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|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn]], [[The Stormlight Archive]]
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The '''nobles''' are a race of humans on [[Scadrial]].{{epigraph ref|mb3|25}}
Each house has different levels of power, a social hierarchy. They use [[Steel Ministry|Obligators]] as a means to prove they are trustworthy, for even unimportant matters, such as a meeting with friends.
=== Great Houses ===
{{quote|Interspersed throughout the city were a dozen or so monolithic keeps. Intricate, with rows of spearlike spires or deep archways, these were the homes of the high nobility. In fact, they were the mark of a high noble family: Any family who could afford to build a keep and maintain a high-profile presence in Luthadel was considered to be a Great House.
The Great Houses are the most prominent noble families in the Final Empire, notable for their ability to build a keep and maintain a high-profile presence in Luthadel.{{book ref|mb1|2}} This is made difficult by the Lord Ruler's keep tax.{{book ref|mb1|24}} There is nothing more embarassing to the aristocracy than a Great House that is unable to maintain itself.{{book ref|mb1|28}}
The Great Houses control imperial trade and enslave the greatest majority of the skaa.{{book ref|mb1|6}} Country nobility resent the Great Houses for their control of the canal systems.{{book ref|mb1|23}}
The Great Houses get to buy a monthly stipend of atium, one of the main ways that the Lord Ruler controls them.{{book ref|mb1|13}} Nearly all Mistborn are members of the Great Houses.{{book ref|mb1|7}} The Great Houses take Mistborn attacks very seriously, and have an unspoken agreement not to use Mistborn to assassinate each other.{{book ref|mb1|6}}
A major house war between the Great Houses tends to happen every couple of centuries or so.{{book ref|mb1|6}} House Wars are primarily political.{{book ref|mb1|24}} The last House War was devastating.{{book ref|mb1|6}}
When Vin starts infiltrating the nobility, the ten Great Houses, in order of power, are: [[House Venture]], [[House Hasting]], [[House Elariel]], [[House Tekiel]], [[House Lekal]], [[House Erikeller]], [[House Erikell]], [[House Haught]], [[House Urbain]], and [[House Buvidas]].{{book ref|mb1|9}} Breeze describes the current high noblemen to be "a careful discriminating group."{{book ref|mb1|6}}
=== Keeps ===
* [[Keep Venture]]{{book ref|mb1|30}}▼
* [[Keep Hasting]]{{book ref|mb1|23}}▼
* [[Keep Lekal]]{{book ref|mb1|28}}
* [[Keep Orielle]]{{book ref|mb3|30}}
=== Balls ===
About a month later, [[Keep Elariel]] holds a ball at which Valette danced for the first time.{{book ref|mb1|18}}
=== Minor Noble Houses ===
▲* [[Keep Hasting]]{{book ref|mb1|23}}
Outside of the ten Great Houses, there are countless minor houses, some of which eventually became major players during the Collapse.
▲* [[Keep Lekal]]{{book ref|mb1|28}}
▲* [[Keep Venture]]{{book ref|mb1|30}}
* [[House Cett]]
▲* [[Keep Orielle]]{{book ref|mb3|30}}
* [[House Aime]]
* [[House Conrad]]
* [[House Geffenry]]
* [[House Teniert]]
== Notes ==
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