Matriarch Aethyta



Matriarch Aethyta is the asari bartender in the Eternity lounge on Illium. Her father was a krogan who fought in the Rachni Wars and Krogan Rebellions, while her mother was an asari commando who also fought in the Rebellions. Her mother kept her commando leathers for "special nights" with her father, and her father always showed off his war scars and talked about how he stomped a Rachni Queen to death on some poisonous world.

When Aethyta's father learned that he and Aethytha's mother were once mortal enemies during the Krogan Rebellions, they decided to fight, a battle neither of them survived. During this time Aethyta was about a hundred years old and an exotic dancer. For the rest of her lifespan, she had many mates, including a turian, elcor, and a hanar. She also fathered a pureblood daughter, but her relationship with the mother didn't work out, and Aethyta lost track of her daughter.

Aethyta has very different views on matters than other matriarchs and a very free-spirited, laissez-faire attitude to life. She seems to support the asari becoming more militant and active on the galactic stage, and believes that young asari should help improve society in their maiden years instead of becoming strippers or mercenaries. Her proposal that the asari should try to construct new mass relays was met with ridicule, causing the other asari to "laugh the blue off her ass". Realizing that no one wanted to listen to her arguments, Aethyta left Thessia for a less conventional martriarch's life on Illium.

Matriarch Aethyta is voiced by Claudia Black.

She is part of the assignment Illium: Conrad Verner, where an "undercover cop" is trying to buy the bar she works in. An amateur vigilante, Conrad Verner, was attempting to buy the deed to uncover a red sand seller. Aethyta told him that her bar didn't sell red sand--and besides, it is legal on Illium as long as the seller has a permit. She was ready to hit Conrad with a singularity before Commander Shepard got rid of him.

Trivia

 * If Shepard talks to Aethyta after becoming drunk from imbibing the mystery drink, she will appear younger and have pink facial markings and lipstick.
 * Aethyta was an alternate name of the goddess Athena, used in the Greek city of Megara.
 * The Shadow Broker Base Video Archives includes multiple videos of Matriarch Aethyta.


 * A fan's theory pretend that Matriarch Aethyta is in fact the "father" of Liara T'Soni. She said "I even mate with a other Matriarch and she had a pureblood daughter" The "other Matriarch" would be a reference to the Matriarch Benezia according to the fan's theroy