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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friday" data-source="post: 5254103" data-attributes="member: 90051">Musings on Kindle"It had long been noted that the Houses of Kindle were frequently wrapped up in their squabbles, perhaps to the detriment of Kindle itself, with the exception of the House of Blades who were often the 'tool' used to bring such arguments to an end.The House of Wyrd and the House of Faith clashed, frequently.  Master Glim, a mage of Serc - master of his Warren no less, and an astute scholar - lead the House of Wyrd and fashioned it into an organised cadre of sorcerers, claiming the sorcerous protection and proliferation of Kindle as their domain.  This was an area that oft times, it was felt, overlapped with the House of Faith's claim to caretakers of the spiritual needs of Kindle's citizens.  The triumvirate that leads the House of Faith: Phaedra Vo, High Priestess of Soliel, Kirrium, solitary priest of the elder god Mael and Saska Vo, perhaps the only Demidrek on the continent.  That only three deities were represented in the House's leadership was not the only oddity, add to that the twin Vo sisters who lead opposing aspects: The Goddess of Healing and The Worm of Autumn.  The House of Coins - led by the Traders Council -  and House of Manners - under the guidance of the Daru-sen Dynasty -  suffered in a similar fashions, rich merchants bringing themselves to equal footing with those of noble ancestry.  The Terraces, once the noble district of Kindle, were now home to merchant's estates and mansions.  The House of Manners lost more and more of its footing to the House of Coins with each passing year, as trade routes prospered and goods flooded the markets of Kindle.  One wonders, amidst these struggles, if the Houses ever found time to govern fair Kindle? It is for this reason, perhaps, that the residents of Kindle confessed the guilty secret of welcoming the attention of Empress Laseen.  Kindle was not Pale, subject to a magocracy nor was it Darujhistan, rich and powerful and old.  What would the Malazans bring? Order.  They would make Kindle a city that worked.  As is usual for the Empire, Laseen's Claw would enter the city and offer the local assassins contracts for all the current leaders with the intention of leaving one faction in power.  In this case, the House of Blades would be the one that remained.  An interesting possibility, is it not? A city ruled by assassins? A city of order, none the less."'Musings on Kindle' Sarielle, Mistress-Librarian of the Scholar's Stoop Library, House of Wyrd.[sblock=OOC]This is just some background info, I tend to throw it in now and then for...well..fun.  It's bearing on the events the characters experience is...variable...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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