The Seat-and-Guild Roster

Every guild and every senate seat, with a named holder and a one-line identity. Produced by the Leader-to-House Audit, building on the fused-aristocracy doctrine. Cross-references: (senate powers and seat distribution), (guild dispositions and officers), (province culture and capitals). Strategic agendas (goals, obstacles, resources, assets, liabilities) for every guild and house:.

How to read this. Each of the eighteen provinces holds one guild and one to five senate seats. For seventeen provinces the dominant seat is a Fused House (guild Leadership + dominant senate seat + Council of 18 seat in one bundle); the Temple of the One’s Entoyo is the exception, where the bundle splits. Other seats in a province belong to Rival Houses (senate-seated, guild-affiliated, not guild-leading).

Name status. All House and Leader names here are established canon — the full 36-seat registry is closed. A House may carry a formal heraldic name (on its crest and in the Senate) and an older lineage/family name still used in familiar register; both are canon (see the caption under the summary table). Houses below the seated 36 — the unlimited minor/lesser lines — are generated on the fly with the House Forge.

Summary table

Province	Guild	Seats	Fused House	Leader
Julin	Torrus Ectos	1	Ectos	Gren
Yisk	Emphemere	3	Summer	Lady Summer
Entoyo	Temple of the One	1	Ilyrast (non-fused seat)	Alont / Niska
Nolekkelon	Abyssal Fires	1	Kessareth (Vartiovaara line)	Rhys
Frewna Nurrelle	The White Legion	2	Stone	Elacole Stone
Pogus	The Core	1	Alont-of-Pogus	Creven Alont
Sahthan	Multani	3	Mihran	Fitz (pre-prime)
Hakkar	The Masons	3	Stoneheart	Callum “Kane” (pre-prime)
Lupan	Iron Coin	2	Dunmarrow (Pershaun’s line)	Pershaun
Ockallaka	Prodigus Group	1	Lakkanen clan	Fidi’olliana
Ahlgenadin	The Sulamir League	5	Berreldin	Berreldin
Creko	The Red Dragons	2	Quinton’s line	Quinton Marvelous (pre-prime)
Tonja	Alum-sidek Alliance	3	Tolleman (Ldr) / Corveliss (seat)	Nathia Tolleman
Merjaya	Bavit-vita	2	Ashvara (Singh line)	Singh (pre-prime)
Antodinera	Order of the Blue Cross	2	Esteban	Vazzerin “Vaz”
Bolanbi	The Hand	2	Asantewa	Dru Danum (pre-prime)
Illibill	Alyu’amare	1	Suhyun	Skylar (pre-prime)
Udlimill	Order of the Spider	1	Bilegt	Jinto Sien

All House names above are canon. Where a House shows two names — Kessareth (Vartiovaara line), Dunmarrow (Pershaun’s line), Ashvara (Singh line), Corveliss (formerly Ravenhold) — the bold name is the formal heraldic/senate name that appears on the crest; the parenthetical is the older lineage/family name still used in familiar register. Both are valid.

Northern provinces

Julin · Torrus Ectos · 1 seat (frontier)

Patron Bamoph-bam; capital Olmenfjord. Fused House: House Ectos, a family that rose through the brawler markets rather than inheritance. Leader Gren’o’nos’n’offak (“Gren”). Right Hand Amber (Asimarr); Left Hand Rolinda (Asimarr). No rival seat. Gentry texture beneath the house: the Hauld line (deep-water captains) and Skerry line (lighthouse keepers), neither senate-seated. Flag: canon marks Gren as the least-respected Leader, regularly used as a wedge by the other guilds and not fully aware of it; carry into any scene where Julin’s lone seat gets out-maneuvered.

Yisk · Emphemere · 3 seats

Patron Yadra; capital Vasilek. Fused House: House Summer (name provisional). Leader Lady Summer (“Lady Winter”). Right Hand Heathcliff; Left Hand Sergey. Rival seats:

House Voronets: old textile-export dynasty controlling the embroidered-linen wagon trade south; resents Emphemere’s brokerage cut on every load.
House Osenko: homeland-rooted line neighboring Zaryanoye; champions “open the gates” homeland-aid votes in generational opposition to Lady Summer’s closed-gate, city-primacy faction.

