House Grebenstein

House Grebenstein was one of the Noble Houses of the Virasana Empire, best known for it's rigid manners and firm belief in their cultural superiority. Its homplanet was Shiraz. 
==History==
Often called the cultural opposite of House Ndewane, the comparison is apt and flawed at the same time. 
While House Grebenstein genetically presented an overwhelmingly white, blond and blue-eyed front, it did not consider themselves superior due to any genetic or racial advantages. More aptly put, they were 'cultural racists', and while they wouldn't look twice at the colour of your skin of the number of your eyes, if you ever dared to pick up a tea cup the wrong way, you were out. 
But the reverse was true as well - if you managed to appear as one to the manner born, they accepted you as one of their own. Though, considering their sheer amount of etiquette and unspoken rules, it can be safely assumed that this was a theoretical option only. 
Things always moved slowly with the Grebensteins, nothing new was good until it had proven itself. But their long-term approach and deep cultural convictions explain how even today, two-hundred years after the house is officially extinct, their planets still bear unmistakeably Grebenstein traits in their day-to-day culture. 
==Coat of Arms==
Sky blue, white knight on white horse in golden embroidery.
==Style==
===Genetics===
Blond and blue eyed, wiry and athletic, some gingers. Other adoptions were possible, but exceedingly rare. 
===Clothes===
White, often uniforms, classic. Very little room for fashion or evolution. 
===Architecture===
Old-fashioned - classical proportions, archetypical materials, everything that could possibly quote a grand past.
== Notes ==
* The Blue Gryphons were an elite fighting unit of the House, based in Greifenwald on Shiraz. While disbanded after the Black-and-White War, it still lives on in popular culture.
*While generally hesitant to accept new inventions of any kind, the Grebenstein were unquestioned masters of solar sails. Even many of their larger ships sported sails, best known among them probably the Rheingold and the Havelland and its captain's rig, the Ribbeck. 
==Notable Members==
Grebenstein
==Notable former Holdings==
Grebenstein Holdings
==Other Articles on House Grebenstein==
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