Paul Atreides (Tii’uui)

Paul Atreides
*Maud’Dib Usul The Mentat Emperor
Biographical and chronological information
Homeworld:	Caladan, Tii’uui Universe
Date of birth:	10176 AG (1570 NE)
Date of death:	XXXX NE
Physical and biological description
Species:	Human
Gender:	Male
Hair color:	Dark Brown
Eye color:	Green; Blue after spice addiction
Societal and political information
Affiliation:	House Atreides Alliance of Nations
Status:	Unknown
Spouse(s):	Irulan Corrino (wife) Chani Kynes (concubine)
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Paul Atreides, predominantly known as Muad'Dib, was a Male Human from the Tii’uui Universe, he was the last Duke of the noble House Atreides. The only son of Duke Leto Atreides I and Lady Jessica Atreides. When the Atreides were forced by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV into moving from their ancestral homeworld of Caladan to the desert planet of Arrakis when Paul was fifteen, which was in fact a set up by House Harkonnen over the ancient feud between the two Houses.

Following the death of his father, both Paul and his mother took refuge to a Fremen tribe and learned their ways to survive the deserts, trained the Fremen in the weirding way of the Bene Gesserit to make them into the guerilla warriors known as the Fedaykin, allowing them to deal serious blows against the Harkonnens. His natural psychic abilities were enhanced by the spice melange, and he took on the role of the Fremen religious leader based on their prophecies of Lisan al-Gaib. Their victory in the Desert War eventually led Paul to overthrow the Emperor Shaddam IV with the support of the Minmatar and the Alliance of Nations.

Paul succeeded in avenging hIs father’s death, defeating the Harkonnens and taken the title of Pardishah Emperor. Willing to support the Alliance when came to his support after the Harkonnens were in league with their enemies, the Axis of Empires in this long struggle of war to fight against the invading forces.

After liberating Arrakis and taking control of the Imperium, he married the princess Irulen Corrine whilst taking Chani Kynes as his concubine to establish his new Atreides Empire on Arrakis as the new capital, including the support of the Alliance of Nations to battle the Combine Empire. Paul ruled for a period of time during his part in fighting the Great War before being forced off the throne and succeeded by his son, God Emperor Leto Atreides II.

Biography

Early Life

Paul Atreides was the heir to a long and ancient Great House, tracing back thousands years to Agamemnon and had a long standing feud with House Harkonnen. Born in the year 10176 AG (1570 NE) and grew up with a privileged background on the water-rich planet of Caladan, the ancestral Atreides home on the water-riches planet of Caladan, the ancestral home of House Atreides as the son of the Duke Leto Atreides and his concubine Jessica Atreides. Though he lacked companions his own age, he received tutelage from his teachers, men like Thufir Hawat, Duncan Idaho, Gurney Halleck and Doctor Yueh, as well as deep education in Bene Gesserit methods and techniques from his mother. Shortly after his fifteenth birthday in the year 10191 AG (1585 NE), Paul's father revealed to him that his training, through his teachers, had been geared toward turning Paul into a mentat. The theory was that when Paul succeeded his father as Duke of House Atreides, one of the most respected and moral Great Houses of the Imperium, a mentat-duke would truly be a formidable force in the Landsraad. Paul's latent talents also earned him the attention of the Bene Gesserit, who tested him with the Gom Jabbar, as they hoped to salvage their breeding program through him.

Journey to Arrakis

Paul accompanied his parents when House Atreides relocated to the desert world of Arrakis to handle the mining operations of the spice melange and taking over House Harkonnen's claim of the planet. Before their departure, Gaius Helen Mohiam, Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother and the Emperor's Truthsayer, tested him with the Gom jabbar. The test was to discover whether Paul was "truly human" by trial of pain, using a small box that Paul placed his hand inside. The pain inflicted on Paul was caused by nerve induction and clearly drained an incredible amount of energy from the Reverend Mother, since no male or female child had ever withstood that much physical pain before.

