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Being essentially the overseers of guilds, they do not hold the Fairy Tail guild,[8] and especially its most prominent troublemaker Natsu Dragneel, in high regard, due to their tendency to cause tremendous damage to property during Jobs, and generally due to the troubles they're known for causing.[9] Some of the Council members, have even tried to have that guild disbanded but it was to no avail. Mostly due to the intervention of the Council's 6th Seat, Yajima, a long-time friend of Fairy Tail's Guild Master, Makarov Dreyar.[10]
Heavy incidents happening in the Magic world might inflict serious damage to the Council's reputation, going as far as to cause the dismissal of one or more of its members.[11] Following the events of the Tower of Heaven, during which two members of the Council were revealed to as traitors and the Council's most powerful weapon, the Satellite Square: Etherion, was fired, the Magic Council disbanded, this until a personal request for it to be reformed was issued by the King of Fiore himself.[12] The new Magic Council has a single member of the former Council left in it (namely Org), and is way stricter than the old one, very single-minded and heavy-handed in its goal to remove all of the Dark Guilds, even if that means sacrificing legal guilds in the process.[13] In addition, they seem to have grown more and more intolerant to Fairy Tail, despite the fact that the powerful Dark Guild Oración Seis, a member of the Balam Alliance, was destroyed by it assisted by the Legion Corps; such intolerance has led the new Chairman Guran Doma to say that, if Fairy Tail were to cause another incident, it would be disbanded.[14]
Main Members
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The Magic Council is composed of ten members at a time,[15] or, to be more accurate, nine "seats", going from 2nd to 10th.[10]
The 1st seat is occupied by the Chairman, effectively the leader of the
entire Council, who takes the final decisions on every matter.[16]
Employees
Such creatures' uniform consist of a wide-collared dark jacket, with wide sleeves and edges and cuffs adorned by a series of light stripes, over a light shirt, held closed on the front by a multitude of laces ending in a bow knot in the upper part, and a long, light skirt-like cloth covering the legs. The outfit is completed by a small, elongated dark hat matching the jacket, which gets larger near its top, and has a flat, round object on the front, reminiscent of a medal.[19] The anime visibly simplified the uniform's shirt, which was deprived of most of its laces, with only the bow knot remaining in the form of an ornamental ribbon.[20]
Military
Being basically the government of the Magic world, the Council has an
array of armed forces at its disposal, which it uses to maintain peace
and make sure that none breaks the established laws.
Rune Knights
A military subdivision within the Council, acting as a personal
constable of sort, Rune Knights are the Council's army. Their job is to
enforce the Council's ideals of justice and to investigate crimes
related to the Magic world.[21] They are known to possess several garrisons scattered throughout Fiore, with their numbers being consistent,[21] and have battleships at their disposal for sea transportation.[22]
They are divided into squads, with some of them performing particular
duties, and most of them being led by a ranked officer. After the
Council's reorganization, following the events of the Tower of Heaven, they have become increasingly strict.[23]
Rune Knights' fighting prowess is mostly unknown; it is known, however, that particular squadrons, such as the 4th Custody Enforcement Unit, are capable of using Magic similar to Jutsu Shiki, generating glyph barriers which can prevent those caught inside them from leaving until the spell is nullified. Such technique can be performed with enough discretion to remain unnoticed while it is being casted, with the targets finding out about it only after it has become effective.[26] Aside from that, Rune Knights shown so far seemed to mainly employ melee combat, assaulting enemies in large groups and generating Magical auras on the ending part of their staffs; something whose effect or aim is unknown. However, even considerable amounts of them could be knocked out by way smaller groups of proficient melee fighters, implying their skills to be just average.[27]
Etherion
As damaging as it is, Etherion can't be employed light-kindheartedly, due to it being likely to cause casualties while fired against its targets, catching others in its radius.[31] In the absence of the Chairman, for the firing of Etherion to be permitted, a majority of votes within the Council itself is required.[15] If the voting were to end in a draw, then Etherion wouldn't be fired.[32] Measures seem to have been taken to prevent civil casualties from damaging the Council's reputation itself if the weapon were to cause them, these residing in the Article 27, Clause 4 of the National Security Act; however, the death of innocent people would still weigh the concerned councilors' conscience.[28] If Etherion is to be fired, all of the Council members are known to religiously pronounce the words "Thus we pray" before the firing, collecting their thoughts in prayer and hoping that the ultimate weapon doesn't wreak havoc on innocent lives.[33]
Etherion, despite being extremely damaging and almost impossible to stop, could potentially be absorbed by a large enough Lacrima crystal, which would in the process gain all of the blast's Magic Power.[30]