Entoyo · Temple of the One · 1 seat

No patron of the Eight (the Temple’s doctrinal heartland); capital Hokuden. The one guild that cannot fuse, so the bundle splits three ways:

Right Hand Niska, who also holds the Temple’s true Council of 18 seat through the inner teaching (not through the senate; her vow-suspended surname bars any house headship).
Left Hand Uing-Wei.
Senate seat: House Ilyrast, head Renjiro: a devout lay-noble line that has funded and guarded the Hokuden temple for generations without taking vows. Influential but structurally hollow, since the Temple’s real authority (Niska) answers to no house. (The seat is House Ilyrast; Hokuden is the temple-place, not the house.)

Nolekkelon · Abyssal Fires · 1 seat (frontier)

Patron Ilogo; capital Vissett. Fused House: House Kessareth — the old Vartiovaara “watch-hill” line under its formal senate name, holding at Mikelnik on the highest watchtower road. (Kessareth is the heraldic/crest name; Vartiovaara remains the family’s frontier lineage name. The crest — an eye set in an unlit lantern of stacked book-spines — is a worked exemplar in the Visual Bible.) Leader Rhys (gnome). Right Hand Baith (Goliath); Left Hand Montroy (half-elf). No rival seat. Grievance hook: the continent’s largest archive and its principal intelligence apparatus, weighted at a single frontier seat.

West-central provinces

Frewna Nurrelle · The White Legion · 2 seats

Patron Rashel; the western coast’s largest harbor. Fused House: House Stone. Leader Elacole Stone (theatrical, one of the Council’s great orators; means to be quoted for a century and to die onstage). Right Hand Cemenda; Left Hand Wynjaren. Rival seat:

House Vinciel: theatrical-noble family that built its influence through Grand Opera patronage; its money rebuilt the Opera’s costume trade after the wartime fire, and it resents House Stone getting the applause. Other Frewnese lines in canon: Marbre, Estoile.

Pogus · The Core · 1 seat

Patron Michana; capital Burumqi. Fused House: the Academy House of Alont, Creven’s line. Leader Creven Alont (self-understanding as the path to cosmic understanding; spends his capital keeping the cold war from going hot). Right Hand Thervo; Left Hand Kadazaki (Tabaxi). No rival seat. Grievance hook: Pogusi tutors sit inside every great house on the continent, yet the province holds one seat. Open thread: whether Creven’s surname ties him to Alont of the Temple of the One is a live canon question the province leans on without resolving. Other lines: Sosthenes, Phylo.

Sahthan · Multani · 3 seats

Patron Embelekor; capital Shuzozheng (the Great Trade Hall; the House of Mihran compound). Fused House: House Mihran. Rival seats:

House Bizhan: caravan-financing dynasty running the silk-and-spice credit lines; the house every mid-tier caravan master owes a favor to.
House Kaveh: saffron-and-textile house whose caravanserai network gives it the best real-time read on frontier conditions, occasionally beating Multani’s own channels to Council. Spare canon line: Roshan.

Hakkar · The Masons · 3 seats

Patron Zathra; capital Joran (fortified quarry city). Fused House: House Stoneheart. Rival seats:

House Trapper: Tara’s line, held by a senior Trapper of her parents’ generation (name reserved); the holder who must bless or resist the eventual Stoneheart-Trapper match.
House Hild: old quarrying family holding Joran’s northern quarry face since before the Great War; reads every Stoneheart building contract as a referendum on whose stone gets specified first. Other lines: Stoneward, Reach.

Central provinces

Lupan · Iron Coin · 2 seats

Patron Embelekor; capital Lupan (the Iron Bank). Fused House: House Dunmarrow (Pershaun’s line). Leader Pershaun (economic sovereignty; holds women in higher regard than men). Dunmarrow is the House’s formal heraldic name; its crest — a closed fist around an unstruck coin-blank stamped with the Iron Coin’s own scale-and-vault — is a worked exemplar in the Visual Bible. Right Hand Jaka (dwarf); Left Hand Ban (vampire). Rival seat:

House di Lupan: the province’s namesake second family, running the Mint Hall’s coinage (as distinct from the Iron Bank’s credit and vaulting); they strike the specie the Bank lends against, and play the reasonable, less-feared face of Lupani finance. Other lines: Aurelia, Bancaforte. (Note: Aurelia also appears among Creko’s martial families; treat as one continent-spanning dynasty with branches, not a collision.)

