Rafael Vega’s Reviews > God Emperor of Dune > Status Update

so the ixians... with help from tleilaxu... made a unique version of ghola? cellular restructuring? and this maulky... was cloned and restructured as hwi? under a protective... time shroud... WHAT IS GOING ON. SO WE'RE FINALLY MAKING TECH THAT CAN CIRCUMVENT SPICE. what about shields!!! ik theyre illegal, but did i miss if ix actually made them irrelevant?? how is leto gonna handle this info?

night before CBR orientation. anyways: Leto is wary of duncan and hwi getting to know each other. he knows duncan is him fr. also further reinforcement on the Golden Path, how Leto's religion of himself as shai-hulud is... a sort of superior government? not sure... i'm sleepy...

also, Paul was afraid of his consciousness living on forever? and leto's would remain dormant, relatively-vegetative in all future worms, down to their cells? shit man.. you're fucked buddy

LETO. YOU DONE FUCKED UP BABY. 3000 YEAR COMMITMENT TO WORMHOOD. ABANDONING YOU FERTILITY, FOR HUMANITY YOU SAID. ANd then came... Hwi. Sweet, sensitive, intelligent Hwi... yours to be never. unless... there is a path... a narrow path... where she's join you in Makerhood. The Bride of Shai-Hulud...

RETURN OF THE SIETCH ORGY? that's basically what this is... right? i mean, the spice wafers? also whats up with duncan getting enthralled in the event. leto explaining the difference between all-men and all-women armies was poignant. this whole scene, this siaynoq, is spice-reinforced propaganda/hypnosis/(re)indoctrination/dogmatic ritual. these fish speakers aren't fucking around!!! disrespect Leto, I DARE you!

jacurutu aka shuloch, formed to GOYGOA. Thorses. Idaho eyeing hwi... conflict with Him. Not sure what Siona's plans were with duncan, what she expected to reveal his previous iteration's baby and baby mama... descENDANT OF JESSICA. JESSICA!? and heading to their quarters, idaho is not interested in Siona... does she feel the same?

cue the siren song from C. Nolan's the Odyssey. holy shit... leto is head over heels for hwi! never thought the ixians could make something so effective. like, he's almost thinking of abandoning the golden path... REVERTING TO HUMAN FORM. but its nice to know there's consequences, meaning he cannot remotely quickly transform back. it would take a similar amount of time... millennia. TEARS!

leto's audience w the reverend mothers. old anteac, young luyseyal. them offering leto "community." interesting, bc the foundation for what leto is, what paul became, is the ultimate manifestation of BG planning. what they envisioned as the kwisatz haderach, formed premature then reincarnated as abomination... and leto can see the temptation of seeking community! he misses his humanity, and not knowing the future!

nunepi, non-face dancer, tleilaxu ambassador, sentenced to 50 lashes, cut short at 20. punishment for the assassination attempt, but under the false guise of blasphemy. seemingly, there'll be recompense for the flogging, and leto expects it. maybe. all very interesting!!

not leto smitten for hwi! age gap crazy. and the super ancestral phantom limb sensation!! i think this chapter is leading to interesting places. namely, that whatever Ix is building to fit space travel, it uses some technology that messes with space-time, because leto can't see Hwi's origin. or maybe he wasnt using his full-prescience?? so he can be surprised?