[center][b][u]Mage Circles[/u][/b][/center]

One of the greatest facets of Mage Society, Mage Circles are part government office and part magical college. There are Twenty-Two Large Mage circles across the world, each taking a name for one of the Major Arcana. One of the most famed is the Tower, located in London. The youngest Circle is the Moon, Japan's Mage Circle. The purpose of Mage Circles is twofold: To serve as places of education and storing of knowledge, and to enforce rules of mage society. All circles are under the large organization of magi across the world, but they are given a great deal of freedom to manage themselves. As such, each tends to have some sort of variation in how they handle things.

One example of this is how they maintain the secrecy of the Supernatural. All circles contain a Ministry of Silence that works to uphold the secret nature of supernatural activity. However, some go about this in a nonlethal fashion, while others employ agents known as Silencers to destroy any witnesses. Another matter is in how they handle rogue elements of mage society. For example, London's Tower utilizes a special agency known as the Citadel Six(or more popularly the Unlucky Six) in order to eliminate such elements, above and beyond the usage of standard enforcers.

Mage Circles store a vast amount of magical knowledge and artifacts. Ancient Grimoires have been translated into various languages and distributed amongst the circles. A fragment of Merlin's walking stick is known to be stored in the Tower.

Education at a mage circle is favored among mage families, but not mandatory. The Tower is especially popular, receiving students from all over the world, but every mage circle gets its share of students.