Tyros Reffa
| Tyros Reffa | |
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| Character Type | Major Character |
| Affiliation | Corrino |
| Status | Dead |
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| Added in Version | 1.5.03.0 |
Tyros Reffa was the half-brother to Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, being the illegitimate child of Elrood Corrino IX and Shando Vernius. He is the father of Bronso Vernius, and has several generations of ghola formed from him, including The Sleeper and the Player themselves.
Pre-game history
The history of Tyros aligns with established canon, the game lore builds upon these events and slightly reframes them. In summary:
As all nobles, his bloodline was groomed by the Bene Gesserit and ancestors schooled in various schools. However personally, he had no real ambition for the Golden Lion throne and chose a vocation as a Jongleur to entertain people and remain out of sight of the wider Imperium. He chose Zanovar as his home, given it was a 'pleasure planet' under the fiefdom of House Taligari
When the Emperor learned of the existence of Tyros, he ordered the whole planet of Zanovar to be destroyed by the Sardaukar. Tyros was not on the planet at the time the but when he learned of the destruction, he and his Jongleur troop performed at Kaitain where during Tyros' speech exposing the truth, a Sardaukar bodyguard next to the Emperor was inadvertently killed by a ruby laser staff.
Tyros was incarcerated, tortured and executed by the Emperor, however managed to smuggle a recording of his speech to Ixian Ambassador Cammar Pilru, which was used to blackmail the Emperor into paying restitutions to Ix.
In-game lore
The Tleilaxu managed to obtain Tyros' corpse, with the intent of creating Ghola of him which would give them a legitimate claim to the throne, given legal precedent to a Ghola holding the rights to their genetic heritage. Although Tyros was ignored by the Bene Gesserit, he could have been a potential candidate as a Kwisatz Haderach, or at least when combined with Tleilaxu genetic engineering, be crafted into one.
Ghola
In total they created six batches of ghola, each iteration improving and adapting based on the failures of the previous. As ghola are not born with the memories or full capabilities of the person they were grown from, the Tleilaxu wanted to 'Awaken' the innate potential from Tyros' bloodline.
The early generations
The first batch on Tleilax were poorly grown and perished, while the second batch were functional beings but were quickly shown to be psychologically unstable as a result of the Emperor's torture of Tyros, and were disposed of.
The Third Generation
The third generation was grown on Tleilax but shipped to the lab beneath Old Carthag, to mix with the general population. The researchers believed Arrakis was far enough away from the eyes of the Imperium that the ghola would go unnoticed. However as these all bore Tyros' face they were recognised by Count Fenring - who investigated the Tleilaxu operation and ordered the destruction of Carthag entirely
The Fourth Generation
With the destruction of Carthag only one member of the 4th generation survived, the last to bear his natural appearance, but he escaped into the desert. This last member did not have any additional imprinting or hypno-ligation control and is known as The Sleeper. As per the Codex he is the "Sum of forty fears", FORTY FEARS being an anagram of TYROS REFFA
The Fifth Generation
The Fifth generation were given new compulsions and faces, specifically with the mission to 'Find the Fremen' - given Bronso Vernius could be a trigger, and 'Wake the Sleeper' as the Tleilaxu wanted to regain their last surviving member with Tyros' face. However the compulsions caused these ghola to slowly go insane, whilst also being vulnerable to others controlling them like Count Fenring. The last members of this generation were:
- The Glutton
- The Paranoid
- The Water Shipper (at the Mansion)
- The Jackal
The Sixth Generation
The final generation were grown in the orbital facility, given new appearances and backgrounds and the compulsion was refined to be more stable. Additionally a failsafe compulsion was added to force the ghola to try commit suicide if they saw the face of Count Fenring. Canonically there are 40 members to this generation (the population of a Hagga Basin instance).
This leaves The Player as the sole surviving ghola of Tyros Reffa, with a technical claim to the Golden Lion throne, and sharing the same genetic potential as a Kwisatz Haderach.
Dialogue
Act 4
- First contact with Tyros Reffa
The Guide: You are trapped, O Pilgrim. You must escape.
Tyro Reffa: Leave it alone. Don't. Player: Who are you? What is this?
Tyro Reffa: Just leave. There's nothing here but pain for us. Player: Pain? I don't understand.
Tyro Reffa: You poke. You poke and poke and poke. You bring up the poison of our soul. If it was me, it was you. Our good. Our evil. Our paranoia. Our greed.
Player: ...
- A story of manipulation and death
The Guide: You are manipulated by the powerful and pinioned by the guilt of the dead. When you take a life, you take your own.
Tyro Reffa: I don't want us to hurt anyone else.
Player: Violence is part of us. We have killed hundreds.
Tyro Reffa: Not hundreds, millions. The blood of Zonavar is on our hands because of who we are. Our closest friends...
Player: ...are not safe. We kill the ones we love.
Tyro Reffa: I never asked for this. I was the bastard son. Exiled. Forgotten. I don't want to kill them. I don't want to fight.
Player: I can fight, if you cannot.
- Fragmenting
The Guide: Do not be frightened. Do not resist. You must die, for you to rise.
Tyro Reffa: The truth is that I'm afraid you.
Player: What are you afraid of?
Tyro Reffa: You. I know who I am. Tyrus Reffa. Executed for speaking the truth. My mouth fused shut to keep me silent. But you? How can you be me? You choose violence where I choose peace. You kill when I would save. Is this how I must exist? Subject to your internal tyranny. Forever imprisoned?
Player: What are you afraid of? 1. I don't know. Being fragmented weakens us. It allows us to be controlled. 2. You said yourself. It was always us. The good and the evil.
(1) Tyro Reffa: But the emperor is coming. He killed me once already. I am afraid... of the pain. Of my brother. Of you. Everything tells me to run.
Player: 1.1 We will not run. We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.
- Fear is the mind killer
The Guide: Do you see? Your life is a pattern of survival against all odds. The universe is a hard teacher. Have you learned? They are going to kill you. But you do not give up. Bring the Water of Life to the Sleeper. Just hold the vial near his nose. It will wake him. Do you understand?
The Guide & Tyro Reffa: I must not fear. Fear is a mind killer, Fear is a little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear, I permit it to pass over and through me, And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. When the fear has gone, There will be nothing, Only I, Will remain.