• Stamau123@lemmy.world
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      The original Leto II is briefly mentioned in Heretics of Dune, where a priest asks why the God Emperor was not called Leto III because of his dead older brother

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      One of the weirder choices that showed Herbert really didn’t intend to write past the first book. I’m glad it got cut out of the movie

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        he wrote the bulk of first three at the same time, iirc, from Dune to Children is a specific story. God emporer was a new thing