Everglade Council

The Everglade Council is a governmental cabinet body consisting of the Emperor/Empress of the Artus Empire and the appointed heads of various national matters. It serves as the primary policy making body of the Empire as a whole. There are only nine principal members of the Council at any given moment.

While each member of the Council is the master of a specific domain, they are ultimately subservient to the current individual sitting on the Artus Throne. At any time, a member of the Council can either retire, quit, or be fired, and the Emperor/Empress will appoint a new one in the old one’s stead.

Despite explicitly serving the Emperor/Empress, there have been times where the Council has colluded to either overthrow or undercut the current sovereign, such as the event with Maartel Artus during the Inheritor’s War.

The first Council was erected by Baarathel Artus himself; each of his successors have followed suit.

History
As Baarathel began to cool on his empire expanding campaigns, he turned his eye to the great deal of civil unrest occurring in his acquired territories. Thinking on a way to quell the upper nobility and former royalty of his subjects, he settled on the Everglade Council, selecting various members of the upper crust of Artus society to compose it.