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Luxemburry / Government / Council of the Peaks
The Council of the Peaks is the legislature of the Realm of Luxemburry. Its delegates are sent by the five regions in proportion to their people, and it has sat in the Council Hall on Charter Square since 1723.
Article III of the Charter allots delegates to the five regions by population. The Council has 24 seats. Delegates serve four winters and may be sent again. Each region chooses its delegates at a gathering held on the first Saturday of May, First Bloom, in the main town of the region.
| Region | Main town | Delegates |
|---|---|---|
| Valdoria Valley | Valdoria | 10 |
| Cinder Highlands | Purgnar | 4 |
| Eastern Peaks | Bonic | 3 |
| Aurelia Lakelands | Verdian | 4 |
| Western Forest March | Aethelgard | 3 |
The Council meets from the first Monday after Unification Day, June 12, until the first snow, and again from the end of the Winter Solstice until Warden's Day. Under Article VII of the Charter it does not sit on any Saturday between the first snow and the last, and the whole Council is expected on the slopes on those days. A law passes by simple majority and takes effect when the High Warden sets the seal to it.
The Council chooses a Speaker from among its delegates at the first sitting after each choosing. The Speaker holds the chair beneath the carved Cinder, keeps order, and carries passed laws across the square to the Warden's House by hand, a walk of about forty paces that has been made in every weather since 1723.
The hall was built by Abselet I in the 1770s on the west side of Charter Square. It is timber inside stone, with the delegates seated in a semicircle facing the Speaker. Sessions are open; the gallery holds sixty and is usually full on the first day of each sitting.
Every law of Luxemburry has been carried across Charter Square by hand, from the Council Hall to the Warden's House, for three hundred years.
