![]() ![]() The Emperor arrives with the Baron on Arrakis, and their combined troops seize a Fremen outpost, killing many including Leto II, while Alia is captured and taken to the Baron. ![]() He senses that the Emperor and Baron are amassing fleets around Arrakis to quell the Fremen rebellion, and prepares the Fremen for a major offensive against the Harkonnen troops. Paul falls into unconsciousness for several weeks after drinking the Water, but when he wakes, he has clairvoyance across time and space-he has become the Kwisatz Haderach. However, Paul had not foreseen Gurney's attack, and believes he must drink the Water of Life to increase his prescience, until now usable only by the Bene Gesserit sisterhood and fatal to men. Believing Jessica to be the Atreides traitor, Gurney threatens to kill her, but is stopped by Paul. Meanwhile, Gurney has reunited with Paul and Jessica. Hawat uses the opportunity to sow seeds of doubt in the Baron about the Emperor's true plans, putting further strain on their alliance. The Emperor suspects the Baron of trying to create troops more powerful than the Sardaukar to seize power, and sends spies to monitor activity on Arrakis. The Baron decides to replace his more brutish nephew Glossu Rabban with his shrewd nephew Feyd-Rautha, hoping to gain favor with the Fremen. Word about this new Fremen leader Muad'Dib reaches both the Baron and the Emperor as spice production falls due to increasingly destructive Fremen raids. Paul recognizes that the Fremen can be a powerful fighting force to take back Arrakis, but also sees that if he does not control them, their jihad could extend to the entire universe. As two years pass, Paul's powerful prescience abilities have manifested, which lead the Fremen to consider him their Mahdi (messiah). ![]() Paul takes a Fremen lover, Chani, and has a son with her, Leto II. Pregnant with Leto's daughter, she inadvertently causes the unborn child, Alia, to become infused with the same powers in the womb. Jessica opts to undergo the ritual to become a Reverend Mother by drinking the poisonous Water of Life. Paul proves his manhood and chooses his Fremen name of Muad'Dib. Paul and Jessica are accepted into the Fremen community of Sietch Tabr, and teach the Fremen the Bene Gesserit fighting technique known as the 'weirding way'. He foresees futures in which he lives among the Fremen, and has a vision where he is informed of the addictive qualities of the spice. After fleeing into the desert, Paul realizes he has significant powers as an accidental result of the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme, inadvertently caused by Jessica bearing a son. ![]()
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