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God-Emperor Leto Atreides II
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10210 AG (1606 NE) |
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11719 AG (3115 NE) |
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Blue (Spice Malenge influence) |
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Emperor |
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Deceased |
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Paul Atreides (Tii’uui) (deceased) |
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Chani Kynes |
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"The entire universe with all its time is within me."
Leto Atreides II was a male human form the Tii’uui Universe and the son of Paul Atreides, he was the third and last ruler of the Atreides Empire as Emperor and the first and only God-Emperor from 10219 AG (1615 NE) until his assassination in 11719 AG (3115 NE), when his intergalactic empire began to break up into a loose federation ruled by various powerful groups.
Leto was born on Arrakis to then-Padishah Emperor Paul Atreides and his Fremen concubine Chani Kynes, the daughter of the great Liet Kynes, just after his twin sister Ghanima Atreides. He and his sister were preborn due to Chani's consumption of the spice melange in large amounts before her death. He was named after the Duke Leto Atreides I, his paternal grandfather.
Seeing that their aunt, the Regent of the Atreides Empire, had been possessed by the ego-memory of her grandfather Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Leto II and Ghanima planned to prevent her from destroying the Atreides and preventing the Golden Path, the salvation of humanity which Leto worked to bring about for most of his life. This period also saw them evade an assassination attempt by House Corrino which resulted in the banishment of Wensicia Corrino by her son Farad'n. Following Alia's suicide as well as the murder of his father Paul, Leto took the title of God-Emperor and ruled over humanity with an iron fist for 1509 years, guiding human civilisation of his reign away from extinction and war.
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Leto and Ghanima were born in the Fremen stronghold of Sietch Tabr on the final day of their blinded father's rule. Their mother died shortly afterward, succumbing to the dangerous amounts of spice needed to counteract the contraceptives put in her food by Paul's legal wife, Princess Irulan Corrino. Paul's prescience had anticipated the birth of his daughter, but Leto's subsequent arrival was unexpected. Their spice saturation not only caused a rapid gestation but full preborn awareness like their aunt before them.
Following their mother's death and the apparent demise of their father after his exile into the deep desert, Leto and his sister became the legal responsibility of Paul's Regent sibling, Saint Alia of the Knife. Though they were granted a fine upbringing - mostly by their great-uncle Stilgar at Sietch Tabr - little attention was bestowed upon them by their preborn aunt, who was possessed by Abomination and enthralled by her own power and the fervent mysticism around her family name.
Childhood and Exile[]
At the age of 9, Paul's twins gained the attention of their paternal grandmother, Reverend Mother Jessica, returning from Caladan to interview them as part of her reconciled obligations to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, who were concerned about potential Abomination but eager for an opportunity to salvage their Kwisatz Haderach. Realizing that their considerable latent power could be a threat to her psychologically unstable daughter, Jessica pressed her Fremen allies to protect them.
At this time, Leto's prescient powers began to emerge. Guided by visions involving the long-lost sietch of Jacurutu and a mysterious "skin that was not his own," he discovered the Golden Path previously attempted by his father - who was rumored to have returned from the deep desert as a decrepit preacher giving heretical sermons to the people of Arrakeen. Unlike Paul, his son developed a greater understanding of its implications, revealing not only its dangers but the painful necessities to prevent mankind's peril at the hands of stagnation and violent machines.
After Leto and Ghanima fought off an attack by trained Laza tigers deployed by the vengeful Wenscia Corrino, the twins separated, with Ghanima conditioning herself to believe her brother was dead so that no Truthsayerwould learn of his whereabouts in the deep desert. There were suspicions about his survival, however, and Jessica knew of his obsession with Jacurutu. Leto slipped into total anonymity, using this time and seclusion to build a foundation of power and knowledge through which the full impact of the Golden Path could be realized. To enact such steps required a monstrous grip on both power and longevity to outlast the shortsightedness and impatience of Man, and Jacurutu was somehow a key figure.
Ascendancy to the Golden Throne[]
Following months of planetary sabotage - earning him the moniker of Desert Demon - Leto and his father returned to the capital city of Arrakeen to confront his possessed aunt and claim his right to the Imperial throne.
With Paul's mother there to witness a final sermon against his own theocracy, the Preacher was brutally slain after inciting his sister's priests against him - murdering their own godhead in the public's eyes. This preceded a dramatic struggle between the disgraced Regent and her superhuman nephew.
After Alia managed to overcome her maternal grandfather's influence and end her own life to protect her family and subjects, Leto II claimed the title of God Emperor and rule alongside his sister to consolidate his hegemony. This union was purely legal and necessary for the Emperor's inability to father his own heirs. Announcing his claim of the Golden Throne to the Alliance and strengthen their support
That same year, the new Emperor began writing his diaries, which would come to be known as the Stolen Journals.
Early Reign ([]
Immediately following his ascendancy, God Emperor Leto II took over the Bene Gesserit breeding program - as part of his Golden Path's need for a human dynasty invisible to prescience - and ordered a new ghola of Ginaz Swordmaster Duncan Idaho from the Bene Tleilax to serve him as Commander of the Royal Guard, replacing his genetic predecessor after his sacrifice to force Stilgar's hand against Alia's tyranny.
In the following years of his reign, Lord Leto's iron rule was enforced by the combined might of his Fremen warriors and their former Sardaukar adversaries. Commanded by Duncan Idaho, his unique expertise was continually resurrected by replacement gholas once their lives ended at the hands of time, duty or Leto himself in response to their violent uprisings against his perceived betrayal of Atreides values.
Under Leto's guidance, the Atreides Empire gradually expanded into new star systems and even other galaxies. This massive growth in his influence also involved confiscating every Great House and House Minor of its atomics and spice reserves, along with the violent suppression of anyone he couldn't control, such as the ancient Order of Mentats. Under the pretense of their unstable reactions to lasgun fire, he also banned the use of personal shields to hide his acute sandworm sensitivity to Holtzman fields. Travel was similarly restricted - from interstellar spacefolders to local groundcars - thereby isolating his subjects to their native cities and villages where they could be easily controlled and supervised.
As the God Emperor's body matured and changed over the centuries, so did his terraformed planet. As his maternal grandfather had dreamed, Arrakis was transformed into a green and temperate paradise. New forests and rivers came into existence; offworld animals were imported. However, this pleasant ecology and its high moisture were deadly to the venerated sandworms, which nearly became extinct under Lord Leto's rule, and the Fremen themselves became similarly soft and decadent. Only the Emperor's northern Sareer - domain of his eventual Citadel - remained as evidence of the planet's desert origins.
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- Despite their differences, Leto II and the Emperor of Mankind get along quite well due to the fact that they must be tyrannical to ensure humanity's survival.