The Republic of The Houses
In the ashes of old empires, a Republic is born—eighteen Houses bound by myth, law, and iron succession. Its Pillars hold energy, medicine, sky, and law. Its people rise or fall by exile, oath, and inheritance.
For Christopher Xiong, a foreign-born son of the Bear House, the Republic is both promise and prison. Working as a VR cleaner, he drifts unseen in a system where every name carries the weight of ancestry. But a forgotten relic ties him to the Republic’s most dangerous secret—and once it awakens, Chris is pulled into a struggle that will test not just Houses, but the foundations of civilization itself.
Republic of the Houses is a political epic where words are weapons, myths are law, and no ideology is safe. #CivilizationalScienceFiction