Dune category
Species
8 entries tagged Species, 8 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Fremen and Sandworm.
- Salusan Bull: the beast that killed the Old DukeSalusan bulls were fierce bovine animals native to Salusa Secundus, spined across the back and crowned with multiple horns on a black, faceted eyed head. Kept on Caladan for the spectacles of Duke Paulus Atreides, one of the creatures gored the Old Duke to death, and its mounted head hung in the Atreides dining hall for generations afterward.
- Enhanced Face DancerEnhanced Face Dancers were a refined breed of Tleilaxu shape changer first released into deep space by Hidar Fen Ajidica and later improved by the Thinking Machines. Undetectable even by the Bene Gesserit, they served Omnius and Erasmus while secretly pursuing their own ascendancy, until Erasmus destroyed them all with a hidden kill switch.
- Face DancerFace Dancers were a sterile race of metamorphic transhumans engineered by the Bene Tleilax in their axolotl tanks. Able to replicate the form, voice, and personality of any human, they served as entertainers, spies, and assassins, and in their final refined breed became weapons of conquest.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.