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House Atreides

49 entries tagged House Atreides. Every entry is sourced from Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, the later companion titles, or the official reference material.

Alia AtreidesAlia Atreides was the preborn daughter of Duke Leto Atreides and Lady Jessica, sister to Paul. Granted full ancestral memory in the womb, she ruled the Atreides Empire as Regent before succumbing to possession by her Harkonnen grandfather and taking her own life.
Armand EcazArmand Ecaz was the Archduke of House Ecaz and sovereign of the planet Ecaz, a high noble of the Landsraad and an avowed enemy of House Moritani who fought two Wars of Assassins against Grumman and stood as an ally of Duke Leto Atreides.
Arrakeen conservatoryThe Arrakeen conservatory was a luxurious private garden built on the roof of the government mansion at Arrakeen, crowded with exotic wet-climate plants and a wasteful fountain. To the Fremen it was anathema, a weirding room, yet it came to embody Liet-Kynes' dream of a green Arrakis.
Arrakeen governor's palace: the Residency of ArrakisThe Arrakeen governor's palace, known colloquially as the Arrakeen Residency, was the largest building in Arrakeen and the seat of planetary power on Arrakis. It passed from the Fenrings to House Atreides, fell to the Harkonnens in the Siege of Arrakeen, and was retaken by Paul Atreides.
ArrakeenArrakeen was the first settlement on Arrakis and its seat of power, a city near the northern pole sheltered by the Shield Wall. It served as the governor's seat under the Corrino Empire, the capital of Muad'Dib's empire, and later the festival city Onn before becoming Keen.
Atreides-Harkonnen feudThe Atreides-Harkonnen feud was the ancient blood vendetta between the two Houses, born of a betrayal at the Battle of Corrin and ended ten thousand years later with the annihilation of the Harkonnens on Arrakis.
Battle of ArrakeenThe Battle of Arrakeen was the pivotal engagement of the Arrakis Revolt, fought between Muad'Dib Paul Atreides's Fremen and the Sardaukar of Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV. The Fremen routed the Imperial forces, and in the surrender that followed Paul won control of the known universe.
Battle of CaladanThe Battle of Caladan was an attempted Harkonnen and Moritani assault on the Atreides homeworld in 10175 AG. Mentat Thufir Hawat repelled it without a shot, using projectors to fake an overwhelming defensive fleet.
CaladanCaladan was a lush oceanic world orbiting Delta Pavonis, the ancestral seat of House Atreides for more than ten thousand years. Birthplace of Duke Leto I and Paul Atreides, it was a planet of rain, orchards, and fisheries before the family was ordered to Arrakis.
Castle CaladanCastle Caladan was the official residence of the ruling clan of the planet Caladan and the home of House Atreides for twenty-six generations, until Duke Leto Atreides I was ordered to take up the fief of Arrakis in 10191 AG.
ChaniChani was a Fremen warrior and Sayyadina, daughter of the planetologist Liet-Kynes, and the royal concubine and only true love of Emperor Paul Muad'Dib Atreides. She mothered his children before dying in childbirth at Sietch Tabr.
Darwi OdradeDarwi Odrade was a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother of secret Atreides descent who rose to become the penultimate Mother Superior during the War of the Sisterhoods. She recruited Sheeana Brugh on Rakis, allied the Sisterhood with the Bene Tleilax, and died on Junction in the final assault against the Honored Matres.
Desert War: the fall of the Corrino EmpireThe Desert War, also called the Harkonnen war or the Arrakis Affair, was the conflict that destroyed House Harkonnen, ended the Corrino Empire, and raised Paul Atreides to the Golden Lion Throne. It began as a War of Assassins in 10191 AG and concluded with the abdication of Shaddam Corrino IV.
Duncan IdahoDuncan Idaho was a Ginaz Swordmaster in the service of House Atreides and one of Paul's principal teachers. After dying in the Desert War he was reborn through a long line of Tleilaxu gholas, serving the Atreides line across more than five thousand years.
Fish SpeakersThe Fish Speakers were the all-female army and bureaucracy created by God Emperor Leto Atreides II to enforce his rule and protect the Golden Path. Trained as fanatical soldiers, priestesses, and administrators, they outlasted every prior military force before falling under Tleilaxu control after his death.
Ghanima AtreidesGhanima Atreides was the pre-born daughter of Paul Muad'Dib and Chani, and the twin sister of the God Emperor Leto Atreides II. Married in name to her brother and consort to Farad'n Corrino, she seeded the Atreides, Harkonnen and Corrino bloodlines across the Empire.
