The European Magic Authority
In Europe, countries had their own organizations of Magicians called Orders and these Magical Orders formed the back bone of the modern day European Magic Authority (EMA). Each country in Eurpoe, both physically located in Europe and members of the EU, have their own Magic Order and these Orders are led by noble Houses. A Grand Magician is elected from each House to rule that Order while a Head of Household rules the noble House itself. The Head of Household can dismiss the Grand Magician for misconduct or breaking Order Doctrine (OD). The OD of a Magic Order is like a codified legal framework for Magicians of that Order to follow.
All the Grand Magicians (GMAG) form what is known as the Grand Council of the European Magic Authority (GCEMA) who direct the EMA, write EMA-wide legislation that applies to all Orders, and advise the Supreme Magician (SUMA). The SUMA is the executive head of the EMA and is considered the most powerful and skilled Magician within Europe. The last SUMA was Myrddin Wynn Emrys, AKA the Wizard Merlin. He stepped down ages ago after the Death of King Arthur and no such SUMA has followed him. This is in part because prior to leaving, Merlin nor the GMAGs setup a system to pick a new SUMA, on account of Merlin being immortal and borderline unkillable. Merlin is still alive to this day, but has withdrawn from the mortal world. This has left the Grand Council in charge ever since.
Violations of an OD are tried by a Magician's home Order and not the Order territory in which the crime was committed, unless the Order has some pre-existing legal structure in place to account for this. Only the GMAG Council can unilateriily put a EMA Magician on trial from any Order but rarely do unless in cases of grave cases.
Magical Orders are legally bound to the laws of their own home land as well. If the Magical Order of France has a Magician that breaks French law, the Order is legally responsible for surrendering the Magician over to the authorities, complying with the law, and supporting or not obstructing the legal system. This goes for all Orders, meaning Magicians need to navigate two legal frameworks while in Europe.
The EMA itself is seen as an equal body to the EU but is not formally apart of the EU, treating each other as two soverign organizations. Despite this, they often work together and all EU laws also generally apply to EMA Magicians.
Structure
The European Magic Authority (EMA) is a supranational consortium of national Magical Orders, each governed by a noble lineage and unified under a continental framework of magical law and cooperation. The structure of the EMA reflects Europe’s long history of aristocracy, civil law traditions, ecclesiastical influence, and post-Enlightenment bureaucracy. Though EMA operates independently of the European Union, it mirrors its intergovernmental structure, balancing national sovereignty with continent-wide governance.
The Grand Council of the EMA (GCEMA)
Role: Supreme legislative and deliberative body
Members: All serving Grand Magicians (GMAG) of the recognized national Magic Orders
Responsibilities:
- Draft and ratify EMA-wide magical legislation
- Issue Pan-European Magical Mandates (PMMs) binding upon all Orders
- Mediate inter-order disputes and magical border conflicts
- Convene emergencies such as magical plagues, extradimensional incursions, or arcane terrorism
- Advise the Supreme Magician (SUMA) when one is seated
The Grand Council acts as a magical analog to the European Council, though with greater emphasis on consensus rather than majority rule. Council proceedings are held in the Sanctum Aureum, a neutral and heavily warded citadel hidden beneath Brussels.
Grand Magician (GMAG)
Role: Executive leader of a national Magical Order
Appointed by: The Head of Household of the ruling noble family of that Order
Responsibilities:
- Enforce the Order Doctrine (OD)—a codified magical legal framework unique to each nation
- Represent their Order in the GCEMA
- Govern magical education, enforcement, and civil administration within their national jurisdiction
- Coordinate with non-magical state governments for legal compliance and national security
Though powerful in their own right, GMAGs serve at the pleasure of their noble Houses. A Grand Magician may be dismissed for incompetence, corruption, or ideological deviance from the Order Doctrine by a formal act of "Recall by the House".
Head of Household
Role: Dynastic leader of a noble magical House
Responsibilities:
- Custodian of magical lineage, bloodlines, and arcane inheritances
- Appoints (and may remove) the Grand Magician of their Order
- Enforces intergenerational obligations to the Order Doctrine
- Maintains the ancestral seat of power and archives of magical history
These Heads often descend from ancient noble families that trace their magical bloodlines back to the Roman Collegia, the Merovingians, the Teutonic Mystics, or Arthurian sorcerer-knights. Their authority is hereditary but governed internally by feudal or dynastic custom.
Supreme Magician (SUMA)
Role: Theoretical executive head of the EMA
Powers (if active):
- Veto authority over GCEMA decisions
- Arbiter of last resort in magical law
- Embodiment of pan-European magical unity
Status: Vacant since the Age of Camelot.
