Astraea Order

The Astraea Order (アストレーア オーダー, Asutoreea Oodaa) is the leading governmental authority regarding the use of Magic within Pangaea. It also exists to purge prominent Dark Guilds and restraining noble families so events like the Aristocratic Wars will never occur again.

History
When the Aristocratic Wars became worse, the Six Great Families which never participated poured their resources and created the Astraea Order in hopes that the war will finally end. With the power it had, the Order first recruited the most prominent neutral guilds of the time and used them as a deterrent, a method that stopped many battles between nobles, however, numerous lower nobles families managed to sway the guilds' allegiance in hopes they would become more powerful thanks to the war. With the permission of the great families, the Astraea Order approached the Sorcery Lords and by calling upon their vowed obedience to the empyrean family and by extension the great noble families, the Order utilized them to end the war for good and establising itself as the authority of magic guilds and the one thing that keeps nobles at bay.

Overview
Like the Magic Counsil of Ishgar, the Astraea Order acts as a Government-like body which rules over almost all of Ishgar. It is shown to rule over possibly all of the Legal Guilds registered, overseeing the actions of many of their mages, even arresting them when needed or should the Magic Law be broken. One of these laws being the usage of Magic in order to assassinate someone, as such, they are also capable of disbanding any Guild should enough rules be broken. At any time and any place, the Order is capable of arresting a criminal and most times, the former does not resist. Also, the Order oversees the actions of noble families, punishing them severely when they disobey laws or utilize forbidden magics.

Members and Factions
The Astraea Order is run by the Five Sages, a currently elderly group of mages that earned their position mostly due to their intellect and wisdom while each has a specific role, with the only known one being the espionage of both famous legal and dark guilds. The order has two factions, the Silver Eagle Knights and the Sorcery Lords.

Silver Eagle Knights
The Silver Eagle Knights are the army of the Astraea Order. They are deployed throughout the entire continent, surveyling its areas and keeping things in check, enforcing the council's justice. Most of them are divided into squads according to their specialty. All of them lower-ranked members wear very similar outfits, with them changing as the ranks rise. There are also some slighty differences, depending on the knight's assigned squad.

Due to their enforcement job, all Silver Eagle Knights are well versed in combat, having magic armor and weapons and it is said that a single knight can easily defeat numerous normal members of a magic guild while a single Silver Eagle Captain are even more potent.