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Fremen

46 entries tagged Fremen. Every entry is sourced from Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, the later companion titles, or the official reference material.

Arrakis RevoltThe Arrakis Revolt was the uprising of the Fremen of Arrakis under Paul Atreides during the latter events 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.
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.
Bela TegeuseBela Tegeuse was the fifth planet of the Kuentsing star system and reputedly the third stopping place of the Zensunni forced migration. Generations later it was conquered by the Honored Matres.
ChaniChani was a Fremen warrior and Sayyadina, daughter of the planetologist Liet-Kynes, and the royal concubine and only true love of Emperor Paul Muad'Dib Atreides. She mothered his children before dying in childbirth at Sietch Tabr.
CrysknifeThe 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.
El'hiimEl'hiim was the son of the legendary Selim Wormrider, raised by his foster father Ishmael. A Naib who welcomed offworld trade, he broke with Ishmael over dealings with outsiders and won leadership of the tribe in a sandworm duel.
Esmar TuekEsmar Tuek was a cunning spice smuggler of Arrakis with secret ties to the Fremen, who reached an accommodation with Duke Leto Atreides and was killed by the traitor Wellington Yueh during the fall of House Atreides.
FarokFarok was a Fremen of Sietch Tabr who rose to Bashar of the Ninth Legion during Muad'Dib's Jihad, leading campaigns on distant worlds before he was killed by the Face Dancer Scytale.
FedaykinThe Fedaykin were Fremen fighters of Arrakis, first the guerrillas of the Arrakis Revolt and then the personal death commandos of Paul Muad'Dib. By the time of his children they had become the elite of the Jihad army, before Alia Atreides dissolved them and the word returned to its old meaning.
Fremen languageThe Fremen language was a descendant of ancient Arabic and Chakobsa, spoken on Arrakis by the Zensunni wanderers who became the Fremen. Shaped by the ferocity of the desert, it grew rich in terms for sand, wind, and water, and under Muad'Dib it became the sacred language of the Imperium.
FremenThe 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.
FremkitA fremkit was a desert survival kit devised by the Fremen for staying alive in the open desert of Arrakis. Packed with navigation, shelter, wormriding, and water tools, it could keep a traveller alive for weeks, as it did for Paul and Jessica Atreides after they fled Arrakeen.
Ghanima AtreidesGhanima Atreides was the pre-born daughter of Paul Muad'Dib and Chani, and the twin sister of the God Emperor Leto Atreides II. Married in name to her brother and consort to Farad'n Corrino, she seeded the Atreides, Harkonnen and Corrino bloodlines across the Empire.
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.
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.
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.
Kangaroo mouseThe kangaroo mouse was a small hopping rodent of Arrakis that the Fremen knew as Muad'Dib. Admired for its survival in the open desert, it lent its name to Paul Atreides when he was taken into the people of Sietch Tabr.
KorbaKorba was a Fremen follower of Paul Muad'Dib who rose from the original Fedaykin to become Panegyrist and Priest of the Qizarate, before turning against his Emperor in a conspiracy to martyr him and meeting death at the hands of Stilgar.
Leto Atreides IILeto 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.
Liet-KynesLiet-Kynes was the Imperial planetologist of Arrakis, Judge of the Change, and the secret leader of the Fremen. He carried on his father's dream of greening the desert and died saving Paul and Jessica from the Harkonnens.
MahdiMahdi was the Fremen name for the savior foretold in their messianic legend, the one who would lead them to paradise and be aware of things others could not see. The prophecy, seeded by the Missionaria Protectiva, settled upon Paul Atreides after he joined the Fremen of Arrakis.
Mapes: the Shadout of ArrakeenThe Shadout Mapes was the Fremen head housekeeper of the Imperial Residence at Arrakeen when House Atreides took stewardship of Arrakis. She tested the Lady Jessica against the Fremen prophecy, gifted her a crysknife, and was killed by the traitor Wellington Yueh on the night of the Harkonnen assault.
Muad'Dib mouseThe Muad'Dib, or kangaroo mouse, was a small hopping rodent of Arrakis prized by the Fremen for its mastery of survival in the open desert. Its figure appeared on the planet's second moon, and Paul Atreides took its name as his Fremen name of manhood.
Muad'Dib's Jihad: the holy war of Paul AtreidesMuad'Dib's Jihad was a twelve-year holy war waged from 10196 to 10208 AG by the Fremen legions of Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib Atreides. It carried the worship of the Fremen messiah across the Known Universe, killed tens of billions, and forged the Atreides Empire from thousands of conquered worlds.
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.
