House Tepet

The peasantry has long admired the Tepets’ military heroics and romantic Shogunate traditions, though satrapial subjects conquered by Tepet legions rarely share this admiration.
While the house legions’ fall has devastated Tepet’s standing with the Dynasty, the patriciate and peasantry haven’t been so quick to turn on them.
Evenhanded governance of Tepet holdings keeps discontent and civic unrest to a minimum, though many Tepet prefects and satraps have begun implementing harsher policies and steeper taxes to maintain the house’s solvency.
House Tepet is unique among the surviving Great Houses in its descent from a Shogunate-era gens, a distinction reflected in its holdings’ cultures.
Antiquated customs, fashions, and philosophies remain in vogue in Tepet satrapies: Poets compose verses in the demanding Autumn Willow form, patrician and Dynastic socialites dress in many-layered junihitoe, and blacksmiths forge weapons in the Six Jewels style. House Tepet’s martial culture also influences its holdings.
Patricians, peasants, and satrapial subjects alike emulate the house’s emphasis on honor, and heretical worship of Mela is far more common in its holdings than any other house’s.
House Tepet’s economy fell to shambles with its legions’ downfall, leaving it unable to maintain even the chap ter one : history and l ife i n the realm semblance of Dynastic power and luxury.
Remaining satrapies scarcely pay tribute, and interest payments on Ragara loans bleed the Tepets white.
They aim to rebuild by military means. Tepet forces, though vastly diminished, could still plunder the opulent holdings of treacherous rivals.
Wealthy patricians and merchants in Lord’s Crossing and former Tepet territories provide “loans” that resemble gifts, preferring the risk that the house may never repay them to their assets being seized by other houses.

Parent Organization

The Great Houses