Eastern Houses and Orders (Lineage)

While the most powerful individual Houses in the West evolved in the West, Western mages are far from having a monopoly on magic power. Ancient Houses ruled in the Middle-East, North Africa, China, and India, when the West was still an illiterate backwater. Western magical scholarship owes much to these older houses and it is likely than many Western Houses are blood descendants. 
The main reason there are no Eastern Houses and Orders mentioned in the Lineage Setting, apart from the Houses of Umayad, Abbysid, and Hashim, and the Orders of Cain, Eve, Jesus, Judas, Lilith, Siddhartha, and Utnapishtim, is Western bias that those places are the illiterate backwater. Relations to all of the Western houses can be summed up with "who are these guys?" followed by "How did they become so freaking powerful so fast?!" when they start to flex their magical muscle.
== The Middle East ==
While the Western Houses have established a presence in the Middle-East over the centuries, they have never managed to establish lasting rule. Western mages travel to the Middle-East, but it is dangerous without local allies. Middle-Eastern Houses and Orders will have presences in the West wherever there are substantial populations of Middle-Eastern origin. Fights between individual Eastern and Western Houses are common, but so are temporary alliances.
Particularly powerful and influential Houses of the Middle East include:
Abbyssid, Arsacid, Ashurbanipal, Borjigin, Fatimid, Hakhamanes, Mamluk, Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, Osman, Order of Lilith, Qabil (House of Cain), Ramesses, Seljuk, Uruku.
The following foreign Houses have a minor, but significant presence:
Anjou, Ptolmey, Romanov, Stuart, Ummayad.
Particularly significant Orders include:
Order of Abu Bakr Al-Razi, Order of Ajita Kesakambali, Order of Al-Khwarizmi, Order of Hawa (Order of Eve), Order of Ibn al-Rawandi, Order of Jaimini, Order of Utnapishtim.
== The Far East ==
Mages from Houses and Orders originating in the Far East can be found anywhere in the world, and have an established presence wherever there are people of Far Eastern descent.
Particularly powerful and important Houses of the Far East include:
Babur, Borjigin, Fujiwara, Gupta, Jin, Joseon, Konbaung, Li, Liu, Qin, Tokugawa, Zhu Di.
Particularly important Orders include:
Order of the Buddha, Order of Liu Bang, Order of Mozi, Order of Sun Tzu, Order of the Shogun, Order of Zhang Jue, Order of Zhu Bajie.
===Order of the Buddha===
The Order of the Buddha holds that Heaven and Hell are both illusions to prevent people from reaching nirvana. They see freeing souls from Hell (and Heaven) is one of their primary goals putting them on the side of the Rebellion as far as the Houses are concerned.
===Order of Sun Tzu===
:[01.13] Warfare is the Way of deception.[01.14] Therefore, if able, appear unable; if active, appear inactive; if near, appear far; if far, appear near.[01.15] If your enemies have advantage, bait them; if they are confused, capture them; if they are numerous, prepare for them; if they are strong, avoid them; if they are angry, disturb them; if they are humble, make them haughty; if they are relaxed, toil them; if they are united, separate them.[01.16] Attack where your enemies are not prepared; go to where they do not expect.[01.17] This strategy leads to victory in warfare, so do not let the enemy see it. from Sonshi translation (Archive.today)
Definitively the largest of the Eastern orders. They have turned the teachings of Sun Tzu into something akin to Confucism. Their goal has always been to be the rulers of the region they occupy but the way to that goal is up to the individual. According to legend, every single unified government China has had was either supported by them or over thrown by one of their members with the current Communist one getting a lot of support. Their one flaw, that the West wasn't worth bothering about, was shattered in the wake of the First Opium War (1839-1842). They are one of the few groups of mages that go heavily into magitech.
===Order of the Shogun===
During the Edo period (1603-1868) this was the one unified Order in all of Japan answerable only to the Shogun. Their goals were, and are, two fold - make sure Japan is stable and strong. They viewed largely dictatorial rule as the true path to the achievement of these goals. Part of their ceremony is to swear total fidelity to the Shogun - which led to their fragmentation as technically General Douglas MacArthur was Japan's Last Shogun (1945-1951). The old guard hold that the Edo Period held the last "true" Shogun while the new generation hold that, Gaijin or not, their oath was clear that MacArthur's wishes should be the ones they follow.
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