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Dune Timeline: from the thinking machines to the end of Kralizec
A dated chronology of the Dune universe, from the first age of space travel and the Butlerian Jihad to Paul Atreides, the God Emperor, the Scattering and the last war with the machines. Events run oldest first, era by era, and every entry says which book it comes from.
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Dune Characters: Every Major Character in Frank Herbert's Novels
The major characters of Frank Herbert's six Dune novels, grouped by house and faction, from Paul Atreides and the Harkonnens to the God Emperor and the Bene Gesserit of the later books. A short labelled section at the end covers the key figures of the expanded books by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
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Dune Ending Explained: the Book's Plot Summary and Final Chapter
The whole plot of Frank Herbert's Dune in order, from the gom jabbar on Caladan to the duel with Feyd-Rautha in Arrakeen, then a plain explanation of the final chapter, what Paul wins, what he can no longer stop, and where the rest of the series goes from there.
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The Great Houses of Dune: Every House Explained
Every noble House of the Dune Imperium, from the Imperial House Corrino to the Great Houses of the Landsraad and the smaller families around them. Each entry gives the House's homeworld, its rulers, what it was known for and how it ended, and says which Houses come only from the later expanded novels or the games.
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Dune Books in Order: Frank Herbert's Novels and Every Expanded Series
Every Dune novel in publication order and in story order, from Frank Herbert's six books to the prequels and sequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Plus where to start, which books you can skip, and how the films and TV series fit in.
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Are the Bene Gesserit Evil?
The Bene Gesserit test children with poison, breed people like livestock and plant false prophecies on whole planets. They also spend ten thousand years trying to keep humanity alive. Here is what Frank Herbert's novels show on both sides, and how to read it.
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Dune Lore Quiz: 15 Questions on the Books
Fifteen questions on Frank Herbert's Dune saga, from the fall of House Atreides on Arrakis to Paul's last walk into the desert and the God Emperor's three-thousand-year reign. Every answer comes with a short explanation and a link to the page that covers it.
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Fish Speakers
The Fish Speakers are the all-female army created by God Emperor Leto Atreides II to enforce his rule and protect the Golden Path. Fanatical soldiers and priestesses, they hold his empire through thousands of years of peace and are left to Duncan Idaho and Siona when he dies.
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Crysknife
The crysknife was a knife made from the tooth of a sandworm, the primary weapon of the Fremen of Arrakis. Milky white and double-edged, it was sacred to its bearers and could not be sheathed once drawn until it had drawn blood.
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Lasgun
The lasgun was a continuous-wave laser projector, perhaps the most widely used hand weapon in the Imperium. Its great danger lay in shields: contact between a lasgun beam and a Holtzman shield triggered a nuclear explosion that could kill everyone nearby.
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House Corrino: ten thousand years enthroned
The imperial House ruled from Kaitain and held Salusa Secundus as its fief. Paul Atreides forced Shaddam IV to give up the Golden Lion Throne.
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Javicco Corrino
Javicco Corrino was the fifth Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe and the only son and heir of Roderick Corrino, continuing the Corrino line on the Golden Lion Throne.
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Imperial Opal Palace
The Imperial Opal Palace was the residence of the Padishah Emperors of House Corrino, standing in Corrinth City on the capital world of Kaitain. Within its great audience hall stood the Golden Lion Throne, beneath the legend "Law is the ultimate science."
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Paul Atreides
Paul Atreides was the last Duke of House Atreides and the prophet Muad'Dib of the Fremen. The long-awaited Kwisatz Haderach of the Bene Gesserit, he toppled Emperor Shaddam IV, founded the Atreides Empire, and unleashed a jihad across the Known Universe before walking blind into the desert.
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Leto Atreides I: the Duke betrayed on Arrakis
Duke of House Atreides and father of Paul. Shaddam handed him the spice fief of Arrakis, and the Harkonnens killed him there in 10191.
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Duncan Idaho: reborn as ghola after ghola
Leto's Swordmaster died on Arrakis in the Desert War. The Tleilaxu brought him back again and again, serving the Atreides for five thousand years.
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Lady Jessica: the concubine who bore a son
The Bene Gesserit ordered Jessica to bear Duke Leto a daughter. She had Paul instead, and that single disobedience broke the breeding programme.
