interred in the long-sought Skull Tomb or Skull Place on Arrakis His mother was the Lady Jessica Harkonnen (10154-10256), the bastard daughter of Sindar-Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (10110-10193) and herself a Reverend Mother of the Bene Gessent He had one full sister, Alia Atreides-Idaho (10191 10219), and was father of Leto Atreides II, the Summa-Emperor, die Immortal (see genealogy chart) In his youth on Caladan, Paul was well instructed in all of the martial arts, m voice, in political theory, music, and history His primary instructors were the family retainers Dunean Idaho1, Gurney Hal leek, and Thufir Hawat a mentat Others of his teachers included his mother already a Bene Gesseflt herself but not yet a Reverend Mother, and the legendary Bene Gessent Great Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, who may have been his maternal grandmother It was die Great Mother who, when he was fifteen years of age, personally subjected him to the test of the gom jabbar and declared him, following the test, to be Kwisatz Haderach (Fulcrum of History) The Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV (see genealogy chart) named Leto I planetary governor of Arrakis replacing the duke's concubine's father in 10190 The following year Paul and his mother came to live on the planet with which his story has become so closely identified In that same year the deposed Smdar-Baron Harkonnen, acting with the tacit approval of the Emperor, staged a coup d'etat assassinated the Red Duke, and forced Paul and his now pregnant mother into tothng among the Fremen of Sietch Tabr Little is known of Paul's activities during the two years he spent among Fremen in the Great Desert3 However m 10193he emerged from the desert as Usul, at once the leader and symbol of die Arrakis Revolt He commanded both Fremen and what was left of the Atreides family forces in one of history s few truly masterful military campaigns In the Battle of Arrakeen he overwhelmingly defeated the combined forces of the Padishah Emperor and the Baron Harkonnen driving Shaddam IV into exile on Salusa Secundus and effectively assuming control of both Landsiddd and CHOAM Following the Battle of Arrakeen Paul was pronounced Muad Dib, or Messiah, by the Fremen who in his name earned the Second Jihad across the worlds He married Irulan Cornno, daughter of the exiled Emperor, but the marriage was a politically inspired formality In 10209, the thirteenth and final year of his reign, he sired the twins Leto and Ghamma out of his formal concubine the Fremen woman Chani Liet-Kynes of Sietch-Tabr, who died m childbed The combination of his personal magnetism, capacity for leadership, vision of a green Arrakis, and reputed prescience turned Paul into an object of veneration a virtual deity 4 It was m his name that the Second Jihad (10196 10208) was earned across the heav ens and the ultimately unsuccessful transfer mation of Arrakis from desert into oasis was begun An assassination attempt m 10205 was the result of a conspiracy among several increas mgly insecure political factions including the Spacing Guild, the House Cornno, and the Bene Gessent The attack itself was unsuc cessful in that Paul miraculously survived a stoneburner explosion He was blinded by it, however and apparently following the an cient Fremen custom that the blind he aban doncd in the desert Paul disappeared volun tanly from Arrakeen shortly dfter the births of his twin children It is believed bv many that he will one day return in triumph from the desert and by others that he has from time to tune and irregularly over the centu-nes re appeared as a portent, a nameless prophet of doom This then, is the legendary history of Paul Atreides It is of no little significance, however that no conclusive archaeological evidence has been discovered either on Caladan or on Arrakis5 that would prove or disprove either his lineage or, indeed his very existence However, such circumstantial evidence as reason folklore, and historical' documents made available to the histoncal anthropologi cal invites some interesting and useful ATREIDES, PAUL 80 ATREIDES, PAUL suggestions.