The Loremaster of the [[Arcane Helix]] was the paramount executive leader of the Arcane Helix, an institution of magical learning. The Loremaster was also the ''ex officio'' mayor of the town of Helix surrounding the Arcane Helix, and president of the court of the Autocephalous Magesterium of the Arcane Helix, though these powers and duties were traditionally devolved on independently elected officers. The Loremaster was considered a noble archmage equivalent in rank to a count, as with an ensconced archmage, but the Loremaster's particular jurisdiction was limited to the Helix and its dependent town itself, an enclave within a larger sconce. (Exactly which varied as the system of magical sconces evolved over the centuries with changing population and politics.)

||Order||Name||Reign||Note||
||I||[[River Runes]] the Great||90 BE - 2 AE||Founder of the Helix||
||II||[[Golden Path]] the Seer||3-70||b. 111 BE, famed widely as a prophet ||
||III||[[Prancer the Long]]||70-143||Noted for impressive horn||
||IV||[[Fire Circle]]||143-148||died in horrible fiery knitting accident||
||V||[[Rose Quartz]]||148-190||founder of the loremaster's private archive||
||VI||[[Magnum Opus]]||190-198||Incapacitated in his final year and ruled with co-loremaster||
||VII||[[Aetherial Tone]]||197-264||theorist on the wave nature of magic||
||VIII||[[Precious Tomes]]||264-280||Resigned amid scandal involving MLE restrictions||
||IX||[[Aura Star]] the Martyr||280-320||Killed in Discordian war.||
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||X||[[Primal Lore]]||322-401||Politically adroit, rumoured collaborator with the Discordians ||
||XI||[[Star Scroll]]||401-427||b. 270 Noted for civil works.||
||XII||[[Stygian Sigil]]||427-517||Questionable moral character, very powerful||
||XIII||[[The Elder Runes]]||517-591||Famed as a reformer and modernizer in his youth.||
||XIV||[[The Younger Runes]]||592-650||Buoyed to power by the popularity of his father.||
||XV||[[Eldritch Lore]]||650-704||b. 590. Elected under dubious circumstances, rebelled against Canterlot gov't. ||
||''XVI''||[[Curious Volume]]||~704 - ~early 20th century AE||''De jure'' acting Loremaster only.||