Ockallaka · Prodigus Group · 1 seat (frontier)

Patron Yadra; capital Kazun (the Great Hearth). Fused “house”: the Lakkanen clan, Fidi’olliana’s line (Ockallaka is clan-based, not dynastic, so there is no formal House title). Leader Fidi’olliana: Ockallaka clan-born, hands-on, redundancy-obsessed, allergic to ornament; has personally repaired more Founding-era systems than any living Leader and treats that competence as her claim to a Council voice equal to Alum-sidek’s, not a courtesy seat for “the guild that fixes things.” Right Hand Ralana; Left Hand Luqa. No rival seat. Other clans: Mahina, Pekelo, Ali’ikai.

Ahlgenadin · The Sulamir League · 5 seats (the capital province)

No single patron (all Eight hold major temples here); the province surrounds and contains the city of Sulamir. Fused House: House Berreldin. Leader Berreldin: old past easy reckoning, patient to the point of geological, speaks rarely and then delivers the single sentence that reframes a debate around a precedent only the League remembers; his palace sits atop the Center Spire that anchors the dome, which the League treats as no accident. Right Hand Tefeska; Left Hand Perym. The four Rival seats (this is the political-core province):

House Corveliss, Sulamir branch, at Corvelith Tower in the Tonjani Quarter: holds an Ahlgenadin seat in its own right because the magnerail terminus sits inside the capital; Cyl’s city-resident branch.
House Sarafen: a Mal’akha founding-contract house, custodians of Founding Tongue liturgical texts and ceremonial interpreters for Council rites; doctrinally closer to the Temple’s contemplative wing, a quiet counterweight when Alont marshals “the better guilds.”
House Valcresh: staffs the Council Chambers’ protocol and security office; knows every Leader’s comings and goings and trades that knowledge carefully. The house built on proximity.
House Aldrenor: Founding-era custodians of the deep-infrastructure vault-keys below the city, including sealed access near the Rhydin levels; feared out of proportion to a small public footprint.

Creko · The Red Dragons · 2 seats

Patron Zathra; capital Rikut (the Drill Cathedral). Fused House: Quinton’s house. Right Hand Dante (half-elf); Left Hand Fyerre (dwarf). Rival seat:

House Tiberian: old cavalry-officer dynasty supplying instructors seconded to other provinces’ guards; lobbies hardest to rein in the brawler markets, sharpening the Red Dragons / Red Octopus rivalry. Other lines: Aurelia (see Lupan), Octavia.

Tonja · The Alum-sidek Alliance · 3 seats

Patron Jawehn (oath, kin, hearth); capital Landavilks (magnerail terminus). The split bundle, resolved: Tonja is the one province where guild Leadership and the dominant senate seat sit in different houses.

Guild Leadership + Council seat: House Tolleman. Leader Nathia Tolleman (the young noblewoman who does not speak). Resolution of the knot: Tolleman is a distinct old Tonjani line, not a Corveliss by blood or marriage, but kin-sworn to House Corveliss through oath-registers that predate the magnerail charter. That sworn-word tie is what lets the Leadership sit apart from the senate seat without breaking Tonja’s kin-honor code. Right Hand Haymond (“the Scorpion,” civic cover for his soul-pact protection of Cyl); Left Hand Cyl, of the Consort House below.
Consort House (dominant senate seat): House Corveliss. Head Aesen Corveliss (Cyl’s grandfather); Cyl is heir-presumptive. Corveliss holds the magnerail charter, which is what makes Alum-sidek “functionally inseparable” from the house and why the Left Hand runs through Corveliss.
Rival seats: Eastreach (frontier military house, Tonja’s Waste Land hawks, natural rival to Corveliss’s trade-first instinct) and Wulfric (kin-magistrate house that adjudicates oath-law, whose backing every Tonjani succession fight needs). Unseated lesser houses: Hildwin (agricultural; Corveliss’s home-ground client at the village that hosts Corveliss Hall) and Beorn (timber and trade). Flag: per, Searlis seizes House Corveliss at book one’s close; this roster is the pre-climax baseline (Aesen as head).

