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Houses: Their Histories & Their Role in Terre d'Ange
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Balm House

House motto: Rest And Be Soothed

House canon: comfort and solace, gentle, healers, peaceful, trust, caught between empathy and desire, grave and joyful (KS 509), tenderness

Beliefs: Naamah came in compassion, to heal the pain in his soul

The House itself: Balm House is low and sprawling; reception salon arranged with carved screens into smaller areas, clusters of couches, hanging lamps, potted plants, a small fountain

Assignation: she undresses him, anoints him with oil all over, he weeps

Adepts: Eugenie's niece, Clory, studied with a masseur from Balm House - she then says Master Lugard said a raw apprentice wasn't fit to tend to Kushiel's Chosen, so maybe the Balm Adept was Master Lugard

Nathalie no Balm is Dowayne when Imriel goes in KS

Emmeline is the adept Nathalie chooses for Imriel (her Naamah's Hands is of gleaming wood)

"Here, there is healing and Naamah's grace." (KS 218)
 

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