The Bene Gesserit are a powerful and ancient order of women in Frank Herbert's "Dune" universe. Their actions formed a critical element in the evolution of humanity and many of the major plot developments. Always use in conjunction with the [dune] tag.
The Bene Gesserit are a powerful and ancient order of women in Frank Herbert's "Dune" universe, one of the few powerful factions in the universe.
Their actions formed a critical element in the evolution of humanity and many of the major plot developments. Those include the objective to create Kwisatz Haderach, which results in the birth of Paul Atreides, and indirectly, of God-Emperor Leto II Atreides.
The sisters of Bene Gesserit possess of somewhat superhuman abilities through physical and mental training, as well as the use of melange.
Herbert notes that over 10,000 years before the events of Dune, in the chaotic time after the Butlerian Jihad and before the unveiling of the Orange Catholic Bible, the Bene Gesserit "consolidated their hold upon the sorceresses, explored the subtle narcotics, developed prana-bindu training and conceived the Missionaria Protectiva, that black arm of superstition. But it is also the period that saw the composing of the litany against fear and the assembly of the Azhar Book, that bibliographic marvel that preserves the great secrets of the most ancient faiths.
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