Trivia

[Mahdi]

Thanks Gob for getting me a new pass, I haven't used this account for a long time...

Anyway, I have nothing beter to do, so I figured that I might as well test all of your knowledge. I will start of real easy...

In the novel Dune, what is muad'dib originally? (Other than a mouse)

(I told you it would be easy, but watchout, some of you might fall in the trap)

[kunekune]

I've never read the novels so I don't know! But in Dune1 Muad'Dib was the guy who was gonna come and save the fremen from death or something like that. If I played it again I would know but I can't really be stuffed doing anything right now.

[Mahdi]

You have to read the novel to get this one, the games or movie or dune encyclopeadea won't do.

[hellsmaw]

a dark area on Arrakis' second moon

[Mahdi]

Try again. You are getting closer, though.

[mechadragon]

It's the kangaroo mouse of Arrakis.

[Mahdi]

I said other than the mouse.

[mechadragon]

Muad'dib was originally Paul Atredies...

either that or the mouse shadow in the second moon... which it states in the movie...

or... a Fremen phrophecy...

[Mahdi]

Well, its been over a week so I will tell you guys the answer. No, Muad'dib was not ORIGINALLY a mouse shaped shadow on a moon of Arrakis. It was originally a star constellation whose tail pointed north which is where Muad'dib got the translation "The one who points the way". This is one of the biggest continuity flaws in the entire series, for, at the end of the novel, Muad'dib is the shape of a mouse that the shadows make on the moon. That is why niether the movie or Dune Encyclopeadea could help you find this answer. You have to have read the book.

[mechadragon]

can you site the chapter at least so we can look it up?

[Mahdi]

I am nto sure of the exact chapter, but it is when Paul and Jessica are in the stiltent and Paul is telling her about the future and that he is not the kwisatz haderach but something unexpected, a freak. It is before they join the fremen but after they escape the harkonnens.

[chanilewalia]

Wow, I just read the book again a few days ago and I don't remeber that part at all, well I remeber the part where they were talking and he said that he was a freak, weird that I didn't pick up on that!