What Does Paul Atreides Actually Become In Dune Messiah - Dune Timeline Explained

in the first two books of Dune patres is definitely a main character book one seems to be a classic story of a hero fulfilling his Destiny and defeating evil he emerges as a complex and multi-dimensional character driven by a sense of justice and a desire to navigate the treacherous political landscape of oracus his journey from a privileged Noble to a leader among the fman sets the stage for his Evolution throughout the series however in Dune Messiah paat trates shifts from a potential Messiah figure and undergoes apotheosis elevation to a Godlike status Paul struggles with the unintended consequences of his actions including the rise of religious fanaticism and Rebellion he grapples with the ethical implications of his role as a messiah figure and the sacrifices necessary to maintain control the novel's premise suggests power corrupts but ironically it portrays Paul as almost perfect burdened by and limited in his choices he's a fascinatingly complex conflicted character so what is his true story and is Paul really a hero of the series house at trades was an old and Wealthy house in the lrad tracing their lineage back thousands of years to King Agamemnon a son of atraeus in Greece on Old Earth the atres had a long-standing feud with house hekinan dating back 10,000 years to the Battle of Corin this battle took Place 88 years before the guild and was the space battle from which the Imperial house Corino took its name it was fought on Corin near Sigma draconus and settled the ascendency of the ruling house from cusa sandis after the battle Bashar Abal harinen was accused of cowardice by an atres and exiled this event started the feud between house Harkin and and house atres which would last for almost 10,000 years and the current leader of the hekinan House Vladimir harinen is the direct male descendant of Bashar abeler harinen which only increases the hatred between these two houses the family kept their ancestral world of kaladan a lush prosperous Paradise with relatively low industrial levels in Star contrast to the Harkin and capital of gay Prime they literally are the two completely opposite sides of the same coin however the atres were also proficient in war they maintained sword Masters War Masters and mentats to train and Lead their army and had even developed their own battle language Paul is just 15 years old in the book and as the heir to house a trading there's a lot of pressure on him he has no friends his own age because of the dangers of assassination he's highly trained in politics and in combat and in the book He's trained as a mentat to have a powerful logical mind like thuir shortly after his 15th birthday in the year 10,191 AG Paul's Father revealed to him that his training through his teachers had been geared toward turning Paul into a menet the theory was that when Paul succeeded his father as duke of house at trates one of the most respected and moral great houses of the Imperium a menad Duke would truly be a formidable force in the lrad Leto is not the only parent from whom he is getting training but from his mother as well Jessica trains Paul in the way of the Benny jeserich to focus his mind and body his perception and memory and to use the power of the voice to control people Paul's latent Talent becomes the reason why the atres receive a visit from gas Helen Maham a reverend mother of the Benny jzer a prestigious order known for enhancing their cognition through drug induced methods Reverend mothers possess the collective memories of their ancestors and fellow members granting them profound insights gas once served as Jessica's Mentor at the Benny jenzer School presently she holds the esteemed role of the emperor's personal truthsayer valued for her unparalleled ability to discern falsehoods guas wields considerable power and influence yet her allegiances are complex and divided between the emperor Jessica and the Benny jeser Sisterhood gas gives Paul a test Paul puts his hand in a box that causes terrible pain but if he moves the hand gas will kill him with a needle called the gum Jabar so this is a test of self-control someone without self-control like an animal will instinctively move away from the pain and will die to survive you have to withstand the pain control your body and mind and master your fear and your instincts the Benny jesed believe that this ability to act consciously and choose to think long term not just in the moment is what separates humans from animals they give this test to everyone they train so so that only responsible conscious humans gain the power of the Benny jeser they don't want some selfish impulsive Beast like the Harkin to misuse their abilities and reproduce so anyone who fails this test they kill but fortunately Jessica's training proved to be instrumental which helps Paul to pass the test Paul is human he has self-control so he withstands the pain and lives during this test we hear the litany against fear I must not