House Jerbiton

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This is how mages from each of the other Houses of the Order see House Jerbiton . It represents what any apprentice learning basic Order of Hermes Lore in Stonehenge, Rhine and Normandy tribunals would pick up and therefore is therefore sketchy, if the house is concentrated in far away tribunals.

Domus Magna - Valnastium in Greater Alps Tribunal - location of what is said to be the finest and most extensive library about matters mundane in the whole of the Order of Hermes.
Primus - Andru filius Astrolabe
Symbol - A pennant flown from a tower
Favoured Tribunals - Greater Alps and Thebes

House Jerbiton is interested in the mundane world, and sometimes assumes the duty of keeping the Order on good terms with the nobility and the Church. This inclination in its members often stems from a noble background - apprentices are usually taken from the aristocracy, and often maintain ties afterwards.

Many members of other houses believe that followers of Jerbiton are too closely bound to the mundane powers to be trusted. On the other hand, Jerbiton magi fear that members of the Order have become isolated from humanity, risking bloody conflict with the mundanes. They try energetically to heal this rift, and pursue aesthetic and classical knowledge with a passion.