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==='''CARYX'''===
A large house 

Shapeshifting and living item creation specialists*. At odds with the magic-item creating Sawall.

Members usually advanced shapeshifter and mages. All have advanced shapeshifting to some extent.
*Colours : Green and Black
*House Look : Black skin, African features, curly black hair, green eyes.
*Head : Nominally Duchess Velana (it is rumoured that all the other members of the house are her Blood creatures); the Head of House is really a vast mass of shapeshifted flesh filling millions of cubic metres. It is vast, ancient and intelligent with huge psyche and endurance, but effectively immobile. It uses blood creatures as remote units (such as Duchess Velana).
*Heir : Lord Quallar, a noted scholar and researcher into shapeshifting, who is behind the plot in 'Comes in the End Despondency and Madness' (he is something of an absent-minded professor type, who ignores the rules when he feels like it).
*Notables : Leotus, who was involved in the plot of the same game and Quallar's front man, but who doesn't excel at anything.

*Attitude Before Patternfall : Anti-Amber
*They make Fire Angels.
*They have a tithe of prisoners; it is known they are used to create living weapons, but not how.

Using non-intrinsic or shapeshifted weapons is considered by them a sign of weakness and/or incompetence, especially in a House member.

Caryxways has a number of 'levels'.

The most important is a cyberpunk/high magic metropolis, a city of towers and the like (see the 'Wicked City' Anime), used as their main research and development area. Others include:

A post-apocalypse version of the above, used as a testing ground.

Fortress Manasa - a vast fortress in the shape of a white stone lotus, on a peak above a cryogenic sea and below a burning sky. It is their administrative centre, and where they meet outsiders.

A series of cubical steel rooms with nothing outside, linked in more than three spatial dimensions - their ultra-secret labs.
A vast tree floating in a zero-G void of air.

Infinite gardens and mazes with some very weird stuff inside.