The Consilium by the Bay

When, in the early 1300s, the cabals of Alis Aquilae and the Pendle Witches came into conflict, there was no Consilium By the Bay. The two cabals had no way to resolve their dispute other than by active conflict, which lasted until both sides were attacked by something else - a cult of Banishers, a threat of horrifying power brought into contact with the fledgling Consilium as part of a band of reivers roaming further south than usual over the border with Scotland.

That brought them into alliance, and led to an agreement that they would remain together. It was not called a Consilium at that time, nor was Hierarch the title - these would both come fifty years later, when a French practitioner made their way far enough north to introduce the latest Continental wave of post-Atlantean philosophy - but the Covenant of the Bay was the Consilium in all but name. The membership of the two Cabals split apart, forming the Barrowmen, the Elders of the Circle, the Quaesitores and the Wild Hunt in addition to the original two.

Boundaries have retreated slightly since that time - the loss of the Wild Hunt and other southern Cabals to their goal of independence meant that the hold of the Consilium couldn't reach so far south as even to make the borders meet reliably, and as such the terrain fell back; issues with Changelings at the eastern edge of the Forest of Bowland led to a loss of part of that forest, and later to border disputes with the West Yorkshire Consilium. However, since the The Pendle Witch Trials - the last time the Consilium suffered heavy losses at any one time, unless you count the victims of the Hallows Killer - the boundaries have been more or less fixed.

On Easter Sunday, 2014, the Consilium by the Bay as it had been ceased to exist, merging with the Preston Consilium originally formed by breakaway Cabals in the sixteenth century.