to the necessity of historical movement was to usurp all the rotes By becoming the historical dialectic, he became history itself, and therefore, the future as well What kind of a being would have such an ego that he would even dare conceive of such a plan9 What kind of a being would have such power that he could actually carry that plan out' The answer is clear only the true Kwisatz Haderach, the Bene Gessent male whose organic power could bridge space and time Leto Atreideb was, the true God Emperor of Dune because he had been bred to the role By calling Leto II the true Kwisatz Haderach, it should not be understood that the Bene Gessent intended to create Leto or that they had a hand in guiding him to the path he took While his grandmother, the Rever end Mother Lady Jessica Harkonnen, the conbubine of Leto Atreides I must have played some role in Leto's early life, she did so against the desires of the Sisterhood To the Bene Gessent, Leto and his twin sister, Ghamma, were both Abominations Both were fully conscious in the womb of their mother, Cham Liet Kynes, the Fremen concubine of Paul Atreides, Muad'Dib, and both ATREIDES, LETO II 70 ATREIDES LETO II awoke to consciousness filled with the personalities and memories of all their ancestors The Bene Gessent would have preferred Leto dead and were responsible for a large num her of the plots against his life during the more than 3,500 years he lived However, Leto was not Abomination Unlike Alia Atreides, accurately called Abomination, Leto learned to control all of the personalities living within him and to make use of them As a boy he overthrew Alia and then created an empire that cast that of his father, Muad Dib, into shadow As incredible as any of these facts might appear even to those who have every reason to believe their truth, they pale when compared to the biological transformation that Leto allowed himself to undergo Immediately before his overthrow of Alia, he took a child's game of the Fremen to the extreme Fremen children once amused themselves by placing sandtreut on men- hands and watching them mold themselves to the shape, they would then shake the trout off and admire the "gloves" thus formed Leto, however, placed saudtrout over his entire body allowing open space only for his mouth and nose The result was strength beyond imagining and a life that lasted inconceivable centuries With the transformation of Arrakis, moreover, Leto became the last Shai-Hulud or, at least, the last potential Shai-Hulud, Consider then the combination that Leto represented he contained within himself the complete history of the worlds, his father's memories and knowledge, and the strength of Shai-Hiilud, the great sandworra of Arrakis How it is possible to believe that Leto was anything but a god? And what a god Leto must have been, because within him was both Atreides and Harkonnen blood that had been reared in one of the last of the Bremen sietches of Arrakis Indeed,