Vidreven edited the glossary of Dune Messiah Wednesday, October 14 2009.
- Added the definition of Gom Jabbar: Specific poison needle tipped with metacyenide used by Bene Gesserit Proctors inthe death-alternative test of human awareness.
- Added the definition of Ibad, Eyes of: Characteristic effect of a diet high in melange wherein the whites a pupils of the eyes turn deep blue.
- Added the definition of Melange: The "spice of spices", the crop for which Arrakis is a unique source. The spice, chiefly noted for it's geriatric qualities, is mildly addictive when taken in small quantities.
- Added the definition of Mentat: A class of Imperial citizens trained for supreme accomplishments of logic. "Human computers".
- Added the definition of Muad'dib: An adapted kangaroo mouse of Arrakis, a creature associated in the Fremen earth-spiritmithology with a design visible on the planet's second moon. This creature is admired by Fremen for it's abillity to survive in the open desert.
- Added the definition of Ornithopter: Any aircraft capable of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds.
- Added the definition of Reverend Mother: Originally, a proctor of the Bene Gesserit, one who has transformed an "illuminating poison" within her body, raising herself to a higher state of awareness.
- Added the definition of Sardaukar: The soldier-fanatics of the Padishah Emperor.
- Added the definition of Shai-hulud: Sandworm of Arrakis, the "Grandfather of the Desert". They grow to enormous sizes (specimens longer than 400 meters have been seen in the deep desert) and live to great age. Most of the sand on Arrakis is credited to sandworm action.
- Added the definition of Stillsuit: Body-enclosing gament invented on Arrakis.
- Added the definition of Voice: That combined training originated by the Bene Gesserit which permits an adept to control others merely by selected tone shading of the voice.
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