The Zexen Council is the chief governing body of the Zexen Confederacy. The Zexen Council consists of major guild leaders in the nation, harking back to Zexen's foundation as a mercantile state. As such, the Zexen Council fostered a great amount of trade, making the nation extremely prosperous. However, a side-affect of this was that the council did not feel it served the people of Zexen but rather existed to serve its own interests which it could enforce with impunity as the military branch of Zexen, the Zexen Knights, traditionally pledged loyalty directly to the council, not the people of Zexen or the nation itself.