fear fear is the mind killer fear is The Little Death that brings total obliteration I will face my fear I will permit it to pass over me and through me and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path where the fear has gone there will be nothing only I will remain the litany against fear is one of the most iconic verses from the Dune series that holds extremely big philosophical value it is a remarkable tool the most remarkable thing about it is its incredible usefulness similar to how a knife is used in physical reality the litany is useful in psychological reality when fear sets in the mind is in chaos to get things started again its Simplicity and its form as a litany is appropriate in the midst of hostile nothingness the litany against fear creates a foothold as mentats have axioms and sword Masters have attitudes the Benny jeret have the litany against fear these building blocks unfold structures patterns of possibilities when used properly these structures are powerful and magnificent tools but by merely presupposing building blocks weaknesses are created as as well the only completely Dynamic pattern is consciousness itself other structures are static to a variable degree by supposing axium mentas get blind spots in their mental Vision by assuming attitudes sword Masters become predictable by balancing the fearlessness of the litany benzer witches develop a different kind of fear just where exactly lies the benzer weakness the building block the litany against fear is dominantly feminine thus what unfolds is a dominantly female Society with a mental tional space where they dare not look why is the litany dominantly feminine it presupposes a perspective where the user is passive and the world is active I.E fear is destruction that happens to you by the outside world the masculine counterpart of the litany would be one which presupposes a perspective where the user is active and the world is passive I.E fear is destruction that happens to the outside world by you in the Dune World a being who is able to move into both places is named quizat hadak there exists no separation between man and God one Blends softly casually into the other the quizat hok stage would be somewhere in the middle a usable human form for a god a quizat hak changes the world as well as the self and after this test this is exactly what we learn for thousands of years the benzer have manipulated the genetic lines of noble families like the atres they breed certain people with other people often by marriage to Benny jzer women like Jessica even the emperor has a benij jeser wife controlling his reproduction they select and combine certain genes trying to produce a superhuman called the quizat hadak this chosen one will be able to see into the future and past better than any Benny jerit cuz Reverend mothers like gas can only access the memories of their female ancestors the quizat hok will access all memories he'll be a male Reverend mother whose powerful mind will guide Humanity so the Benny jeser want to create the chosen one but Jessica has messed with their plan cuz the Benny jzer wanted Jessica to have a daughter not a son the daughter was going to marry ainan and their child would have been the quizat hok but Jessica with her Benny jazar body control chose to have a son Paul instead because letto wanted a son and Jessica wanted to make him happy she chose her family over her duty to the Benny jzer a conflict that continues through her Ark Jessica hopes that Paul will be the quizat hok instead but gas is doubtful their ancient plan is now uncertain Paul accompanied his parents when house at trates relocated to the desert world of arus to manage mining operations of the spice malange spice is the most important substance in the Dune Universe cuz spice not only makes space flight possible and can give visions of the future spice also makes people live longer extending lifespans by decades for example example in the books Emperor shadam IV is also addicted to spice since even though in all the big Dune adaptations the emperor is played by older men in truth that's not how he looks in the book in the book shadam is 72 years old but he looks like he's 35 presumably CU shadam takes spice cuz spice extends your life makes you live longer and look young many people are addicted to spice and if they stop taking it they die it's an addictive psychic mind expanding life extending spaceship guiding drug so naturally spice is the most valuable substance in the universe and spice only comes from one place the desert Planet oracus also called Dune onus are giant sandworms whose life cycle makes spice humans harvest the spice and sell it so whoever controls oracus becomes rich and by the beginning of the book oracus has been ruled by the Brutal House harinen for the last 80 years however at the start of the story The Emperor orders the hinin to leave and he gives control of the planet to House of trates led by Duke Leto at first this deal looks extremely good for House of trates however