Editing Montréal (section)

== Residents ==
The city has three [[Lord]]s ruling it as a triumvirate - the [[Owled Dame]], the [[Spirit of Montreal]]<ref>'''September 20th, 1939'''<br>[...]<br>The Lord of Montreal reached out to me last night, communicating through my dreams.  He has heard whisperings, as Lords do, and now I have a greater merchant spirit turned mortal turned god breathing down my neck.  He would like for the book to be found, and will forgive me my error if I retrieve the book and ensure the ones who took it don’t pursue such things in the future. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/14 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 1]]</ref> and the [[Sinful Creature]]. They delegate power to "small councils" within the city - [[Mile End]], Mont Royal, and at least three others. These powerful rulers have made the city appealing to magical "bit players" who want stability but not ultimate power over an area.<ref>“Montreal has three Lords and five small councils… five that count.  The Lords are like the kings and queens, with the final say and the ability to create and abolish councils.  The system of small councils means you need permission to attack your council or declare war on another.  If you don’t, you get the Montréal spirit, the Owled Dame, and the Sinful Creature coming after you.  It’s made Montreal a place to be if you want to set down roots and you don’t ever want to be a Lord.  There are a lot of bit players here, and a few major players who have ambitions that have nothing to do with ruling anything.  Your parents included some of them.<br>[...]<br>June: “How powerful were our parents, both politically and... ‘magically?’ Compared to the Lords and the Councils, maybe using your master as a baseline.”<br><br>“For a long time, they were a weak council.  In the last five years, they’ve come to be on par with one of the others, Mont Royal.  I’m afraid I don’t know much.  Certainly not close to the Lords.  Politically?  I think you would know better than I.  They had influence.  The Justaforts especially.” - [[Mile End]]: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/14jc7V-O3VsFPxWrwjTB5-uAFk9-JPobq2P1rXFpCxtg/edit# Awakening]</ref>

There is a known group of [[Inquisitor]]s active in Montreal.<ref>“Cabals,” Fell commented, “are traditionally exterminated by witch hunters or similar means.  There are inquisitors in Montreal who would be very interested to hear about this.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/05/06 Excerpt] from [[Subordination 6.4]]</ref> [[Rose Thorburn Senior]] encountered one on the staff of a school she attended in the city in the mid 1930s.<ref>I know the risk ''I’m'' taking.  I was just in Montreal.  I went to a school that had an Inquisitor on the staff. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/05/27 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 6]]</ref>

[[Cleo Aleshire]] the Witch Hunter lives in Montreal.<ref>Cleo Aleshire from Montreal.  A different breed.  Thirty or so, black, hair short and oiled close to the scalp, red lipstick, heavy eye shadow, and a level stare.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/17/false-moves-12-a/ Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.a]]</ref>

Home to a [[Elf]] and his bookstore.<ref>“And sent.  It’ll be waiting for you later.  Another bookstore in Montreal, it’s run by an elf.”<br>[...]<br>“Oh!  It’s lovely.  Quaint, very pretty, the disguised elf that runs it is miserable, being as close to humanity as he is, misery that deep gives the store ''quite'' the atmosphere, it soaks into the wood and paper.  He’s created side rooms and dug a hole that goes about three miles deep, with bookshelves all the way down.  Obscure texts and odd bits of writing throughout.  It’s marvelous.  It’s how he whiles away his eternity.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/07/09/crossed-with-silver-19-13/ Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.13]]</ref>