House Kandros

House Kandros was one of the Familiae Martiales, the Turian Hierarchy's military elite. They were one of the older of Palaven's military families, rising to prominence during the Unification War of 336 BCE. Notable family members included Primarch Rhaea Kandros, Admiral Ravis Kandros, and Tiran Kandros. They were one of the Semper et Unus, the eight great houses of the Aurelian Empire. After the house died out, House Arterius replaced them as the most senior Thracian great house of the Semper et Unus. 
House Kandros went extinct when all remaining members of its bloodline either died or were killed in during the Reaper War in 2186 CE. Its last true parriarch, Ravis Kandros, the Duarch Classium of Palaven, was killed in action in the skies above Palaven while attempting to lead a naval counterattack against invading reaper forces. She was succeeded as Duarch Classium by her protégé, Admiral Irix Coronati. After her death, House Kandros faced a succession crisis that threw its future into question. Her daughter, Teresa, had married Gaius Abrudas and was thus no longer a part of House Kandros; her son, Tiran, had left the Milky Way to join the Andromeda Initiative after being dishonourably discharged from the military; her niece, Nyreen, was killed trying to liberate Omega from Cerberus occupation during the Reaper War. 
Thus, following Ravis' death, her only viable heir was her daughter. Teresa, however, did not have a second born child who could revive her birth house in her mother's name; turian law stipulates that, in the event of a house's name dying out, the second child of the last surviving bloodline heir is to be released from their birth house to reestablish the extinct one that they are descended from. Teresa would later give birth to a son named Gidion, but, by law, he was a member of House Abrudas from birth and thus could not claim the title of parriarch of House Kandros. Teresa made several attempts to have another child with her husband, under the agreement that they would be born a Kandros, but she was killed in a head-on skycar collision, alongside her son, before she could conceive a Kandros heir. Upon her death, House Kandros went extinct forever, bringing an end to a nearly 2000 year old dynasty in the Milky Way. 
Primarch Fidellion Victus of Palaven is currently in the midst of lengthy legal investigation into whether there exists another viable bloodline heir who could resurrect House Kandros. The investigation has, so far, been met with no success. 
House Kandros lives on in the Andromeda Galaxy through Tiran Kandros, albeit he is unaware that he is the last of his line. 
Category:Turian Houses