The Sherwood Consilium

The Sherwood Consilium is a Consilium in and around Nottingham dating from the 1500s, when it replaced a Seer Pylon which had eradicated the previous Awakened presence on that site.

It was then a Consilium which gave the impression to its neighbours of being exclusively Adamantine Arrow in nature, though this was not the case; following the Grand Convocation of 1900 which recognised the Free Council as a fifth Order, Sherwood openly revealed the large numbers of formerly-Nameless mages working with the Arrow, including the revelation that Hodesman, the apparent Hierarch of the time, was simply a mask for the presence of Dunsany.

(It is rumoured that Hodesman, who was actually a Sentinel, was the inspiration for the Shadow Name of Hoodsman of the Consilium of the Stone Circle)

Today, the Sherwood Consilium is recognised as Britain's pre-eminent training centre not merely for the Arrow but for combat mages in general; the title 'Mage Militant' is a courtesy given to any Sherwood alumnus known to have passed the courses in good standing, including Churchill, Vulpes and Tyr.

Mages known to the Rose who have technically operated within Sherwood but are not Mages Militant include Rynel and Tattersall, though the latter was last seen being abducted from Nottingham toward Switzerland.