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My
father, the Padishah Emperor, took me by
hand one day, and i sensed in the ways my
mother had taught me that he was disturbed.
He led me down the Hall of Portraits to
the ego-likeness of Duke Leto Atreides.
I marked the strong ressemblence between
them-my father and this man in the portrait-
both with thin, elegant faces and sharp
features dominated by cold eyes.Princess
Daughter, my father said, 'I would that
you'ld been older when time came for this
man to choose a woman'. My father was 71
at the time and looked no older than the
man in the portrait, ans\d i was but 14,
yet i remember deducing in that instance
that my father wished the Duke had been
his son, and disliked the political necessities
that made them enemies.
In my Father's
House, by the Princess Irulan |
The Padishah Emperor is of the House Corino (81st
in the row) and he went up to the Golden Lion
Throne on 10,156. He was to be replaced by his
daughter 40 years later. The most important fact
during his reign was doubtlessly the Fremen
erection on planet Arrakis, under the surveillance
of Dule Leto's son, Paul, which would lead directly
to his quitting the throne.
The ranks of Bursegs went steadily down during
the first years of his reign. Appropriations for
Sardaukar
training went down steadily in the last thirty
years before the Arrakis revolt. He had five daughters
and no legal sons. Four of his daughters accompanied
him into retirement, leaving place for Irulan,
who was to become Paul
Atreides legal wife and heiress to the throne.
Abstract from Frank Herbert's
Dune
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