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Paul Atreides
Paul Atreides was the last Duke of House Atreides and the prophet Muad'Dib of the Fremen. The long-awaited Kwisatz Haderach of the Bene Gesserit, he toppled Emperor Shaddam IV, founded the Atreides Empire, and unleashed a jihad across the Known Universe before walking blind into the desert.
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House Atreides
House Atreides was a respected House Major of the Galactic Padishah Empire, ruled by a Duke and seated for twenty-six generations on the ocean world of Caladan. Through Paul Muad'Dib and his son Leto II, the Atreides line rose to rule the Known Universe before passing into a bloodline scattered across the millennia.
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Leto Atreides I: the Duke betrayed on Arrakis
Duke of House Atreides and father of Paul. Shaddam handed him the spice fief of Arrakis, and the Harkonnens killed him there in 10191.
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Duncan Idaho: reborn as ghola after ghola
Leto's Swordmaster died on Arrakis in the Desert War. The Tleilaxu brought him back again and again, serving the Atreides for five thousand years.
Bene Gesserit
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Bene Gesserit
The Bene Gesserit were an ancient order of women who wielded power from the shadows of the Imperium through a millennia-long breeding program, mastery of body and mind, and the religious engineering of the Missionaria Protectiva. Their goal was the Kwisatz Haderach, and through him the guidance of humanity.
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Lady Jessica: the concubine who bore a son
The Bene Gesserit ordered Jessica to bear Duke Leto a daughter. She had Paul instead, and that single disobedience broke the breeding programme.
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Kwisatz Haderach
The Kwisatz Haderach was the prophesied culmination of the Bene Gesserit breeding program, a male able to access the genetic memory of both his male and female ancestors and to bridge space and time through prescience. Paul Atreides and his son Leto II became the beings the Sisterhood had sought.
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Gaius Helen Mohiam
Gaius Helen Mohiam is the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother who taught Lady Jessica, serves as Truthsayer to Emperor Shaddam IV and tests the young Paul Atreides with the gom jabbar. In Dune Messiah she joins the conspiracy against Paul and is executed for it.
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Paul Atreides
Paul Atreides was the last Duke of House Atreides and the prophet Muad'Dib of the Fremen. The long-awaited Kwisatz Haderach of the Bene Gesserit, he toppled Emperor Shaddam IV, founded the Atreides Empire, and unleashed a jihad across the Known Universe before walking blind into the desert.
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Arrakis
Arrakis, known as Dune and later as Rakis, was a harsh desert world in the Canopus system and the only natural source of the spice melange. Home to the Fremen and the sandworms, it became the seat of the Atreides empire and the center of the known universe.
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Fremen
The Fremen were a culture of humans descended from the Zensunni Wanderers who made the desert planet Arrakis their home. Hardened by water scarcity and generations of persecution, they became the finest fighters in the Known Universe and the foot soldiers of Paul Atreides and his jihad.
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Leto Atreides II
Leto Atreides II was the third and final ruler of the Atreides Empire and its first and only God Emperor. The pre-born son of Paul Muad'Dib, he bonded with a colony of sandtrout to gain near-immortality and ruled mankind for thirty five hundred years to set humanity upon the Golden Path.
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Melange
Melange, commonly called simply the spice, was a naturally produced awareness spectrum narcotic found only on Arrakis. It was the foundation of commerce, longevity, and interstellar travel across the Imperium, the single resource capable of creating or destroying an empire.
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Mentat: the human mind built as a computer
The Jihad outlawed machines in the likeness of a mind, so the Houses trained people instead. Mentats served as advisors, strategists and killers.
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Kwisatz Haderach
The Kwisatz Haderach was the prophesied culmination of the Bene Gesserit breeding program, a male able to access the genetic memory of both his male and female ancestors and to bridge space and time through prescience. Paul Atreides and his son Leto II became the beings the Sisterhood had sought.
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Water of Life
The Water of Life was a poisonous blue liquid drawn from a drowning sandworm, lethal to the untrained but converted by the Bene Gesserit into the substance that made a Reverend Mother. Its conversion by a man marked the coming of the Kwisatz Haderach.
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Sardaukar: the Emperor's prison-world troops
Raised on the penal planet Salusa Secundus and feared across the Known Universe. The Fremen beat them on Arrakis and put Paul Atreides on the throne.
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Salusa Secundus: the prison that bred terror
House Corrino's first homeworld became the empire's penal planet once the court moved to Kaitain. Its cruelty was said to breed the Sardaukar.