Great SurrenderThe Great Surrender was a ceremony held in 10198 AG, in the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Paul Atreides, at which the nobles of the Landsraad came to Arrakis to pledge loyalty to his Jihad. The event was marked by an elaborate assassination attempt that was eventually traced to the Swordmaster Whitmore Bludd.
Gurney HalleckGurney Halleck was the Warmaster of House Atreides under Duke Leto and later his son Paul, and one of Paul's principal teachers. A warrior, minstrel, and implacable enemy of the Harkonnens, he served the Atreides line from Caladan to the reign of Leto II.
HarahHarah was a Fremen woman who became the wife by custom of Paul Atreides after he slew her husband Jamis, then nurse to Alia and to the Atreides twins, and finally the wife of Stilgar.
Harq al-Harba: Dramatist LaureateHarq al-Harba, born Aitu Cinoli, was the foremost playwright of the Atreidean period, hailed as Dramatist Laureate of his age. A former salesman of filmbooks who came to the Imperial capital on Arrakis, he found lasting patronage in Ghanima Atreides and Farad'n Corrino, and his plays long stood as the best known account of his turbulent era.
Helena AtreidesLady Helena Atreides, born Helena Richese, was the wife of Duke Paulus Atreides and the mother of Leto Atreides I. Estranged from her husband and loyal to House Richese, she secretly arranged the assassination of Paulus and was exiled to a religious order on Caladan, where she died decades later.
House AtreidesHouse Atreides was a respected House Major of the Galactic Padishah Empire, ruled by a Duke and seated for twenty generations on the ocean world of Caladan. Through Paul Muad'Dib and his son Leto II, the Atreides line rose to rule the Known Universe before passing into a bloodline scattered across the millennia.
House GinazHouse Ginaz was a Great House of the Landsraad renowned across the Imperium for its Swordmaster School, an ally of House Atreides under Duke Leto the Just that was destroyed in a War of Assassins by House Moritani of Grumman.
Lady JessicaLady Jessica was the Bene Gesserit concubine of Duke Leto Atreides and the mother of Paul Atreides. By disobeying her order to bear a daughter she reshaped the Sisterhood's breeding program, and she became a Reverend Mother of both the Fremen and the Bene Gesserit.
Last conspiracy against Muad'DibThe last conspiracy against Muad'Dib was the alliance formed in 10208 AG to bring down the Padishah Emperor Paul Atreides. It ended with the blinded Emperor walking into the desert and the regency of his sister Alia.
Leto Atreides ILeto Atreides I was the twentieth Duke of House Atreides, father of Paul Atreides, and one of the most respected leaders of the Landsraad. Known as Leto the Just, he was betrayed and killed soon after the Emperor ordered him to take the spice fief of Arrakis.
Leto Atreides IILeto Atreides II was the third and final ruler of the Atreides Empire and its first and only God Emperor. The pre-born son of Paul Muad'Dib, he bonded with a colony of sandtrout to gain near-immortality and ruled mankind for thirty five hundred years to set humanity upon the Golden Path.
Leto Atreides' Trial by ForfeitureLeto Atreides' Trial by Forfeiture was the Landsraad tribunal held on Kaitain in 10156 AG after a framed attack on a Tleilaxu vessel. The young Duke's defiant gambit won his acquittal and the respect of the Imperium.
Mapes: the Shadout of ArrakeenThe Shadout Mapes was the Fremen head housekeeper of the Imperial Residence at Arrakeen when House Atreides took stewardship of Arrakis. She tested the Lady Jessica against the Fremen prophecy, gifted her a crysknife, and was killed by the traitor Wellington Yueh on the night of the Harkonnen assault.
Miles TegMiles Teg was a Bene Gesserit Mentat and military commander, the Supreme Bashar of the Sisterhood's forces, bred down the Atreides line and so close in likeness to Leto Atreides I that he was used to reawaken a Duncan Idaho ghola. Tortured into prescience, he died in battle on Rakis and was later revived as a ghola.
Moneo AtreidesMoneo Atreides was the last majordomo of the God Emperor Leto Atreides II, a descendant of Ghanima Atreides who once led a rebellion against Leto before a trance in the spice converted him into the regime's most devoted servant. He was the father of Siona and died in the ambush that ended Leto's reign.
Muad'Dib's Jihad: the holy war of Paul AtreidesMuad'Dib's Jihad was a twelve-year holy war waged from 10196 to 10208 AG by the Fremen legions of Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib Atreides. It carried the worship of the Fremen messiah across the Known Universe, killed tens of billions, and forged the Atreides Empire from thousands of conquered worlds.
