Council of Avlor Aten

The Council of Avlor Aten governs the Geroni city of Avlor Aten in the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World"). As the civil head consul Orpi described it, he himself oversees civil and diplomatic affairs, Julia oversees justice and Soteris commands the armies; the tabaxi Kuraks separately heads the city's detectives, the Eyes of Aten.¹²

Asked whether the three answered to the Father, the Mother and the Wise Child shown in a temple, Orpi denied any such link and said that his people had more than three gods.³

Judging the strangers

When a band of strangers from Aquila arrived in the city through a painting, Soteris warned them that the council could sentence them to death or hold them for the city's safety, and that they would be kept until a court decided. The council was to meet that night, and its decision was expected to be unanimous. Orpi thought that Julia might wish to hold them according to the law. According to Soteris, the council had abolished torture about five hundred years before.⁴⁵⁶⁷

Orpi later told the band that the council had decided to hold them in chains for a detailed interrogation, which he admitted meant torture, and that this was unusual for harmless strangers who had cooperated.⁸

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Earlier the council had voted unanimously to send a war-minded mage out of the city. After an attack on Orpi, word reached him that Soteris had set aside the rest of the council and let that mage into the city; Julia was held captive and some senators and consuls had fled. Orpi called it the second coup in Avlor Aten's known history, the other lying long before his time, and thought that great fear of what the Empire would bring had pushed the soldiers to violence.^910111213