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House Atreides
64 entries tagged House Atreides, 64 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Paul Atreides and House Atreides.
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7- 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.
- Alia's Temple: the fane of St. Alia of the KnifeAlia's Temple, also called Alia's Fane, was the colossal temple in Arrakeen dedicated to the worship of St. Alia of the Knife. Raised beside Paul's Keep as one of the wonders of the universe, it drew pilgrims from across the Imperium, hid dungeons beneath its maze of corridors, and became the stage for the fall of the Regent Alia Atreides.
- 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 as the Arrakeen Residency, was the great house in Arrakeen from which Arrakis was governed. It passed from the Fenrings to House Atreides, fell to the Harkonnens in the Siege of Arrakeen, and was retaken by Paul Atreides.
- Arrakeen: the first city built on ArrakisSheltered by the Shield Wall near the northern pole, it held the Emperor's officials, House Atreides, then Muad'Dib's empire, then Leto II's festival city Onn.
- 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.
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2- 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 the expanded novel Dune: House Corrino. Mentat Thufir Hawat repelled it without a shot, using projectors to fake an overwhelming defensive fleet.
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4- Caladan: the ocean world the Atreides leftA rain-soaked world orbiting Delta Pavonis, held by House Atreides for twenty generations. Paul was born there, before 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.
- Children of Dune Explained: Plot Summary and EndingThe full plot of Frank Herbert's Children of Dune in order, from the tiger attack on Paul's twins to Leto II taking the throne, with the ending explained: what happened to Alia, who the Preacher was, and what Leto's Golden Path costs him.
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8- 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 is the fight for Arrakis told in Frank Herbert's Dune. It destroyed House Harkonnen, ended the Corrino Empire, and put Paul Atreides on the Golden Lion Throne.
- Duncan Idaho: reborn as ghola after gholaLeto's Swordmaster died on Arrakis in the Desert War. The Tleilaxu brought him back again and again, serving the Atreides for five thousand years.
- Dune (1984 Film) Explained: Plot Summary, Ending and Book DifferencesThe full story of David Lynch's 1984 Dune in order, from Irulan's opening narration to the rain over Arrakis, with the ending explained and the biggest changes from Frank Herbert's novel, including the weirding modules.
- Dune Ending Explained: the Book's Plot Summary and Final ChapterThe whole plot of Frank Herbert's Dune in order, from the gom jabbar on Caladan to the duel with Feyd-Rautha in Arrakeen, then a plain explanation of the final chapter, what Paul wins, what he can no longer stop, and where the rest of the series goes from there.
- Dune Messiah Explained: Plot Summary and EndingThe full plot of Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah in order, from the conspirators' meeting to Paul's walk into the desert, with the ending explained: why Paul leaves, what happens to Alia and the twins, and how Children of Dune picks it up.
- Dune: House Atreides Explained: Plot Summary of the Prequel NovelThe plot of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's 1999 prequel in order, from the fall of Ix to the young Duke Leto's trial before the Landsraad, with what the ending sets up for the rest of the Prelude to Dune books and for Frank Herbert's Dune.
- Dune: Part One Ending ExplainedThe whole story of Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part One in order, from the Emperor's gift of Arrakis to the duel with Jamis in the deep desert, then a plain explanation of the ending and the main ways the film differs from Frank Herbert's novel.
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3- 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.
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6- 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.
- Hoh Vitt: Atreides sergeant and Master JongleurHoh Vitt was a long-serving sergeant of House Atreides and a Master Jongleur raised on Jongleur. Entombed with his platoon beneath the Shield Wall of Arrakis during the Harkonnen attack, he held his doomed men in a hypnotic story of Caladan until every one of them died believing he had drowned in the seas of home, with sea water found in their lungs.
- House AtreidesHouse Atreides was a respected House Major of the Galactic Padishah Empire, ruled by a Duke and seated for twenty-six 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 that was destroyed in a War of Assassins by House Moritani of Grumman.