The last SUMA, Myrddin Wynn Emrys (Merlin), voluntarily abdicated following the fall of Camelot. No succession mechanism was ever established, rendering the office vacant but not abolished. Though Merlin remains alive, he has withdrawn entirely from mortal governance. Efforts to restore the SUMA position have repeatedly failed due to a lack of unanimity among the Grand Magicians.
The National Magic Orders
Each European country maintains its own Magical Order, a sovereign institution responsible for regulating all magical affairs within its borders. These Orders are:
- Legally bound to their respective national laws
- Structured around noble rule, arcane bureaucracy, and generational doctrine
- Governed by a localized Order Doctrine (OD)—a comprehensive magical constitution, enforceable by the Order's judiciary
Each Order maintains its magical academies, disciplinary courts, and enforcement cadres, though all are subject to GCEMA coordination on matters of transnational importance.
Territories
The European Magic Authority (EMA) primarily governs and coordinates magical activity across the sovereign nations of Europe and their affiliated Orders. However, the legacy of European imperial expansion has left deep, arcane imprints far beyond the continent’s borders.
During the colonial era, the Magical Orders of imperial powers—such as Britain, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands—were tasked with extending magical oversight into their overseas possessions. These efforts established EMA-aligned magical jurisdictions throughout Africa, Asia, the Americas, India, and Oceania, often in parallel with or in domination over indigenous magical traditions. In many cases, these Orders forcibly imposed their Order Doctrines upon local magical populations, resulting in long-term spiritual, legal, and metaphysical disruptions.
In the modern post-colonial era, the state of occupation varies:
- Some territories have successfully reasserted magical independence and established sovereign arcane governments rooted in indigenous tradition.
- Others remain entangled in legal bindings or magical treaties that grant EMA Grand Magicians residual authority.
A notable example is the United Kingdom Magical Administration (UKMA), whose Grand Magician retains executive magical authority over most of the Commonwealth Realms, including Australia, New Zealand, and several Caribbean nations. An exception is Canada, whose magical sovereignty was formally transferred to the Grand Iroquois Confederacy (ICON). Even so, EMA rulings—particularly those issued by the Grand Council of Magicians (GCEMA)—can override Confederacy decisions on issues involving EMA-registered Canadian magicians, reflecting a fragile and contested legal architecture.
These jurisdictional complexities are not unique to the UK. Many former colonial powers maintain arcane entitlements or obligations across the globe. The result is a vast, fragmented, and often contradictory magical legal framework, where overlapping claims of cultural sovereignty, ancestral magic, and EMA precedent frequently collide.
In summary, while the EMA's ancestral domain lies within Europe, its arcane reach extends into many regions shaped by the continent’s colonial past. Though much of this influence is now contested, symbolic, or under legal renegotiation, the EMA continues to wield significant authority on matters of magical importance well beyond Europe’s physical boundaries.
Laws
Legal and Judicial Framework
Magicians in Europe operate under dual legal obligations:
- Order Doctrine (OD) of their home, the Magical Order
- Civil Law of their nation-state
Violations of magical law (OD) are prosecuted by a magician’s home Order, even if the offense occurred abroad, unless mutual legal structures or treaties specify otherwise. Civil crimes must be answered to the secular government, and Orders are legally required to surrender members accused of non-magical crimes. Only the Grand Council may initiate a continental magical tribunal, typically reserved for crimes like:
- High Treason against the EMA
- Unauthorized invocation of forbidden magic
- Cross-border magical terrorism
The official magical currency of the European Magic Authority (EMA) is the Imperial Escudo, a coinage system rooted in the arcane-economic traditions of the Spanish Golden Age. Originally minted in 16th-century Spain, the escudo was adopted during the height of Iberian magical dominance—when Spain's Magical Order extended its influence across the Americas, Africa, and Asia, both in the Realworld and through the Otherworld.
Unlike mundane currencies, the Imperial Escudo was never fully phased out. It was preserved and sanctified by a Binding Continental Magical Accord ratified by the major European Magical Orders following the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), which sought to unify Europe's fractious magical economies under a single arcane standard. The escudo's continued use reflects both imperial nostalgia and the European tendency toward traditionalist magical continuity, where historical legitimacy enhances magical potency.
The Spanish Magical Order retains exclusive rights to mint and enchant new escudo coinage. Though escudos are widely circulated throughout Europe’s magical domains, they are non-negotiable and valueless in the mundane economy. Outside of EMA-recognized Middleworlds or aligned governments, escudos are treated as little more than exotic curiosities.
