Editing House Escher (section)

==History==
In the distant past, before Necromunda was named as such, there were three sisters: Celestria, Sydrena and Solarana. These three sisters were legendary warriors, having felled countless foes and pledge loyalty to the future planetary governor Martek Hel'mayr. Eventually they would set up cloning vats and combine their genetics in order to begin the bloodline of House Ulandari.

At some point, House Ulandari would split, with Ulantri retaining all the posh nobles, while the upstarts and daredevils broke off and formed their own house, House Athenos, and gained control of the chem trade. While the renamed House Ulanti gained prominence following assisting Cinderak Helmawr become planetary governor, Athenos suffers serious losses due to internal strife and attrition. Some members of Ulanti found themselves disillusioned with the decadence that strayed so far from their forebears and became House Eschaki, absorbing the collapsing House Athenos.

Eschaki, being a new house during a period where other, more established houses were expanding, were facing an uphill battle to dominance. Among these was [[House Goliath]], who unlike their modern iteration were merely a bunch of swole forge-bros. These houses would war for a good while until a point where Eschaki just decided to both poison the Goliath's food supply and butcher their numbers with a bunch of gene-modded drugged-up loons, spelling doom. For whom? Well, technically both; while Goliath was immediately destroyed by the war, Eschaki would suffer the effects of their addictions to gene-mods and drugs as their men would be born with increasingly glaring and crippling defects. This would have been the end if it weren't for a band of women who took the reins of Eschaki and establish the groundwork for the modern matriarchy.

It was here that House Escher as we know it were born today. They specialize in exotic chemicals and bio-agents; tonics, drugs, elixirs, gene-mods and a vast array of other bio-pharmaceutical products. Their Space Amazon status was even directly attributed to genetic degradation from dealing with these concoctions, and their menfolk are now completely out of the picture - while the men they do produce are still hopelessly disabled, they get around this by use bio-pharmaceutical [[archeotech]] (with a little help from [[House Van Saar]]) to reproduce, with strange drugs that can induce parthenogenesis (asexual, perhaps even homosexual) pregnancy. This makes their eternal rivalry with House Goliath develop a layer of extra irony; Not only was Goliath a result of Escher trying to make new men to replace their defective ones (which went very wrong), but Goliath ''depends'' on Escher-produced stimms, gene-tweaks, hormone mods and other bio-chemical products to create and sustain their unnaturally enhanced, augmented physiques.

Their chief allies come in one of three aspects: The '''Water Guild''' who share a good relationship with Escher thanks to their domination of the chem trade, the '''Cold Trade''' - those smugglers of verboten and proscribed xenos and xenotech- and [[House Ulanti]], a highly influential noble house whose bloodline shares a common origin with Escher, thus meaning that some noble advisors may come to visit the gang.

===Shivvers===
Escher also houses Shivvers, usually low-level [[Psyker|psykers]] who act as soothsayers and oracles. Gangers both inside and outside the house value the counsel of the shivvers and will seek their aid in order to hear prophecies and attempt to curse their enemies. Most notorious of them all is Lord Helmawr himself, and Escher has taken it upon themselves to protect the shivvers from the lord's grasp.