Harkonnen Attack

Surviving a supposed assassination on Paul using a hunter-seeker, Dr Yueh lowered the defensive house shields and used sedative drugs to disable Paul and his parents, leaving the Atreides leaderless and disorganized under the Harkonnen and Sardaukar military onslaught in the Siege of Arrakeen. The Atreides army was crushed, with only a few remnants managing to escape. This attack marked the beginning of the War for Arrakis. Paul and Jessica were sent into the desert to die. Because of the use of truthsayers in the Empire, the Baron Harkonnen needed to be able to say truthfully that he was not (directly) responsible for their deaths. However, this plan was foiled by arrangements made by Yueh (he hated the Baron and wished to at least save Paul and Jessica) and Paul and Jessica managed to kill their captors and escape into the desert.

Paul and Jessica initially met up with Planetologist Liet Kynes and Swordmaster Duncan Idaho, hiding in a botanical testing station abandonded long ago. However, they were not there long before the station was attacked by Sardaukar, who kill Duncan. Paul and Jessica flde to the deep desert in an ornithopter, parting ways with Dr Kynes. They let the Harkonnens think they had died from a coriolis storm.

Joining the Fremen

Chani of the Fremen

Forced to survive in the deep desert, the effects of the Spice have caused his powers to manifested, and his ability to see possible futures exploded into awareness. Seeing the future of a war across the known universe and worlds unknown to him, and the restoration of the Atreides, if only he could make contact with the native Fremen and survive. After a dangerous crossing of the desert, Paul and Jessica managed to meet up with a troop of Fremen. Paul and Jessica proved their worth by disarming Fremen in unarmed combat, aided by Bene Gesserit prana-bindu training – the "Weirding Way" – and the Fremen leader Stilgar gladly accepted them into his troop because he would like to add that skill to the Fremen people. Paul also met a young woman, Chani, daughter of Liet Kynes, whom he had long seen in his dreams. During this scuffle, Paul disarmed a proud Fremen, Jamis, who took offence at this "presumptuous" youth, and challenged Paul to a fight to the death. Although at first unwilling to kill, he triumphed easily, making his name in the tribe, and also succeeding to the position of head of the household of the dead man. Stilgar gave Paul the name Usul – meaning "the strong base of a pillar" – as his private name within the troop; Paul gave himself the name "Paul Muad'dib" as his public Fremen name.

When they returned to the troop's sietch, they discovered the Fremen Reverend Mother was near death, and with the fortuitous arrival of Jessica, a Bene Gesserit, they made Jessica their Sayyadina. Jessica, not realizing the consequences of what the Fremen were about to do, accepted to cement her place in the tribe. Halfway through the process she realized she has made a mistake, that she was involved in a similar process to how the Bene Gesserit make their own Reverend Mothers who could see genetic memories, and realized that the baby in her womb, fathered by Leto before his death, would also go through the process. This had truly unfortunate consequences, because it was a Bene Gesserit teaching that any such baby would not have the strength to withstand the memories of its ancestors.

By 10193 AG (1587 NE), Paul had become something of a religious leader among the Fremen. Chani became his lover and bore him a son, whom he called Leto. He and his mother trained the Fremen of Sietch Tabr and other Fremen who sought out Paul in his religious guise, in the Weirding Way, the Bene Gesserit's prana-bindu fighting techniques. Under his leadership his "Fedaykin" experienced victory after victory against the Harkonnens, and Paul's prestige and aura among the Fremen grew. However, in order to be truly accepted by the Fremen he had to become a sandrider. Paul attempted it and succeeded, becoming a full member of the sietch.

The same day, a band of smugglers sought melange too deep in the desert, and the Fremen of Sietch Tabr sprung a trap. In the middle of the battle Paul recognised his weapons teacher, Gurney Halleck, and called on him and his men to surrender. Gurney was overjoyed and overwhelmed in equal measure. He surrendered his men, and joined Paul's service. Among Gurney's men, however, were some Imperial spies who attempted to kill Paul. They were unsuccessful, and they were captured by the Fedaykin. Paul gave secret orders for the spies to be allowed to escape, so that they would reveal that Paul Atreides still lived on Arrakis. Taking advantage of recruiting Gurney Halleck, Paul used the moment to solve his leadership problem. Since he had become a wormrider many of his followers had expected him to challenge Stilgar, his greatest friend among the Fremen, in order to take control of Sietch Tabr. But Paul broke tradition and in doing so forced Stilgar to do the same, managing to sidestep this issue by proclaiming himself the ruling Duke of Arrakis, and thus took power without killing his friend. They returned to Sietch Tabr. Gurney was shocked to discover Jessica is still alive, because he believed she was the one who betrayed the Atreides and that Paul did not know. Gurney was about to kill her when Paul walked in, managed to stop him, and explained that Yueh was the traitor. Gurney was almost broken by his nearly fatal and tragic error, but Jessica forgave him and he was bound even further into Atreides and Jessica's service.

