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The Kwisatz Haderach, with supreme prescience and access to both male and female lines in Other Memory, will be an overt figure in the Bene Gesserit's manipulations, thrust upon the universe as a messiah.
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Kwisatz and Haderach
He survives, although barely, and the ordeal gives him knowledge of his male and female ancestors ; this proves Paul is the Kwisatz Haderach.
The Bene Gesserit super-being – whom they refer to as the Kwisatz Haderach – arrives a generation earlier than expected in the form of Paul Atreides, who is free from their direct control though his mother is the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica.
The ultimate goal of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, up to the end of the novel Dune, is the creation of a male Bene Gesserit they call the Kwisatz Haderach.
This son, Paul Atreides, later proves to be the Kwisatz Haderach, born a generation early.
Paul's son Leto II ( born of Chani, daughter of Liet-Kynes, and Paul ) is also a Kwisatz Haderach ; seeing the same future, Leto decides to do what his father could not.
However, they are too terrified of the consequences of producing another Kwisatz Haderach, so instead breed for special individuals of great talent and usefulness in order to amplify certain human characteristics and preserve them.
The Bene Gesserit also employ the Missionaria Protectiva to prepare the Empire for its Kwisatz Haderach.
Only females have ever survived the agony, but through their breeding program the Bene Gesserit sought the male Kwisatz Haderach who would be able to change an illuminating poison.
A Kwisatz Haderach is given abilities different from those of a Reverend Mother.
Until the time of God Emperor of Dune, the purpose of the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme is to breed a Kwisatz Haderach, a male with Other Memory who can see both lines, male and female.
The purpose of the gift is ' psychic poison ': the ghola, named Hayt, is supposed to tempt the Kwisatz Haderach Paul into becoming that which he despises.
In the final confrontation with Omnius, Paul Atreides ( brought back as a ghola and with his power of prescience just-now restored ), and then Norma Cenva ( the Oracle of Time to the Navigators ), both reveal that Duncan is the Ultimate Kwisatz Haderach ; not Paul nor any other Atreides, nor their descendants.
In addition to being the Final Kwisatz Haderach of the humans, Duncan becomes the new evermind of the thinking machines, guiding their joint future.
When attempting it himself later in the novel, Paul says, " We will see now whether I'm the Kwisatz Haderach who can survive the test that the Reverend Mothers have survived.
Paul himself decides to go through the spice agony to test whether he may be the Kwisatz Haderach, and succeeds.
As a result of Jessica's earlier choice to have a son, the goal of the Bene Gesserit breeding program ; the Kwisatz Haderach was born a generation early, went unnoticed and lived outside of the Sisterhood's control.
Leto has taken over the Bene Gesserit's breeding program for himself, the same program that produced his father, the Kwisatz Haderach.
This daughter was to be wed to Feyd-Rautha, nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and heir to House Harkonnen, healing the generations-old rift between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, and producing the Kwisatz Haderach for the Bene Gesserit.
The Kwisatz Haderach is the long-sought-after male Reverend Mother-equivalent who possesses the Other Memory of his male line ( something the all-female Bene Gesserit lack ), as well as the female line.
However, Jessica falls in love with Leto, and produces a son for him, Paul ( there is some indication that Jessica believed she could achieve the Kwisatz Haderach herself, one generation early ).
Paul is the Kwisatz Haderach, and eventually sets the Imperium on a course lasting thousands of years in the person of his son, Leto Atreides II.
Kwisatz Haderach is a term in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe which refers to a prophesied messiah and superbeing.
The Bene Gesserit intend to use their Kwisatz Haderach to make their order more powerful than the other factions within the Old Empire.
Herbert also refers to the Kwisatz Haderach as " the one who can be many places at once.
Kwisatz and with
The Bene Gesserit breeding program had been conducted for centuries to preserve important bloodlines, but with the Kwisatz Haderach as its primary goal.
Upon its arrival at Synchrony, Leto II finally reawakens, Duncan Idaho becomes the ultimate Kwisatz Haderach and merges minds with Erasmus, and the Oracle of Time destroys Omnius and ends the machine threat.
House Fenring, a House minor long allied with House Corrino, had been a significant part of the Bene Gesserit breeding program to produce the Kwisatz Haderach.
But Lady Jessica, ordered by the Bene Gesserit to produce a daughter who would breed with the appropriate male to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, instead bears a son — unintentionally producing the Kwisatz Haderach a generation early.
Feyd, like Paul Atreides, is also the product of a centuries-long breeding program organized by the Bene Gesserit, who planned their own alliance by joining a Harkonnen son to an Atreides daughter with the expectation that their offspring would have a high probability of being their hoped-for Kwisatz Haderach.
Fresh from fighting the thinking machines outside on Synchrony with Sheeana, Duncan enters the chamber where a recovering Paul, his memories now restored, reveals that Duncan is the final Kwisatz Haderach, having evolved and perfected himself through thousands of years of ghola rebirth and altered DNA.
She calculates that a daughter of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen must produce a daughter by an Atreides ; this daughter will then be bred with another Harkonnen heir, to produce the male Kwisatz Haderach.
They cannot understand why the Kwisatz Mother takes such a course of action, although it is revealed that the Empress ' Other Memory had been deeply concerned with the realization that the Kwisatz Haderach might be born a generation earlier.
Kwisatz and access
However, the memories unleashed in this ritual are always of female ancestors ; access to the male line is unique to the pre-born, and theoretically to a specially-bred male known as the Kwisatz Haderach.
Kwisatz and male
The Bene Gesserit also have a secret, millennia-long selective breeding program to bolster and preserve valuable skills and bloodlines as well as to produce a theoretical superhuman male they call the Kwisatz Haderach.
Anirul soon determines that the goal of the program, a male superbeing called the Kwisatz Haderach, is no more than three generations away.
Kwisatz and Other
The youngest Kwisatz Mother ever, Anirul had been the most qualified since the Reverend Mothers in Other Memory had revealed everything to her, while keeping the details of the program hidden from most Bene Gesserit.
Kwisatz and will
In Dune Messiah, the Face Dancer Scytale reveals to a Reverend Mother that the Bene Tleilax created their own Kwisatz Haderachs, and discovered that Kwisatz Haderachs will die before becoming their opposites ( and so can be killed by manipulating them into betraying themselves ).
They insist they have lured the Ithaca into a trap, and will soon have the Kwisatz Haderach they have calculated is on board.
Kwisatz and be
Their son would be the Bene Gesserit's long-awaited Kwisatz Haderach.
In Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan Idaho is revealed to be the final Kwisatz Haderach destined to bring together humans and thinking machines.
This child would in turn be married to Leto Atreides to produce the eventual mother of the Kwisatz Haderach.
She is to be the grandmother of the Kwisatz Haderach if the breeding program goes as planned.
He has kept this ability secret because the Bene Gesserit are suspicious of any males having any ' wild talents ', lest another Kwisatz Haderach be created.
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