===== Dynastic Houses ===== Dragon-Blooded Dynastic Houses quick reference (page 67) ^ House ^ Aspect ^ Description ^ | **Cathak** | **Fire** | A pious and disciplined House of generals, strategists and martial philosphers | | **Cynis** | **Wood** | Decadent hedonists and traders in slaves, drugs and other contraband | | **Iselsi** | **Water** | A disgraced and shattered House fighting for its very survival, //due to a failed assassination attempt of the Scarlet Empress// | | **Ledaal** | **Air** | Historians, scholars and visionaries learning from the past and preparing for the Realm's turbulent future | | **Mnemon** | **Earth** | An ambitious and cunning House of strategists and plotters headed by the Empress's most powerful daughter, the sorceress Mnemon. //In the war for the throne, Mnemon was defeated and killed, and her house is now in decline.// | | **Nellens** | (none) | Primarily a patrician House with very few Dragon-Blooded, resented by most other Dynastic Houses as untalented, undeserving bastards. //Recently allied with Peleps in the war for the throne. Was defeated and is now in decline.// | | **Peleps** | **Water** | Master politicians and overseers of the Imperial Navy. //The instigator in the recent war for the throne. Was defeated, and the house is now fractured.// | | **Ragara** | **Earth** | Bankers and schemers, the wealthiest of the Great Houses | | **Sesus** | **Fire** | A powerful military House, seething with political ambition | | **Tepet** | **Air** | Formerly a great martial House, now a fallen power scrambling to recover its dignity and standing. //Rising to favor again, as the house from which the [[exalted:dragonbloods:tepet_ejava|new empress]] hails.// | | **V'neef** | **Wood** | Merchants and traders. The youngest and smallest of the Dynastic Houses, but rapidly growing in wealth and influence |