White Council

The White Council is an organization of mages and wizards gathered from all over the world into a college of experts, studying the arts of magic and exchanging their information with one another.

Originally founded by Merlyn in 300 CE, the White Council's primary objective is to protect the interests of the larger magical community. Their approach to this objective has been at times extremely proactive-- even violent.

The Council maintains Seven rules of magic and its uses. These rules are: Do not use magic to kill; do not forcibly change the shape of other humans; do not manipulate a mortal mind (minor compulsions, glamours, and telepathy are permissible); do not use magic to bind or enslave creatures; do not practice necromancy; no magic manipulating time; and do not open the Outer Gates to the Realm Between Worlds.

The Council enforces these rules with the Wardens, powerful battlemagi armed with magic-breaking swords. The Senior Council seats seven members, the chief of which is currently Arthur Langtry, who holds the ceremonial title of 'Merlin'.