Dune messiah sparknotes

Meanwhile, Scytale goes to the desert on Dune, kills a man named Farok, assumes his appearance, and kidnaps Otheym’s daughter, a girl who’d been in Farok’s care.īack in Paul’s city, Paul leads a meeting in which Princess Irulan begs to be allowed to mother the Muad’Dib’s heir. Paul struggles with a feeling of regret for subjecting Chani to a fate that only he can see coming with his prescience. The story moves to Paul and Chani’s room on the planet Dune.

The Guild conceals these plans from Paul’s prescience through Edric’s prescience. They make a plan to send a Tleilaxu ghola of Paul’s former sword master, Duncan Idaho-to poison Paul’s psyche and make Paul’s sister Alia attracted to him. The Guild establishes that Princess Irulan slips Chani birth control.

As the Bene Gesserit’s former kwisatz haderach, Paul deeply offended the Bene Gesserit by refusing to bear an heir with Princess Irulan, his political wife, and instead attempting to have children with his Fremen lover, Chani. Dune Messiah opens on planet Wallach IX where the Guild-comprised of Edric, Scytale, Princess Irulan and the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam-discusses their plans to dethrone Paul and put the Bene Gesserit in power.