Arcane Council

The Arcane Council is THE most hypocritical, despotic group of unflavoured sisyphean earwax to have ever existed. Ever. They preach sharing of spells and knowledge while actually using it as a reason to centralise and monitor any magical development happening within their sphere of influence. It's a clerical miracle that they even have time to research magic, seeing as they spend all their time jerking each over off and fantasising how great they are. In essence, they are just a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
== Origin ==
In 735, the 24th High Archmage of Awbor, Elero Kway, disappeared without a trace. After spending a year using all the divination magic in existence trying to locate his body and/souls, Elero was declared "Dead, but we can't even prove he's dead". By that time there were half a dozen candidates that were eligible to become High Archmage (being able to cast 9th level spells), and the King decided that he'll respect the decision made by the arcane community. Unfortunately, the period of peace preceding Elero's disappearance meant that none of the candidates had any REALLY amazing elements in the "Previous Experience" section of their CVs. 
As nobody could make their minds up, and none of the candidates wanted to do duel each other into submission (the only correct way to determine it), the total LEG-SHITTERS decided to commit treason to the arcane community by banding together and declaring that they form the Arcane Council. The rest of the community, happy they didn't need to make any difficult decisions, happily walked of the cliff into the pit of intellectual liquification and village idiot discharge.
Since their inception they've only dealt with a couple of minor country-ending threats, and as such the existing and new wizards have felt comforted and safe as they fill in Article 78B-48AA-CD65 in triplicates so they can look up how to cast Summon Mindless Drone.
When an ACTUAL threat arrives they are going to discover why having an undesignated position of High Archmage is a crucial weakness to this country's security. 
== See also ==
Magical Institutions of Awbor
Category:Organisations
Category:Post-Caldor Campaign