Personality and Traits

At such a young age, Paul Atreides was a quiet, dutiful, perceptive and principled young man. Raised as the son of a Duke, he received meticulous in preparation to not only succeed his father as ducal heir, but also in the Bene Dessert way, led him to being a very dutiful and strategic man. Trained everything from hand-to-hand combat, leadership, and basic ecology - Paul was very knowledgable and analytical, but also demonstrated personal qualities of an ideal leader as well. He was very courteous, fair, humble, and decisive, and despite his quiet disposition, Paul showed a great sense of sincerity, directness, and charisma when need be, like his father before him. As heir apparent to his father's dynasty, Paul was an ambitious, if naive young man who idealized his father, and sought to live up to his family name.

However, following the Gom Jabbar test with the Reverend Mother, Paul Atreides' mind begins to cultivate a more expanded awareness of the future. With his prescience, Paul carries the burden of knowing the future, and perceiving the unequivocal fact that he is destined to change the course of the Tii'uui universe. From the start, Paul was a youthful, naive young man who is unaware of the extent his entire life has been premeditated, and between his father's expectations, his training as a Duke, Bene Gesserit, and a Mentat, Paul was instilled with expectations of what he was supposed to be. Even in the very beginning, Paul's prescience foretold that he was destined for terrible purpose, establishing Paul’s great trepidation he felt as a result of the expectations upon him, and fears he felt intrinsically linked to his relation to the Sisterhood and position as a product of the Bene Gesserit breeding program to create the Kwisatz Haderach. But after seeing the events of the First Multiverse and possibly beyond the war made him awe and terrified of greater forces beyond his limit of understanding.

Paul's prescient mind began to awaken to the latent prescience he contained as a Bene Gesserit male, and following his prescient awakening in the Stilltent, his prescience pervaded his concious life as well. Following this psychological expansion, Paul's perceived the inexorable passage of time on a far more multifaceted level, partially perceiving the causal results his actions have on the future, and in particular, foresees glimpses of a horrific Jihad being incited in his name if he were to go down the path of indoctrinating the Fremen and restoring his family name. Hellbent on vengeance after his father's death, and overwhelmed by his prescient awakening, Paul became a far more cold, calculating, and opportunistic individual. This is shown in his manipulation of the Fremen, who - while cautious to lead as a result of his visions of a holy war - still ultimately chooses to exploit to claim the throne. As the Fremen prophet, Paul also portrays himself as a charismatic, bold, and determined revolutionary leader, destined to fulfill inundated prophecies by the Bene Gesserit foretelling their messianic deliverance. Paul leads his army with great devotion, inspiring fanatical fervour of his gradually building figurehead among the Fremen people.

Using his charisma to lead the Fremen against the Imperium, Paul brutally crushes the Harkonnens, and in another demonstration of his expanded perceptiveness, forthrightness, and longing for revenge, Paul manipulates the Emperor into abdicating the throne, poising himself as Padishah Emperor and Mahdi of the Known Universe. Yet beneath all of this charismatic bravado, coldness, and callous manipulation, Paul was a deeply fearful individual who was horrified on the path he felt inclined to follow, and terrified over the prospect of what his megalomaniacal vying for power will bring upon the universe, both within and beyond. Though rationalizing his rise to power as one meant to avert the Jihad, Paul is also consumed by vengeance over his father and is predominantly driven by revenge - a newly elicited coldness in Paul that he feels separated him from his humanity, and one he felt isolated him from the values of morality and honour his father led by. Beyond the elation he felt at claiming vengeance against the conspirators who destroyed his house, Paul was horrified for the future, believing himself damned to a terrible purpose, one he now recognized as the Jihad and felt trepidatious that he could not avert, as in no future could he un-foresee the violence that would result from the messianic figurehead he had already validated himself to be in the eyes of the Fremen.

