The Order is divided into 13 Tribunals, each of which administers a region of Mythic Europe. Once every seven years, the Magi within a Tribunal hold a meeting, called a Tribunal, where new Magi are presented, new Masters are recognized, and new Archmagi are honored. The Quaesitores judge disputes, which cannot be resolved within a covenant, a magical community. The Tribunal is presided over by a Praeco, usually the eldest Magus or Maga present. The legality of the Tribunal is supervised by the ruling Quaesitor, who determines whether a quorum is present to legitimize the proceedings.
Once every 33 years, each Tribunal sends a representative to a Grand Tribunal, which takes place in Durenmar, the domus magna of House Bonisagus. The Grand Tribunal proceeds much like a regional Tribunal, but the Primus of House Bonisagus is always the Praeco, and the Primus of House Guernicus is the ruling Quaesitor.
The 13 Tribunals:
- Greater Alps (mountainous regions of Central Europe)
- Hibernia (Ireland)
- Iberia (Spain and Portugal)
- Levant (the Holy Land)
- Loch Leglean (Scotland)
- Normandy (Northern France and the County of Flanders)
- Novgorod (Russia and parts of Eastern Europe)
- Provence (approximately Occitania, or le Midi of France)
- Rhine (Northern parts of the Holy Roman Empire)
- Rome (Italy)
- Stonehenge (England and Wales)
- Thebes (Balkans)
- Transylvania (Parts of Eastern Europe)
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