Editing Mage: the Awakening: Twenty-Five Lighters (section)

==NPCs of Interest==

===Ruling Council===
* '''Heirarch''': Renee Gavriel (Mysterium)
* '''Provost Primus''': Julius (Guardians of the Veil)
* '''Provost Secundus''': FuX0r (Free Council)
* '''Herald Primus''': Xenios (Silver Ladder)
* '''Herald Secundus''': Jackson Rusk (Silver Ladder)
* '''Sentinel''': Kirpan (Guardians of the Veil)
* '''Sentinel''': Marian Made (Mysterium)

===Councilors===
* '''Acanthus''': Laarsen (Silver Ladder) -- Special Projects Coordinator for City Council Member Oreza and primary source of political intelligence to the Consilium
* '''Mastigos''': Logos (Guardians of the Veil) -- leader of the Cui Bono cabal and mentor of Sentinel Kirpan; together with Assita Falls, Logos has discovered or partially initiated nearly one-third of the region's novice Pentacle mages over the last two decades
* '''Moros''': Samael (Mysterium) -- leader of the Verba Non Acta cabal and long-time investigative journalist for the ''Houston Press'' alternative newsweekly
* '''Obrimos''': Hsing Sun (Mysterium)  -- the Most Venerable Hsing Sun is the current abbot of Guang Tien Di Temple, leader of the Jing Dao cabal, and a sage of the Perfected Adept Legacy. One of the oldest mages in the Houston area, Hsing Sun maintains one of the largest collections of Eastern Supernal lore in North America.
* '''Thyrsus''': Assita Falls (Silver Ladder) -- leader of the Seven Mercies cabal and administrator of the Jubilee Restoration House, a private outreach organization providing a network of transitioning housing facilities and homeless shelters throughout Greater Houston.

===Diamond Orders===

====Adamantine Arrows====
* '''Fiery Analemma''' -- six mages that were the vanguard of the campaign against the Seers in the Greater Houston area. Withdrew to Galveston after the Storm after suffering major casualties during an assault against a Seer pylon operating near the Port of Houson.

====Guardians of the Veil====
* '''Cui Bono''' -- a self-styled "oversight" cabal dedicated to keeping an eye on newly-Awakened mages and "keeping them out of trouble," Cui Bono also strives to shield Sleepers from any malevolent supernatural influence. Currently guided by the Mastigos mage known as Logos, the Cui Bono mages work closely with leading mages in the region, trading information and other resorces as needed.
* '''Lightning Razors''' -- one of the larger cabals in the region, they are composed of three cells of three martially-focused mages that once worked closely with the Fiery Analemma cabal. Most notorious for pursuing and defeating the Mad One calling himself "Kadmon."

====Mysterium====
* '''Men of Letters''' -- organized by five mages of the Mysterium, the Men of Letters cabal is composed of academics from among the University of Houston, the University of St. Thomas, and Rice University. Having recently won acclaim for repelling an incursion of passion spirits on the UST campus, the Men of Letters tend to work alone in order to concentrate on pure research.
* '''Lone Star Environmental LLC''' -- an environmental consulting company started by two mages, normally completing contracts for petrochemical firms and providing additional expertise for academic investigations.

====Silver Ladder====
* '''Thalassa, Magna & Assoc. LLP''' -- a cutthroat PIP law firm founded by Robert Thalassa and Thomasina Magna. Censured for using Awakened Arts to arrange desired outcomes in court, Thalassa and Magna nonetheless evade more adverse action against them by providing pro bono legal assistance to any mage that engages their services.
* '''Staff & Serpent''' -- SAS began eight years ago as a local coed service fraternity on the UH campus. After the original founder-mages graduated, they retained the name for the public policy research institute they organized a few years later. Staff and Serpent works closely with Thalassa and Magna, trading networking resources and research for various legal services including harassment and obstruction of their adversaries.
* '''Jubilee Restoration House''' -- now headed by Councilor Assita Falls after the assassination of its founder Kortikos by the Seers, the four mages working in this private outreach organization help provide vital services for battered women and children, the homeless, and other souls in desperate need.

===Free Council===
* '''4-Tay''' -- a hip-hop collective formed by the rap duo "4-Tay" and their Sleeper associates. Constant touring keeps them in touch with other Awakened mages throughout the South.
* '''Raditek Consultants''' -- a private firm providing IT and engineering consulting services along with temporary staffing services, started by three mages just out of college.

===Left-Hand Path Mages===
* '''Order of the Bennu''' -- reclusive sect of eight mages and non-Awakened sorcerers reported to use an Ancient Egyptian praxis. Content to stay near their communal waterfront property near the Bear Creek Reservoir, the Order has to date avoided sanction from the Consilium, though they resist any and all attempts at intrusion and surveillance with a combination of mundane technology and powerful Mind and Spirit countermagics.

===Seers of the Throne===
* '''Roderick Saxon''' -- a defector from the Mysterium, Roderick Saxon is the CEO and owner of the Saxon Group, a multinational real estate corporation that is one of the top five managers of office and residential property in the South. The Ruling Council has attempted multiple assassinations of the traitor, but as Saxon rarely leaves the tower which serves as his home and corporate headquarters and is a Master of Fate and Prime, all have failed.

===Banishers and Mad Ones===
* '''"IX"'''
* '''Kadmon'''

===Unaligned and Solitaries===
* '''Alessandro Ficino''' -- former UH communications professor and Silver Ladder renunciate who wages a vengeful hacktivist crusade against hate groups and other extremists
* '''Haroun''' -- forensic analyst and disciple of Samael with potent skill in alchemical and Enochian arts
* '''Fleur de Noire''' -- trio of transgendered mages notable for their expertise in divination and fateweaving
* '''Black Fist''' -- self-styled "professional gadfly" and performance artist who regularly stages demonstrations and protests on behalf of illegal immigrants and other social outcasts

===Sleepers===
* '''Saul Gavriel''' -- chief of staff of the Gavriel Collection
* '''Simon Gavriel''' -- liaison to the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs
* '''Lluvia Oreza''' -- Houston City Council member and Chair of the Public Safety Committee
* '''Special Agent Etta Battles''' -- Special Agent Battles cut her teeth in counterterrorism and white collar crime investigation. After her promotion to SAC of the Houston FBI Field Office two years ago, Battles proved an able commander and coordinator of the eighteen month probe of AZB Associates.
* '''Sgt. Jonathan Core''' -- HPD patrolman placed on medical leave after reporting an assault by "blood-drinking skinhead freaks"
* '''Francisco Reyes''' -- minister of the Promise House, a nondenominational agency providing shelter and counseling services to homeless and runaway youths 
* '''An Shen-Li''' -- music promoter affiliated with the 4-Tay collective; occasional live turntablist and instrumental artist under the alter ego "Surgical Strife"