Protoss families

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So… I haven’t seen any lore in SCI or SCII address how Protoss families work. I can’t think of the Protoss addressing anybody as “father,” though Vorazun is Raszagal’s daughter, so there is something in their society dealing with child-parent relations.

If you look closely, in Wings of Liberty, the rugged good guy Jimmy Raynor “moves heaven and earth” to get his girl out of Amon’s grip; this required the Xel’naga keystone to get the taint out of her, and while the heroic Jimmy was preparing for this, the girl was rampaging through the galaxy breaking worlds.

Fast forward to Legacy of the Void, Amon takes the lovely Blimp Queen Selendis, her Golden Armada and actually all the Templar through the Khala. Artanis then goes through the campaign to reverse this, while the Golden Armada, headed by its enslaved Blimp Queen, rampages through the sector sacking worlds. At the end of Legacy of the Void, the noble Artanis charges up the Xel’naga Keystone to get rid of Amon and allow the freed Protoss, Selendis being first, to sever their nerve cords and be free.

When Jimmy frees Kerrigan, this requires the keystone to charge up and release, resulting in the target’s freedom. When Artanis frees the Blimp Queen, it’s pretty much the same mission.

While there’s no evidence that Artanis and the Blimp Queen are “shacked up together,” (as Tychus so eloquently put it,) when the Epilogue begins, you have Jimmy and Kerri in a room with Artanis and Selendis. Why Selendis, of the gazillion important Protoss NPCs? Is she his wife now?

So, with all this tying together, I was hoping if you guys can tell me anything about Protoss family structure. I know they all used to be bound by the Khala, but there’s men, women, evidence of women being mothers, and it seems little else. Though the Campaign seems to have all this tantalizing stuff that maybe there’s more.

Help me get my lore fix! Thank you!

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Umn - Protoss are Aliens. So they are hatched through test tubes/incubators ^ ^
Daughters/Sons might be direct clones of the predecessors with minor edited difference =) - Thats my theory o.o

No Wiki goes too detail about items like these, so i am also curious!

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Blizzard has never given any details on how Protoss reproduce and never will. It’s the sort of question where nothing will ever satisfy people. As for why Selendis is so important, Metzen talked highly of her around WoL and she was meant to be a huge part of LotV but her part got cut.

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protoss players in sc1 were asking “were are muh toss gurls” so blizz wanted to put in protoss women and showcase them.

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Lore shows not only no families, but no adolescent Protoss of any kind. Characters referred to as young are only young in the sense that older protoss are present, but they are all biological adults.

Vorazun is referred to as Raszagal daughter, so we can assume that there’s some kind of biological reproduction happening. but whatever family life is involved in that is completely unknown.

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Ya, I’ve always wondered that as well. And I realize from playing the 3rd campaign that all Protoss are linked to a single network at all times which is how Amon got to them so easily. But if they reproduced through normal means, does that mean everyone whos linked with them will know the details and emotions? :thinking:

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On this note, I remember during SCI, when Fenix is talking to Raynor, he says that he is over 300 years old. So, how old is “young Artanis?” Only 90?

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They warp in of course :wink:

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Why Selendis, of the gazillion important Protoss NPCs? Is she his wife now?

She’s the High Executor, the highest military commander within the Daelaam and leader of the Templar cast. It sort of makes sense she’d be there for a military meeting above the other lotv characters who’re factional leaders, or in the case of Karax, just an engineer guy that artanis likes hanging out with.

She’s also implied to be the executor you play as during the BW and Enslavers II: Dark Vengeance campaigns

So, with all this tying together, I was hoping if you guys can tell me anything about Protoss family structure. I know they all used to be bound by the Khala, but there’s men, women, evidence of women being mothers, and it seems little else. Though the Campaign seems to have all this tantalizing stuff that maybe there’s more.

We don’t know much about protoss reproduction, concept art for Starcraft: Ghost showed an aquatic protoss hatchery where high templar attended to rows and rows of eggs sitting in some kind of underwater incubation area, but given the game was cancelled that’s not exactly canon or anything.

We do know protoss have traditional mothers and fathers, in the biological sense, but culturally it depends on which faction we’re talking about.

The khalai don’t seem to have any family structure, being raised communally by elders of their castes (although we have had some things contradict that in some books, so it might just be templar that’re raised by that). Nerazim have more traditional family structures with human-style parenting, probably because their society is based in very close knit tribal groups to start with.

We know nothing about the tal’darim, beyond that their young are exempt from the chain of ascension until they come of age, where they’re presumably slotted in at the end of it (which implies the highlord is almost always the oldest tal’darim alive, given there’s no way to move up without killing everyone above you, and there’s very few other ways to be exempt from the chain) and their general culture makes it seem like they don’t hold any real allegiance or have any duty of care for their own spawn.

On this note, I remember during SCI, when Fenix is talking to Raynor, he says that he is over 300 years old. So, how old is “young Artanis?” Only 90?

Protoss seem to just work off of human ages but x10. Artanis is 268 during lotv, which makes him to other protoss what we’d consider ~26, that’s why him being an executor after tassadar is fired, and later a preator during bw, is such a comparatively notable thing, it’s like making someone in their twenties a high ranking general who then goes on to become space president.

For reference, zeratul was ~600 when he died, and Raszagal (Vorazun’s mother) was 1045 when she died, which seems to be the upper limit of protoss age, since by the time she died she was losing control of her own psionics. Mohandar, another dark templar who got to a similar age, had the same issues with his psionics.

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I guess now we know why Blizz didn’t want to open this can of worms :smiley:

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I assume Protoss are able to hide some emotions from the Khalla. Otherwise they’d have nothing resembling privacy.

Not just for intimate things like this, but other things like if you despise your boss there’d be no way to remain professional in front of them.

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Thank you very much for the info!!!

I remember Star Trek had Betazoids, a race of empaths which operates like this, and they really CAN’T hide anything from the others. That made for an interesting society. The half-Betazoid Deanna Troi had some interesting interactions with her fully Betazoid mother because of it… and also the poor Captain Jean-luc Picard, whom the mother found attractive. She would (for example) go up to him and loudly accuse him of having scandalous thoughts towards her in front of everybody (he didn’t, she had some sort of sickness that was affecting her empathy,) so you can imagine how the poor sob existed when she was on his ship.

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