in truth oracus is a trap secretly set up by the emperor and the hinin plan to destroy the atres with an army of Sardar who are the emperor's elite soldiers Renown for being brutal and merciless the emperor doesn't want the other houses to know that he's attacking the atres so in the book his Sardar are disguised in hekinan uniforms he and the hinin want the atres to die in the dark the reason reason for these rather bad terms between the emperor and House of trates is Leto's popularity and influence among the houses of the lrad he thinks that Leto will use this to finally Dethrone him from his position and his fear makes him resent him Leto knows that the emperor and the hekinan plan to attack him but he takes the risk anyway because he believes he can win Leto plans to use the desert power of arachis by making an alliance with the freman the local desert people in the book Leto believes that the freman will be great soldiers specific specifically because they live in the harsh environment of arus just like the Sardar are powerful because of the harshness of salusa akundas so Leto bets everything on this plan to make the freman his army to beat the Sardar in the movie Paul says that he doesn't want to exploit or oppress the fman like the Harkin did but in the book The atres don't really care about the fman like that their goal is to exploit them the atres may seem like heroic good guys but throughout the book they use immoral manipulative strategies and were invited to question their morality their morality is also tested when Paul and Jessica arrive on arus the people of araus shout lisan algib which means the voice from the outer world because there's a prophecy on arus that says there will come a leader the child of azeret who will lead arus to Freedom Paul and Jessica seem to fit this prophecy but the thing is this prophecy is a lie it was made up by the benzer the benij jeser have a whole system called the missionaria protectiva for thousands of years years they have spread specific religious ideas or infectious superstitions all over the universe particular signs and sayings are planted in local cultures so if a Benny jzer is ever on one of these planets they can use those signs and sayings to gain power over people by fulfilling the prophecies that they invented so the people of arachis hope that Paul and Jessica are the chosen ones who will free them but in reality the lisan algib prophecy is a cynical tool used by the benzar to control people the baron and the emperor's plan to eliminate the atres begins quickly after Paul's family establishes itself on arus after a supposed assassination on Paul using a hunter Seeker Dr UA lowered the defensive house Shields and used sedative drugs to disable letto Paul and Jessica leaving the atres leaderless and disorganized under the Harkin and and Sardar military Onslaught in the siege of Arin the atres Army was crushed with only a few remnants managing to escape this attack marked the beginning of the war Paul and Jessica were sentenced of the desert to die because of the use of truthsayers in the Empire the baron Harkin and needed to be able to say truthfully that he was not directly responsible for their deaths however this plan was foiled by arrangements made by UA he hated the baron and wished to at least save Paul and Jessica and Paul and Jessica managed to kill their captures and Escape into the desert Paul and Jessica initially met up with planetologist lead Kines and swordmaster Duncan Idaho hiding in a Botanical testing station abandoned long ago however they were not there long before the station was attacked by Sardar who killed Duncan Paul and Jessica flee to the Deep desert in an ornithopter parting ways with Dr kin's they let the hekinan think that they had died from a Corola storm in the Deep desert under the pressure of extreme circumstances and the increased doses of spice that he has been ingesting simply by living on a racus some of Paul's Powers come into fruition and his ability to see possible future is exploded into awareness he saw many things a way out of his situation and the rest of ation of the atres if only he could make contact with the native freman and survive after a dangerous crossing of the desert Paul and Jessica managed to meet up with a troop of freman Paul and Jessica proved their worth by disarming freman in unarmed combat aided by Benny jzer pran Bindu training the weirding way and the fman leader sgar gladly accepted them into his troop because he would like to add that skill to the fman people Paul also met a young woman channi daughter of lead Kines whom he had long seen in his dreams during the scuffle Paul disarmed a proud fman Jamis who took offense at this presumptuous Youth and challenged Paul to a fight to the death although at first unwilling to kill he triumphed easily making his name in The Tribe and also succeeding to the position of head of the household of the dead man sgar gave Paul the name usul meaning the strong base of a pillar as his private name with