Azorius Senate

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Azorius Senate

Alternative name	The High Judges
Colors:	White and Blue
Guild leader:	Supreme Judge Azor I (Parun)
Guild leader:	Grand Arbiter Augustin IV (ex-leader: Leonos II)
Guild champion:	Isperia the Inscrutable
Guild hall:	Prahv, Spires of Order
Keyword:	Forecast
Featured set:	Dissension
Signet flavor text:
The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law-strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

The Azorius Senate is a guild from Ravnica featured in Dissension. They are the guild themed of the colors of blue and white. In the city, their purpose is to create laws and ensure that everyone abides by them. Members of the guild are extremely aloof, believing their legislation to be the single force that prevents Ravnica from slipping into chaos. Also, they are known for being excessively formalistic, and literally spend hours on end reciting legal documents and making sure they adhere perfectly to protocol in all of their actions. For these reasons, they are deeply loathed by their Ravnican subjects. The parun was the Supreme Judge Azor I, a human lawmage who wrote most of the original Guildpact.

The Azorius works with the Boros Legion and the Selesnya Conclave to enforce the law, and the Orzhov Syndicate provides advocates and law mages as defendants or accusers. Convinced that change would lead to dissolution in city life, the Azorius promote the status quo, maintaining absolute authority over all transactions in Ravnica, deciding whether or not to permit them for the sake of keeping the peace. At their service are legions of knights and paladins, as well as a gamut of well-trained mages skilled in the use of spells that counter enemy magic and disable enemies.

During most of the Ravnica storyline, it was presided over by the human lawmage, Grand Arbiter Augustin IV. After his death, the new guildmaster became Leonos II.

The seat of Azorius power used to be Prahv, the Spires of Order, a large castle-like structure of white marble. Prahv was destroyed by the explosion of the crashed Boros angels' fortress-ship, the Parhelion.

Allegorically, the Azorius Senate is an hyperbolic satire of bureacratic governments and legal systems. They are technically the ruling government of Ravnica.