There are four Houses of France, Houses each with a Ring that can reveal a fragment from the legendary and Biblical Tower of Babel.
The Houses of France[]
House Kore[]
House Kore is run by the Matriarch Delphine Desrosiers. Most of the action in the middle section of the book takes place at the House Kore estate where the Horus Eye is located. It is one of the two remaining four Houses of France.
House Nyx[]
House Nyx is run by the Patriarch Hypnos Leclair who becomes a central player in the novel. The estate that Hypnos resides is called Erebus, referring to the primordial deity of darkness. It is one of the two remaining Houses of France.
House Vanth[]
House Vanth was run by the Patriarch Lucien Montagnet-Alarie before he died. When he passes away when Severin was seven years of age. Though, when Séverin Montagnet-Alarie became of-age to take the inheritance test, the results were believed to be falsified and House Vanth fell. It is one of the two fallen House of France.
The Fallen House[]
The Fallen House is a House that lost its name. They once tried to connect the Babel Fragments back in the 1700s to try to attain the power of God, leading to their eventual downfall. When they did fall, their name was stripped from them and all the record books. At the time of The Gilded Wolves—1889—nobody knows the name and it has now become known only as The Fallen House. At the end of The Gilded Wolves, Roux-Joubert tried to awaken the Fallen House and once again try to attain the power of God. In The Silvered Serpents, Séverin and his crew go to St. Petersburg, Russia to try to attain the Divine Lyrics and access the power of God, but the doctor from the Fallen House appears. It is one of the two fallen Houses of France.