Powers and Abilities

• Prescience: As the Kwisatz Haderach long sought out for by the breeding programme of the Bene Gesserit Order, Paul gained a powerful ability to bridge space and time with prescient ability. From an early age, he experienced visions in his dreams which were reported to the Sisterhood by his mother Jessica and was known to have had visions that were accurate, penetrating, and defied four-dimensional explanation. This was one of the key attributes that made them first suspect him being their long-awaited Kwisatz Haderach achieved early. Upon the arrival of House Atreides on Arrakis, Paul's prescient ability was strengthened by the spice melange he constantly inhaled, and it grew greatest during his alliance with the Fremen people, when he first forsaw the jihad that would be waged across his native Universe in his name, and began to try and avert it. Paul had also used it to look into the fates and parallels of his path to choose which to accept and avoid. By the end of his reign, Paul's prescience was so powerful that when he lost his eyesight due to a Tleilaxu stone burner, he could interact with the world around him without aid. This was because he was able to remember all the details of his vision of the future. Essentially, Paul knew where everyone would be and what they would say and do. While this helped him in many situations, it was also ultimately his downfall as he was helpless to prevent his future.
• Weirding Way: Paul was trained by his mother in the Weirding Way of the Bene Gesserit, allowing him to maneuver around and strike an opponent at unimaginable speeds. When first encountering Sietch Tabr this saved his life, as he was able to overcome the Fremen who saught to kill him and Jessica for their water by means of the Weirding Way. He later taught the Way to many of the Fremen across Arrakis, making them into skilled and deadly Fedaykin by these means, and this was a key factor in his victory in the Battle of Arrakeen.
• Voice: At the time the Atreides landed on Arrakis, Paul was also developing the audio-neuro control mechanism of Voice used by the Sisterhood to achieve complete control over a reciever. He demonstrated his emerging talent in this field when, after the decimation of the Atreides and the capture of him and his mother into an ornithopter, he used the Voice to order a Harkonnen agent to remove Jessica's gag so that she could use it even more effectively against him, and thus saving both their lives.
• Prana-bindu control: Paul was taught by the supreme control of nerve and muscles known to the Bene Gesserit as prana-bindu by Jessica, which laid the foundations for his use of the Weirding Way and allowed him to gain a higher control over his body which would come to his advantage at many points in his life.
• Swordsmanship: In addition to the Bene Gesserit techniques taught to him by his mother for his survival, Paul became a skilled swordfighter after years of training by his chief Atreides teachers, the renowned Swordmaster Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck, who he nearly bested shortly before the move to Arrakis. This proved to be a vital skill, as he employed it not only to best Jamis after he declared amtal during his early years in Sietch Tabr, but later to kill his cousin, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, another skilled fighter, in a kanly duel at the time of his ascension to Emperor.
• Mentat training: For the first fifteen years of his life, much of Paul's training, through his teachers, had been geared toward turning Paul into a Mentat by order of his father Duke Leto. The theory was that when Paul succeeded his father as the Duke of the Atreides, one of the most respected and moral Great Houses of the Imperium, a Mentat-Duke would truly be a formidable force in the Landsraad. He became a fully fledged "true" Mentat after first escaping the Harkonnens with his mother, and the high level Mentat abilities he gained at that time would help him at many points in his life, including helping handle the data of the battles of his jihad and allowing him to piece together the nature of the conspiracies which were aimed against him more quickly than he could have otherwise.
• Endurance: Paul's unusual endurance, especially for a male, was noted by Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam when she tested him with a gom jabbar, a test which he passed through this skill. She noted that he surmounted more agony in the test than any other human of record.

Trivia

• This page of Paul Atreides is based more close to the 2021 Dune version.
• Whilst his death was delayed, presumably by the events of the Multiverse War and the interference of the Allies that were to eager to prevent his fate. Some of the entities related to timeflow and spacial exitense: The Timekeeper and The Timeline Creator, stated that his fate was sealed from day one and it could not be avoided, only delayed for the time being as any of his counterparts.
• Paul recalled meeting the variation of his distant ancestor from the Beta Tii'uui verse Achilleus Atreides.