The escudo remains the mandatory currency in all magical Middleworlds still under EMA influence, particularly in former colonies where postcolonial arcane sovereignty has yet to be fully established.
Strategic Partnership under UCE Oversight
- Both EMA and WAPID are sovereign agencies recognized by the United Confederation of Earth (UCE) and the United Nations Global Security Board (UNGSC).
- While they operate in different domains—magic (EMA) vs. psionics (WAPID)—they regularly collaborate on hybrid threats, extradimensional incursions, and psychic-magical crossbreaches.
- A formal “Arcane-Psionic Concord” governs information sharing, operational boundaries, and jurisdictional hierarchy when mental and magical domains overlap.
- Inter-agency liaisons are posted at key installations, including Aberdeen (WAPID HQ) and Sanctum Aureum (EMA Council Site).
Bilateral Recognition with Special Observer Protocols
- ICON holds Observer Status in the United Confederation of Earth (UCE), same as EMA.
- Both recognize each other as sovereign magical authorities, but do not share jurisdiction.
- No binding defense pact, but they do collaborate on containment of extradimensional threats, magical trafficking, and stabilization of leyline breaches.
- Disputes are resolved through the Council of Magical Equilibrium, a neutral arbitration body.
Interjurisdictional Mutual Observer Accord
Under the authority of the United Confederation of Earth (UCE), INTERPOL and the European Magic Authority (EMA) maintain a Mutual Observer Relationship with Conditional Recognition, enshrined in the Brussels Concordat of Magical-Secular Coordination (2023). This framework establishes non-binding cooperation, mutual consultation rights, and limited extradition authority over magical subjects.
Cooperative Neutrality with Limited Strategic Partnership
SEAC and EMA recognize each other as sovereign, legitimate transnational authorities operating under UN oversight and EU recognition (respectively). Still, they do not share a formal alliance, jurisdiction, or joint governance body. Their interactions are case-by-case, driven by shared concerns (xenothreats, magical anomalies, post-colonial disputes) rather than ideological unity.
They maintain non-hostile, cautious respect for each other’s domains of expertise—SEAC in interstellar policy and scientific ethics; EMA in arcane law, magical governance, and cultural continuity.
Mutual Observer Relationship with Conditional Recognition
The EMA is classified as an Observer Member of the UCE. The UCE recognizes the EMA as a non-state supranational arcane authority with jurisdiction over magical affairs in Europe and affiliated territories.
They do not share full political integration, voting rights, or judicial reciprocity, but frequently cooperate on matters of shared interest, particularly in magical ethics, interdimensional law, and extradimensional threats.
Formal Collaboration Under Mutual Oversight Agreements
- Joint Operations: EMA and HAVOC coordinate on shared threats involving extra-dimensional anomalies, rogue magicians, artifact recovery, and high-risk magical POIs.
- HAVOC retains a presence in EMA territories, but only through joint task forces and under strict local magical oversight.
- EMA has full veto authority over HAVOC’s magical engagements in European jurisdictions via Grand Council Treaty Protocols.
- Liaison Channels: Managed through the EMA-HAVOC Joint Crisis Working Group, which reports to both the Grand Council of Magicians (GCEMA) and the White House / UNGSC.
Though EMA recognizes the strategic value of HAVOC’s H-TAS system and its rapid containment response capabilities, many Grand Magicians distrust HAVOC’s loose ethical standards and American-style militarized magic.
HAVOC sees the EMA as competent but ossified—an organization that prioritizes tradition and symbolic authority over efficient, decisive threat response. Despite this, HAVOC personnel frequently serve as field-level consultants during operations involving volatile entities or forbidden spellcraft, where American tactics, though crude, often succeed where ceremonialism falters.
Magocratic Estrangement with Enchanted Conflict Containment
- No formal contact exists between the EMA and the AARF. The GCEMA has passed multiple Continental Magical Mandates (PMMs) declaring AARF-aligned mages persona non grata.
- AARF-affiliated magicians detected within European borders are subject to immediate arcane quarantine, memory scrying, or forced de-binding of magical pacts under emergency Order Doctrine.
- EMA Magical Orders are authorized to conduct cross-border retrievals of magical items or persons if AARF involvement is suspected—even in non-EU jurisdictions—provided a GCEMA quorum is reached.
- The AARF, in turn, treats EMA-aligned magical assets abroad as valid targets for liberation or sabotage, often recruiting rogue ex-Order mages to undermine EMA legitimacy.
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