In the space of a few minutes, life for the entire Imperium had been irreversibly altered. Leto had once observed that Moneo was terrified of the idea of a world without the God Emperor-that he would rather die than face such an existence. Of all the choices made for him during his life, the timing of the majordomo's death may have been one of the kindest. C.T. Farther references: ATREIDES, teto n, ATREIDES, SIONA IBN FUAD AL-SEYEFA; Leto D, Journals, Raids Ref Cat 65-A392. ATREIDES, PAUL-EDITOR'S NOTE: The following three entries deal with the person of Paul Muad'Dib Atreides. None of them, however, is a straight-forward biography of his life; though certainly the facts of his life may have been gleaned from them, as well as from the myriad references to him in other essay* in this encyclopedia. Rather (hart offer dry facts, these entries-the first an investigatory report dating from the reign of Leto II (a time when historical information was severely suppressed), the second an "answer" to that report written at the time of the Rakis discovery, and the third a contemporary essay dealing with Paul as Kwisatz Haderach-provide a more interesting and more historically valuable view of the influence and significance of one of history's most extraordinary figures. REPORT OF NEJA N'NAM-KRIB, ANTHROPOLOGICAL HISTORIAN OF MIRABAR, PREPARED FOR THE PRIVATE READING OF HIS EXCELLENCY, THF AttCHSlSHOP SPIL, CONTFRNTNG THE LEGENDARY PAUL. ATKBTDBS, THE KWISATZ HAOfiRACH, THE MJJAO'PIB, IN THE HOPE THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN WILL BE OF VALUE IN THE TRIAL FOR HERESY OF THE ONE WHO CALLS HIMSELF BY NO NAME BUT IS KNOWN COMMONLY AS "THE PREACHER." THIS IS THE YEAR SINCE THE FIRST JIHAD 11781, AND SINCE THE SECOND, 1472; OF TOE IMPERIAL CALENDAR, 11673. I INTRODUCTION The figure known to us as "Paul Atteides" is perhaps a more fitting subject for the romancer or the folldorist than for the historian. Many of the attributes claimed for him (i e , that he was prescient, that he survived the explosion of an atomic warhead) are clearly fantastic; others (i.e., that he was a great warrior) are common to virtually all mythic heroes Yet the legends about him are persistent and far-flung, and some of them have been recorded by ancient historians and biographers whose work in other areas is known to be absolutely accurate. The following report is an attempt not to de-mythologize the figure widely assumed to have been the Messiah; it is an attempt, rather, to account for him, to identify him. II LEGENDARY HISTORY OF PAUL The mythological or legendary history of Paul Atreides runs, in brief, according to the ATREIDES, PAUL 79 ATREIDES PAUL following line He was born on Caladan in the year 10175, (he natural son of Blessed Leto Atreides I (10140-10191) the ' Red Duke" whose remains are traditionally as suraed