OtheymOtheym was a renowned Fremen fighter and one of the first Fedaykin of Muad'Dib, a trainer in the Weirding Way who later served as a senior commander of the Jihad and revealed a conspiracy against the Atreides Emperor before his death.
Palimbasha: the Fremen mathematicianPalimbasha was a Fremen teacher of mathematics in a sietch school who tried to explain Muad'Dib's prescience through equations until the priesthood silenced him. Turned to the service of House Corrino, he used a hidden transmitter to set Laza tigers on the Atreides twins.
Pardot KynesPardot Kynes was the Imperial Planetologist who first studied Arrakis, married into the Fremen, and gave them his dream of greening the desert. His vision of a transformed Dune would be carried on by his son Liet-Kynes.
Paul AtreidesPaul 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.
PoritrinPoritrin was a quiet agricultural world of the Epsilon Alangue system, held in Zensunni belief to be the homeworld of the Zensunni Wanderers and remembered by the Fremen as their planet of origin.
RossakRossak was a lush jungle world that served as a stop on the migration of the Zensunni Wanderers, and the place where an awareness-spectrum narcotic first unlocked the genetic memory of their Sayyadinas.
SandtroutSandtrout were the docile larval form of the sandworms of Arrakis, grey leathery creatures that locked together beneath the sand to trap the planet's water underground. Not native to Arrakis, they were the agents of its desertification, and one colony fused with Leto Atreides II to begin the Golden Path.
SandwormThe sandworm was the colossal autotrophic animal of the deserts of Arrakis, honored by the Fremen as Shai-Hulud and feared across the Imperium. As the central organism in the lifecycle that produced the spice melange, it shaped the economy, religion, and history of the known universe.
Selim WormriderSelim Wormrider was the exiled Zensunni of Arrakis who became the first person to ride a sandworm, founded the outlaw band that would become the Free Men, and laid the spiritual foundations of the Fremen people.
Shadout MapesThe Shadout Mapes was the Fremen head housekeeper of the Imperial Residence at Arrakeen when House Atreides took control of Arrakis. She gave Lady Jessica a crysknife in recognition of Fremen prophecy and died trying to warn Duke Leto of the betrayal.
Sheeana BrughSheeana Brugh was a Fremen girl of Rakis whose ability to command the sandworms drew the attention of the Rakian Priesthood, the Bene Gesserit, and the Bene Tleilax. Of Atreides and Idaho descent, she became a Reverend Mother and fled the Old Empire aboard a no-ship as the Sisterhood scattered.
Shield WallThe Shield Wall was a towering mountain range in the northern reaches of Arrakis that sheltered a small region from the planet's coriolis storms and kept the sandworms from human settlements. Paul Atreides breached it with the Family Atomics during the Battle of Arrakeen.
Sietch TabrSietch Tabr was a major Fremen community on Arrakis, led by Naib Stilgar. It was the first sietch to shelter Paul and Jessica Atreides after the fall of House Atreides, and it became the foundation of the Arrakis Revolt that launched Muad'Dib's jihad.
SietchSietch was the Fremen term for a community or village. Hidden within the rock outcrops and caverns of the deserts of Arrakis, a sietch was a self contained settlement housing hundreds or thousands of families and the industries that sustained them.
StilgarStilgar was the Fremen Naib of Sietch Tabr and Siridar-Governor of Arrakis, the close friend and chief advisor of Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, and the guardian who raised the Atreides twins Leto II and Ghanima.
StillsuitThe stillsuit was a full body garment worn in the open desert of Arrakis to reclaim and recycle the wearer's own moisture. Fremen-made suits were the finest, losing only a thimbleful of water a day and allowing survival in the deep desert for weeks.
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.
WarrickWarrick was a Fremen of Red Wall Sietch, the blood-brother of Liet-Kynes and first husband of Faroula. He won Faroula's marriage challenge over his friend, and years later gave his life to shelter Liet from a Coriolis storm.
WatertubeThe watertube was a Fremen device of wide use in the transfer of liquids, woven through the stillsuit, the stilltent, the deathstill, and other water apparatus of Arrakis. Its simple appearance concealed a sophisticated design born of the desert's absolute need to conserve moisture.
ZensunniZensunni was a mystical denomination of Buddislam that took root among disadvantaged and enslaved peoples across the known universe, above all the Fremen of Arrakis. Born of a schism around 1381 BG, it stressed the mystical and a reversion to the ways of the fathers, and was later steered by the Bene Gesserit.
Ziarenko JavidZiarenko Javid was a Fremen of Sietch Jacurutu who rose to be High Priest of the Qizarate under Muad'Dib and Master of Appointments to the Regent Alia Atreides. He became Alia's lover and was killed by Duncan Idaho during the revolt of the Naibs.