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LEX MAGICA of the MARTYR'S TREE CONSILIUM

GOLD LAW

1. RECOGNIZED by SUPREMACY: Their ubiquity in ancient law speaks their truth.
   1. RIGHT of CROSSING: Let no borders stop an Awakened with a clear heart.
      1. SLC: (Gaveston, NYC) Each cadre, order, path, consilium, or other assembly of the Awakened Recognized before the Lex Magica or comprised of individuals Recognized before the Lex Magica shall make public notice of the safe and permissible path through their territory in whatever realm of being such claims are Recognized before the Lex Magica.
      2. SLD: (Maxim, NYC) In some consilii, Recognition is on occasion granted to beings of the Fallen World who have proven their merit. Does the convocation suggest their territorial claims respected? The will of the lawyer is not the soul of the law. We answer no.
      3. SLD: (Pontiff, PHL) Any limitation of the Precept of Recognition is not codified in Silver Law concordance, neither by Harmony, nor Supremacy. If you wish to limit who is Recognized by your councilors because you fear the wisdom of their Recognition, raise up wiser councilors. We have the leaders we deserve. We say yes.
   2. RIGHT of EMERITUS: Those who have earned respect must be treated with respect.
      1. SLC: (Gaveston, NYC) Those Recognized by the consilium as members thereof shall afford respect and deference to officers of the consilium according to their status therein; they shall not impede their just and sanctioned activities, nor hinder their travel or liberty, nor tamper with their minds, patterns, or souls save they violate the Right of Sanctuary. In all other matters, the unwise owe respect to the wise; the initiate to the apprentice, the apprentice to the disciple, the disciple to the adept, the adept to the master, the master to the master of the second degree, etc. Each order may create what hierarchies seem sensible to them, or enforce none if it please them to do so.
      2. SLC: (Djinn, BST) Respect and deference is not fealty. Gaveston was writing during a time of nascent colonialism and unbridled white supremacist western expansion. Give me no reason to do otherwise, and yes. I will respect my wise betters. Come in the name of the consilium, and enjoy my cooperation. Demand submission for unwise ends and I am obliged to resist.
      3. SLC: (Kairos, PTD) You will be well regarded if you treat others well regardless of your power. How much wiser are those wise who treat others as they would wish to be treated?
   3. RIGHT of HOSPITALITY: Those who request hospitality must be granted it.
      1. SLC: (Gaveston, NYC) The Awakened Nation of the Diamond Orders are few in number. Beset on all sides by servants of the Lie, agents of the Abyss, Banishers and the Mad. If we cannot look to each other for succor in times of peril, we shall surely fall to our manifold enemies. In accordance with this, each cadre, consilium, and order shall make known the manner of their hospitality and the extent of its charity. Its observance shall be marked upon each sigil of every cadre. For in this new world, we are all travelers in need of lodgings against its perilous night.
      2. SLD: (Djinn, BST) Bluntly, this is not the mind we should be looking to for examples of Hospitality. He was complicit in the spilling of more awakened blood during his tenure than the sum of that which has been spilled in the centuries since in this convocation. There is no wisdom to be found in his words here, and were it permitted I would blot this entry of his in particular from the page. We are to be hospitable to our peers when they ask it of us. The form that takes is up to each individual cadre. Making your manner public is optional. Having a sigil is optional. Marking it with the great rights is optional. Had Gaveston been more interested in the spirit of this Right rather than obsessed over how it be adorned like an epaulet the whole of the world would be a far better place.
      3. SLD: (Kairos, PTD) The broken clock wrote at the opportune hour. Would that he had remembered what he had written. Yet there is wisdom you may glean from this: even your own wisdom is useless unless it be remembered in times of adversity. It is too precious to set aside for sake of expediency.
      4. SLD: (Cavalier, PHL) On behalf of the Libertine Caucus: Fuck this guy. If you need a law to remind you to be kind to your confederates, the absence of such a law isn't the problem. Be better.
      5. SLD: (Pontiff, PHL) Tradition demands we observe this Right, though I find myself unable to disagree with the Cavalier's Wisdom here. They were correct. It should not be necessary. But it is helpful when we know who to run to and how they will receive us. In this, sigils and publishing your interpretation of this Right is, as my colleague suggests, being better.
   4. RIGHT of NEMESIS: When vengeance is declared, let none stand in its way.
      1. SLC: (Gaveston, NYC) Let none stand in its way, certainly. But limit its scope and reach also. In this we look both to Atlantean practice and to the Fallen World and its dueling customs. First, you must declare your grievance and ensure the object of your ire is aware it exists. You must give them the opportunity to address your ire and, if possible, ameliorate it. Failing this, a circle shall be squared and the two parties then meet within it so as to ascertain who holds the might and merit and who shall bow their head, should a head remain to be bowed.
      2. SLC: (Kairos, PTD) Communicate constructively always and you will find your ire rising far more infrequently. Do not look to Nemesis to resolve your troubles. Look to yourself to not make nemeses of your friends and peers. Then the fault of any duel will rest on the head of the one who rebuffed your open hand.
      3. SLD: (Cavalier, PHL) The belief that might makes right derives from the Iron Pyramid. You sound like a Seer when you fill the air around you with such nonsense.
      4. SLD: (Pontiff, PHL) This is true of might of arms and other fallen concepts. One's Supernal might does not, it is needless to say, derive from the Exarchs. The Duel Arcane is a pressure valve. A place to settle your disputes without bringing the walls of the world down around you. Use it if you must.
   5. RIGHT of SANCTUARY: Protect your home, and let no action cause it harm.
2. RECOGNIZED by ARTIFACT: The artifacts of the ancients are the keys to understanding.
   1. Right of Execution: An awakened life is sacred but not inviolate. The mask of the Interfector, passed down to us from the time before, is a sacred tool of anonymity for the executioner. Its existence makes this truth manifest. The right and responsibility for execution belongs to the Guardians of the Veil and their chosen Interfector, the authority to issue such a sentence belongs to the council alone.

