Order of Hermes in Paris
After the War of Traditions, the Order of Hermes of Paris was signified to stop playing with things they didn't understand, and most of them were asked to quit Paris. Most Houses quited the City of Lights in shame. Still, one of them, House Shaea, who remained neutral in the war, was permitted to stay. While some wonder at the reasons for House Shaea of Paris to turn away from the others Houses of Hermes, most considered the House Shaea, due to its scribe-like viewpoints, decided not to join the battle. Still others wonder if there isn't something darker...
Since then, Mages of Hermes cam back after the World War I, and after pledging the Sons of Ether they would avoid the Tremere and the Kindred in general, were accepted. But their relations with the House Shaea is tense at best.
House Flambeau
These Mages were the most active Mages in the War of Traditions, and they lost most of their members then. To be told to pack away almost started a war between the survivors and the other Traditions. Still, they came back, half of them wondering and searching to understand what went wrong, and the others, not caring a bit, preparing for war.
House Shaea
House Shaea is now the most powerful House of Hermes around Paris, in number, if not in raw power. They continue their work of chronicling Paris' history. The last years, their research went even faster as they started to search for the source of the Tass that seemed to emanate from Paris' sites, including some monuments like the Obelisk of Luxor.
The truth is that Sechat, their patron Goddess for five thousand years, appeared to them: The Battle of Apep will start soon, and will start with the destruction of the source of corruption under the streets of Paris. They recognized Sechat's incarnation, Meryt-Neith as a Kindred, but her power, her knowledge of Egypt and the fact she deciffered every writtings they had, and even completed their archives with her own, was enough proof of her divinity.
Now, they openly avoid meddling with the other Houses of Hermes, knowing they have much better to do than discussing about the past with Orders so young they can't even understand what they exactly claim when claiming to know the mysteries of the Ancient Egyptians. Their relation with the Celestial Choir worsened too. But they don't care: Even if they are too weak to support a war, they have at least one permanent bodyguard: Paercebal.
