" He had seen wonders, planets where water fell from the heavens, had immersed himself in the sea on Enfeil, and had gone to the ends of the universe to fight OB far distant Gangishree. But he brought home wounds as well' as wonders; his body bore a network of scars and the first {ell-tale traces of the splitting disease (perhaps what the ancients called leprosy?) he caught on Tarahell. With aim when he returned was a "surprise" for his wife Dhuri: Bijaz, a dwarf he bought on Occa, "a toy discarded by he Tleilaxu." After his discharge, Otheym lived in obscurity with Dhuri and Lichna. his daughter by Mesha, Dhuri's sister who had died before his return. In time most of their sietch hangings and desert tapestries disappeared to pay Otheym's medical bills-sold to rich pilgrims who paid enormous sums for authentic Fremen artifacts. Although embittered, Otheym never ceased being a worshiper of Muad'Dib and was thus ready to serve his emperor once again when Stilgar approached him with suspicions of a plot against Paul. Accordingly, Otheym moved to a cul-de-sac that housed the suspects to give him the opportunity to mark the traitors and record their names. Sometime after settling in, Otheym confided to Stiigar his outrage on discovering that Lichna had fallen in love with the blind son of their Fremen neighbor Farok. It was unthinkable that she would flaunt Fremen tradition by consorting with a sightless man! We know from Stilgar's Chronicle that Otheym was mercifully ignorant of his daughter's true plight: that Farok had given her semuta in hope of winning a woman of the People despite his son's blindness-an empty victory since the narcotic destroyed her personality. Nor did Otheym ever discover that Scytale, the Face Dancer, killed Lichna so that he might assume her appearance and lure Paul to a trap at Otheym's house. Unaware of the trap, Otheym rose above his bitterness and his physical incapacities to perform what he thought was one more service for the man he revered' he informed Paul of the treachery and presented him with a human distrans, the dwarf Bijaz, who had recorded the names of all the traitors. This favor was literally Otheym's last act, because within moments of Paul's leaving, Otheym and his wife were destroyed in the holocaust of a stone burner meant primarily for Paul. Perhaps Otheym was not sorry to depart the world he had told Paul he no longer liked. Just as his father Uliet, Pardot Kynes' would-be executioner, gave his life for the creator of .the dream of water for Dune, Otheym gave his for his Mahdi: the one who made that dream a reality. D.K. Further references: SCYTALE, KYNES. PAHDOT; Slilgar ben Flfrawi, The Stilgar Chronicle, tr. Mityau Gwulador, AS 5 (Grumman: United Worlds); JarYet Oslo, Fremen: Lives andLegend (Salusa Secundus: Morgan and Sharak) PANOPLIA PROPHETICUS PANOPLIA PROPHETICUS PANOPUA PROPHETlCaS. The most important source of material for the Bene Gesserit Missionaria Protectiva; an elaborate collection of source legend rituals and training manuals.