Council of Nine
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The Council of Nine, or simply the Council, is the leadership of the Council of Nine Mystic Traditions. The Council meets in special Chambers in the city of Concordia in Horizon. They gather at a round table with ten seats; nine seats are emblazoned with the symbols of one of the nine Spheres, while the tenth was historically set aside for guests.
Each Tradition historically had a seat on the council, and one representative from each Tradition would be that Tradition's representative on the Council, and holder of the seat. Marianna of Balador, for example, represented the Verbena on the Seat of Life.
The Council officially met once every nine years, although no all councillors attended each meeting. According to some, the 1967 meeting was the last "big" one, although this conflicts with information found in Mage: The Ascension Second Edition. Knowing the information presented therein, it's possible to extrapolate all past meeting dates.[1]
[edit] History
The Council officially met in the following years:
- 1466: The founding of the Council
- 1475: 1st Council
- 1484: 2nd Council
- 1493: 3rd Council
- 1502: 4th Council
- 1511: 5th Council
- 1520: 6th Council
- 1529: 7th Council
- 1538: 8th Council
- 1547: 9th Council
- 1556: 10th Council
- 1565: 11th Council
- 1574: 12th Council
- 1583: 13th Council
- 1592: 14th Council
- 1601: 15th Council
- 1610: 16th Council
- 1619: 17th Council
- 1628: 18th Council
- 1637: 19th Council
- 1646: 20th Council
- 1655: 21st Council
- 1664: 22nd Council
- 1673: 23rd Council
- 1682: 24th Council
- 1691: 25th Council
- 1700: 26th Council
- 1709: 27th Council
- 1718: 28th Council
- 1727: 29th Council
- 1736: 30th Council
- 1745: 31st Council
- 1754: 32nd Council
- 1763: 33rd Council
- 1772: 34th Council
- 1781: 35th Council
- 1790: 36th Council
- 1799: 37th Council
- 1808: 38th Council
- 1817: 39th Council
- 1826: 40th Council
- 1835: 41st Council
- 1844: 42nd Council
- 1853: 43rd Council
- 1862: 44th Council
- 1871: 45th Council
- 1880: 46th Council
- 1889: 47th Council
- 1898: 48th Council
- 1907: 49th Council
- 1916: 50th Council
- 1925: 51st Council
- 1934: 52nd Council
- 1943: 53rd Council
- 1952: 54th Council
- 1961: 55th Council
- 1970: 56th Council
- 1979: 57th Council
- 1988: 58th Council
- 1997: 59th Council[1]
Unfortunately, the 59th Council was to be its last, as the the Horizon War and Avatar Storm followed shortly thereafter, not to mention the ravages of Armageddon. Had it survived, the Council's next meeting was to have been in 2006.
