Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
The narrative of Paul Atreides, also known as Muad’Dib and regarded with dread, continues in Dune Messiah. He has more authority than any one man was ever designed to have in his capacity as Emperor of the known universe. Paul, who is revered as a religious figure by fanatical Fremen, must contend with the hostility of the political families he ousted when he ascended to the throne as well as a plot being carried out within his own area of influence.
The real threat to Paul comes from his beloved Chani and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty, even as House Atreides starts to fall apart around him due to the schemes of his foes.
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
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Twelve years after the first Dune book’s conclusion, the second one begins. We discover that Paul has spread his brand of justice and leadership to everyone with the use of brutality, religious doctrine, his foresighted sister Alia, his Fremen warriors, and his monopoly over the priceless resource known as melange. He is regarded as a devil by some and a divinity by others. He is aware of this dichotomy and is troubled by his own uncertainty about the legacy he is leaving behind.
Although facing both internal and foreign threats to his dynasty, Paul manages to stay one step ahead of his adversaries thanks to his abilities of foresight. He is grappling with the issue of his succession plan in addition to trying to find the spies hiding among him. Many people want to take advantage of Chani’s pregnancy and Paul’s probable weakness toward her because she is his concubine and true love. By the end, the true purpose of the story is exposed. He knows who to trust, but he isn’t always sure if he can trust himself. Will Paul give in to the cunning of his adversaries or carry on with his bloody conquest?
Twelve years after the events of “Dune,” Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides is the Emperor and has embraced the position of messiah to the Fremen as Frank Herbert’s “Dune Messiah” opens. He started his own jihad as a result, and today he has most of the universe under control. Paul’s consort, Princess Irulan, through whom he formally claims the throne, joins the Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild, and the Tleilaxu in a plot to seize his authority. Paul, however, refuses to reunite their houses by having a child with her and does not treat her with any type of tenderness. Instead, as a result of his affection for his concubine Chani, Paul wants his children to be Fremen. Irulan is covertly feeding Chani contraception to stop this, but Chani changes her diet, making it impossible for Irulan to contaminate her food.
The actions of a Guild Navigator confuse Paul’s precognition, and his sister, whom the Fremen worship as a goddess, also discovers that her powers are constrained by the arrival and ubiquity of the tarot, which introduces too many variables into people’s judgments. Duncan Idaho, who perished in the previous book, reappears as a Tleilaxu-created ghola replica to gain access to Paul and further control his actions. Paul investigates after learning that Fremen might be a part of the plot, but an atomic bomb the conspirators employ to hide their traces causes him to go blind.
