Item from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
The anti-necromancy resistance movement — descendants of the humans who fled Earth before the Resurrection, fighting to destroy the empire built on their ancestors' graves.
The Blood of Eden are the people who got away — descendants of the trillionaires and evacuees who fled Earth before John destroyed it. They've spent ten millennia fighting to free worlds from the Nine Houses' necromantic imperialism, using conventional technology against an enemy that treats death as a power source. They hate necromancers. They hate the Emperor. They consider the entire Nine Houses system an abomination built on mass murder, and they are not wrong about this. Commander Wake was their greatest operative. Coronabeth joined them after Canaan House. Pash represents their younger, more radical generation. The moral complexity is that BOE are freedom fighters AND terrorists, liberators AND zealots. They're fighting a genuinely evil empire, but they're also willing to destroy innocent people to do it. The series refuses to let them be simply heroic, just as it refuses to let the Emperor be simply villainous.
Not a physical object but an organized resistance. BOE operates in cells, uses non-necromantic technology, and fights with conventional weapons and guerrilla tactics against an enemy that raises the dead. Their aesthetic is military-practical: tactical gear, communications equipment, and the determined grimness of people who have been at war for ten thousand years.
Also known as: BOE, Blood of Eden, Edenites, The Resistance