House Orien

One of the Houses of Old Vashton, this house controls anything of an arcane nature, within Old Vashton, for sheer magical power none of the other houses comes anywhere near. The only aspect of the House which train their arcane skills for battle are the Egale Knights who work alongside the House Deneith and the Town guard of House Phiarlan in the protection of the city from the Roost Towers. But even without battle training House Orien would be formidable if the other houses were to attack them. The Orien main building is the Black Needle which is a large tower in Silverwall District which is where the leaders of the house carry out day to day running of the house but more importantly work on their personal arcane studies, where as the Orien Archive is for the less important house members with a large repository of books on all kinds of things.

After the DRB separated from Duthgar there was discussion of House Orien starting a wizarding academy so that the DRB would have one but the other houses thought this would tip the balance of power and so opted to have another party run the academy, this was displeasing to House Orien as that would dilute their power and there would be Arcane boons on offer for the city that were not controlled by them. The Crimson Codex stepped in and set up their academy rather quickly and began to accept students.

Officially House Orien looks to advance magical learning for the sake of perfecting their art and also the study of the Akarieans and the magical devices which were left behind by them both here in Old Vashton and elsewhere. But they also horde this knowledge and guard it more than share it, they allow people to hire their services out, such as the ability to teleport to various cities across the world from the Tower of Orien. House Orien also earns a reasonable amount of money from the residence of Silverwall District for their work as the Silver Guards who keep the shoot and smoke from Forgelight District coming over the wall into Silverwall. The tower is also when new house members or those whose magical ability is lacking, go to study under tutelage.

Important People
Uskai Orien (head of the house)

Dekker Siberys (Arcane matters council member on the Visible Council)

Breyn Siberys (Head of research into the Akarieans)

Elari Siberys (Head of Arcane services)

Important structures
Black Needle

Tower of Orien

Orien Archive