House Atreides
House Atreides is everything House Harkonnen’s not: noble, popular, and good-looking. Residing on the watery planet of Caladan, House Atreides’ is largely considered to rule benevolently and peacefully. It’s also in good standing with many of the other powerful houses, leaving it in an uniquely advantageous and precarious place vis-a-vis the rest of the balance of power in Dune.
Despite prospering for generations, the first Dune movie sees House Atreides all but wiped out at the hands of the Harkonnen as part of a wider betrayal by the Imperium. While Paul’s journey begins in the ashes of House Atreides, during the era Dune: Prophecy takes place in it is very much still burgeoning power center among the rest of the Houses.
