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DuneThe Kwisatz Haderach is a fictional character in the Dune universe, created by Frank Herbert, and later extended by his son, Brian Herbert, alongside science fiction author Kevin J Anderson.
Kwisatz Haderach is a term which means "Shortening of the Way." This is the label applied by the Bene Gesserit to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution: a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time. Also known as "the one who can be many places at once."
The phrase Kwisatz Haderach קפיצת הדרך originally came from Hebrew (poss. originally Kfitsat or Kfitzat Haderch) and means "Jump ahead of the path", i.e. a significant breakthrough.
The Bene Gesserit hoped to create a male Reverend Mother capable of absolute powers of prescience, able to predict all possible futures and to cause select threads of time to be realized through manipulation. They hoped to use him to strengthen Bene Gesserit power among other power loci within the Empire. Unknown to them at first, their breeding program came to a successful conclusion with the birth of Paul Atreides, but they could not control him. The result was the being they prized the most was the instrument by which their order diminished.
Jessica Atreides was conceived through the seduction of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen by Reverend Mother Gaius Helen MohiamGaius Helen Mohiam is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. She is the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother, who initially featured in the novel Dune by Frank Herbert. She also had a more major role in the Prelude to Dune trilogy b, and born to the Bene Gesserit in the year 10,154 after the formation of the Spacing GuildThe Spacing Guild is a fictional organization in Frank Herbert's Dune universe created in a series of science fiction novels starting in Dune and ending with Chapterhouse Dune''. This Dune universe as been further developed by the writing of six prequels. She was raised to be married to the Duke Leto Atreides, and instructed to produce a daughter, but no sons, for him. This daughter would be bred to Feyd Rautha , nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and heir to House HarkonnenDune House Harkonnen is a fictional noble family in Frank Herbert's Dune novels. One of the great houses of the Imperium, the House Harkonnen is built on a simple foundation of fear and terror, two tactics that make the Baron Harkonnen's underlings that m, healing the generations old rift between House AtreidesDune House Atreides is a fictional noble family from Frank Herbert's Dune novels. House Atreides is one of the great houses of the Imperium, the feudal interstellar empire that forms the backdrop to the Dune novels. This noble house hailing from the water and House Harkonnen, and producing the Kwisatz HaderachDune The Kwisatz Haderach is a fictional character in the Dune universe, created by Frank Herbert, and later extended by his son, Brian Herbert, alongside science fiction author Kevin J Anderson. Kwisatz Haderach is a term which means "Shortening of the W for the Bene Gesserit. The Kwisatz Haderach is the male reverend mother who has other memories of his male line, something the all-female Bene Gesserit lack, along with 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 Hadderach 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. Much to the frustration of the Bene Gesserit, they do not control Paul, and the events of the coming millennia leave Jessica noteworthy as a figure of history who committed a great wrong (according to the Bene Gesserit); in the coming centuries, for a Bene Gesserit to choose her love over the instructions of her order is known as "the Jessica Crime".