the troop Paul gave himself the name Paul muadi as his public fman name both of his names have deeper meanings for example in the case of usul sgar wanted to give him a name that symbolized Paul's role not only within the fedin but the freman as a whole especially considering his faith in Paul as the Savior that was prophesized and in the case of muad it means the little desert Mouse which hides during the day and travels only at night that multiplies over the land and makes its own water that's not the only thing muad means though in the araus night sky muadi is one of the main constellations taking the shape of the little desert Mouse its tail points to the north making it one of the most important navigational tools for the freman which is why they call it the one who points the way and why it makes for such a perfect name for Paul who is prophesized to be the Savior the fman waited for for so long when Paul and Jessica returned to the troop's SI they discovered the fman Reverend mother was near death and with the fortuitous arrival of Jessica a Beni jzer they made Jessica their sadena Jessica not realizing the consequences of what the fmen were about to do accepted to cement her place in the tribe because she had no choice and it was either that or death halfway through the process she realized she was making a mistake that she was involved in a similar process to how the Benny JZ make their own Reverend mothers who could see genetic memories and realize that the baby in her womb fathered by Leto before his death would also go through the process this had truly unfortunate consequences because it was a Benny jzer teaching that any such baby would not have the strength to withstand the memories of its ancestors by 10,193 AG 2 years later Paul had become something of a religious leader among the fman Chan became his lover and bore him a son whom he called Leto he and his mother trained the fman of sieg tabber and other fman who sought out Paul in his religious guise in the weirding way the Benny jits brought up into fighting techniques under his leadership his fedin experienced Victory after Victory against the Harkin and Paul's Prestige and Aura among the freman grew however in order to be truly accepted by the freman he had to become a sand Rider Paul attempted it and succeeded becoming a full member of the sieg that same day a band of Smugglers sought malange too deep in the desert and the fman of Siege tabber sprung a trap in the middle of the battle Paul recognized his weapon siater gurnie HCK and called on him and his men to surrender gurnie was overjoyed and overwhelmed in equal measure he surrendered his men and joined Paul's service among gurn's men however were some Imperial spies who attempted to kill Paul they were unsuccessful and they were captured by the fedin Paul gave secret orders for the spies to be allowed to escape so that they would reveal that Paul at trates still lived on araus taking advantage of recruiting gurnie HCK Paul used the moment to solve his leadership problem since he had become a worm Rider many of his followers had expected him to challenged sgar his greatest friend among the fman in order to take control of Siege tabber but Paul broke tradition and in doing so forced sgar to do the same managing to sidestep this issue by proclaiming himself the ruling Duke of araus and thus took power without killing his friend they returned to Siege tabber gurnie was shocked to discover Jessica is still alive because he believed she was the one who betray the atres and that Paul did not know gurnie was about to kill her when Paul walked in managed to stop him and explained that UA was the traitor gurnie was almost broken by his nearly fatal and tragic error but Jessica forgave him and he was bound even further into the atres and Jessica's service Paul's power among the fman grew but he was still frustrated he was not all he could be he could not control his journeys into the future and much of it was still blank to him so he took a truly risky step and consumed a tiny amount of spice Essence and so attempted to perform the male equivalent of the Reverend mother ceremony previously to this no man had survive this experience and it seemed that he failed also because he sank into a coma Paul neglected to tell anyone what he was doing many people thought he was dead although others primarily the fedin believed he is in a religious trance his mother Jessica did all she could do to wake him but failed so out of desperation she called Chie from the deep desert to help chni through her more personal knowledge of Paul's dreams and desires realized what a mad thing Paul has done and used spice Essence converted by Jessica using her powers as a reverend mother to bring him out of his trance for Paul no time had passed and he gloried in his new memories and Powers he told his mother and Chie immediately that the emperor himself was currently orbiting the planet with many Sardar ready to attack he had proven the benij jeser wrong he was the quizat hadak