s prede cessors without their permission Duncan fi nally understood something Paul Muad Dib had said Your liberties vanish when you recognize any absolute leader Thus Dun can 13724 ascended to a new ruthlessness and understood that defending his indepen dence justified his impending violence Ironically, Leto il s most faithful servant Moneo Atreides inspired this decision when Duncan saw his old self in Moneo s duty and responsibility It was this epiphany that the God Emperor had miscalculated Just as Lady Jessica Atreides had let her memory of Duncan Prime fog her perception of Duncan 10208 the God Emperor s overconfident had pre vented him from seeing the full implications and nature ot Duncan the Last s growth What Moneo Leto II and the younger Siona saw as archaic in Duncan was actually what made him the savior he became More of an Atreides than any of them with roots that went even deeper than the God Emperor s his other ness within Leto II s contrived universe and his lack of understanding of it protected him against its seductions The God Emperor s Impenum repressed change, while Duncan s traditional ghafla and irrepressible craving for chaos made him the instrument of muta bihty that the Double God Leto II feared IDAHO 13724 332 IMPERIAL ADMINISTRATION and craved Duncan-the-Last's disgust for Leto n was created by the God Emperor m many, many waysT bat the last ghola made tus own special contributions as did Siona, Moneo, and the Tleilaxu Hie result even stirred the Museum Fremen Garun to life Duncan was the only person he had ever met with whom he wanted to die In his dymg moments, the God Emperor too perceived that he respected this last Duncan mote than he had any other, and this perception allowed him to recover the vision of the Golden Road hidden by the promise of a life with Hwi Noree He revealed to Sioaa and Duncan the location of his priceless spice board in the nuns of Sieich Tabr Most significantly, he removed the veil from his own plan for die two they could travel the Golden Road that he could not Siona, Duncan-the-Last, and we, their descendants, could men and can now walk silently among the ancestral memories without fear of possession or abomination Further, the Dar-es-Balat diaries reveal that, even in the moment of his human death, Leto H retained something of his bhthe youth when he asked Duncan what he would now do with his new power and when he and Siona both realized that this Dunean would need gentle seduction Hie answers to both of these queries are now, of course obvious and seem purposely jiaive id their posings evea though Duncan had little insight then into Siona's deep wisdom and the plenty that the two of them would yield What ts surprising is mat legend and history have not elaborated the figure of Doncan-the Last and his union with Siona Atrades as might be expected Instead, they have actually dimmed die majesty of this incredible figure, who in light of the Dar-es-Sakt recordings appears to have been a myth incarnate Dunean-the-Last was, if such a thing is possible a demiurge He was instilled with forces and powers far beyond himself, and yet he was able to contain them within a human form While further insights into Duncan-13724 await the integration of the Dar-es-fialat hoard with the records of the reign of Duncan and Siona and the Scattering, his brief age can justifiably be called the Salvation Nayla the Fish Speaker was never the Judas as Holy Church proposes It was Duncan and Duncan alone who was the archtraitor and the savior in one Abroad in the realms of consciousness his incantatory life and personality brought sentient life into harmony with the universe's caprice Alive at last, he followed Siona from the death cave of the Divided God and brought the power and fire of magic to us all R S Further references DUNCAN IDAHO entries SIONA ATKEIDES Leton* Journal RRC70-A392 Siona Atreides The Last Days Arrakis Studies 218 (Grumman United Worlds) UAZ.