house symbols

[neonext]

i see that the harkonnen symbol is some bull-like animal, and i think atreides is some type of bird. my question is:

does the Empire have some kind of symbol? i realise that the Empire is not really a house, but still, does it have it's own symbol?

[Timsvs]

im not sure, i thought it was a Lion or somethin, maybe the golden throne is their symbol?

[neonext]

i hope someone knows. i need it for my game, i plan on having the Empire as a playable side...

[nampigai]

the harkonnen should have a gryphon, Atreides has the hawk and the Corrino has the lion as their crest

[Emperor Harkonnen]

it is not a bull it is a male sheep

[Frodo]

it is not a bull it is a male sheep

no, westwood changed it, in the books it was a gryphon, but westwood made it the ram.

[TMA_1]

Actually westwood made it a ram. a big difference from sheep. And no they didnt invent the crest. again they stole from DE. I think I am going to make a list of it. It was originally in the DE that it was a ram. The prequels say its a gryphon though.

[Colonel_Worf]

Harkonnen is a blue griffin, that's why it bugs me that in the miniseries everything is red. The house color is blue!!

[exatreide]

red seems more.....agressive....blue is the color of calm ect...Thats probebly why they chose red. To kind of aid the fact that the harks are heartless flesh eating pigs. :P

[Colonel_Worf]

Yeah... that's what Harrison said, oh well...

[Emperor Harkonnen]

no red is the color of communism

comunism=evil

[Vanguard3000]

In heraldry, red is a very noble colour. It represents courage, among other things. Blue is also noble, but not in the same way.

Actually, I like the idea that Houses Atreides and Harkonnen don't have "traditional" good guy/bad guy colours. Not only does it break the old clich

[neonext]

the colors in the game make sense, blue for the good guy, red for the bad, then green fit ordos well because they are money-driven people. purple also was good for the empire because purple is well associated with royalty. i realise that the colors may not be 100% accurate, but if the colors were all switched it would be too wierd

[Dante]

Yes, and playing many opponents... a pink missile tank looks very silly. What would the Harkonnens say if their flag were to be pink?

[nemafakei]

Well, the two main houses used the traditional computer game player 1 / player two colours, red and blue. Green is also a common colour. That seems to be the reasoon why WW chose the colours.

[TMA_1]

Maybe its because the focus colors of the light spectrem are blue green and red.lol never know. but usually thats the focus of colors for us.

[nemafakei]

...Therefore these colours were easy for computers to display (early computers had fewer colours, of course), therefore, these colours became the most popular from the beginning.

[Edric O]

I noticed red is the most widely used color in representing sides in computer games. Almost every game has at least one "red" side.

[exatreide]

Blue..seems to be used quite often.

[Caid Ivik]

What are symbols of House Richese, Tleilax and Ix?

[Vanguard3000]

According to the prequels, the symbol for House Vernius is a copper helix on a purple field. I believe the colours of House Richese are also copper/purple.

They never mention a symbol for the Tleilaxu.

[TMA_1]

Also house richese's symbol is an oil lamp.

[Vanguard3000]

You mean like an "Alladin-style" oil lamp? Or a tall, thin oil lamp (like from the early 1900's)? Where does it say this?

[TMA_1]

From what it seemed it sounded like an alladin,, middle eastern oil lamp. Not like the new kind that used whale oil. Strangly, the DE doesnt mention Richese as a house. They arent counted in the landsraad councel. I will have to read frank herberts books to see if the DE is right on this. I know hte prequels talk of it being a house though.

[Vanguard3000]

Richese was referred to only in the terminology of the original Chronicles. It is referred to only as a planet, not a House.