The Free Council is a diverse body formed by loyalty to shared beliefs, rather than by necessity, and held together by its ideas more than its traditions. So far, the Free Council has remained a unified front, and keep its members in line. Still from time to time, a Free Council mage or cabal commits a spectacular error, and members of the ancient orders rumble about how the incident proves that the Council isn't worthy of inclusion with the Diamond Orders. Since then, Atlantean mages and the Seers of the Throne, the former with pride, and the latter with hate, refer to the Pentacle Orders, an alliance between the Diamond Orders and the Free Assemblies. The Diamond Orders with considerable reluctance and concern about 'polluting" the legacy of Atlantis, accepted the Free Council as a valid Order. The emphatic, and rather insulting nature of the Nameless' response became known as the Great Refusal, marking them as intractably opposed to the Seers' goals. The breakthrough came in the form of invitations from various representatives of the Seers of the Throne, asking these Nameless mages to join them in opposing the Diamond Orders and sealing Sleepers off from their rightful magical heritage forever. While these groups were somewhat in agreement about the limits of the feudal system of Awakened society, there was no unifying banner under which these groups could organize the Atlantean Orders of the day contemptuously called them Nameless. But, for the first time in recorded Awakened history, mages began discussing the possibility that Awakened society might benefit from implementing these heretical ideas among themselves. However, they were largely used among the initiates and apprentices of the Paths, and once they reach the rank of disciple largely forgotten once they grew out of such fantasies. The origins of those ideas weren't completely new mages were familiar with the concepts of 'republic' and 'democracy' and other popular phrases coined by the ancient Greeks. The Free Council began as small, disparate groups and cliques of Apostate mages who were taken with new ideas circulating through Sleeper society at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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