The Council of the Nine Mystick Traditions in response to the nascent Technocracy over 450 years. After nine years of squabbling, the Council sent out the First Cabal to spread the message of the Council and counter the Order of Reason but it fell to betrayal from within. Was Heylel a traitor, savior, or insane? Victor and Terry discuss the rise and fall of the First Cabal in reviewing The Fragile Path: Testaments of the First Cabal, Mage's in-world book on those who were there.

The Fragile Path - The book we're talking about
Sorcerer's Crusade - Historical setting for Mage
The Order of Reason  - Flawed book about the founding of the Order of Reason
Ascension - Where we finally learn the identity of Heylel's twins
Fishmalk - Problematic types of crazy
Further details on Heylel
Further details on Eloine
Further details on Akrites

Motet - French musical form
Worf just getting beaten up

Victor's other work:
Walking Away from Arcadia - The definitive Changeling: The Dreaming Podcast
A Phoenix Rising - a chronicle quickstart built around the reconstruction of the New Horizon Council
The Symposium - a rambly podcast sometimes about Mage