Genealogy

On Aideena, a person’s lineage is as fundamental to civilization as gender.

According to popular lore, Aideena-kind descended from twelve genetically engineered daughters of the Ae'sir, extraterrestrial colonists. The Daughters mated with proto-humans to produce various family bloodlines.

Whether or not the myths' specifics have any basis in fact, each person on the planet can trace their ancestry back along one of these original twelve bloodlines. The development of familial communities, tied in part to various geographic locations and alliances along bloodlines, led to the creation of The Twelve Great Houses.