SILVER LAW

1. RECOGNIZED by SUPREMACY
   1. PRECEPT of SECRECY:
   2. PRECEPT of PROTECTORATE:
   3. PRECEPT of HUBRIS:
   4. PRECEPT of WAR:
   5. PRECEPT of RECOGNITION:

BRONZE LAW

1. CREATION of HALLOWS
   1. Cadre Questors v. Mysterium (1736) : Summary: Questors, a cadre, used Prime practices to Make a hallow within the confines of their domain. This disturbed the Ley Lines of the city in unanticipated ways, which prompted the Mysterium to challenge the Wisdom and legality of such a creation. The Lictor assigned to the matter ruled that the Cadre had not acted unlawfully, though perhaps Unwisely. They were asked to render their Hallow dormant on the condition that the Mysterium then provide advice as to where a Hallow might be created in their Territory without such disruption. The Lictor, in their decision, further suggested that henceforth such creation of Hallows be done only with the advisement of the Mysterium and the consent of the Council of the Wise.
2. DUEL ARCANE
   1. Seedling v. Constantine II (1798) : Summary: Seedling, a Thyrsus of the Children of the Tree, was considered to have breached Right of Emeritus before Councilor Constantine II. Seedling, feeling himself justified in the comments he'd been speaking at the time, could not be made to understand his error. He declined to meet the Councilor for what would have been a very one sided duel, which prompted Constantine to seek Seedling out. This resulted in over a score of the Unnamed Nation placing themselves between Constantine and Disciple Seedling. Rather than repeat Gaveston's Hubris, Constantine brought the matter before a Lictor. In their decision, the Lictor ruled that since the Children of the Tree did not Recognize the right of Nemesis in the same way as the Diamond Orders, they had not violated Nemesis in refusing to duel or standing between Constantine and Seedling. It was further ruled that any future Duels between the Children of the Tree and the Diamond Orders not be sanctioned unless by leave of the Hierarch or a Lictor in the event the Council of the Wise is involved in the dispute. This sanction to be given if and only if the Magus seeking nemesis against a Scion have met with their Warmaker and the target of their ire. Failure of either party to consent to mediation will be viewed as a violation of the Hierarch's right of Emeritus.
   2. Kraken v. Agamemnon (1799) : Summary: Adept Kraken of the Mysterium and Adept Agamemnon of the Guardians of the Veil had enjoyed a rivalry for years. Kraken, an Acquisitor, found herself frequently at odds with Agamemnon the Redactor. Both magi made a habit of snatching imbued items and grimoires out from under the other's nose, with the items going to the respective repositories of their orders. This came to a head when Agamemnon destroyed an Artifact alleged to have been created by a left hand practitioner. The negotiations of the Duel Arcane that resulted had both parties wishing for a duel to the death to resolve at last their decades old dispute. The matter was brought before the Council of the Wise which ruled as follows: Under no pretext should a duel to the death occur between two magi for esoteric disputes over praxis and ideology. The only matter where a duel to the death will be entertained is in a matter which carries a capital penalty, and where such a duel may substitute for the judgment of the council; such as the murder of a member of the consilium when the challenger is a cadre member of the slain, or when an individual has destroyed a Supernal artifact belonging to a cadre, or when a Hallow belonging to a Cadre has been extinguished permanently. Duels in such cases will be considered a request for the matter to be dealt with through the Precept of War by the Cadre so offended, though the results of the duel will be treated as the binding decision of the Council of the Wise in the matter, save that the results of the duel will not establish Bronze Law precedent and pertain to that matter individually.

IRON LAW

1. COUNCIL ARCHIVES
   1. Cadre Council of the Wise & Mysterium (1832) Summary: The Council of the Wise have contracted with the Mysterium Caucus to house their growing library of grimoires and imbued items in safer and more permanent housing. The price of this housing is access to the archives with permission of and oversight by the Curator.

1. ASSEMBLY of the UNNAMED NATION
   1. Unnamed Orders (Free Council) & Children of the Tree (1911): Summary: A formal treaty between the united Unnamed Orders (Free Council) and the Children of the Martyr's Tree, detailing the creation of the Assembly of the Unnamed Nation, outlining their partnership and cooperation and the pledge of mutual respect and aid. It is the founding document of the local Assembly, and frequently cited text among the Libertine Caucuses of the world to this day.

LEGEND

• SLC: Silver Law Concordance: This entry is Recognized by Harmony by all member consilii of the convocation.
• SLD: Silver Law Discordance: This entry is interpreted according to the views of the council of the member consilium.
• Consilii Codes:
  • BST: Boston, Mass
  • NYC: New York City, NY
  • PHL: Philadelphia, PA (Martyr's Tree)
  • PTD: Portland, ME