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5- Lady Jessica: the concubine who bore a sonThe Bene Gesserit ordered Jessica to bear Duke Leto a daughter. She had Paul instead, and that single disobedience broke the breeding programme.
- Last conspiracy against Muad'DibThe last conspiracy against Muad'Dib was the alliance formed twelve years into Paul's reign 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 I: the Duke betrayed on ArrakisDuke of House Atreides and father of Paul. Shaddam handed him the spice fief of Arrakis, and the Harkonnens killed him there in 10191.
- 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.
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5- 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.
- Minotauros Atreides: Duke Mintor, the bullfighter Duke of CaladanMinotauros Atreides, called Duke Mintor, was the 266th Duke of House Atreides and ruler of Caladan. A younger son raised far from his father's court, he came to the ducal throne after his demi brother died without a legitimate heir, fathered Duke Leto I with his concubine Bekah, and died at 104 in his own bullring, killed by the bull El Muerte.
- 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 that remade the ImperiumMuad'Dib's Jihad is the holy war fought by the Fremen legions in Paul Atreides's name. Paul foresees it all through Dune, and when Dune Messiah opens twelve years later it is still being fought, with sixty-one billion dead by his own count.
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5- 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.
- Paul Atreides' Children: Leto II and GhanimaPaul Atreides has three children, all with Chani. Their first son, Leto, is killed as a baby in Dune. The twins Leto II and Ghanima are born at the end of Dune Messiah, and Leto II goes on to rule the universe for more than three thousand years. Here is each of them.
- Paulus AtreidesPaulus Atreides, the Old Duke, was the 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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5- Salusan Bull: the beast that killed the Old DukeSalusan bulls were fierce bovine animals native to Salusa Secundus, spined across the back and crowned with multiple horns on a black, faceted eyed head. Kept on Caladan for the spectacles of Duke Paulus Atreides, one of the creatures gored the Old Duke to death, and its mounted head hung in the Atreides dining hall for generations afterward.
- 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 is the Fremen Naib of Sietch Tabr who takes in Paul Atreides and Lady Jessica, becomes Paul's governor of Arrakis and his most loyal Fremen, and later helps raise the Atreides twins Leto II and Ghanima.
- Swain Goire: the captain sentenced to liveSwain Goire was a trusted House Atreides officer, Captain of the Armory at Cala City, whose stolen key armed the skyclipper bomb that killed young Victor Atreides. Spared execution and sentenced by Duke Leto to live with his guilt, he spent thirteen years in exile guarding Lady Helena Atreides before dying to cover the escape of Paul Atreides and Duncan Idaho.
- 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.
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3- The Atreides Family Tree: from Agamemnon to Leto II and BeyondPaul Atreides is a grandson of the Baron Harkonnen, a son-in-law of the Emperor he deposed and the father of a God Emperor. This is the Atreides family generation by generation, with Frank Herbert's novels first and the expanded books marked as such.
- 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.
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2- 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.
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5- War of Assassins of 10,187 AG: the ruin of House MoritaniThe second War of Assassins between House Ecaz and House Moritani began with a dead heir, a trade embargo and a wedding turned into a slaughterhouse. It ended on the salt basin outside Ritka with a mad Viscount, a field of buried atomics and a Swordmaster who quietly refused to arm them.
- 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.
- What Happened in the Twelve Years Between Dune and Dune MessiahFrank Herbert skips twelve years between Dune and Dune Messiah, and they are the bloodiest in the saga. Here is what the novels say happened: the holy war and its toll, the priesthood that grew around Paul, and the empire he was left ruling.
- 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.
- Willem Atreides: the duke who founded the House and died in kanlyDuke Willem Atreides founded House Atreides and became its first representative in the Landsraad League. He was born on Caladan and killed on Salusa Secundus by Gerhard Harkonnen in a declared act of kanly, asking as he died for the feud between the two houses to end.