Chapter 05

[Freakzilla]

Has not religion claimed a patent on creation for all of these millennia?
-The Tleilaxu Question, from Muad'dib Speaks

Tylwyth Waff, the Bene Tleilax Master of Masters is overlooking the morning stillness of the capitol city of Bandalong. He thinks about the BT plan for ascendancy, the millenia of waiting and that now their time has finally come. He thinks about the vile image they have created for themselves as a deception. They think of Leto II as god's prophet. After the morning bell, Waff attends a kehl whith his counselors. All of them have been ressurected time and time again through the ghola restoration process. They discuss the Atreides Manifesto and his plans to spread it far and wide. It calls into question every religion except the Tleilaxu Great Belief, a secret Zensunni ecumenism. Waff orders Scytale to "arm the faithfull".

[Freakzilla]

Revised.

[AeroWalrus]

On my first read of the whole series now, and I love how much BT lore we're getting. I'd always wondered what their worlds, societies, and customs were like. Very curious about the details and extent of the great tleilaxu lie and their ambitions. The parallels to the BG with their millenias-long plans but differences in approach is also really neat.

[georgiedenbro]

On my first read of the whole series now, and I love how much BT lore we're getting. I'd always wondered what their worlds, societies, and customs were like. Very curious about the details and extent of the great tleilaxu lie and their ambitions. The parallels to the BG with their millenias-long plans but differences in approach is also really neat.

I agree with you. It's also neat that the BT were just as successful as the BG in obscuring to everyone what they were actually up to. The only reason we get so much information upfront about the BG is because we're getting a front-row seat to Paul's private meeting with Mohiam, and then Paul's perspective afterward. If you had asked anyone else in the Imperium they wouldn't have known any of the stuff the reader knows by the end of the first book. This remains more or less true for the reader as regards the BT until now, as you point out.