many of the personalities that inhabited Leto's body were Fremen personalities received from his mother, Chani Thus, it is worth raising once again an earlier question What kind of being would possess such an ego that he would eves dare to conceive of becoming all of history'5 One such being might be an Atreides who snared with his ancestors an unquenched blood-lust, even if individual Atreides were not as cruel or as violent as the general type Leto's father was one of the gentler Atreides He was never comfortable with the actions performed in his name Some scholars have even suggested that it was this gentle aspect that determined Muad Dib s course when he walked as a blind man into the Arrakeen desert He was sick of his life as the leader of the Second Jihad But Leto was not of the same nature as his father He could take on the skin of the bdndtrout, and history has ample records to prove that Leto did not shy away from the exercise of raw, bloody power Another such being with ego strong enough might be a Harkonnen While equally bloody as the Atreides, the Harkonnen also equally gloried in the use uf power It was the Harkonnen talent to gain and exercise power by diplomatic intrigue with a frequent assassination thrown in While I eto's great grandfather, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is best known for the luxury he surrounded himself with and for his death at the hands of Aha Atreides, it must be remembered that he was also a diplomatic genius He was able to manipulate a number of business ventures into a rapid restoration of his famil; 's power after an earlier Harkonnen had seemingly destroyed the family by an act of cowardice Given the constant power struggles during the rule of the Padishah Shaddam IV, such a feat is remarkable And, once again, history reveals that Leto knew well how to apply the velvet glove of diplomacy where it was needed A third being capable of such an ego might be a Fremen who was convinced that what was at stake was the tau of his sietch Given what is known of Fremen culture and the Fedaykin it is not difficult to see the smgleniindedness in Leto as an expression of Fremen devotion to oneness Leto not only invented the Golden Path, he believed in it as well To him it was the one true way to preserve the worlds from vast, overwhelm ing destruction A Fremen faced with the potential destruction of the sietch, would act to preserve the tau by any means within his grasp Leto acted to preserve the tau of humanity, but the means within his grasp far exceeded those available to a mere Fremen Finally, there is a fourth being capable of ATREIDES LETO II ATREIDES LETO II such an ego Shai-Hulud "The Old Man of the Desert," "Old Father Eternity," and "The Grandfather of the Desert " By Shai Hutud, it is not meant here any of the sandworms of Arrakis or the stunted ones that now exist on Rakas No, this is the Shai-Hulud that the Fremen used to personi fy the very elemental forces of the planet those forces that were so great, so over powering that they stood fur all tune Shai Hulud was, to the Fremen, the only true eternal force So vast, so incredible ware the powers of Shai-Hulud that the Fremen believed it to be beyond reason Shai-Hulud lived only for itself, uninterested in and incapable of understanding Ac petty crea-< tures that shared its world And clearly Leto was equally capable of such monumental indifference Moneo Atreides.