appearing one generation ahead of the prediction he declared that it was now time to destroy the hinin fan attacks on the hinin had already managed to almost entirely stop the flow of the Spice from oracus this forced the emperor to act and he came to oracus with all his Sardar and also levied all of the other Noble houses to annihilate the fman if necessary in order to get the spice flowing again by now the emperor was aware of who mu was in advance of his arrival he sent a large Sardar Force into the deep desert for information attacking a Siege they managed to kill Paul's son and capture Alia Paul's sister who was already born in the books unlike in the movies but were driven off by fman children old people and women in the Dune book Paul observes a fight between the fman and the Sardar he doesn't participate in the combat the book tells us he thought bitterly that here was another chapter in The Legend of Paul mu Adib I didn't even draw my knife but but it'll be said of this day I slew 20 Sardar by my own hand so the book explores the idea of Paul being portrayed as more of a warrior than he truly is ironic then that the new movie has Paul fighting even more soldiers in the book Paul sees people dying in his visions of the future so he weeps for those not yet dead but channie says let them have their time of life channie helps ground Paul in the present and to appreciate life despite his vision after the emperor himself had landed Paul launched the final attack using houseat trades' family atomics that his men managed to retrieve after the hekinan attack he blew a hole in the shield wall that protected the capital of aren from the surrounding desert and its Fierce storms by using the weapons this way he narrowly avoided contravening the universal ban against using atomics on people which would have required the other Noble houses to retaliate with Planetary Annihilation the fan attacked under the cover of a huge Desert Storm riding sandworms from the desert through the hole in the shield wall the great static force of the sandworm then shorted out all of the sardar's defensive Shields the Sardar were unable to withstand the full force of the freman caught as they were in total surprise and the emperor was forced to surrender the combined forces of the lrad still loomed in orbit around the planet but Paul threatened to destroy the spice if any of them try to land and they backed off in the surprise of mad's attack aliia managed to escape and in the process killed the baron hekinan realizing that mu Adib was not some mad Fran religious leader changed the situation dramatically for the emperor fade rtha The Baron's nephew an acclaimed Gladiator challenged Paul to single combat claiming rights of Conley as had been declared by Paul's father Leto Paul agreed even knowing that it is possible he would die but after a difficult fight during which fade rtha attempted treachery in the form of a poison knife and needle Paul eventually triumphed he forced the emperor from the throne by the simple expedience of taking power from the real rulers of the Empire the spacing Guild who controlled spice travel he again threatened to destroy the spice if they did not ship all the troops home the spacing Guild had no choice their limited powers of seeing prophecy showed Paul is capable of it and they sent everyone home the emperor abdicated and retired to salusa akundas in 10,196 ag Paul married the emperor's eldest daughter iron and Paul becomes emperor of the universe so book one seems to be a classic story of a hero fulfilling his Destiny and defeating evil however in book two Messiah we see Paul who is very different from his book on self the book takes place 12 years after the first one shortly after Paul becomes the emperor he accepts the role of Mii to the fman and enacts a strategy that had been revealed to him through his precient abilities he starts mad's Jihad a religious Crusade this decision saw the Theology and many customs of the fman thrust into the whole of the Empire this Jihad spread throughout the entire universe pillaging millions of planets a few campaigns include those on Naraj and its moons the fan fedin Commander farro was the head of the Naraj campaign the only planet that was spared the Raging Fire of mad's jihad was the home world of houseat trates kaladan Lady Jessica mother of Paul muad refused the fan any access to the planet including religious pilgrimage the Jihad ended in 10,28 ag this Jihad resulted in the death of over 61 billion people the sterilization of over 90 planets and the demoralization of over 500 additional worlds additionally over 40 different religions were wiped out along with their followers and over 10,000 worlds eventually joined the atres Empire on the other hand another result of this action was that Paul atres himself became a revered godhead on many worlds in the known universe interestingly enough sgar hates and resents the deification of Paul it replaces his traditional religion besides sgar liked Paul as a young person