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Multiple Houses were collected into '''Schools'''. As the name implies, these Schools were primarily concerned (for the most part) with the education of the children of the constituent Houses. However, they provided many other social services as well. During the Imperial era, representation in the Senate was based off of School membership, with each School sending a number of senators based off of the number of houses therein. | Multiple Houses were collected into '''Schools'''. As the name implies, these Schools were primarily concerned (for the most part) with the education of the children of the constituent Houses. However, they provided many other social services as well. During the Imperial era, representation in the Senate was based off of School membership, with each School sending a number of senators based off of the number of houses therein. | ||
In the later years of the Empire, there was a trend of 'refinement' among both Houses and Schools, which advocated | |||
that each House and School should be as specialised as possible, with each one perfecting its own area of expertise. It is this trend that eventually led to the [[Small Coup]], which gave sole control of the Senate over to the School [[Motus Soniae]]. However, this idea had been around for much longer; School [[Rascianun]] had for centuries specialised in military matters and athletics, and [[Lucium]] had long been associated with trade and paper manufacture. | |||
===Religion=== | ===Religion=== | ||