Mage/Theme/Convocation/Overview

 When Master Gaveston arrived in the New World, he landed firstly in New York. The Island of Manhattan had already been well colonized by Europeans, and under his stewardship the Fecund Coin consilium grew to prominence. His ambition for a regional convocation of the lesser with membership drawn from those colonies and cities where the Silver Ladder held sway is what gave birth to this Lesser Convocation.

 Where cities lacked consilii and resources, Gaveston paid visit. He personally oversaw the foundation of the Broken Oar in Boston, and had a large hand in the diplomacy with the French that led to the founding of the Cracked Stone in Portland. But sensing great change building in the hearts of humanity as the first wave of bourgeois revolutions would soon spell the end of the feudal aristocracy, he set his sights on Philadelphia, sensing not entirely incorrectly but also not entirely presciently that it would become the focal point of government for the resulting Fallen nation.

 To this day, Gaveston remains the author of the convocation. His hand is in its Lex Magica, and the choices he made in centuries past still reverberate in the politics and opinions of the convocation to this day.

 The Magisters of the Lesser Convocation of the Northeast still uphold a great many of the traditions of the convocations founding. The rituals of the convocation are observed, the trappings of office upheld, and the forms and formulae followed to the letter. But there are many outside of the Magisterium who have grown tired by the obstructionist activities of the Fecund Coin in New York and urge for the expansion of the convocation to include other regional consilii, and perhaps the abolition of this convocation altogether with a new one formed of more progressive minded regional consilii.

 This constitutes the single greatest intrigue in the convocation today.