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Shaddam Corrino IV
Shaddam Corrino IV was the 81st and final Padishah Emperor of the Corrino Empire. Threatened by the popularity of Duke Leto Atreides, he conspired with House Harkonnen to destroy him, only to be brought down himself by Paul Muad'Dib and the Fremen during the Desert War.
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House Corrino: ten thousand years enthroned
The imperial House ruled from Kaitain and held Salusa Secundus as its fief. Paul Atreides forced Shaddam IV to give up the Golden Lion Throne.
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Are the Bene Gesserit Evil?
The Bene Gesserit test children with poison, breed people like livestock and plant false prophecies on whole planets. They also spend ten thousand years trying to keep humanity alive. Here is what Frank Herbert's novels show on both sides, and how to read it.
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Dune Lore Quiz: 15 Questions on the Books
Fifteen questions on Frank Herbert's Dune saga, from the fall of House Atreides on Arrakis to Paul's last walk into the desert and the God Emperor's three-thousand-year reign. Every answer comes with a short explanation and a link to the page that covers it.
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Dune Messiah Characters: Who's Who Before Dune: Part Three
The people who matter in Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah, from Emperor Paul and Chani to the conspirators plotting against him and the Fremen caught in between. Each entry says who they are in the novel and who plays them in Dune: Part Three, where that is confirmed.
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Dune Messiah Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Story
Twelve questions on Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah, from the conspiracy against Emperor Paul and the ghola Hayt to the stone burner, the twins and Paul's walk into the desert. Every answer comes with a short explanation and a link to the page that covers it.
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Dune: Part Three: Release Date, Cast and What the Film Covers
Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Three opens in North American cinemas and IMAX on 18 December 2026. Here is what Warner Bros. and Legendary have confirmed about the cast, the crew and the story, what the novel it adapts covers, and what is still only rumour.
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How Dune: Part Two Sets Up Dune Messiah
Dune: Part Two ends differently from Frank Herbert's novel. Chani walks away, Alia is still unborn and the holy war starts on screen. Here is what the film changed, how it lines up with Dune Messiah, and what that might mean for Dune: Part Three.
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How Did Paul Atreides Become Emperor?
Paul became Emperor by beating Shaddam IV on Arrakis, threatening to destroy the spice, and marrying Princess Irulan to take the throne through her claim. Here is how he won, why the Guild gave in and how the films tell it.
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How Many People Did Paul Atreides Kill?
By his own conservative estimate in Dune Messiah, Paul's jihad killed sixty-one billion people. He says it himself, in a scene with Stilgar and the priest Korba. Here is exactly what the book says, what it doesn't, and what the films show.
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Events 39
- Butlerian Jihad: the war on thinking machines
- Golden Path
- The Scattering
- Battle of Corrin
- Muad'Dib's Jihad: the holy war that remade the Imperium
Planets 34
- Arrakis
- Caladan: the ocean world the Atreides left
- Salusa Secundus: the prison that bred terror
- Ix
- Giedi Prime
Organizations 30
- Bene Gesserit
- Sardaukar: the Emperor's prison-world troops
- Bene Tleilax: gholas, Face Dancers, tanks
- Spacing Guild: the monopoly on space travel
- Landsraad: the council of the Great Houses
Story Guides 29
- Dune Messiah Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
- Dune Ending Explained: the Book's Plot Summary and Final Chapter
- Children of Dune Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
- Dune: Part Two Ending Explained
- God Emperor of Dune Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
House Harkonnen 29
- House Harkonnen: the Baron's Giedi Prime
- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: the architect of the Atreides fall
- Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen: the na-Baron who died on Paul's blade
- Giedi Prime
- Valya Harkonnen
Houses 12
- House Atreides
- House Harkonnen: the Baron's Giedi Prime
- House Corrino: ten thousand years enthroned
- Ginaz
- The Great Houses of Dune: Every House Explained
League of Nobles 6
- Butlerian Jihad: the war on thinking machines
- Serena Butler
- Rebellion on Earth
- Manion Butler the Innocent: first martyr of the Butlerian Jihad
- Assault on Rossak
Guides 5
- Dune Timeline: from the thinking machines to the end of Kralizec
- Dune Ending Explained: the Book's Plot Summary and Final Chapter
- The Great Houses of Dune: Every House Explained
- Dune Characters: Every Major Character in Frank Herbert's Novels
- Dune Books in Order: Frank Herbert's Novels and Every Expanded Series
All entries A–Z
378 entries
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18- Abulurd Harkonnen
- Agamemnon
- Ajax: the Most Brutal of the Twenty Titans
- Alia Atreides
- Alia's Temple: the fane of St. Alia of the Knife
- Alma Mavis Taraza
- Archducal Palace of Ecaz: seat of the Mahogany Throne
- Are the Bene Gesserit Evil?
