Matriarch/Patriarch
A title known only to supernaturals and their human family/household members who have been permitted access to magical knowledge, but almost universally respected among them.
Qualifications
Determined by each individual family/household in their own way; often related to age, how many responsibilities the member takes up, power level/magical skill, or just the amount of respect the family/household holds for the member.
Requirements
The only hard-and-fast requirements are that the holder be a supernatural, themself, and that there be no more than two holders in the same family/household.
Appointment
All supernatural members of the family/household must attend a meeting of the local Supernatural Council and state agreement to the member(s) being appointed as their representative(s). Some councils require paperwork be signed and filed, but other than that, nothing further is required.
Duties
A Matriarch/Patriarch is expected to oversee the magical education of the supernatural children in their family/household, whether that means assessing the child’s abilities so that they know which member(s) of the family/household to delegate the task to, contacting other families because nobody else in the family/household holds the same type of magic as the child, etc.
They're also expected to mediate magic-related conflicts both between different members of their family/household and between their own family/household and others.
Responsibilities
Matriarchs/Patriarchs are expected to attend council meetings, which are generally held to put a new magical law to vote, when a supernatural criminal needs put on trial/punished for magic-related crimes, and other such events that are bigger than just one or two families/households.
Grounds for Removal/Dismissal
The title is generally only revoked if the local Supernatural Council and/or the holder's family/household agree a holder is no longer fit for the role, e.g., they've abused their position, they've been rendered housebound and unable to attend council meetings by illness, etc.
Type
Magical, Honorific
Status
In effect
Form of Address
Matriarch [Surname]/Patriarch [Surname]
Source of Authority
The consensus of the individual family/household
Length of Term
Until death, barring revocation
Current Holders
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