Golden Gate Caucus

The Golden Gate Caucus is, as its name suggests, based around the San Francisco Golden Gate Athenaeum, a very old Mysterium lorehouse dating back to the founding of San Francisco. Though it was destroyed during the Great Fire of 1906, a solid amount of its lore was preserved. The Golden Gath Caucus acts as the Mysterium Caucus for northern California, and a little of southern Oregon.

Caucus House

The heart of this Caucus is the Golden Gate Athenaeum proper, a grand old manor located in the Richmond District, a district of bustling businesses and residences, home to a large Russian, Irish and Chinese population. The Golden Gate Athenaeum has a street-level entrance that opens into two wings of vast, labyrinthine architecture surrounding a beautiful and very private garden thanks to the cherry and plum trees that fill most of the space over the gardens.

Besides the Golden Gate Athenaeum, however, this caucus maintains a number of other smaller athenaea as well, lorehouses that its membership have put together and curated over the years. These chapterhouse athenaea are scattered all over the Golden Gate Caucus' territory, and often trade lore back and forth extensively with the mother athenaeum. Though each has a name, they are all considered to be part of the Golden Gate Athenaeum proper - entry into any of them is granted only after going through the mother-athenaeum.

Gatherings

The Golden Gate Caucus gathers twice a month, on the 10th and 25th of each month. Members are expected to attend at least one of these gatherings, referred to as "High Tea" by the Head Curator. Because the Mysterium factions are very active in the Caucus, they gather once a month as well, on Wednesdays: the Archaeomancers on the first Wednesday, the Archivists on the second, the Bricoleurs on the third and the Reclaimants on the fourth. The Egregori meet on the night of the new moon.

Titles in the Golden Gate Caucus

Curators of the Athenaeum

By tradition, though there are multiple Curators of the various chapter-athenaea of the Caucus, the curator of the Golden Gate house proper is the leader, aided by the other curators as advisors. When a new curator of the main athenaeum is necessary, they are chosen from among the other curators, so there is often a fierce rivalry among them. By tradition (and due to ugly history of abuses), the curator of the Censorium in Mount Shasta is ineligible from ever holding the title of Head Curator.

• Baba Petra: Head Curator of the Golden Gate Athenaeum, San Francisco.
• Henru, of X: Curator of the Railhouse Athenaeum, Oakland.
• Nut, of X: Curator of the Observatory Athenaeum, San Jose.
• Padre Columbo, of X: Curator of the Mission of St. Tatiana of Rome Athenaeum, Sacramento.
• Garuda, of X: Curator of the Forbidden Peak Censorium, Mount Shasta.

Savants

• Seshat, of the Montrose Alliance: Specialist in Ancient Calligraphy/Illumination and Atlantean Runes; also serves as the Herald for the Consilium of the Mists.

Censors

• X

Aquisitors

• X

Other Mystagogues

• Pan: An Acanthus with no cabal affiliation, Pan has a reputation as something of a loafer and slacker. He's useful for running errands and tending to tasks around the athenaeum that other magi are too busy with their cabals to tend to, but there is doubt that he'll truly amount to much.