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Arrakis was meant to be a grave.
When House Atreides is sent to rule the desert world, the Imperium already knows how the story should end. The Emperor fears Duke Leto’s growing influence, the Harkonnens prepare their revenge, and the Bene Gesserit watch their bloodlines move toward a carefully planned future.
But beneath the sand, another game has already begun.
Glossu Rabban, feared as the Beast of Arrakis, rules with brutal efficiency—while quietly undermining his own house. Supplies vanish, patrols arrive too late, and mistakes multiply in ways no one questions. After all, the Beast is not known for subtlety.
Light-years apart yet bound together, Rabban and Gurney Halleck fight a silent war through patience, strategy, and the coded rhythms of soldiers’ songs.
When Arrakeen falls and Duke Leto dies, the Imperium believes House Atreides broken.
They are wrong.
From the desert rises Mu’addib—and the consequences of choices made long before begin to unfold.
Because sometimes the most dangerous rebellion is fought not with armies, but with patience… and love that refuses to die.
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For decades, the Imperium believed Glossu Rabban to be exactly what he appeared: the Beast of House Harkonnen—brutal, witless, useful only as a weapon. The Bene Gesserit dismissed him. The Baron underestimated him. Even the Emperor never looked twice.
They were all wrong.
Behind the mask of savagery, Rabban has been playing a longer game—one measured in logistics, miscalculations, and carefully placed failures. While House Harkonnen tightens its grip on Arrakis, Rabban quietly weakens it from within, feeding fragments of truth to Duke Leto Atreides and forging secret alliances among the Fremen. His ultimate goal: the destruction of his own house.
At the center of it all stands Gurney Halleck—once a slave in the mines of Giedi Prime, trained in secret by the very man who owned him. Their love, hidden beneath strategy and war, survives across planets and decades. It speaks in battlefield formations, in smuggled supplies, in songs sung by soldiers who never understand the code within the melody.
When the Imperium finally collapses around Arrakis, the truth comes too late for those who misjudged the Beast.
Because love, like strategy, is only invisible to those who refuse to see it
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The Sigils of a Red Falcon and a Blue Griffin by emmele1896
Fandom Dune - All Media Types
29 Apr 2026
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