Dune Series PHD Episode 18 The Final Duncan Idaho
Channel: Doc Sloan's Science Fiction Station
Date: 2021-10-03

The character of Duncan Idaho dies early in the Dune narrative. His body is retrieved by the Bene Tleilax, and from Dune Messiah onwards, it is used by them to create gholas of the original Duncan. Gholas are a clone taken from the cells of a cadaver and grown in an Axlotl tank. This is the method by which the Bene Tleilax produce Twisted Mentats such as Piter De Vries.

The first Duncan Idaho ghola created by the Tleilaxu is called Hayt, and is presented to Paul Atreides as a gift. And can the memories of the original personality be restored to a ghola? This is part of an elaborate trap set by a conspiracy against Paul as Emperor.

The God Emperor Leto II has numerous Duncan Idaho gholas created over the thousands of years of his rule. They act as boon companions to the God Emperor and generals to his all female Fish Speaker army. The final Duncan Idaho evolves to be a Kwisatz Haderach and again goes beyond the original intent of the Bene Gesserit's breeding programme. For here is a Kwisatz Haderach that possesses his own individual collective unconscious, rather than the male or female race memory of the Bene Gesserit and Atreides Kwisatz Haderachs.

And is Duncan the real hero of the Dune Series? Let's take a look.

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