Magic Council (Zicoihno)

The Magic Council is the ruling body of the world of Magic.

Overview
The Council oversees guilds and keeps them in check, and they are responsible for the events caused by Mages. For this reason, they do not hold the Fairy Tail Guild, mainly Natsu Dragneel, in high regard due to their idiocy and property damaging tactics. Due to the events of the Tower of Heaven incident, where two members were revealed to as traitors, several council members have left. They have since been replaced as of the fall of Oración Seis. The Council has nine members at a time, along with a chairman that makes the final decisions.

Sadly, since their humiliating defeat to Jellal and Ultear, the Magic Council disbanded until a personal request by the King of Fiore to be reformed. The new Magic Council is stricter than the old one and very single-minded and perhaps heavy handed in it's goal to remove all of the Dark Guilds.

Rune Knights
A subdivision within the council, Rune Knights are the Council's army. Their job is to enforce the council's ideals of justice and investigate the matters of the Council. With the new Council, they have become increasingly strict.

Trivia

 * The musical theme of the Council in the anime is an instrumental version of the famous Aria "La Habanera" from George Bizet's Opera "Carmen".
 * In the anime the meeting room is a giant Magic circle that the council members stand around, but in the manga it's a circular table with chairs.
 * While they are allied with the Fiore Royal Military, Guran Doma has no power over any of the military's lower rank soldiers.