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The Great Houses were more like "wave[s] of some fundamental universal force" than family trees. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]'') Members were laterally rather than directly related, so they addressed each other as [[Cousin (rank)|cousins]]. Each House was allowed to have a specific number of members. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')

Time Lords of [[Newblood]] Houses were loomed with a [[respiratory bypass system|second heart]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') and had better [[regeneration|rebirth]]-control than older Houses; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') for this reason, they viewed [[regeneration]] as trivial and never played [[Eighth Man Bound]] at [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') Newblood Houses were more likely to produce [[intervention]]ists, and some even viewed [[time-active]] cultures as not being [[lesser species]]; for these reasons, they were often regarded by [[Oldblood]]s as smug and ambitious upstarts. Despite its long lineage, [[House Dvora]] came to be seen as one of the first Newblood Houses after it produced [[the Imperator]]; however, it was far more stable than the eccentric Newbloods that would spring up during the [[War in Heaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

Each Great House had a [[chapterhouse]] with which it shared an essential tie; if the chapterhouse fell into neglect, the House itself would unravel. [[Chatelaine]]s from other Houses were often assigned to maintain chapterhouses whose Great Houses had fallen into obscurity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')