

Meanwhile, a new religious figure called "The Preacher" has risen in the desert, railing against the religious government's injustices and the changes among the Fremen. Leto also fears that, like his father, he will become trapped by his prescience.

They (and Alia) also realize that the terraforming of Dune will kill all the sandworms, thus destroying the source of the spice, but Harkonnen desires this outcome. Paul's young twin children, Leto II and Ghanima, have concluded that their guardian Alia has succumbed to Abomination-possession by her grandfather Baron Vladimir Harkonnen-and fear that a similar fate awaits them. The Imperial high council has lost its political might and is powerless to control the Jihad. As the old ways erode, more and more pilgrims arrive to experience the planet of Muad'Dib. Nine years after Emperor Paul Muad'Dib walked into the desert, blind, the ecological transformation of Dune has reached the point where some Fremen are living without stillsuits in the less arid climate and have started to move out of the sietches and into the villages and cities.