- Armand Ecaz
- Arrakeen conservatory
- Arrakeen governor's palace: the Residency of Arrakis
- Arrakeen: the first city built on Arrakis
- Arrakis
- Arrakis Revolt
- Assault on Rossak
- Atomics: the forbidden arsenals of the Great Houses
- Atreides-Harkonnen feud
- Avila: the last of Dorotea's faithful
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18- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: the architect of the Atreides fall
- Battle of Arrakeen
- Battle of Caladan
- Battle of Corrin
- Battle of Denali
- Battle of Giedi Prime
- Battle of Junction
- Battle of Lampadas
- Battle of Rakis
- Bela Tegeuse
- Bene Gesserit
- Bene Gesserit Powers Explained: the Voice, Truthsense, Other Memory and More
- Bene Tleilax: gholas, Face Dancers, tanks
- Bijaz
- Bolig Avati
- Botanical testing station: the forgotten laboratories of Arrakis
- Bronso of Ix: the Historian Executed for Doubting Muad'Dib
- Butlerian Jihad: the war on thinking machines
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21- C'tair Pilru: rebel of occupied Ix
- Caladan: the ocean world the Atreides left
- Cammar Pilru: Ix's ambassador in exile
- Carryall: the lifter of the spice harvest
- Carthag
- Castle Caladan
- Cathedral
- Chani
- Chapterhouse
- Chapterhouse: Dune Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
- Chiara: the Harkonnen spy in Castle Caladan
- Children of Dune Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
- CHOAM
- Chusuk
- Constantine Corrino: the Emperor's illegitimate son
- Corrin V: the nine-times Emperor
- Corrinth City: the capital of Kaitain and the seat of the Corrino Empire
- Corysta
- Cristane
- Crysknife
- Czigo: Harkonnen soldier and assassin
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25- D'murr Pilru: the Ixian Guild Navigator
- Dama
- Danvis Harkonnen
- Dar-es-Balat: the no-chamber holding Leto II's own account of his reign
- Darwi Odrade
- Desert War: the fall of the Corrino Empire
- Desmond Hart: the Emperor's bashar
- Dmitri Harkonnen
- Dominic Vernius
- Draigo Roget
- Duncan Idaho: reborn as ghola after ghola
- Dune (1984 Film) Explained: Plot Summary, Ending and Book Differences
- Dune Books in Order: Frank Herbert's Novels and Every Expanded Series
- Dune Characters: Every Major Character in Frank Herbert's Novels
- Dune Ending Explained: the Book's Plot Summary and Final Chapter
- Dune Lore Quiz: 15 Questions on the Books
- Dune Messiah Characters: Who's Who Before Dune: Part Three
- Dune Messiah Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
- Dune Messiah Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Story
- Dune Timeline: from the thinking machines to the end of Kralizec
- Dune: House Atreides Explained: Plot Summary of the Prequel Novel
- Dune: Part One Ending Explained
- Dune: Part Three: Release Date, Cast and What the Film Covers
- Dune: Part Two Ending Explained
- Dune: Prophecy Explained: Season 1 Plot Summary and Ending
E
13- Earth
- Edric
- Edrik: the Steersman of Kralizec
- El'hiim
- Elrood Corrino IX
- Emeline: the zealot of Wallach IX
- Emperor's Blade: the Corrino dagger that shadowed Muad'Dib
- Enhanced Face Dancer
- Erasmus
- Esmar Tuek
- Every Name and Title of Paul Atreides: Usul, Muad'Dib, Kwisatz Haderach and More
- Evgeny Harkonnen: patriarch of a disgraced House
- Eyes of Ibad: the blue-within-blue mark of melange addiction
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20- Gaius Helen Mohiam
- Galactic civil war
- Garun: Naib of the Museum Fremen
- Genetic memory: the ancestral record hidden in the flesh
- Ghadhean al-Fali: the desert Naib who defied the Regency
