The Circle Collective - Traditionalist factions in Mage: The Budapest Urbancrawl

This is part two in a 4-part series of high-level overviews of the main Traditionalist factions in my Mage: The Budapest Urbancrawl campaign.

The Circle Collective

Hotel Budapest a.k.a the Circle

Led by an Etherite, a former close associate of the Schiffer cabal's leader, who has been estranged from his old friend but still maintains an uneasy alliance with the Schiffer cabal.
So much so that the two collectives actually share their primary headquarters - Villa Schiffer.
Given that the Circle Collective's ex-Iteration X-er, currently Etherite leader basically single-handedly invented the Quintessence-machine huffing and puffing in the Villa Schiffer basement, the two cabals are effectively stuck with each other no matter how the two groups' leaders feel.
Krausz, the group's head is ex-military, and defected from Iteration-X after a bungled Iraqi mission that got his beloved wife killed - he is adamant that the Convention had a hand in her death, and vowed revenge. He was all but adopted by the Schiffer cabal leader, who had been grooming him as his successor. But then the Havassy-incident happened, and Krausz felt that his composer mentor's active role in the government cover-up was unconscionable
He has been recruiting his former cabal-mates from the Schiffer group with the promise of amassing 'a real Resistance movement', one that won't be afraid to rock the boat.
Although he did manage to convince a handful of mages, some in the newly minted collective suspect that 'the Resistance' will not amount to more than sitting around in the cabal's top-secret new chantry on the top floor of the Hotel Budapest, moping about Krausz's ex-wife, and cursing the Schiffer cabal leader.
Krausz might not be cut out to be a revolutionary, but his inventions are formidable, and his social network must be vast - he managed to kit out almost half the very top floor of the Hotel Budapest as a clandestine cabal headquarters with magickal detectors scanning as far as the river Danube. (At a safe distance from his former mentor's hideout.)