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Primarily distinguishable by their dark purple cloaks and new weapons, the House can be found on [[Earth]], [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], [[Io]], and [[Nessus]], warring with every other alien faction in the system. Within the House of Dusk, the Fallen no longer worship [[Servitor]]s and machines as they used to, having devoted their energy towards simple survival. With their emergence, they are believed to be the most powerful active Fallen faction in the [[Solar System]].

Various pieces of evidence strongly imply that the House of Dusk is an amalgamation of the remnants of other Fallen Houses. The House of Dusk is actively calling other Fallen to join with it. Fallen banners displayed in Trostland bore a crude version of the [[House of Judgment]]'s sigil, but the banners were seemingly used as warnings rather than to mark territory ownership. Some Fallen tech also found in the area once belonged to the [[House of Winter]] and had been transported from [[Venus]]. A House of Dusk communications device in [[Siren's Watch]] was discovered to be using variants of encryption protocols derived from the [[House of Kings]]. A former [[Skriviks, the Sharp-Eyed|noble]] of the [[House of Wolves]] was found to have joined the ranks of the House of Dusk. Lastly, the House produces [[Heavy Shank]]s based on the [[House of Devils]]' [[S.A.B.E.R.-2]] prototype. [[Ghost]] notes that where [[Skolas]] failed in uniting the Houses, sheer desperation (in part due to the Guardian's actions, and in part the massive losses faced in the [[Taken War]] and [[SIVA Crisis]]) succeeded in burying old grudges.

Another unusual characteristic is that it utilizes Servitors from multiple lines (Brandaks, Kendriks, Kiriks, Merix, Nariks, Selkis, Serkuleks, and Teleks), a practice previously only seen with the [[House of Wolves]], which used two lines (Kaliks and Orbiks). Furthermore, it possesses multiple Prime Servitors where no Fallen House had been known to follow more than a single Prime Servitor at once, and which were almost never deployed offensively except where the Fallen believed that they had an overwhelming advantage or when their lair was invaded. The House of Dusk flaunted those traditions, regularly sending [[Prime Ether Servitor]]s to directly distribute ether to crews in combat zones on various worlds, and deploying other Primes like [[Brandaks Prime]] and [[Serkuleks, the Fount]] as reinforcements against Guardian incursions.

In addition to their scavenging, the House of Dusk also appears to be focusing on [[ether]] production and experimentation. In the [[European Dead Zone]], [[Raksil, Archon Priest]] and Serkuleks, the Fount were responsible for producing and distributing an enhanced variety of ether from Cabal technology that strengthened the Fallen. In the [[Arcadian Valley]], Ghost scanned a tank with ether that had been diluted through unknown means, which he speculated meant that the Fallen on [[Nessus]] were experiencing a dire ether shortage. Equally intriguing is that many of the House of Dusk's [[Captain]]s throughout the system are comparable to [[Kell]]s in size, a level of growth which requires a large amount of ether to achieve.