The mages of England, Scotland and Wales often refer to the country they share as Britannia. Britannia is a land of great magical heritage and intrigue, standing within five islands that are rumored to have once been powerful and protective Hallows.

The more historically inclined British mage may have heard of the 'Sacred' - or 'Pentacle' - Hallows, said to stood within the Scilly Isles, in the Orkney Islands, on the Isle of Wight, on Lindesfarne and on Islay, but the protection and power of the Hallows is said to be long since lost.

As an island within islands, Britannia is rumored to once have been a place where the Exiles dreamed of building a new Atlantis; but today, it is a land of tentative political balance for the Awakened, where chaos within seems as strong a danger as any outside threat.

Britannia is currently ruled by four Consilii, recognized as the magical 'government' of the nation by mages of all Orders.

Three of these Consilii - the North, the South and Scotland/Caledonia - are regional, while the fourth adjudicates over the teaching and trading sanctum of Anglesey, once the country's spiritual base.