First Sphere
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The First Sphere was one of the strata of Archon society, and, as its name implied, the topmost one.
In becoming Altissimus Cancellarius, i.e. second-in-command to the President of the High Council, former Tribune Gothaparduskerialldrapolatkh (PROSE: War Crimes [+]Loading...["War Crimes (short story)"], The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"], TV:; The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"]) was said to have "risen to the First Sphere". (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"])
By 2323, Olivia Kagg Waldermein believed the First Sphere to be synonymous with the Presidential Council, or High Council. She also indicated that she believed the "elite millennium" of Elementals documented in The Invisible Enemy corresponded to the sum of the First, Second and Third Spheres of Elemental society, while guards were "of the Fifth Sphere or lower". (PROSE: Love & War)