Alia and her pilot, in the course of a long verbal duel - and a kiss - find themselves drawn together.
Alia feels her budding sexuality sharpening, but the man of her destiny remains hidden until she is thrown together with the ghola on an assignment to examine a body found in the desert. The genetic program must be put back on track. When Irulan tardily reports Chani is pregnant, Mohiam orders her to murder or abort Chani's baby and find a means of bringing the Atreides siblings together. From the ship that brings Edric, Paul seizes and imprisons Mohiam, Irulan's former teacher. The Spacing Guild insinuates Edric into the court by naming him ambassador, and Edric presents Paul a "ghola," Hayt, the re-animated flesh of his late friend, Idaho. The repugnant Korba the Panegyrist represents the Qizarate, administrators of the Jihad, on Council. Alia, prescient since undergoing the "Water of Life" crisis in utero, shares Paul's agony over the bloody Jihad. Meanwhile, at an Imperial Council meeting, Chani doubts she can provide an heir and suggests Irulan be allowed to do so, but Paul protests that Irulan is too loyal to the Sisterhood.
Scytale takes on the guise of Paul's long-dead friend, Duncan Idaho, to pump a veteran for information about Paul's Keep (fortress/palace), then treacherously murders the veteran and his blind son, and makes off with the son's would-be fiancye, whose remains later turn up in the desert. At stake is preservation of a gene pool the Bene Gesserit sisterhood has long cultivated. The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, a Tleilaxu Face Dancer named Scytale, and a Guild Steersman named Edric labor to win over Paul's wife, the Princess Irulan, from whom the Emperor withholds a child in favor of his beloved Fremen concubine, Chani. It follows a treasonous plot that fails to overthrow him but leaves him blind physically and psychically, walking off into the desert and timeless immortality as the "Muad'dib."ĭune Messiah opens with a band of conspirators plotting against the Emperor Paul Atreides in the twelfth year of his reign.
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert continues the cosmic drama of Dune, taking up the action in the frustrating twelfth year of the Emperor Paul Atreides' reign.
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