Frank meant to call it 'Doom' in reference to his favorite videogame but the editor got confused.
2 years ago | 20
Unironically I theorized that Bijaz is the Tleilaxu Kwisatz Haderach that Scytale mentions in the meeting at the beginning of the book. He knows the stoneburner is coming because of his prescient abilities, not because he's in on the plan. He knew awakening Duncan's memories would lead to Paul becoming the Prophet.
2 years ago | 12
This is a wild one but there's a theory that The Preacher is actually Paul Atredies returned from the desert. Crazy I know!
2 years ago | 8
“Dune was based on the 19th century Imperial Russian conquest of the Caucasus. Herbert was a CIA operative involved in a dezinformatsiya op against the Soviet academic establishment. Every few years, Soviet historians would get together and do a complete 180 on their attitude towards Shamyl the Avar and his crew; if at their last meeting he had been declared a hero of the people for his resistance to Tzarist imperialism, this time he would be condemned as a religious fanatic peddling the opium of the masses in its most pernicious form, and so on. Herbert's thinly disguised history was one of the few works not either written in Persian or published in the 1850s or both, and was beyond the control of Soviet apparatchiks so its very existence represented a threat to the Leninist purity of Soviet historical teaching.” Theory by brass1 on the Miniatures Page forums
2 years ago | 42
Humans lost the Butlerian Jihad. Everything in universe is part of an early version of the simulation in the matrix.
2 years ago | 10
The spice actually originates from Tom Brady’s microbiome and not from the sandworms of Arrakis.
2 years ago | 103
As someone whos only read the first book this could be disproven or just stated somewhere but my theory is this: Duke Leto was also a failed Kwisatz Haderach. He seems really prescient about his own death and has a natural ability to bring people together and lead which is what the KH was supposed to do.
2 years ago | 25
The baron is actually the shrouded lord, blessings. Hail lord Glidus
2 years ago | 17
The Honored Matres are not an accident; the entire reason Leto II made the Fish Speakers was because he foresaw they’d merge with and militarize the Bene Gesserit to prepare for Kralizec.
2 years ago (edited) | 13
The whole Dune saga was all in Shai-hulud’s head the entire time
2 years ago | 5
1. Lato warged into a horse 2. The beast rabban is really Rhaegar Targaryen 3. Paul is the time travelling child of Cerise Lancaster and Osmund Kettleblack
2 years ago | 5
DUNE BOOK AND POSSIBLY (PROPABLY) MOVIE SPOILERS Something that I find just very interesting and also somewhat weird is the fact that in the first Book, it's revealed that Baron Harkonnnen is Jessica's father, thus Paul and Alia's grandfather. It's revealed to Paul in the tent scene with his mother, however, this does not happen in the movie, which I always found odd since it's something that becomes relevant in the later books
2 years ago | 7
1. Old duke was killed by ser Gerold Hightower 2. House Harkonen is founded by the stone men 3. The Harkonens are wargs who got lost in their animals’ minds, like Jojen warns Bran in Bran 1, ASOS 4. Bene Gesserit are the other dreams Bran sees in his dream after the fall 5. The spider creature we see in the movie is the dusky woman 6. The reverend mother Gaius is the shrouded lord 7. Paul is not Azor Ahai, he’s actually the lightbringer 8. When Duncan is resurrected, his hair will become white 9. L + J ≠ P 10. Duncan is a descendant of Dunk 11. R + L = Duncan 12. The fremen are the descendants of escapee slaves from old Valyria, just like Braavos 13. Muad’Dib’s jihad = the long night 14. Idaho is the next sword of the morning 15. Glidus was pushed by his father to be a great tourney knight to bring glory to the house Glimbo, but in his first tourney he was but a young squire and his horse fell and damaged his leg, so he’s been forever traumatized by horses ever since 16. Alt Shift X might actually be Alt Schwift X I know the last one is sketchy, but you might want to at least investigate, if you go deep enough, there are some hints to be found, although it might be that Grrm/Frank is just fucking with is
2 years ago | 98
Favourite theory: Futars are a failed(?) Bene Tleilax attempt to create catgirls. Favourite detail: the Dune Encyclopaedia describes how, in the year 10,271, the last Sardaukar and Fremen team up under a Duncan Idaho in a failed rebellion against Emperor Leto called the Revolt of the Fremen. I just think that’s neat
2 years ago | 1
All of the first 6 Dune books leads to Warhammer 40k. The blanks and the navigators are directly lifted from Dune. Dune dates itself so by the end of book 6 it is like barely the year 20,000.
2 years ago | 8
Theory: The 2 finale Dune books written by Brian Herbert are, in broad strokes, essentially an accurate outline of Frank’s original ending.
2 years ago | 3
Paul actually dies during the Gom Jabbar test and the rest of the series are the death throws of his mind.
2 years ago | 7
My favourite theory about where the sandworms came from was that they were massively-modified genetically engineered humans made by people hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years after CD and sent back in time to cede Arrakis before humans got there.
2 years ago | 16
My personal head canon is that Duncan plus the ark are sent by Daniel and Marty back in time to be the founders of the zensunni fremen and seed arrakis with the worm. It's stated that the worm is not from arrakis originally but the home planet was never found. I also think it's neat that Leo II basically is the worm and the worm is Leto ii explaining the affinity with the atredis and the true meaning of the Golden path
2 years ago (edited) | 2
Alt Schwift X
Working on a Dune lore "iceberg" meme. Give me your wildest and most obscure theories/details/lore from Frank Herbert's Dune books, and I'll attempt to explain them all in a livestream. Any Dune heads got suggestions?
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