantine Arrow

The Caucus of the Azure was founded in 1914 when Consilium of the same name was founded. The Caucus of the Azure is only loosely held together allowing Adamantine Arrows to pursue their own individual agendas and engage in the protecting of their own Cabals. The Adamantine Arrow have an extremely strong relationship with the Silver Ladder of San Diego, and cooperation between the two orders is a given. They enjoy the political clout that such a relationship brings, but often find themselves mired in the political machinations of the Silver Ladder.

Leadership:
Adamant Sage: Starfall

Thunderbolt Guardians: Solomon, Dr. Anton

First Talons: Brutus, Abraham
Talons: Mac, Caissa, The Lamb

Deer Park Monastery

Goals: The Adamantine Arrow’s local goals primarily refer to the maintenance of the Status Quo, protecting sleepers and the mages of the concilium... skewed to the privileged and important. Of course they would never admit so.

Recognized Territories:

Deer Park Monastery

The Free Council

The Free Council currently enjoy a strong relationship with the Silver Ladder, although they are starting become wary of the internal politics of the order on account of Stavros.

This was not always the case. The Free Council had a tenuous relationship with the Hierarchs of San Diego prior to the Second World War. After the Free Council joined the Diamond to make the Pentacle the Ruling Council of San Diego refused to update the terminology of its Lex Magica and Charter reflecting the Free Council’s new status in Awakened society, in effect treating them as if they were Apostates and Nameless.

With the arrival of the Seers and the Consilium no longer able to hold much of the city the Free Council made a bargain with the Consilium, they would aid the Consilium with the Seers of the Throne but the Lex Magica and Charter would have to be updated to reflect the Free Council’s status in Awakened Society.

In the 1980s the culture of the local polity changed drastically. As biotech and information technology boomed in San Diego the Free Council embraced that shift. Most of the Free Council by the start of the early 1990s had come from tech backgrounds and the culture of the Free Council today is very tech focused.

New Central Public Library

The Polity:

Strategos: gn0stik0s
Emissary: k47h4r05
Syndics: 10g05, Dr. Hermes Grant
Minutemen: C3RNNVN05, Reaper
Citizen Agents: Templeton, Faust
Voters: Dr. Evelyn Winter, Dr. Jon Smith, Clara Breed, Kell,
Host: The Bookman

Recognized Territories:

The San Diego City New Central Public Library

The Bookman Van

Goals:  Increase their influence and power in San Diego and try to bring modernity to the Consilium and the city.

The Guardians of the Veil

The Guardians of the Veil are an order on the defensive in San Diego. With both the Silver Ladder and the Free Council politically and mystically strong in San Diego in addition to the two orders getting along put the Guardians of the Veil in a dangerous position.

The Guardians wish they could pursue corruption within the Pentacle more freely but know that they are a hair’s breadth from unfortunate mystic accidents or outright witchhunts. The Guardians are currently biding their time, knowing that the grip of power cannot be retained forever by the Silver Ladder. They just have to bide their time.

Presidio Park & Mission

Leadership:

Epopt: The White Lady
Emissary: Errol
Interfector: Morael (Suspected)
Susceptor: Mr. Mann
Cultor: Special Agent Jonathan Simmons
Famuli: Chimera, Swansong,
Neophytes: Agent Orange, 37, Overwatch

Labyrinths:

The Labyrinth of Man - Throughout Balboa Park and the Presidio area are a series of ancient signs. There is a great mystery to the architecture and other features.

The Achaean Labyrinth - Secret Societies through the local universities.

Goals: The Guardians of the Veil are vigilant against corruption within the Silver Ladder. They believe that Stavros is on the verge of madness and greatly fear what this would to do the Fallen World, given special consideration the amount of personal loyalty he has accrued.

The Mysterium

The Mysterium is afforded peace in the Consilium of the Cerulean Peace. The Silver Ladder is more than willing to allow the Mysterium to pursue their own Mysteries without interference. When the Mysterium has engaged in rivalries with the Free Council over mystic lore and especially the mystic places of San Diego, Avenzoar has always been just and fair even if not always siding with the Mysterium.

Leadership:

Hierophant: Barzai
Censor/Curator: Aldus Garamond

Savants: Averroes, Fulgore
Acquisitors: Aerous, Hank Johnson
Exemplum: Tutor
Neokori: Bryon Bai-Pan Yu, Artificer, Bishop
Theoricus: Slice, Jack Bismuth
Daduchos: Michael
Philosophus: Shelia

Recognized Territories:

College of Alcalá Park

Alcala Park

Merit: Graduate of Alcalá Park (••) - Effect: Graduates of Alcalá Park are trained to study ley lines and their effects on the Fallen World. Add +2 dice to their spellcasting pools when they cast spells to discover or alter ley lines. The mage can voluntarily forego this benefit and avoid its associated drawback below.  Drawback: Graduates of Alcalá Park are tied to the ley lines they manipulate. The graduates leave a “Medium” sympathetic link with the ley lines they manage and the Connected condition for the duration of any spell placed on that leyline.

Archivum Censoreum (Censor: Aldus Garamond)

University of San Diego - The Pentacle Academy also exists as a conglomerate organization as UCSD.

Goals:  The Mysterium is content to pursue their own agendas.  That means they tend to turn a blind eye to the brewing political situations within the city.

The Silver Ladder

The Silver Ladder has been hegemonic in San Diego since the founding of the Consilium in 1914. They have enjoyed power and privilege afforded few other Consiliums. Their leadership has of course not gone unchallenged. They struggle with the Guardians of the Veil regularly, often using strikes against Seers of the Throne, Scelesti, and Banishers as cover for wreaking havoc on the Guardians of the Veil. In the 1980s the Silver Ladder used the Satanism scare to break a series of Guardian safehouses and bring the Guardians to heel.

Knights of the Five Fold Cross

The Silver Ladder has strongly attempted to create a polity of equality between the other Orders ensuring that the political ramifications of such obvious contempt for the Guardians of the Veil is kept to a minimum.

Change is afoot, and the Silver Ladder knows that its grasps on San Diego is fading. The sacrifices each member has made to ensure that San Diego is the last Beacon of Fire has meant that the Silver Ladder will not give up its power so quickly.

Leadership

Magister: Stavros

Balboa Park

Deacon: Avenzoar
Clavigers: Saul, Astras Berosus
Lictor: Chorus
Factotum: Dio, Judas
Famuli: Midas, Finneas
Acolyte: Ritter

Cryptopolies

The Secret Temple - A Hellclub run by the Scions of the Temple. Their meeting house is called “Vulcan” and is in Little Italy. 

Knights of the Five Fold Cross - The Knights of the Five Fold Cross are a Christian Gnostic society that focuses on serving the Gnostic Christ through community service. They are based out of the Joan Kroc complex. 

Lodge of Moon and Star - The Lodge of Moon and Star is an accepted Masonic Order of the Scottish Rite. It’s Masonic Lodge is based in the Scottish Rite Center in Mission Valley.

Symphony Towers

Recognized Territories
Balboa Park
The Tower of Man
Symphony Towers
El Cortez Hotel