====== The House of Three Blades ====== //Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, their side, and the truth.//\\ - Icewalker proverb The House of Three Blades is the primary training center for the [[Army of the Sun]]. It encompasses three levels of instruction: basic and specializing training for military service, advanced strategic and theoretical doctrine for command rank, and individual instruction under [[Glorious Wren]] herself for soldiers who are capable of wielding Essence. Its emblem is a three-pointed star with curved blades. Graduates of the basic course are entitled to wear this device. Graduates of the advanced course are entitled to wear a device consisting of the star superimposed on a downward-pointing sword. Those who are have awakened Essence may placed the three-pointed star over the background of an eight-pointed sunburst (resembling the Dawn caste mark) as well. ==== Game Mechanics ==== The House of Three Blades is a four dot solar aspected manse. It is part of a cluster of manses that make up [[The Mandate of Heaven|The Might of Heaven]]. It possesses the following features: * Seven Leaping Dragon Stone (4) * Armored (3) * Evermind Node (accesses some Evermind archives) (2) * Network Node (interacts with other manses, to be added later) (1) * Well Flavored Aspect (1) * Minor Conveniences (1)