The Great Houses
Prosperiticer politics also operates through a shifting collection of Great Houses: wealthy extended families with old reputations, patronage networks, military traditions, collections, commercial interests, and political clients. The Houses are intentionally not exhaustively defined yet. Some back
Prosperiticer politics also operates through a shifting collection of Great Houses: wealthy extended families with old reputations, patronage networks, military traditions, collections, commercial interests, and political clients.
The Houses are intentionally not exhaustively defined yet. Some back the Argent Table, some the Houses of Measure, some the Gilded Restoration, and many support different factions depending on the issue. Their rivalries let Prosperiticer politics become personal without making every conflict represent the entire people.