Great Houses are the most powerful members of nobility of a given realm, being sworn directly to ther respective thrones.
Great Houses are also sometimes referred to as the most powerful Houses from specific regions, rather than from a kingdom as a whole. For example, there might be three great Houses of the Vale (a constituent region of Alinor), but of the realm itself there are eight (one for each of the eight regions of the Summerset Archipelago). In this sense the meaning of 'great House' changes depending on the context and scale of what is being spoken about. The great Houses of a sub-region are not the same as the great Houses of the entire realm.
Great Houses[]
The following table gives a list of all the great Houses of Tamriel by their respective regions on the continent, both past and present.
| Region | House | Mode of Accession | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyrodiil |  House Arana
|
Unknown | Deposed |
 House Aquilarios
|
Conquest | Extinct | |
 House Cyrodiil
|
Conquest | Extinct | |
 House Larethal
|
Unknown | Extinct | |
 House Longhouse
|
Conquest | Extinct | |
 House Mede
|
Conquest | Ruling | |
 House Paravant
|
Conquest | Extinct | |
 House Septim
|
Conquest | Extinct | |
| Elsweyr | |||
| Hammerfell |  House Barrim
|
Unknown | Extinct |
| House Phyllocid
|
Chosen | ??? | |
| High Rock |  House Cumberland
|
Succession | ??? |
 House Deleyn
|
Succession | ??? | |
 House Direnni
|
Conquest | Ruling | |
 House Dufort
|
Appointment | Ruling | |
 House Gardner
|
Unknown | Extinct | |
 House Kannor
|
Unknown | Extinct | |
| Morrowind |  House Dagoth
|
Unknown | Extinct |
 House Dres
|
Unknown | Ruling | |
 House Hlaalu
|
Unknown | Ruling | |
 House Indoril
|
Unknown | Extinct | |
 House Redoran
|
Unknown | Ruling | |
| House Sadras
|
Unknown | Ruling | |
 House Telvanni
|
Unknown | Deposed | |
| Skyrim |  House Flame-Hair
|
Unknown | Extinct |
 House Stormcloak
|
Unknown | Ruling | |
| Summerset Archipelago |  House Andorin
|
Trickery | Ruling |
| House Arana
|
Conquest | Extinct | |
 House Caidan
|
Conquest | Extinct | |
| House Direnni
|
Unknown | Abandoned | |
 House Errinorne
|
Appointment | Extinct | |
 House Harlore
|
Conquest | Extinct | |
 House Heleyn
|
Appointment | Ruling | |
 House Liaren
|
Unknown | Ruling | |
 House Neiaron
|
Succession | Extinct | |
 House Rilis
|
Conquest | Ruling | |
 House Telarion
|
Appointment | Ruling | |
 House Torelle
|
Appointment | Ruling | |
| Valenwood |  House Camoran
|
Conquest | Ruling |