- Ghanima Atreides
- Ghola
- Giandro Tull
- Giedi Prime
- Ginaz
- Glossu Rabban
- God Emperor of Dune Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
- Golden Path
- Gom Jabbar
- Great Convention
- Great Spice War
- Great Surrender
- Guild Navigator
- Gunseng Harkonnen: Siridar Baron of Giedi Prime
- Gurney Halleck
H
31- Hagal
- Harah
- Harishka
- Harq al-Harba: Dramatist Laureate
- Harrow Harkonnen: Baron of a fallen House
- Hasimir Fenring
- Hayt
- Heighliner: the great foldspace carrier of the Spacing Guild
- Helena Atreides
- Heretics of Dune Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
- Hidar Fen Ajidica
- Hiih Resser: the Moritani Swordmaster who refused
- Hoh Vitt: Atreides sergeant and Master Jongleur
- Holtzman effect
- Honored Matres: the Sisterhood's dark mirror
- House Atreides
- House Corrino: ten thousand years enthroned
- House Ecaz: the Archducal House of the Sculptor's Paradise
- House Ginaz
- House Harkonnen: the Baron's Giedi Prime
- House Moritani: the Feuding House of Grumman in Dune
- House Ordos: the Dune Game House That Never Appeared in the Books
- House Richese
- House Vernius: the Ruling House of Ix in Dune
- How Did Paul Atreides Become Emperor?
- How Does Paul Atreides Die? Paul's Fate in Dune Messiah and Children of Dune
- How Dune: Part Two Sets Up Dune Messiah
- How Many People Did Paul Atreides Kill?
- Hrrm: futar leader of the Ithaca
- Hunter-seeker: the assassin's sliver
- Hwi Noree
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14- Iakin Nefud
- Iblis Ginjo
- Ibrahim Vaughn Holtzman: the machine mind of Liesco
- Ilban Richese
- Ilesa Ecaz
- Imperial Conditioning: the pyretic conscience of the Suk doctors
- Imperial Opal Palace
- Ingva
- Is Paul Atreides Descended From Agamemnon?
- Is Paul Atreides Evil? Hero, Villain and What Frank Herbert Intended
- Is Paul Atreides the Kwisatz Haderach?
- Ishmael
- Istian Goss
- Ix
J
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17- Lady Jessica: the concubine who bore a son
- Lady Margot Fenring
- Landsraad: the council of the Great Houses
- Lankiveil
- Lasgun
- Last conspiracy against Muad'Dib
- Leto Atreides I: the Duke betrayed on Arrakis
- Leto Atreides II
- Leto Atreides' Trial by Forfeiture
- Liberation of Giedi Prime
- Liet-Kynes
- Lila: the twice born acolyte of the Sisterhood School
- Lisan al-Gaib: Meaning of the Fremen Prophecy in Dune
- Litany Against Fear
- Logno
- Lucilla
- Lupino Ord
M
17- Mahdi
- Manion Butler the Innocent: first martyr of the Butlerian Jihad
- Mapes: the Shadout of Arrakeen
- Marcus Claire Luyseyal
- Margot Fenring
- Marie Fenring
- Maula pistol: the Fremen poison-dart gun of Dune
- Melange
- Memnon Thorvald: rebel Earl of Ipyr
- Mentat: the human mind built as a computer
- Miles Teg
- Minotauros Atreides: Duke Mintor, the bullfighter Duke of Caladan
- Missionaria Protectiva
- Moneo Atreides
- Muad'Dib mouse
- Muad'Dib's Jihad: the holy war that remade the Imperium
- Murbella
N
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7P
17- Palimbasha: the Fremen mathematician
- Pardot Kynes
- Paul Atreides
- Paul Atreides' Children: Leto II and Ghanima
- Paul Atreides' Powers Explained: Prescience, the Voice and the Kwisatz Haderach
- Paul vs Feyd-Rautha: the Duel in the Book and the Films
- Paulus Atreides
- Paulus Atreides' 10156 bullfight
- Piter de Vries
- Planet of the Handlers: futar homeworld in the Scattering
- Planet: worlds of the Known Universe
- Poison snooper
- Poritrin
- Prad Vidal
- Prescience
- Princess Irulan: chronicler of the Atreides Imperium
- Projectile weapons: the old guns of the Imperium
