I am all-a-twitter about how Byron or Arnoldo will respond </sarcasm>
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Nekhrun wrote:I found this interesting:A second son would come, however. There would be another Leto, but that, too, carried heavy consequences—especially for Chani.
This seems to imply that Paul used his prescience to see a baby God Emperor; but I'm pretty sure in my copy of Dune Messiah it says that Paul didn't know about little Leto part II.
This seems like a pretty big deal as it seems to shake up Paul when it happens in DM. I'm throwing it in this year's edition of Nekhrun's Notes soon available at a discussion board near you.
Frank Herbert, in Dune Messiah wrote:Two babies! The vision had contained but one.
Hm...Frank Herbert, in Dune Messiah wrote:Two children, Paul thought wonderingly. The vision had contained only a daughter. He cast himself adrift from Idaho's arm, moved toward the place where Harah had spoken, stumbled into a hard surface. His hands explored it: the metaglass outlines of a creche.
Maybe in the initial vision, he really saw that someday there would be another birth, featuring this Leto II?
Only...
So Paul knew that Chani would die... And thought there would be born only a daughter?Frank Herbert, in Dune Messiah wrote:Again he stumbled. Chani, Chani, he thought. There was no other way. Chani, beloved, believe me that this death was quicker for you . . . and kinder. They'd have held our children hostage, displayed you in a cage and slave pits, reviled you with the blame for my death. This way . . . this way we destroy them and save our children.
Children?
Once more, he stumbled.
I permitted this, he thought. I should feel guilty.
Can we get a more experienced defender of the consistency of the KJA&BH books to take a look at this?