![]() This presceience-sight ended after the birth of his twin children Leto II and Ghanima, coinciding with Chani's death, and he walked into the desert according to Fremen Law, his sister Alia becoming Regent of the empire. Despite his love and loyalty to his concubine Chani, Paul married Princess Irulan Corrino in his quest for the Emperor's seat in the Landsraad, but found navigating this relationship complex and difficult at times.Īfter ruling his new Atreides Empire for twelve years, during which the galaxy was at war in a jihad which the Fedaykin spread across the universe, Paul was blinded by a stone burner in a final conspiracy against the Atreides throne, but managed to see through his prescient abilities. After killing his cousin Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in a kanly duel, the Emperor and the Spacing Guild submitted to Paul's will and he was Emperor within three years. When the Emperor decided to come to Arrakis himself to crush Muad'Dib and get spice production back on track, Paul launched the Arrakis Revolt, which culminated in his use of forbidden atomics in the Battle of Arrakeen, a battle which also saw the death of his first son.įinally meeting the Emperor personally, Paul revealed to Shaddam that he would destroy all of the spice melange on the planet in a chain reaction if he did not allow him to take the Imperial throne, leading to chaos across the Known Universe. Paul also trained the Fremen in the weirding way of the Bene Gesserit to make them into the guerilla warriors known as the Fedaykin, allowing them to deal serious blows against the Harkonnens and turn the tide in the ongoing Desert War against them. The years he spent on Arrakis, also saw his mother Jessica drinking the Water of Life, an act which allowed her to become a Reverend Mother and one which Paul later went through with himself, and the birth of his preborn sister, Alia Atreides. After this fight, Paul took the name Muad'Dib among the Fremen and found himself becoming a leader among them, and became a good friend to Tabr Naib Stilgar and the lover of his niece Chani Kynes.įuelled by the historic prophecies of the Lisan al-Gaib planted by the Missionaria Protectiva centuries ago, Paul found himself inching closer and closer to great power. ![]() On Arrakis, Paul experienced a supposed attempted assassination attempt using a hunter-seeker, although this was in reality staged by the Harkonnens, the historic enemies of the Atreides, in order to turn attention away from the traitor planted in the Atreides household, Suk doctor Wellington Yueh.įollowing the Siege of Arrakeen which killed his father and decimated the Atreides, Paul and his mother were taken in by the Fremen tribe of Sietch Tabr after escaping the Harkonnens and the Emperor's Sardaukar, where Paul killed for the first time in a duel with the Fremen Jamis. When the Atreides were forced by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV into moving from their ancestral homeworld of Caladan to the desert planet of Arrakis when Paul was fifteen, he was tested with a gom jabbar by Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, his success in this test proving him human in the eyes of the Sisterhood. The only son of Duke Leto Atreides I and Lady Jessica Atreides (née Nerus), Paul's early years were overshadowed by correct suspicions of him as the Kwisatz Haderach, achieved one generation early due to the disobedience of his mother in producing a son rather than a daughter. Paul Atreides ( 10176 AG - 10219 AG), predominantely known as Muad'Dib, was the first Kwisatz Haderach, the last Duke of House Atreides from 10191 AG until 10196 AG, the first and founding Padishah Emperor of the Atreides Empire from 10196 AG until 10210 AG, and the supreme religious leader of the Fremen as the accepted Mahdi from 10193 AG onwards. That is reason enough."" ―from " Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then? Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. ![]() ![]() There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. " He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, truthless, less than a god, more than a man. Short/Small for his age Behind the Scenes First appearance
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