under his protection and now refuses to view him as a Godlike figure this is a very effective way of showing that while Paul is the most powerful Emperor ever he is ironically powerless to stop the lethal religious excesses of the Juggernaut he has created although 60 billion people have perished Paul's precient Visions indicate that this is far from the worst possible outcome for Humanity Paul's pre reveals to him the golden path a complex and perilous path for the future that would eventually save Humanity from stagnation and Extinction even with his considerable Powers Paul struggled to determine the best path through the Maze of decisions presented to him this was possibly due to the fact that he was not the ultimate quizat hadak having been born a generation sooner than the benij jzer had planned it was more likely however that Paul's difficulty with maintaining a Clear oracular Vision was because of his own emotions much like his father Paul was forever tempted by a simpler life far away from the intrigues and dangers of pressions Imperial politics and War he was also continuously haunted by the death of his father and the manner in which his house was betrayed by so many after the bloody Jihad ended Emperor Paul muad betres eventually subdued all outright Rebellion the order of the known universe was maintained through the replacement of Kino Imperial power which was supported by sarakar military strength with atres Imperial power supported by freman military strength Paul's interpretation of his preent Visions also necessitated that durus be transformed from a Barren desert Planet into a lush and fertile world with the exception of a small desert for the sandworm to remain alive and keep producing spice by the end of his rule this plan was well on its way to succeeding this program had begun under Paro kindes as an attempt to harness the planet however under Paul it became part of a plan to save Humanity despite his strong leadership and formidable preent abilities Emperor Paul atres began to feel building pressure from discordant groups within the Empire notably the Benny jeser who have lost control of their kisat hadak Fringe groups within the freman the spacing Guild who are now utterly beholden to Paul and the dethroned but still powerful house Kino one of the conspirators are also Benny telac they haven't appeared in the movies yet but play a pivotal role in the future books similar to Benny jeseritz they are a group of secretive genetically altered humans who inhabited Plex the sole planet of the star Thim the customs and ethics of the Benny TX led to widespread revulsion by the other cultures of the known universe a reaction that did little to quench the txu's hunger to subjugate their Rivals their skills with genetic engineering however made them effectively unnecessary evil you can say that the benzer and lxu are gender flipped mirror images of each other both look on the opposite sex with disdain and objectify them the Benny jeser use language of animal husbandry in reference to males like using him to stud while the TXU physically objectify their women turning them into exotel tanks both use a form of genetic memory for the Benz it comes in the form of other memory remembering the lies of their maternal lines while the lilu used restored goa's memories to restore their own memories with all of these powerful groups plotting the situation becomes extremely shaky for Paul's Empire it doesn't help the situation that the atres Dynasty is considered unstable because Paul has not produced an heir channi his lover and concubine is secretly given contraceptives by the princess Iran Corino Paul's wife in title only though Paul is aware of the scenario he has foreseen that the birth of his Heir will bring ch's death and he does not want to lose her but his hopes are put into question after CH switches to an ancient fan fertility diet and subsequently conceives the conspiring parties intent on ending the atres Empire give Paul a gift he cannot resist hate a goola of Duncan Idaho his childhood teacher and friend the conspirators hope the presence of hate will undermine Paul's ability to rule by forcing Paul to question himself and the Empire he has created furthermore Paul's acceptance of the gift weakens Paul's support among the fmen who see the TXU and their tools as unclean additionally the Benny TX who created the goola hope that it will provide them extra insight and control through Espionage ORD is embedded in his psyche further complicating the situation is the physical maturity of Paul's powerful sister Alia who finds herself irresistibly attracted to ha/ Duncan Alia and hate investigate the appearance of a female corpse near the city hate realizes that the fact that no one has been reported missing implies a TXU plot in which the woman has been replaced by a face dancer who was a member of a race bred by the Benny TX their standing in TXU Society felt below that of the TXU master and their ability to mimic other individuals made them popular for