Prague Association (プラハ協会, Puraha Kyōkai ?) or Central Association of Alchemists (中央協会の錬金術師, Chūō Kyōkai no Renkinjutsu-shi ?) – An organization that researches on Alchemy, its members follow the traditional precepts of alchemists.Those magi of the Association who depart the World of Magecraft entirely are considered traitors and enemies of magi, and hunted down by the organization. Despite its academia facet, the Magi of the Association rarely share the result of their own researches between each other. The organization is anything but harmonious and has a complicated bizarre structure, but the magical research there is without doubt the leading edge.

And so many Mages from all over the world gather and devote themselves day and night to the study of Magecraft, while at the same time, are busily tripping over and being tripped over by other factions and competing for power and budget. However, this is rarely done, since the Association provides its members with great amount of resources, stored knowledge and other benefits. Ever since Clock Tower became the official headquarters, the Three Great Branches as they are called started to drift apart from each other.Īs long as he/she does not possess a Sealing Designation, a Magus may leave the Association at any time without facing any restrictions. The Mage's Association is divided into three main branches: the Clock Tower, the Atlas Academy, and the Wandering Sea. If a mage pulls a civilian into a magical phenomenon, the Association dispatch assassins to kill that mage. They do not care about hideous crimes committed by Magi so long as they are not a threat that might reveal the existence of Thaumaturgy to the common public, though it generally does not allow research that would harm society or involve innocents. The Association is mainly concerned with the preservation and concealment of Magecraft in criminal aspects. The Association has set up research institutions and established and enforces laws that forbid the criminal use of magecraft in order to promote the development, or perhaps regression, of magecraft. Although the emphasis lies on the pursuit of knowledge, the Association also seeks to increase its own military strength and reserves the use of force to protect itself from entities that threaten its existence, such as the Holy Church, other mage organizations, supernatural forces seeking to punish mankind for meddling with areas that should not be touched, and individuals who hunt that which they consider taboo. It has many laboratories and research bodies that seek to advance the progress of Thaumaturgy, as well as institutions that transmit their secrets to the next generation. After having existed for many years, it was decided around the Middle Ages by those who foresaw the decline of Magecraft that in order to preserve their power Thaumaturgy should drift apart from society and become a secret known only by a necessary minimum number of people. It is said to transcend nationality and genre of magecraft, but that is in name only. The Mage's Association (魔術協会, Majutsu Kyōkai ?) is an international, self-preservative and self-defense organization formed by practitioners of magecraft for the purpose of controlling, concealing, and developing Magecraft.

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