Dune category
Houses
7 entries tagged Houses. Every entry is sourced from Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, the later companion titles, or the official reference material.
- GinazGinaz was an ocean world of scattered archipelagos and the ancestral home of House Ginaz. Its fierce warrior culture, ruled by the Council of Veterans, produced the legendary Swordmasters of the Imperium.
- 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 CorrinoHouse Corrino was the imperial House of the Known Universe, ruling family of the Padishah Empire for ten thousand years from the Golden Lion Throne. Seated at Kaitain and rooted on Salusa Secundus, it fell to House Atreides after the Battle of Arrakeen.
- 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.
- House HarkonnenHouse Harkonnen was a Great House of the Landsraad seated on the industrial world of Giedi Prime and the historical enemy of House Atreides. Ruled by a Siridar-Baron, it built its power on the brutal exploitation of Arrakis before being shattered as a political force at the Battle of Arrakeen.
- House RicheseHouse Richese ruled the machine world of Richese, a Great House classed with Ix as supreme in machine culture. Its ruinous trade war with House Vernius of Ix broke its fortunes and left it making copies of Ixian invention.
- Lupino OrdLupino Ord was the arrogant ambassador of House Moritani, who shared his House's intense hatred of House Ecaz. His drunken provocations at a banquet on Arrakis ended in the murder of an Ecazi representative, an act he escaped through his diplomatic immunity.