Dune category

Fremen

60 entries tagged Fremen, 60 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Paul Atreides and Arrakis.

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ArrakisArrakis, 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.
Arrakis RevoltThe Arrakis Revolt was the uprising of the Fremen of Arrakis under Paul Atreides in the closing stage of the Desert War. Waged as a guerrilla campaign against the Harkonnen occupiers, it crippled spice production, drew in the Padishah Emperor, and ended with the fall of House Corrino.

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HarahHarah was a Fremen woman who became the wife by custom of Paul Atreides after he slew her husband Jamis, then nurse to Alia and to the Atreides twins, and finally the wife of Stilgar.

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IshmaelIshmael was the Zensunni who forged the Free Men of Arrakis from escaped Poritrin slaves and the outlaw followers of Selim Wormrider, becoming their first Naib. His insistence on the old desert ways helped shape the people who would one day be known as the Fremen.

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JamisJamis was a fierce Fremen warrior of Sietch Tabr who challenged the young Paul Atreides to ritual combat when Paul and his mother first sought sanctuary among the Fremen. His death won Paul his sietch name and his place among the tribe.

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Naib: leader of a Fremen sietchNaib was the Fremen title borne by the leader of a sietch. The word carried the meaning of one who had sworn never to be taken alive by the enemy, and in older usage it signified a servant of the sietch. By custom a man became Naib by fighting and killing the leader who came before him.

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OtheymOtheym is a former Fedaykin of Paul Atreides who comes home from the Jihad dying of a disease caught on Tarahell. In Dune Messiah he hands Paul the names of the Fremen plotting against him, recorded in a Tleilaxu dwarf.

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Qizarate: the Priesthood of Muad'Dib in Dune MessiahThe Qizarate was the priesthood of Paul Atreides's religion, Fremen priests who turned Muad'Dib into a god and carried his faith across the Imperium behind the armies of the jihad. By Dune Messiah it had become a wealthy bureaucracy that Paul himself could barely steer, and some of its leaders plotted his death.

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The PreacherThe Preacher was a mysterious blind prophet who appeared on Arrakis during the regency of Alia Atreides, railing against the Atreides Empire and the priesthood built on the worship of Muad'Dib. He was Paul Atreides returned from the desert, and he was killed for denouncing his sister.

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