The City Council

== History ==
The City Council is an institution that has existed largely unchanged since its founding at the city’s inception. It’s numbers have ranged from 20 to 100, the titles of its members have changed, and the power afforded to its highest-ranking members have varied, but not in any substantial way. The City Council claims leadership over the entire city and elects members from all ten districts depending on population. It passes laws as any legislature does, and has often been able to count on the Dragonsmouth Army to enforce its will. Whether the laws of the City Council are obeyed in any other is directly proportional to how much that district fears the military, and in any case, to go to war with the Civic District would bring nothing of value and only plunge the city into chaos. Any warlord comfortable with the status quo would be happy to defend the Council, which even at its most powerless state keeps the city in a state of equilibrium. 
== Composition ==
In its modern incarnation, the City Council is composed of 40 Senators elected from all ten Districts and is presided over by Chancellor Trevelyan Botello, whose role is principally to serve as a consensus-driven mediator and a coalition builder. Certainly no one considers him the warlord of the Civic District, and he is uninterested in anything other then preserving the Council’s traditions and prerogatives. The modern-day Council is as powerful as it has ever been, for General Erik Herk of the Dragonsmouth Army has displayed an unprecedented deference to the Council’s dictates. It is a tense relationship in which the Council feels chained at the hip to the General’s whims, while the military high-command feels hamstrung by the whims of politicians. In any case, the General provides genuine muscle for the Council to impose its will, while the Council provides the General the legitimacy he so deeply craves. 
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