Southern provinces

Merjaya · Bavit-vita · 2 seats

Patron Yadra; capital Pekkalipia (the Mother Hall, the continent’s largest Heart-discipline site). Fused House: House Ashvara — the Singh line’s formal senate name (Ashvara is the heraldic/crest name; the family is still the Singhs in familiar register). The crest — a dark root breaking into a red heart-bloom, flanked by looping vines — is a worked exemplar in the Visual Bible. Rival seat:

House Devraj: a river-mouth merchant house, Merjaya’s expedience counterweight; brokers the trade concessions that keep Pekkalipia’s spice and tuition revenue flowing, and votes against House Singh’s principled positions when the ledger demands. Other lines: Suryakumar, Padma.

Antodinera · Order of the Blue Cross · 2 seats

Patron Yadra; capital Antodinera (the Great Hospice, the continent’s largest dying-care institution). Fused House: House Esteban. Leader Vazzerin “Vaz” Ohn (vampire, obsessed with dying well; the Council’s principal voice for peace; full standing at book one). Right Hand Nell (vampire); Left Hand Hayzek (gnome). Rival seat:

House Mariella: an old hospice dynasty running the higher-volume houses; lobbies for the intake capacity Vaz’s restraint politics keep off the table, the guild’s one real internal fault line dressed as a scheduling dispute. Other line: Diego.

Bolanbi · The Hand · 2 seats

Patron Yadra (hot-spring ritual). Fused House: House Asantewa. Right Hand Imril; Left Hand Olamae. Rival seat:

House Boahene: a river-crossing banking house competing with Asantewa dominance; the seat Iron Coin’s agents court hardest for a wedge inside Bolanbi’s delegation. Other line: Sefa.

Illibill · Alyu’amare · 1 seat

Patron Michana; capital Nanderland (the Harmony Hall). Fused House: House Suhyun. Right Hand Harthero; Left Hand Chale. No rival seat. Ruling recommended: the single seat is intentional, not a drafting gap. Alyu’amare wins by soft power, brokering marriages and alliances across every other province rather than accumulating votes at home; a second Illibill seat would blunt the very “our internal harmony is not performance” claim that defines the province. (Resolves one of the Cartographer’s three geography flags.)

Udlimill · Order of the Spider · 1 seat (frontier)

Patron Ilogo; capital Ylothiahoketh (the Watch Hall, built for intelligence work). Fused House: House Bilegt. Leader Jinto Sien (ambition: to control the flow of secrets across the continent and, in time, the Council itself, silently, and to never hold a title that names him). Right Hand Elonzo Besk; Left Hand Safiya Chinue. No rival seat. The Spider split, recommended: Jinto holds the Leadership and the Bilegt senate seat publicly (a Fused House must have a name), but the true Council of 18 seat is quietly exercised through one of his Hands, so he works unseen even at the Council’s own table. This makes Udlimill the second public/secret split after the Temple, honoring both his creed and the fusion rule. Other clans: Borjigid, Khorlan, Naran.

Locked

Crest-name reconciliation. The three Visual-Bible crest exemplars are locked as the formal heraldic names of their Fused Houses, layered over the existing lineage names: Dunmarrow (Lupan / Iron Coin — Pershaun’s line), Kessareth (Nolekkelon / Abyssal Fires — Vartiovaara line), Ashvara (Merjaya / Bavit-vita — Singh line). The lineage names remain valid in familiar register, so no cross-file rename is required — this uses the same formal-name/lineage-name grammar the world already runs on (Corveliss formerly Ravenhold, Callum’s war-name Kane).
The 36-seat registry is complete. Every senate seat across the eighteen provinces has a named holder above — 18 Fused/dominant + 18 Rival/affiliate = 36. This closes Open Question 2. Houses below the seated 36 are unlimited and generated with the House Forge; the four-part crest grammar is the locked standard for every new House seal.