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Re:Chapterhouse
Hey ARDT19, thanks for bringing that discussion to my attention! (And shout-out to Amorkuz for pointing you my way.)

The main confusion seems to arise from, as you succinctly put it, the blurred lines between "a Great House (Family) and a Ruling House (Chapter)". Frankly, I think our article "Chapter" does a great job explaining the difference: ruling Houses, aka Chapters, are the six most politically influential Great Houses, and each lesser House is tied to a Chapter like a political party. (If you think that isn't made clear enough from the page, please go ahead and clarify it as you see fit!)

This suggests that, despite the apparent distinction made by Lungbarrow, the chapterhouses are just Houses. Indeed, when we see the physical homes of Great Houses in The Book of the War and Against Nature – following directly from Lungbarrow's depiction, with Looms and drudges and everything – they're consistently called "chapterhouses", even though they belong to Houses that are definitely not Ruling. Since it would be seriously confusing to make chapterhouse all about the headquarters of ruling Houses, when regular old Houses are being called chapterhouses by several of the most relevant sources, I decided we should just put all the info on one page. That said, you've inspired me to add a line to the page addressing the discrepancy: does that clear it up?

(Side note: "Prydonian Chapter" definitely isn't short for "Prydonian Chapterhouse". Even in Lungbarrow, phrases like "Patrex Chapterhouse" are extremely rarely used to refer to the Chapter, rather than just the headquarters of Patrex House, and when they are, I think it's just . I did a far more detailed analysis of this on Talk:Chapter, written back when the page Chapter was called Chapterhouse and when Chapterhouse was still called Great House.) – N8 ☎ 21:09, July 7, 2018 (UTC)