All of the Dune: Prophecy homes and characters that you must know

Anybody who has learn any of the Dune books, or watched any of the Dune films, or, heck, talked to anybody who has accomplished both of these issues will inform you: The world of Dune is sophisticated. It is a grand sci-fi universe, constructed on a couple of millennia of royal politicking, energy performs, manipulation, and violence.

So it’s no shock that Dune: Prophecy has lots of people to cowl. It’s the identical universe, certain, and is loosely tailored from Brian Herbert’s Nice Faculties of Dune, a prequel trilogy to his father’s sequence. However Prophecy is about some 10,000 years and alter forward of when Paul Atreides lands on Arrakis, so there’s a complete host of recent characters and traditions to ascertain right here. The household names will virtually actually be ones you’re acquainted with, however the circumstances of the homes won’t be.

In gentle of that, we’ve pulled collectively a primer on who to know from Dune: Prophecy and the way they correlate to different characters throughout Dune.

[Ed. note: The rest of this post contains spoilers for Dune: Prophecy season 1.]

The Bene Gesserit Sisterhood

Within the pilot of Prophecy we see the Sisterhood at a pair completely different instances: Early on we see Valya Harkonnen (performed then as Jessica Barden) as a sister, referred to as to the bedside of the dying Mom Superior Raquella. In an effort to protect the Bene Gesserit breeding program, which is simply getting began at this level, Valya makes use of the Voice on fellow sister Dorotea (Camilla Marie Beeput) and makes her drive her personal knife into her neck.

Flash-forward to 30 years later, when the Sisterhood is prospering, and now-Mom Superior Valya (performed within the current day by Emily Watson) remains to be dedicated to doing something to protect the Bene Gesserit imaginative and prescient of the universe. At her facet is Reverend Mom Tula Harkonnen (Olivia Williams because the elder, Emma Canning as younger Tula) and Reverend Mom Kasha (Jihae), who at the moment serves because the very trusted truthsayer to Emperor Corrino.

There’s a set of younger sisters at the moment finding out with the Bene Gesserit, however we don’t know a ton about them fairly but. Some had been raised by the Bene Gesserit, and others got here after they had been a bit of older (like Princess Ynez will); principally what’s vital about them proper now could be Tula and Valya every have their favorites — and possibly even a plan for every of them.

You may not know the title, however you actually know the home: Corrino remains to be the ruling household in the course of the interval of Dune. So the total title of Christopher Walken’s emperor character in Dune 2 is Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV. However right here, 10,000 years earlier than then, Corrino’s Empire is at a really completely different place.

It’s headed up by Emperor Javicco (Mark Robust), who at this level is generally involved with how weak his place is (or could possibly be perceived as) and is all set to marry off his daughter. He’s additionally fairly reliant on his private truthsayer, Reverend Mom Kasha, a lot to the chagrin of his spouse, Empress Natalya Arat (Jodhi Could). She is worried in regards to the rising gulf between herself and her husband (saying the Empire was extra secure after they had been extra of a unit), and cautions her daughter in opposition to ingesting an excessive amount of of the Bene Gesserit Kool-Assist.

However the youngsters are all proper: Constantine Corrino (Josh Heuston), Javicco’s illegitimate son, isn’t striving for the throne and is more than pleased to deal with some enterprise on behalf of the household. Princess Ynez (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) is doing all she will be able to to organize to be an efficient empress: taking sword coaching, enlisting with the Bene Gesserit, and marrying a 9-year-old so she will be able to have 10 years to herself.

After all, her marriage didn’t fairly work out (child dies, extra on that beneath), and nobody is basically certain the place that leaves Home Corrino or Princess Ynez, precisely. As Javicco is continually fearful about, his place feels susceptible, and the homes appear to be preventing for energy round him. (To not point out he’s continuously reminded in regards to the dimension of his fleet, comparatively.) So pairing up with an vital energy participant appears key on this second…

Although Dune: Prophecy’s pilot doesn’t get into specifics, we all know it is a rocky interval for the Harkonnens. After being branded traitors by the Atreides in the course of the Butlerian Jihad (the books inform us it’s as a result of the Atreides wished to push an assault at the price of human captives, whereas the Harkonnens wished to carry again, and 100 or so years later all anybody can keep in mind is that the Harkonnens abandoned), the household has fallen out of favor. Once we choose up with them, the Harkonnens have been banished to a distant, icy planet.

Clearly two Harkonnens make it fairly far within the Bene Gesserit. However past that, an important Harkonnen participant is… Harrow Harkonnen (Edward Davis). He doesn’t make a ton of impressions on the princess’ wedding ceremony festivities! Principally his character for now will be winnowed all the way down to: “boring the emperor speaking in regards to the utilities of whale farming” and “a Harkonnen with hair.”

There hasn’t been a lot speak of Home Atreides within the first episode of Prophecy. They’re roughly restricted to Valya’s voice-over, that “historical past says it was an Atreides who led” people to victory over the pondering machines. She claims this was a historical past “spun out of lies.” However this opinion of hers clearly units up the Atreides-Harkonnen feud going sturdy 10,000 years later.

However there’s an Atreides already amongst our solid of characters, although his home is actually downplayed: Kieran Atreides (Chris Mason), the princess’s swordmaster.

At the least for now, Desmond Hart is being very clear about his allegiances to Home Corrino, saying in his interrogation that he serves “the Imperium, and solely the Imperium.” He freely admits to killing each a baby and Reverend Mom Kasha as a result of he believed it to be within the emperor’s greatest pursuits.

Whereas it actually looks as if there’s extra to find out about this stranger and his powers, for now he’s solely providing up some obscure glimpses into how he got here to be: “Shai-hulud took my eye, and granted me with a present to see what even you [Valya and the Sisterhood] can’t.” When the empress asks him if he’s a prophet he wistfully musters: “I don’t know. There are issues that I can do. Stunning… horrible issues.”

Per Kasha’s and now Valya’s evaluation of him, he appears to be holding one thing again; telling the reality as he believes it however mendacity ultimately. So what are his true loyalties and what recreation is he taking part in? One factor appears to be for sure: Boy, oh boy, does he hate the Sisterhood.