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 that 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 parents learned they were once mortal enemies during the Krogan Rebellions, they decided to fight, which resulted in the death of both. During this time she 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. She seems to support that asari need to be more militant and that young asari should help improve society earlier instead of becoming strippers or mercenaries. Her proposal that they should construct new mass relays was met with ridicule, causing the other asari to "laugh the blue off her ass". Realizing that that her arguments were pointless, Aethyta left Thessia.

Matriach 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 doesn't sell red sand and 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.
 * Footage of Aethyta looking at a photograph of Liara T'Soni can be found in the Shadow Broker's Intel Center Video Archive. The context of this footage is as yet unknown. She does however speak of a pureblood daughter in earlier conversation, with Liara T'Soni being pureblood and not knowing her other mother this could hint at a reveal later in Mass Effect 3.