The Seers of the Throne
Left to their own devices, the Seers of the Throne would love to nothing more than to destroy Boston’s Consilium utterly or, failing that, pull out of Boston altogether. Much to their chagrin, they can do neither.
The first course is entirely impossible; the Ebon Noose learned hard lessons from the destruction of the Stone Assembly and keeps close tabs on known Seers and their territory. Consequently, the Seers have become much more insular and independent since the Noose’s rise to power. While the Seers feel quite strongly that they, as the foremost servants of the Exarchs, should easily be able to best a Consilium of common mages, the fact is, they, like most local mages, fear the Secret Concord.
On the other hand, Harvard is the Seers’ favorite (and most powerful) tool for controlling the American leadership class, and they have no intention of giving it up. Outside of Harvard’s Psychomimetic Operations and a couple of cabals in very low-key corporate offices, Seers maintain a presence in Boston largely as monitors (i.e., spies) and skirmishers. Many of the Seers of the Throne working in Boston feel vulnerable to the mages of Boston’s Consilium. The Seers are outnumbered, and they know it. Some take great pains to keep tabs on the Consilium; others keep a low profile or happily ignore the Consilium while exploiting Boston and its magical and mundane resources as much as possible. All in all, the Seers of the Throne have three major cabals in the Boston area and a number of smaller cabals.
Boston’s Seers could not withstand a concerted strike against them by Boston’s Consilium mages, but the Seers also believe that the reverse is true if all the Seers pylons were to coordinate against the Consilium — an unlikely occurrence thanks to their mutual paranoia of one another. Consequently, the Seers of the Throne see to it that their operations in Boston are carried out with unusual subtlety and discretion.
Even the mages of Psychomimetic Operations enjoy a degree of protection from the hallowed ivory tower barriers of Harvard. Dr. Kether and her pylon observe a fairly broad degree of control over their efforts on the Exarch’s behalf. Other pylons envy them. They, in turn, fear and loathe the other two pylons (respectively). These are the subtle mages of the Asylum and the extremely unsubtle mages of Scorpio.
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