Paris / Public register
INSTITUTIONS
The known offices of the Praxis do not form a simple organisational chart. They define responsibilities, territories and circumstances in which an authority must answer for its decisions.
01 / Known offices
Central authority
Prince of Paris
The Prince holds general authority over the Paris Praxis, guarantees its unity and settles conflicts that exceed the reach of other offices. He also represents Paris before outside domains. This pre-eminence does not turn every local decision into a princely command.
Primogen
The Primogen govern Paris alongside the Prince. The Council makes visible the interests, alliances and consequences that an isolated decision might ignore. A recognised clan voice never replaces the territorial responsibilities of the Bourgs.
Bourgmestre
The Bourgmestre is the territorial authority of the Bourg. The office arbitrates its uses and answers to the Court for territorial consequences. It owns neither its residents, personal Domains nor the human institutions within it. It is not an independent princedom.
Keeper of Elysium
The Keeper exercises the authority of the Peace of Paris within the Elysium under their care. The office organises reception, protects exchanges and handles incidents that threaten that peace. Its authority begins with the Elysium in use and grants no government over the Bourg.
Prévôté and Milice
The Prévôté enforces decisions when Parisian order requires a direct response. The Milice gives the Praxis a collective capacity for action. Both answer to the Court; their procedures, membership and internal means are not published here.
Elysium
A place becomes Elysium for the duration in which it receives the Peace of Paris. This status protects meetings requiring a shared rule, then ends when they close. The place, its host territory and the temporary authority of its Keeper are never the same thing.
02 / Situated authority
Knowing who must answer
Parisian institutions primarily organise responsibility. When a hunt spills over, a gathering goes wrong or a human trace persists, the first question is not who holds the grandest title, but which office was responsible for preventing, arbitrating or handling the incident.
03 / Power and limits
One office does not erase another
The Prince does not replace the Council, the Bourgmestre does not become Keeper and a Primogen does not turn their clan into the owner of a territory. These distinctions can slow decisions. More importantly, they prevent personal influence from too easily disguising itself as permanent right.
04 / For visitors
Finding the right authority
A visiting vampire must know which Bourg they enter, which territorial authority to notify and which rule governs a meeting. A recommendation opens a conversation; it grants neither a general right to hunt, immunity nor automatic access to Elysium.
Public reference drawn from Paris la Nuit I and II. Internal procedures are not included in this register.