Crown & government
House of Lords
Also called The Lords
The chamber in which the Great Houses sit; it gives aristocratic continuity, patronage and practical sponsorship to the realm and is where broad rule, dynastic myth and sponsorship of councils, charters, ports and foundries meet.
Britannia's upper house, cited as the kind of institution Lyonnais lacks and Britons wrongly expect abroad. The realm's upper chamber, where the belt's houses fight when they must, and fight badly.
Named with it
Ties
- seat of the Great Houses
- stands beneath the Crown beside the House of Commons
- part of Parliament
- Machine-Stone Tithe twice adjourned before it
In the chronicle
At the table
Lesser Houses may be rich and influential yet are denied seats. The Lords can obstruct without governing; a Prime Minister must survive them. Registry clerks who never sit in the Lords can still alter inheritance and custody through control of records. The Machine-Stone Tithe has gone before it twice and been adjourned twice; it has twice asked for the Reckoning's figures.
- Kind
- Crown & government
- Region
- Britannia
- Founded
- c. 4065 A.C.
- Standing
- Present day
- Seat and places
- Westminster; London
- Named in
- Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV, Book V
- Spoken of
- 32 times in the volumes
