Holy Judgment Court

The Holy Judgment Court in Europe was an organizations that the Magic Associations of the Five Continents had established, It is now one of the eight major international magic organizations along with the Parthenon, Hunter's Association, and Magic Association but boasts the highest magic authority in the world, responsible for watching over every mage including those members of the Black Vatican. They have the final say in all things magic related and prides itself on fairness and equality, They are an existence similar to a country's enforcement union, responsible for managing evil magicians amongst others. Their purpose: To protect the world's peace.

Most books never mentioned the Holy Judgment Court and the Heresy Judgment Court. They had established Magic Associations across the world, yet they were independent of the Magic Associations. They supposedly did not intervene with the functions of the Magic Associations, nor were they involved in the competition between Magic Associations. The Magic Associations are obliged to cooperate with them while the HJC never take orders from the Magic Association. They would not allow any country to challenge their authority.

Heresy Judgment Court
An association parallel to the Holy Judgment Court. They both share proceedings and structure between them, they are also both in charge of the Sacred City where the Heresy Judgment Court is located.

Mainly they are in charge of observing, capturing or executing suspected heretics. They don't oblige themselves to inform a country's magic association of their presence or undertaking in their country. While the Holy Judgment Court would stick to the rules and some form of decorum the Heresy Judgment Court pays no heed to anything.

The Holy Court investigates mages who practices "Evil Arts" while the Heresy Court purges those who practice "Disastrous Arts".

Structure/Hierarchy

 * Clergyman - The highest level of the Holy Judgment Court, responsible for supervising the thirteen magistrates. They are not directly involved in trials but if they judge any of the magistrates to be biased they are allowed to intervene.
 * Magistrates - 13 people who own the Stones of Guilt. They are responsible for sentencing people with shocking backgrounds.
 * Judicators - serve as the disciplinary force of the Holy Court. Judicators are tasked with apprehending and restraining perpetrators until a judgment can be rendered. Judicators are typically at the level of Super-tier Mage or higher since it is their responsibility to apprehend dangerous criminals.
 * Holy Court Mage - The Holy Court Mages were responsible for the execution of the criminal once they were sentenced guilty.

Trials
They conduct a trial at the Saintess Hall in the Parthenon temple hearing testimonies from all parties. Afterwards they convene and Judgment by the Holy Court is typically done through a vote done by the 13 magistrates supervised by two active Clergymen. The votes are done using the stones of Guilt, the black stones represent guilty while the white represents innocent. If the Black stones are numbered more than the white then the defendant would be executed.

Appeals
In extreme circumstances, an individual may appeal the judgment passed by the Magistrates. In this case, the judgment is reviewed by the two current Clergymen, and two past Clergymen. If two or more guilty votes out of 4 are reached, the guilty verdict is upheld.

Trial of a Clergyman/Magistrate
In the event that a Magistrate is being tried by the Holy Court, the process will be similar to the appeal process. The guilt of the Magistrate will be determined by the votes of the two current Clergymen and the two previous Clergymen.

Execution
The Holy Judgment Court held the right to execute a person once they were judged guilty. The execution was typically carried out by The Holy Court Mages, alternatively they would use the Dark Execution Ground to summon Hayla a god of death depending on the severity or strength of the criminal. One of the main reasons the Holy Judgment Court has been able to keep their superiority was due to the presence of the European God of death: The Dark Executioner's Power.

Forbidden Curses
Due to the after-effects of Forbidden curses in making the space distorted and barren the HCJ drew up a convention limiting the use of Forbidden Curses. They are not allowed to disclose their identities to the public. Those who go public will be placed under strict surveillance, as will their close relatives and friends. They must report where they are at all times and are not allowed to use Forbidden Curses unless their lives are in danger.

As such there’s a hidden rule in the Magic Associations that every Forbidden Mage must protect the secret of Forbidden Curses. Every Forbidden Mage whose identity is exposed is under the surveillance of the Holy Court Mages and the Magic Associations of the Five Continents. In other words, they have lost their freedom.

Forbidden Magic
Not to be confused with Forbidden Curses, this refers to all magic that was not deemed orthodox (included in the four main magic types or listed in the official magic index). This included all magic that could endanger people’s lives, influence their consciousness, or bring massacre upon living creatures, they were all counted as Evil magic and were subsequently banned from being used.

It is acknowledged that magic listed under here can still be reviewed and allowed for public use, study and teaching if the Court deems agrees, as was the case of Dark magic that was initially prohibited but later allowed to be registered.

Undead Ancient King
The HJC had decided to remove the Undead Emperor due to the threat he placed on civilization. They judged that he would not keep his humanity forever and agreed to remove him now while he was still a growing threat as they did not believe humanity could afford another undead emperor, especially one who had already caused such great destruction in the little time he was awake.

Mo Fan Demon Element
They deferred judgment on the demon element as it needed to be classified before declaring it an evil art or not. They could only threaten him against using it until it was properly judged. In reality they postponed it due to the fact that Mo Fan had killed their ace executioner.

Known Members

 * Old Bao (Retired) - Clergyman
 * Dulanc - Great Magistrate (Deceased)