We too call them Houses, (voryn says, surprised. link, elven in appearance, hails from a world that shares commonalities with his own. he becomes far more animated in speech and in gesture.) My ancestors formed House Dagoth, which became an unmatched political power. It is now recognized as a Great House, one of six whose heads preside over First Council. This is governing body of Resdayn, the province in which I live.

(the pocket becomes increasingly distorted while he speaks of home. cobblestone streets glitch into stretches of flat, metamorphic rock. the ground warps further, uneven and impossible to walk over, but their feet and legs seem to pass through the hallucinatory images without struggle.

though it obviously comes from voryn's mind, he does not seem to notice.)

My duties are many. I served the King directly as his most faithful liegeman, however, and I... (forcing his sentence to die in his throat, he switches gears:) What House are you from? What is your standing within it?