numerous roles including spies and assassins Paul demands to see Maham who fears she will be killed but instead discovers Paul wants to bargain with her Paul offers to produce a child by artificial insemination in return for the survival of Chan and her child mahyam desperate to regain the atres genes for the Benny jzer breeding program would have to violate but larian Jihad to booze against the use of computers furthermore she realizes no child born in this way would be a candidate for the Golden Lion throne and that the Benny jzer could never admit to the existence of such a child without risking their position in the Empire she decides that she must consult with her Ben jezra counterparts on valak 9 6 weeks later CH is seen by a medic and discovers her pregnancy has become complicated because of the contraceptives introduced to her system realizing that only iron could be the perpetrator shie wishes to kill her but is prevented by Paul She questions whether it is sensible for Paul to continue to spar with hate and Paul replies that the chilu have made him better than they could know and that it may be possible to restore Hate's memories as Duncan Idaho unknown to Paul this is precisely the TXU plan to restore ha's memories as Idaho thus fulfilling a longtime technological ambition and proving to Paul that they could clone and restore Chie to him after she dies in childbirth for a heavy price the daughter of oame one of Paul's fedik and Commandos asks Paul to visit her father in secret and while Paul realizes she has been replaced by a f face dancer his preent Visions show that revealing this will lead to Futures he wishes to avoid Paul is forced to admit the face dancer after she asks to be taken into Paul's household although he places her under guard he then visits oim o reveals evidence of a conspiracy against muad among the fmen some of whom are distrustful of following the atres and gives Paul his clu servant Paz who like a recording machine can remember faces names and details Paul accepts reluctantly seeing the strands of a Lau plot as Paul's soldiers attack the conspirators the lxu set off a stone burner that destroys the vicinity and blinds Paul Paul is able to continue in leadership by fixing his actions precisely in line with what his previous oracular Visions showed him by moving through his life in lock step with his previous Visions he can see even the slightest details of the world around him the disadvantage of this is his inability to change any part of his Destiny so long as he wishes to appear cited the unraveling of the conspiracy reveals that corba high priest of Paul's church is among Paul's enemies and while corba tried to deny this persuading the fman nabes of his innocence Paul arrives to confront him directly and corba is put into sar's custody hate interrogates beaz but the dwarf secretly at laku Master uses planted conditioning words and whistled Tunes to control the goola and programs hate to offer Paul a bargaining when Chan dies beaz offers Chan's return as a goola and the hope that Duncan Idaho might be re awakened in return for Paul's sacrificing the throne and going into Exile unknown to hate this also activates a hidden compulsion that will force him to kill Paul given the appropriate circumstance news emerges that Chan has died giving birth to two healthy children Leto and ganima the twins are pre-born due to their father's prean nature and Chan's encounter with the spice Essence while pregnant news of the birth is delivered to Paul who forsaw gima's birth but had not had any precient warning of Leto's possible existence his reaction to ch's death triggers the compulsions in Hate's mind and he attempts to kill Paul but reacting against its own programming ha's body remembers itself and his genetic memory returns to his Consciousness effectively returning Duncan Idaho to life Paul is unsurprised by this having foreseen it as Paul nears a crucial decision point in time causing his prophetic Visions to fail and rendering him totally blind he is thrust into a deadly standoff sail disguised as oam's daughter holds a knife to the necks of Paul's children he offers to revive chanie as a goola in return for Paul's abdication refusal of the offer would result in the murder of Paul's newborn children however Paul Taps into Leto's conscious perspective via the bloodline connection and using his son's eyes he is able to throw a dagger and kill sail after the birth of his children ganima and letto Paul became convinced he had lost his precient abilities he did not foresee the birth of his son only his daughter therefore as no more than a blind fman Paul disappeared into the desert offering himself up to shy hulud as was the fman custom for the blind this action made a powerful statement it signified to the fman that Paul's interest was for the tribe and that even he usul Paul who was mu Adib was not above f law many years after his apparent death alone in the desert and while the atres empire was under the Regency of his younger sister