R
12- Ramallo: the old Reverend Mother of Sietch Tabr
- Raquella Berto-Anirul
- Rayna Butler: founder of the Cult of Serena
- Rebellion on Earth
- Rebels: uprisings against the Atreides Imperium
- Rental Gorus: Chief Administrator of the Spacing Guild
- Report on Alia Atreides: the Sisterhood's verdict of Abomination
- Reverend Mother in Dune: the Spice Agony and Other Memory
- Rhombur Vernius
- Rivvy Dinari: Swordmaster of Ginaz
- Rossak
- Rossak Epidemic
S
44- Salusa Incident
- Salusa Secundus: the prison that bred terror
- Salusan Bull: the beast that killed the Old Duke
- Sandtrout
- Sandworm
- Sanya Ecaz
- Sarah Butler: the unborn mother of the Kwisatz Haderach
- Sardaukar: the Emperor's prison-world troops
- Saudir I: the Great, fourth Emperor of the Known Universe
- Saudir III al-Harkonnen: the Harkonnen usurper of the Golden Lion Throne
- Scytale
- Selim Wormrider
- Serena Butler
- Seurat
- Shaddam Corrino IV
- Shadout Mapes
- Shai-Hulud: what the Fremen name for the sandworm actually means
- Shando Vernius
- Sheeana Brugh
- Shield
- Shield Wall
- Should You Read Dune Messiah Before Dune: Part Three?
- Sidir VI: the five-times Emperor of the Era of the Princes
- Siege of Arrakeen
- Sietch
- Sietch Jacurutu: the water thieves the Fremen erased
- Sietch Tabr
- Siona Atreides
- Smuggler
- Soo-Soo: the Harkonnen agent at Arrakeen
- Sorceresses of Rossak: the telekinetic order
- Spacing Guild: the monopoly on space travel
- Spice blow: the explosion that turns sand into melange
- Spice harvester
- Stilgar
- Stillsuit
- Stilltent: the Fremen water-saving tent of Dune
- Stone burner
- Suboid Revolt
- Suk School
- Suspensor
- Swain Goire: the captain sentenced to live
- Swordmasters of Ginaz
- Synchrony
T
24- Tagir Mohandis: the bold troubadour of Kadesh
- Tertius Eileen Anteac
- Tessia Vernius
- The Atreides Family Tree: from Agamemnon to Leto II and Beyond
- The Bene Gesserit Breeding Program Explained: Why They Wanted a Kwisatz Haderach
- The Bene Gesserit Coda
- The Great Houses of Dune: Every House Explained
- The Preacher
- The Sareer: the last desert on Arrakis and the ground of Leto II's Citadel
- The Scattering
- Theodosia: the shapeshifting Sister
- Thufir Hawat
- Ticia Cenva
- Tio Holtzman
- Titans
- Tleilax
- Tleilaxu Master
- Truthsayer
- Tuk Keedair
- Tula Harkonnen: the Harkonnen who wed and slew an Atreides
- Tupile
- Twisted Mentat: the human computer built without a conscience
- Tyekanik: the Sardaukar Bashar who took up the Fremen religion
- Tylwyth Waff: the Tleilaxu Master who bet the Bene Tleilax on the Sisterhood
W
24- Wallach IX
- Wanna Marcus: the Bene Gesserit whose torment broke a Suk doctor
- War of Assassins of 10,187 AG: the ruin of House Moritani
- War of the League of Nobles and Synchronized Empire
- Warrick
- Water of Life
- Watertube
- Weirding way: the Bene Gesserit fighting art of Dune
- Wellington Yueh
- Wensicia Corrino
- What Happened in the Twelve Years Between Dune and Dune Messiah
- What Happened to Paul Atreides's Daughter?
- What Happened to Paul Atreides's Mother?
- What Happened to Paul Atreides's Sister?
- Which Dune House Are You? Take the Quiz
- Whitmore Bludd
- Why Are Paul Atreides's Eyes Blue?
- Why Did Paul Atreides Blind Himself?
- Why Did Paul Atreides Start the Jihad?
- Why Is Paul Atreides a Harkonnen?
- Why Is Paul Atreides's Son a Worm?
- Willem Atreides: the duke who founded the House and died in kanly
- Windtrap: the water harvester of Arrakis
- Worm Riding and Maker Hooks: the Fremen Art of the Sandrider
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