#also - in the diagram - obviously all the triumvirate offices should be equal size. I just suck at partitioning
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The Council Tower of Torguard
Torguard's Council Tower is the central base of government within the city-state.
The building itself is constructed mainly from white marble, golden granite, and glass, and was produced by mixing the talents of Human inspiration, Elven fabrication magic and Dwarven engineering. This diagram is representative of the third¹ time of rebuilding, and as such includes the drop shaft where levitation mages ferry bureaucrats up and down the many levels of the tower.
The city's government is headed by what's known as the Triumvirate: The Commander-in-Chief, the Arch-Magus, and the Exchequer. At time of writing, these positions are chaired by General Johan Strucker, Thazar Clayrmantle (after Selene Fridwake stepped down), and Mr Thatcher (after Reginald Striker was killed by the Firre explosion)².
There is also a special executive exclusion held by a mysterious entity known as the Emissary, whose power comes not from internal meritocratic advancement nor is an elected position. Instead this individual's power is enshrined by the dragon, Drakemar, who's funding allowed Torguard to regain her feet after the Balor, Yagrin, opened the Hellmouth and razed the city.
After these main positions, the council is comprised of approximately³ 100 mixed elected & meritocratic positions, broken down as:
20 Religious representatives
35 Guildheads
10 Trade guildheads
20 elected City District representatives
15 other various elected representatives & interested parties
Each of these representatives holds an office somewhere in the tower, and they meet with reasonable regularity in the main council chamber at the top of the tower.
As may be expected there are many other bureaucratic positions to be filled, such as sanitation and infrastructure, which take up the rest of the tower's office space.
While there are other outposts around the city walls, the majority of military activity is consigned to the tower's lowest levels: training facilities, barracks, stables, etc. This is because in the event of a dire emergency, the island on which the tower sits on can be cut off from the rest of the city.
--- ¹ Firstly, after the city was consumed by a Hellmouth; Secondly, after the cleric Laurence summoned a Firre to explode the council chambers; Thirdly, after the internals and part of the outside were destroyed by demons summoned by the dragon Armageddon.
² Edited details courtesy my delightful co-conspirator, @aquadestinyswriting
³ This is, as noted, approximate due to the guilds and religions growing such they need their own rep, or shrinking such that they are folded under the banner of another. For example, in Titan's canon there are 29 gods of the Animal Court. While each of these could have its own separate church, they're all so tiny they'd be folded under the banner of Galantanka's representative.
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