[member="Vithar Seth"]
I do understand what yall are saying, but I feel that calling them Schools works better at implying what you are going for than Houses does. School is a very broad term and implies an academic environment as well as a focus for study. A School of Combat Arts for example would tell you that people here focus on the use of talents in a combat situation. This could be everything from telekinetic attacks to lightning to even more subtle things like making someone believe you swing is going faster or slower than it real is which gives you the advantage. The focus is on combat, not the actual technique being used.
The term House implies a group of people who are separated from another. This is commonly used for not just families, but also political stances. To use Game of Thrones as an example, the Houses were the political power of the area and each area was ruled differently based on the political stance of the House. Every House stood for their own interests rather than the interests of the entire nation and that is what caused the civil war in the first place.
So that is what I am getting at. We need to worry a bit about what we call things because the impression it gives means a lot. We know what we are going for, but what about new people coming in? What about to the people of other factions? It has real impact, and I just think we should think about that a bit more. Not against calling them Houses, just think we should know what we are doing when we do.