Ten Wizard Saints (Dante)

The Ten Wizard Saints (聖十大魔導 Seiten Daimadō) are the ten most powerful legal mages on the continent of Ishgal, according to the Magic Council.

History
The title was created in the past, shortly after the founding of the original Magic Council itself. It served mainly to contemplate the ever growing mage community, prizing the ten most powerful and skilled mages on the continent.

After the Council was destroyed by the Dark Guild Tartaros, the remaining Wizard Saints gathered to rebuild it, and kept the title until it was passed on to newer generations. Due to the Council's new standards, the Ten Wizard Saints are currently defined as the ten most powerful legal mages in Ishgal, pointing the possible existence of individuals with superior strength or skill that are not legally registered or do not abide by the Council's laws.

The title was formely granted by the Council on the Chairman's discretion. The new Council requires a vote with qualified majority agreeing to pass the title with an assigned rank to any mage, although in practice, only the 10th rank is given, as the removal of any upper ranking will (normally) merely shift the lower ranks up to fill in the blanks.

Strength
The strength of the Ten Wizard Saints is known to be so immense that they are well renowned throughout the continent. Members of the Ten Wizard Saints are exceptionally strong where a single member is able to take on scores of average Mages with ease and defeat more powerful Mages with little effort. In fact, it has been stated that if two members, current or former, were to clash in a fight, it could cause a "cataclysm".

Additionally, the four strongest members have been described as being so powerful that they shouldn't even be considered human and are famously referred to as the Four Gods of Ishgar (大陸イシュガルの四天王 Ishugaru no Shitennō).