Nor will the Harkonnens of Dune: Prophecy be the omnipotent household who guidelines the desert planet Arrakis. “After we meet Valya Harkonnen, she is a woman whose household has skilled an amazing fall from energy and has misplaced its noble standing,” defined Schapker. “She desires of restoring what she feels is rightfully theirs. How she goes from being somebody obsessive about rebuilding her noble home to being somebody who is devoted to the Sisterhood above all is an enormous a part of the story. It’s not a girlhood coming-of-age narrative a lot as a girl’s rise to energy from a Harkonnen perspective.”
The Sisterhood in query is the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the non secular order whose centuries-long planning and manipulation results in the arrival of Paul Atreides, the Kwisatz Haderach. Dune: Prophecy will present how the Bene Gesserit strikes from a set of sorceresses and begins claiming its place as a political energy.
And but, Schapker insists that Dune: Prophecy received’t transfer in an easy method. In actual fact, the timelines will likely be mingled collectively. “A trademark of Dune is that point isn’t just linear,” Schapker reminded readers, which will get at probably the most complicated elements of the franchise.
By ingesting sandworm bile referred to as the Water of Life, those that survive have entry to genetic recollections, the flexibility to recall the lives of (normally girls) of their previous. Viewers of Villenueve’s Dune: Half Two noticed a glimpse of genetic recollections within the type of Paul’s sister Alia, who has the flexibility whereas nonetheless within the womb. Villeneuve illustrates genetic reminiscence by way of Jessica’s talking along with her unborn baby and in a dialog between Paul and the grownup Alia, seen as a imaginative and prescient.
In Herbert’s later books, genetic recollections get a bit extra advanced, as deceased characters similar to Baron Harkonnen attempt to take management of their descendants, asserting themselves when that descendent accesses genetic reminiscence.
For Schapker, genetic reminiscence provides depth to the leads of Dune: Prophecy. “A few of them are actively speaking with their feminine ancestors at any given time. There are hidden histories and secrets and techniques to be found prior to now that very a lot influenced the current, as our characters design the longer term. We needed to create a sequence that allowed historical past to be alive, and that meant spending a few of our time prior to now.”
