House Desai (a cadet house) commands great wealth and influence in Gulmohar and Rook, city-states that are longstanding rivals of neighboring Jiara. Merchants and landed gentry, House Desai has traditionally eschewed involvement in the travails of government in favor of leisure and patronage of the arts. Now it find itself divided between its own ambitions, the demands of princes and satraps, and the call to the Wyld Hunt.