The Archon and the Kell rule together as one. One cannot command a house without the other. Reverence for the Archon is socially adaptive. It insulates vital engineering tasks from political strife. While the Kell plots political gambits and military dominance. The Archon keeps watch on problems of survival. The Kell and Archon keep a delicate balance. The Kell rules - but the Archon must have power to intervene. A strong Kell's power is like the wind: swift, howling, and everywhere at once. A Kell's authority is like that of a sniper. You can't see everything - but so long as they believe you can. The Kell's first command is a word - and if the word goes unheeded, the Kell's second command is the blade. The Servitors work the engines. The Archon plots the course. But it is the Kell who stands at the helm. [b]The Fallen houses:[/b] [b]The House of Devils[/b] These are the scourge of the City, the shadow below our walls. This is the House that led the battle at the Twilight Gap, the House we tell our children about to frighten them into behaving. The House of Devils have now devoted great strength to pillaging the Cosmodrome in Old Russia, hunting for something buried below. If they are not held in check, whatever they find might prove the City's undoing [b]The House of Winter[/b] The Fallen House of Winter, led by the ruthless Kell Draksis, have been found operating in and around the Ishtar Sink on Venus. Their interests there seem directed at the ruins of the Academy along the Shattered Coast, but there are concerns that their focus may, in actuality, be directed elsewhere - toward the ominous Citadel that rises like a warning above the Waking Ruins. [b]The House of Kings[/b] The colors of the House of Kings are rarely seen. They act with brutal contempt, as if they hold their rivals - other Fallen and City alike - in disdain. We have yet to grasp the full measure of their strength. [b]The House of Exile[/b] There is more than a whiff of desolation about these Fallen. Their ranks are swollen with Dregs; their rags threadbare. Perhaps this is a new House, gathered from the outcast malcontents and disgraced castaways of the others, galvanized by pride or hate or the desire for freedom. Be watchful. If this is true, they will surely be hungry to secure their position - and that may drive them to bold action. [b]The house of Wolves[/b] The bulk of the House of Wolves now falls under the control of the Queen of the Reef. There are many stories of how this came to be, but they are too varied for the truth to be separated from rumor.