Muad'Dib's Jihad: the holy war that remade the ImperiumMuad'Dib's Jihad was the twelve-year holy war waged by the Fremen legions of Emperor Paul Atreides from 10196 to 10208 AG. By his own estimate it cost sixty-one billion lives and remade the Known Universe.
Paul AtreidesPaul Atreides was the last Duke of House Atreides and the prophet Muad'Dib of the Fremen. The long-awaited Kwisatz Haderach of the Bene Gesserit, he toppled Emperor Shaddam IV, founded the Atreides Empire, and unleashed a jihad across the Known Universe before walking blind into the desert.
Paulus Atreides' 10156 bullfightThe final bullfight of Duke Paulus Atreides, staged in the Plaza de Toros on Caladan in 10156 AG, ended in his death when his wife Helena conspired with the Harkonnens to leave his weapon undrugged. It was the last bullfight ever held on Caladan.
Paulus Atreides' 10156 bullfightThe final bullfight of Duke Paulus Atreides took place in the Plaza de Toros on Caladan in 10156 AG. It ended in his death when his wife Helena conspired with the Harkonnens to leave his banderilla undrugged, allowing the Salusan bull to gore him before the assembled crowd.
Paulus AtreidesPaulus Atreides, the Old Duke, was the twenty-fifth Duke of House Atreides, father of Leto Atreides I, and grandfather of the man who would be Muad'Dib. A beloved and theatrical leader, he died in his own bullring, killed by a Salusan bull that had been secretly drugged.
Prad VidalPrad Vidal was the Duke of Elacca on Ecaz and a vassal of Archduke Armand Ecaz. A secret ally of House Moritani, he engineered the wedding-day assassination of the Ecazi heiress Ilesa and tried to seize House Ecaz before being killed by Duke Leto Atreides.
Rhombur VerniusRhombur Vernius was the last true Earl of Ix, a lifelong friend of Duke Leto Atreides who survived an assassination attempt through cybernetic reconstruction, retook his occupied homeworld, and died shielding a planetary governor on Balut.
Siona AtreidesSiona Atreides was the daughter of Moneo and the culmination of Leto Atreides II's breeding program, the first human invisible to prescient vision. She led the rebellion against the God Emperor and helped engineer his death, then with Duncan Idaho carried the no-gene forward into the future of humankind.
StilgarStilgar was the Fremen Naib of Sietch Tabr and Siridar-Governor of Arrakis, the close friend and chief advisor of Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, and the guardian who raised the Atreides twins Leto II and Ghanima.
Swordmasters of GinazThe Swordmasters of Ginaz were warriors who earned the title by attaining a high level of skill at the Ginaz School. Regarded as superior to Sardaukar, they served the Great Houses as commanders, teachers, and personal guards.
The PreacherThe Preacher was a mysterious blind prophet who appeared on Arrakis during the regency of Alia Atreides, railing against the Atreides Empire and the priesthood built on the worship of Muad'Dib. He was Paul Atreides returned from the desert, and he was killed for denouncing his sister.
Thufir HawatThufir Hawat was the Mentat and Master of Assassins of House Atreides for three generations and one of Paul's teachers. After the fall of the House he was forced into Harkonnen service, where he schemed against his captors before giving his life rather than harm the son of his Duke.
Unnamed Atreides Gladiator: the slave who defied Feyd-RauthaAn unnamed Atreides fighting man taken captive on Arrakis was forced to face Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen as a slave-gladiator in the arena at Harko. Sworn to avenge his fallen House, he died only because Feyd cheated with a poisoned blade and a paralyzing code word.
Victor AtreidesVictor Atreides was the first son of Duke Leto Atreides I and his concubine Kailea Vernius, born on Caladan after the fall of House Vernius. He was killed at the age of six in a skyclipper explosion engineered by his own mother, and his death indirectly led to the conception of Paul Atreides.
Vorian AtreidesVorian Atreides was the son of the Titan Agamemnon who turned against the thinking machines to become one of the great commanders of the Butlerian Jihad. The first man to bear the name Atreides, he led the Vengeance Fleet at the Battle of Corrin and, through his judgment of Abulurd Harkonnen, began the feud that would divide the two houses for ten thousand years.
Wellington YuehWellington Yueh was the Suk physician of House Atreides and the sleeper agent who delivered Duke Leto Atreides to the Harkonnens. Coerced by the captivity and torture of his Bene Gesserit wife, he broke his Imperial Conditioning, sabotaged the defenses of Arrakeen, and turned the Duke into a living weapon of revenge.
Whitmore BluddWhitmore Bludd was a Ginaz Swordmaster instructor and gifted architect who served House Ecaz as bodyguard, built the Grand Palace of Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, and met his end after a failed scheme to write his own name into history.