House Orien is a human dragonmarked house throughout Khorvaire, with its major enclave located in Passage, Aundair, the house specialises in courier services and land based transport. Though House Cannith invented the lightning rail, House Orien are the ones who operate and manage it.
House Orien possesses the Mark of Passage. This mark grants various magical benefits that allow its bearers to control travel and teleportation.
Business
House Orien has a large stake in the transportation business and a dominance over the postal business. It seperates these two businesses into two guilds, the couriers guild and the transportation guild. The couriers guild hires independant messengers and couriers to deliver letters and small parcels. Whilst the transportation guild prepares goods for shipment, running the lightning rail and maintaining the trade roads. The transportation guild is the largest dragonmarked guild and has tens of thousands of employees. It is rare for one to hire a Orien caravan to travel to a location of their choice as the price is often too steep. It is far more common to find travellers paying a fee in order to accompany a caravan along its pre-set route throughout a city or to a nearby settlement though, Orien often waves the fare for adventurers so long as they offer their services to protect the caravan. The house also runs a teleportation business though, due to its high fees it has yet to become a mainstream form of transportation.
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