Editing Order of Hermes (section)

===Lesser Houses===

These houses are all broadly considered under the banner of '''House Ex Miscellanea''', functionally the clearing house for all the Hermetic practices the Order didn't want to give full membership.

- '''House Criamon''' was one of the Order's founding Houses, specializing in enigmas, lowercase-p paradoxes, riddles, and unsolved mysteries. Their influence has declined pretty much constantly sonce their formation, culminating in their demotion after the Metaplot killed most of their Archmages. They tend to suffer from White Wolf Trickster Syndrome, which makes them equal parts twee, incomprehensible, and self-impressed in the fluff.

- '''House Jerbiton'''. Mundane relations and recruitment. They run the wizard DMV. They are, by definition, the closest to mundane and often put in charge of running front groups and mystery cults as a result. 

- '''House Mernita''' deals specifically with faeries, an increasingly unrewarding task as the [[Changeling: The Dreaming|fae]] grow more and more secretive and rare.

- An odd duck, '''House Skopos''' focuses on the intersection of quantum physics and Hermetic practice. Through drugs. Because [[White Wolf]]. It also canonically has exactly three members, so that's weird. 

- '''House Xaos''' is just Discordianism with a Hermetic membership card. They are not dissimilar to the [[Xaositects]] from [[Planescape]], actually.