House Mnemon

House Mnemon enjoys a strong reputation across the Blessed Isle, cultivated through close ties to the Immaculate Order and involvement in public works throughout the Realm.
Patricians and Dynasts respect House Mnemon’s piety and rely on its architecture — roads, aqueducts, levees, wells — to do business.
Though Mnemon herself receives little love from the peasantry, her house enjoys acclaim as architects that raise villages and towns out of squalor, renowned artists and poets, and monks who teach children and subdue unruly gods.
Among its satrapies, House Mnemon’s reputation is more complicated.
Its espousal of the Immaculate Philosophy leads to brutally efficient suppression of local religious faiths, but House Mnemon devotes more resources than any other house to improving its satrapial holdings with public works.
This garners local favor, especially from those who profit off it, but most inhabitants soon come to realize whose benefit the roads and walls are built for.
The Immaculate Order flourishes in Mnemon holdings, whose populaces are thoroughly inculcated with Immaculate morality and doctrine. Peasant villages and patrician families emulate their Dynastic lords’ piety, shunning blasphemers.
Meanwhile, the Order teaches the common folk what’s owed by the ruler to the ruled, and prefects or governors who abuse their power don’t last long.
Mnemon holdings also share the house’s artistic predilections; aniconic artwork is prominently displayed in large cities in hopes of catching a Dynastic patron’s eyes, while even the humblest peasant family’s home holds an icon of the Dragons.
With no Empress and a deadlocked Deliberative, House Mnemon has lost its primary revenue stream of construction projects for the Throne. Other houses have likewise cut back on construction to conserve funds against future need, and find excuses to delay payment.
With most of the house’s military gathered in Dejis Prefecture and Jiara, it’s unable to protect other prosperous satrapies, losing which would financially cripple the house. House Mnemon’s longstanding ties to the Immaculate Order may be its salvation.
While the Order won’t intervene overtly, it commissions expensive new works from Mnemon — grand temples in Ajakai and the Imperial City; monasteries at the Imperial Mountain’s foot; hospices throughout the Isle — and pays up front, effectively funding Mnemon through the crisis.
In the meantime, the house focuses on finishing projects that pay on completion, while postponing work on artifacts and manses.

Parent Organization

The Great Houses