Order of Hermes - La Belle Époque
After the War of Traditions, the Order of Hermes of Paris was told to stop playing with things they didn't understand, and most of them were asked to quit Paris. Most Houses quit 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 the Shaea of House Ex Miscellanea to turn away from the other Houses of Hermes, most considered why the Shaea due to their scribe-like viewpoints, decided not to join the battle. Still others wonder if there isn't something darker...
House Ex Miscellania, specifically the 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 became more secretive 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 Louxor.
Now, they openly avoid meddling with the other Houses of Hermes, knowing they have much better things to do than discussing the past with Orders so unversed in history that 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 in true Hermes fashion, they don't care.
House Shaea
House Shaea is pushing the idea in the public that all people are tied together by their history. Through this idea the House is hoping to be able to use more powerful contagion magic more freely. Their house works hard to uncover history and genealogy so that they can subtly work on large portions of society all at once.
 Violetta Rovigatti -- Mistress of House Shaea'
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House Bonisagus
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 back away almost started a war between the survivors and the other Traditions. Still, they acquiesced, half of them wondering and searching to understand what went wrong, and the others, not caring a bit, preparing for another war.
Since then, Mages of Hermes after pledging to the Electrodyne Engineers they would avoid the Tremere and the Kindred in general, were accepted. But their relations with House Shaea is tense at best.
House Flambeau is pushing the idea that the earth and stars send out massive amounts of power that can be harnessed from the air under the right circumstances. This has led to the mapping and use of the quintescence in the city. This has led to clashes with the vampires, werewolves, and Fae of the city. Nikolai Leclerc is a professor of mythology at the University de Paris, and is only being slightly more circumspect about collecting the quintessence of the city.
House Jannisarry
The Jannisary of Paris is a enforcer of devoted energy.
