Duncan was a lifeline to the original Atreides' glory and stability Leto ITs ritualistic evocation to the Duncans at the Siaynoqs demonstrates their value as living symbols You pDuncau] are the ancient norm against which die new can be measured You are the rogue mate in the tunes of die passive and emasculated men You are the fear and the violence that bungs chaos You are the ghafla preserved for the Golden Road Moreover, the Duncans peculiar stability, loyalty, archaic morality, continual search for justification, and love of chaos were the touchstones that the God Emperor used to test his brave new world of randomness, a new world that he ironically, came to fear The Duncans also represented hope for resur rection and cleansing in an Impenum that Leto II had directed into the immorality of situaaonal ethics and expedience For example, Duncan 13724 was one of the few people in Leto II's court who could still blush and in his demands and decisions, he invariably selected the human side something the ever-increasmgly wormlike Leto needed to have recalled The Duncans refusal to worship the God Emperor, particularly Duncan 13724's, was another important reminder to Leto II's failing sense of his own humanity and vulnerability Finally, in a cosmos of shifting tides and false fnendb, d cosmos in which Leto II had to embrace rebels to produce beings who could \valk the Golden Road, Duncan-H724 and many of the other gholas represented the loyalty and duty of the Idaho archetype, and that bond must have seemed ageless and natural even to the ancient God Emperor In a personal and psychological sense, Leto needed the Duncans' variety to prevent the grave danger of boredom throughout his long reign Yet for all the predictability of the Duncan pattern this last Duncan was something very different He became Leto II's appointed Judas Iscanot a destroyer created by his godlike victim as an instrument of the felix culpa the fortunate fall Duncan-the Last was the agent of the change that Leto II knew must come but which he feared too much to implement himself Also, since the final Duncan was the loundation needed to sustain the Golden Road, he avoided the scapegoat role that usually accompanies Judas figures, in no little part because of the alienness of the metamorphosed God Emperor However, not all the achievements of Duncan-the-Last were designed by Leto II, in part the last ghola's character resulted from a response to Hwi Noree and Siona Atreides, his actions resulted from his unusual experiences Among these critical experiences was the liaison with Hwi Noree that prompted Leto II to say to Moneo Atreides, "The Duncan disobeys me1' This was a startling statement since it had probably never been spoken before by an Atreides Duke Moneo was terrified by this pronouncement It put every- 331 IDAHO 13724 one and everything in penl since the toss of Hwi might have destroyed the last vestige of Leto's humanity and turned him irrevocably in