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A Great House was a Family or bloodline of Time Lords. Each House used its own Looms to create new members.

Description
Members of a Great House were laterally rather than directly related, so they addressed each other as cousins. Each House was allowed to have a specific number of members. Members' full names often included the name of their Great House, like Quences, Andred, (PROSE: Lungbarrow) Ruthven, Romana, (PROSE: The Book of the War) Thoth, (AUDIO: Body Politic) and Goralschai, as well as all the members of House Meddhoran. (PROSE: Against Nature) If a Great House was ashamed of one of its members, they could undergo Elective Semantectomy to remove that member's name from history. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil)

History
The Great Houses were founded to stabilise the population of Gallifrey after they stopped being able to reproduce biologically. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)

After the Time Lords' war against the Great Vampires, many Great Houses were infected with the vampiric taint and became as corrupted as the Three Who Rule. (PROSE: Blood Harvest)

A group of ruling Houses or Chapters played major roles in politics surrounding the Presidency. (TV: The Deadly Assassin, PROSE: The Book of the War) Most Great Houses were affiliated with one of these Chapters. (PROSE: Lungbarrow) During the War, many of the ruling bloodlines had sub-lines dedicated to exploring particular genetic philosophies. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Each Great House had a chapterhouse with which it shared a mysterious tie; if the chapterhouse fell into neglect, the House would unravel. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Known Great Houses

 * House Arpexia (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * House of Blyledge (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
 * House of Brightshore (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)
 * House Catherion (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * House of Deeptree (AUDIO: Lies)
 * House Dvora (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * House of Fordfarding (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
 * House of Heartshaven (AUDIO: Panacea)
 * House Ixion (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * House of Jade Dreamers (AUDIO: Zagreus)
 * House of Jurisprudence (AUDIO: Insurgency)
 * House Lineacrux (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * House Lolita (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * House of Lungbarrow (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
 * House Medhorran (PROSE: Against Nature)
 * House Mirraflex (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * House of Oakdown (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)
 * House Paradox (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
 * House of Redlooms (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
 * House of Stillhaven (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)
 * House of Seven Gables (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Shadow House (AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard)
 * House Tracolix (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire)
 * House Urquineath (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil)
 * House Xianthellipse (PROSE: The Book of the War)