The Honored Matres were a powerful and militant faction of women who emerged from uncharted space as formidable rivals and sinister reflections of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood some fifteen centuries after the death of God Emperor Leto Atreides II.

In Heretics of Dune, the Honored Matres capture the teenage Duncan Idaho ghola, who is loyal to their enemies, the Bene Gesserit. Young Honored Matre Murbella is tasked to use her sexual imprinting talents to enslave Duncan to force his allegiance to them.

The Honored Matres are an aggressive matriarchal order that arose after the death of the God-emperor, Leto II, and are obsessed with power and dominance. Frank Herbert first mentions the Honored Matres in ‘Heretics of Dune.’

The Return of the Honored Matres referred to the arrival of the Honored Matres from uncharted space into the Known Universe. The group's emergence saw them come into direct contact with the Bene Gesserit, one of the groups, including the Fish Speakers, and recovered women from Tleilaxu axlotl...

2021年4月19日 · In the conversation between Teg, Muzzafar, and the Honored Matre it seems like actual imprinting is reserved for a few very very important people. As for the rest, they setup a society where rebellion is unlikely by diverting passions into blind alleyways (FH explains it better than I do) and then move on to the next planet. Does the populace know?

2020年12月4日 · Imprinting of males by the Honored Matres is done by applying certain sexual techniques to amplify the male's orgasmic response to such heights that he becomes addicted and thus enslaved (willingly, if you can call it that) to the will of the imprinter. This is opposed to Bene Gesserit imprinting.

I've literally never in my life heard of calling people "maters". "Mating pair" is used for animals, but "maters" sounds like something you came up with. Mater is mother in Latin. Matres is mothers in Italian. Either way... Honored Matres is just an evolution of Reverend Mothers. To revere is to honor. Reverend Mothers > revered mothers ...

A splinter group of the Bene Gesserit who had disappeared during The Scattering, the Honored Matres are ruthless and powerful, carrying a dark and violent...

An exploration of the origins, ideologies, and actions of the Honored Matres, examining their role in the Dune universe. Around 2000 years following the even...

The Honored Matres were a powerful all-female group who emerge from unchartered space to become formidable rivals of the Bene Gesserit, some two thousand years after the death of the God-Emperor Leto Atreides II.