Tribunal of Fate

The **Tribunal of Fate**, formerly **Tribunal of Justice** and also known as Orion Tribunal, is the judicial system of the Orion plain.

## Charter

The Tribunal was established along with the Starkeepers around 1 MY ADZ by Fate. It was created after the War of Eons as "Tribunal of Justice" to punish the oppressive Primordials that ruled most of cosmology (including Orion) for eons. Following Fate's death, the Tribunal was renamed "Tribunal of Fate".

## Charter

The Charter of Orion is the divine commandment created by Fate for the entire Orion System. It is a criminal statute aimed primarily to punish Primordials. However, it applies to all entities within Orion, including deities native or not. It is also frequently used-most of the time successfully–by the commonality against cruel and tyrannical monarchies.

## Justices

The Justices of Orion are the beings responsible for the application of the Orion Charter of Law and the adjudication of all cases tried under it. All justices are criminal judges, they do not hear civil cases.

The Tribunal employs a unique judicial system, without the usual court hierarchy and appeals mechanism. The Tribunal is organised into three estates (the Princely Celestials, the Knightly Saints and the Enlightened Souls) as well as the Masterful Trinity. Only Trinity employs professional justices, who studied law and completed specialised training. The justices of the estates do not need to meet such prerequisites; they require practical legal experience of any kind (judges, attorneys, legal scholars, or simply law-related assistants, interns, clerks or just spectators).

### Masterful Trinity

The masterful trinity is a professional judicial body that reviews the legality of verdicts of the estates, supervises the Starkeepers and governs the administration of justice. It consists of a Presiding Justice and two further Justices.

Furthermore, it is responsible for issuing appointment certificates to new justices and is in charge of all promotions and demotions of the justices of the Tribunal. It has disciplinary authority over all justices, magistrates and Starkeepers.

The Masterful Trinity is the only collegiate body within the Tribunal, meaning it has to render its decisions jointly based on majority votes. Due to the immense caseload of the Trinity, work is split among the justices; one justice supervises the Starkeepers, while another oversees the magistrates. The Presiding Justice usually is responsible for the appointment, removal, promotion and demotion of justices. The Trinity is assisted by countless clerks and aides, who actually formulate the decisions of the Tribunal, while the Justices merely approve them.

Justices of the Masterful Trinity have studied law for 8 years and done 8 years of specialised training.

### Princely Celestials

The Princely Celestials are the estate of the Tribunal composed of Deities (including lesser, common and greater) as well as a select view of powerful Divine Ones. Following the Enlightened Souls, it is the estate that adjudicated the second most cases, as almost all Deities were banished following the Primordial conquest of Orion.

### Knightly Saints

The Knightly Saints are the estate of the Tribunal composed of royalty, nobility and other aristocrats.

### Enlightened Souls

The Enlightened Souls are the estate of the Tribunal composed of the commonalty. Since they bore the brunt of casualties and damage as a result of Primoridal rule and the War of Eons, the Enlightened Souls are the ones that adjudicated the most cases.