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The
Imperial House Corrino was at one point the grandest Major House and ruled
the universe, for thousands of years. The Emperor maintained control
through a fanatical corps of soldiers known as the Sardaukar. In an attempt
to weaken House Atreides, the Emperor formed a secret alliance with House
Harkonnen. The home of Imperial House Corrino was the planet
Kaitain.
It's symbol was the golden lion and it's colors were black, gold, & gray.
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Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV,
Emperor of the known universe.
From the
novel:
"The Emperor stood poised, waiting -- a slim, elegant figure in a
gray Sardaukar uniform with silver and gold trim. His thin face and cold
eyes reminded the Baron of the Duke Leto long dead. There was that same
look of the predatory bird. But the Emperor's hair was red, not black,
and most of that hair was concealed by a Burseg's ebon helmet with the
Imperial crest in gold upon its crown."
The Emperor look is designed to have a
military look, as the book describes, but with a Middle Eastern flare,
due to the subtext of the Dune novel for the Middle East. The Emperor is
dressed in the colors of house Corrino, Crimson Red, and is adorned with
the house seal, the Golden Lion. The Emperor comes with ceremonial
curved golden dagger.
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Princess Irulan Corrino,
daughter of the Padishah Emperor
From the
novel:
"And among the lackeys stood one of the Emperor's daughters, the
Princess Irulan, a woman they said was being trained in the deepest of
the Bene Gesserit ways, destined to be a Reverend Mother. She was tall,
blonde, face of chiseled beauty, green eyes that looked past and through
him."
Irulan comes in regal imperial gown in
the house color of crimson. She wears a simple golden crown, but is
adorned with the golden head frame.
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Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam,
Emperor's Bene Gesserit Truthsayer
From the novel:
"The old woman was a witch shadow - hair like matted spiderwebs,
hooded 'round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels."
And "she has scrawny hands and a black aba robe with drawn hood." And
"Her face peered out of the hood like a witch caricature - sunken cheeks
and eyes, an overlong nose, skin mottled and with protruding veins."
The Reverend Mother is wearing the black
robes, as described in the book. She comes slumped and hunched over with
interchangeable hands; one hand in a plain shriveled hand & the other
holds the green box of pain to test young Paul Atreides.
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