Athens is ruled not by a single prince but by a Triumvirate of elected Archons — a term the rebellious Prometheans use more generally to mean any agent of the elders.
Athens is ruled not by a single prince but by a Triumvirate of elected Archons — a term the rebellious Prometheans use more generally to mean any agent of the elders.
The three seats, at the opening of the chronicle, belong to:
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Dionysius — Cappadocian, the ancient sage who stepped down from sole princedom to help found the council, and who acts as its moderating swing vote.
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Democritus — Ventrue, logic-bound and unyielding.
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Olympias — Malkavian, mystical and unreadable.
Greek elders greet the idea of a single ruler — a prínkipas, or the rarer megaskyr who rules over other princes — with real apprehension. Cities, to Greek Cainites, are sovereign unto themselves, and the Triumvirate's balance of three is preferred to the risk of any one Archon becoming a tyrant.