House Corrino
House Corrino is a family that features in Dune.
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History
House Corrino was a noble aristocratic family that existed within the Old Empire. It was said to had been founded by Viceroy Faykan Butler who was the grandson of Xavier Harkonnen and grandnephew of Serena Butler. Faykan had married Jessica Boro-Ginjo who was a descendant of both the first Grand Patriarch Iblis Ginjo and also of the last Emperors of the Old Empire. After the Battle of Corrin, Faykan took much of the credit for the victory in the events of the Butlerian Jihad and announced that he intended to change his name to Corrino in recognition of this historic event. The battle fought near Sigma Draconis in the year 88 B.G. settled the ascendancy of the ruling House from Salusa Secundus with his family being renamed as House Corrino. He then combined the positions of Viceroy and Grand Patriarch into one office, declaring himself Emperor of Humanity.
Since then, members of this Imperial House had ruled as Padishah Emperors of the Known Universe for over 10,000 years from the time of the Butlerian Jihad. During the Jihad, Fremen had learned much about the old Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV. The eighty-first Padishah of House Corrino to occupy the Golden Lion Throne and reign over this Imperium of uncounted worlds had used Arrakis as a testing place for those policies which he hoped to implement in the rest of his empire. His planetary governors on Arrakis had cultivated a persistent pessimism to bolster their power base. They had made sure that everyone on Arrakis, even the free-roaming Fremen, became familiar with numerous cases of injustice and insoluble problems; they had been taught to think of themselves as a helpless people for whom there was no succor.
At some point, a renegade House was responsible for devastating Salusa Secundus with atomics leaving the world a barren wasteland. In response, House Corrino subsequently exterminated the rogue House and erased their name from history.
In an attempt to discredit House Atreides and retain their hegemony, the Imperial House Corrino under the leadership of Shaddam IV, devised a plan to dispose of their potential rival by ordering them to take over the planetary fief of Arrakis, and then disposing of them through their hated rival House Harkonnen, via an audacious, and highly illegal, invasion of the planet. Initially the plan looked to have succeeded. Duke Leto Atreides I was killed, and his family abandoned in the deep desert. However, a gradual uprising by the native Fremen, led by the mysterious Muad'Dib caught both House Corrino and House Harkonnen off-guard. After the Arrakis Revolt and the Battle of Arrakeen, House Corrino was forced to relinquish the Golden Lion Throne, after thousands of years of rule, to the Atreides. The Corrinos witnessed the legitimization of Atreides rule through Paul Atreides' marriage to Shaddam's eldest daughter Princess Irulan Corrino. Shaddam IV and the remainder of his family were then sent into effective exile on the harsh planet Salusa Secundus, where one of Shaddam's four other daughters, Wensicia Corrino plotted the Great House's re-emergence.
House Corrino would bring their Sardaukar back to a pre-Arrakeen edge, but they were still no match for the abandoned ferocity of Fremen.
However, Wensicia's plans were also foiled by the Atreides, and her son, Prince Farad'n Corrino became the official concubine of his step-cousin, the Crown Princess Ghanima Atreides. In addition to providing the Atreides offspring that were needed for Leto II's Golden Path, Farad'n also acted as his official scribe. Despite this, and the reality that House Corrino had lost most of its power, the House continued to exist at least through the end of Leto II's reign.
Overview
In appearance, House Corrino were a noble family of humans that existed within the empire that dominated the known universe. A long nose was said to be a characteristic common within the lineage of House Corrino.
Over the subsequent millennia, the Imperial House Corrino maintained a firm grip on the Empire. House Corrino's rule was defined as absolute while one of its members sat on the Golden Lion Throne. Moreover, House Corrino maintained a large vote in the Landsraad Council, larger than any other Great House.
The family were noted to had done terrible things in order to gain power.
They were noted to have holdings within CHOAM.
As a noble house, it maintained its own network of spies.
During their Imperial rule, House Corrino maintained arguably the most powerful army in the known universe that were the Sardaukar. Through their superior abilities the Corrinos were capable of crushing any military opposition. It was said that the only way the Corrino Sardaukar could be defeated would be through the combined forces of all the Great Houses of the Landsraad.
The Imperial House Corrino's ancestral planet was Salusa Secundus that was the original seat of imperial power since the Butlerian Jihad. It was the third planet of Gamma Waiping and had been designated Imperial Prison Planet after removal of the Royal Court to Kaitain. On the world, a place of residence of the noble family was at Corrino Castle.
Members
- Faykan Butler :
- Elrood IX : a male human who was the father of Shaddam Corrino IV where he died in the year 10,156 with his child succeeding him.
- Shaddam Corrino IV : a male human who ruled as Padishah Emperor where he was the 81st of his line of House Corrino. to occupy the Golden Lion Throne. His reign was from 10,156 until replaced by the 10,196 Regency set up in the name of his eldest daughter, Irulan. His reign was noted chiefly for the Arrakis Revolt which was blamed by many historians on Shaddam IV’s dalliance with Court functions and the pomp of office. The ranks of Bursegs were doubled in the first sixteen years of his reign. Appropriations for Sardaukar training went down steadily in the final thirty years before the Arrakis Revolt. He had five daughters named Irulan, Chalice, Wensicia, Josifa, and Rugi with no legal sons. Four of the daughters accompanied him into retirement. His wife, Anirul was Bene Gesserit of Hidden Rank who died in 10,176.
- Irulan Corrino : a tall female human with blonde hair, face of chiseled beauty, and green eyes that looked past and through others with her being the daughter of Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV. She was said to be trained in the deepest of the Bene Gesserit ways, destined to be a Reverend Mother. Within the Imperium, she held significantly powerful status as Princess Royal.
- Wensicia Corrino :
- Farad'n Corrino :
Notes
- House Corrino was created by Frank Herbert and featured in the setting of the Dune universe.
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