Honourable Trader Houses

The Honourable Trader Houses of the Alteron Protectorate are a hierarchy of craft and trade organisations. They represent social and political entities with family-like bonds.
A trader house(organisation) is not a family per se but individuals tend to stay in a house, once they are part of it and they tend to keep their families within the same house, especially as house loyalty is enforced fairly forcefully.

Structure

The ranks in ascending order:

1. honourable trader house - could be a craftsman or a family owning a small merchant ship.
2. notable trader house - a group of craftsmen, shipowners or a mercenary unit of some reputation.
3. distinguished trader house - a house that is well known and has begun to accumulate influence and wealth.
4. situated trader house - a house with much and continuous success that has thus accumulated significant wealth and influence.
5. bounteous trader house - a house with abundant riches in money, power and tradition.
6. ancient trader house - a house with abundant riches and a long history of holding the title of "bounteous trader house".

Type

Political, Faction / Party

Alternative Names

Trader Houses