Alia atres a new figure the preacher appeared from the deep desert by urging Civil Disobedience against the atres empire and warning of the consequences of a green arus the preacher attracted an ever increasing number of followers many believed this thundering blind stranger to be paulit trates as he was blind and led by a boy the preacher eventually revealed himself to his son Leto and the two of them traveled throughout oracus breaching the water storage of every Siege so that it would spill out onto the sand eventually Leto and the preacher returned to aren to confront Alia who had clearly shown herself to be an Abomination by this time eventually Rising tensions saw Alia commit suicide in front of her mother and Leto during the ensuing chaos the preacher was assassinated in aren but not before he had revealed Beyond a doubt to gurny hoc and Jessa that he was indeed Paul atres thus the great Paul atres son of Leto the just and the first atres to ascend to the Golden Lion Throne since its Inception more than 10,000 years prior was dead passing into legend for eons to come laying the way forward for his son to take the golden path to its logical conclusion while while Paul envisioned the golden path the ultimate transformation that would see his Humanity dissolve into a sandworm frightened him upon revealing himself to his son Paul confessed that his desire to maintain his humanity and the fear of abject loneliness that the golden path would bring were too much for him he related that he walked away from what he knew he had to do and admired but lamented for his own son who had taken on the mantle that would see Humanity restored but at the cost of his own so let's go back to our original question is Paul truly the hero of the first two books throughout Paul's rise to superhuman status he follows a plotline common to many stories describing the birth of a hero he has unfortunate circumstances forced onto him and after a long period of hardship and Exile he confronts and defeats the source of evil in his tale as such Dune is representative of a general TR beginning in 1960s American Science Fiction in that it features a character who attains Godlike status through scientific means Paul's writing and controlling a giant sandworm cements him as a fman leader and he eventually gains a level of omniscience which leads to his Ascension to the Imperial throne and causes the fman to worship him like a god according to the Cambridge dictionary the definition of hero is a person who is admired for having done something very brave or having achieved something great in the case of Paul This truly fits the description of a hero he saved the people of arus from the terrible rule of the Harkin and changed arus from a desert to a lavish Paradise even though his Jihad resulted in the deaths of 61 billion people it was far from the worst outcome which people fail to realize also in the book Chan doesn't question the prophecy she's a mostly passive character who just supports Paul the book does explore how wrong it is that the atres use prophecy to manipulate the fman but that's mostly done through the thoughts of Paul and Jessica it looks like the movie makes this seem more explicit by having Chan loudly reject the exploitation of her people even Paul understands how wrong it is to manipulate the people of araus via false prophecy but he realizes that he has no choice he didn't use it to manipulate people for his own good but he was forced to when it comes to his role as a messiah it's a different story Dune further establishes Paul as a messiah through its implementation of nonlinear chronology a common semantic element of Science Fiction for sci-fi saviors prophecy typically comes in the form of knowledge of the future often this knowledge ends up being the very reason for the messiah's Existence creating a Time Loop Paul who initially rejects the idea of being the one has visions of the future induced by the psychoactive spice which imply that he is as his premonitions continue to come to pass Paul begins to accept his Destiny and allows the Visions to guide him on his path to becoming the one therefore his knowledge of the future is what causes this future to come into existence in the first place reinforcing the idea that it is Paul's destiny Paul's visions of his own future influence his choices suggesting that they were never his in the first place Paul is the one it is not his choice it is his calling and he must answer and it was only natural that he couldn't fully handle his title as a messiah because in truth he was never meant to be the one but his son was which is the reason why Leto II was so much more effective as a quizat hok than his father because in truth he is the true main character of The Dune series and instead of his father Paul was just unlucky due to Jessica messing with the Benny jerat plan but even despite that he still tried his max to fulfill his forced role which he took as any normal human would

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