Heretics of Dune is the fifth novel in the original Dune series by Frank Herbert. The book follows the machinations of the Bene Gesserit Brotherhood as they encounter new powers within the Old Empire, the lost ones returning from the Great Scattering. After the death of the Worm God Emperor approximately 1,500 years ago, the Fish Speakers, his female military force, had taken control of the God Emperor's enormous spice wealth. They had squandered this immense wealth in petty quarrels and senseless actions, no event being important enough to be recorded in history.

Eventually, the tleilaxu, that fringe world on the fringes of the empire who had produced countless Ghola for the god-emperor, discovered a way to produce spice blend from their Axlotl tanks. This caused the Fish Speakers to form an alliance with the Ixians. Control of Arrakis passed to the Priests, who lead a new religion formed from the remnants of Leto's old design. They worshiped the desert god Shai Hulud, each worm now containing a piece of the God Emperor's consciousness.

Yet the Bene Gesserit remained one of the strongest forces in the Empire, superior to the modern Council of Fish Speakers, who had inherited the heart of the ancient Atreides Empire, they were far superior to CHOAM and equal to the Spacing Guild, although the guild's monopoly on space travel had long since been broken by the Ixians who had invented technology allowing ships to travel without the aid of a guild navigator.

Since the time of the God Emperor, the Bene Gesserit Brotherhood has purchased 12 Duncan Idaho Gholas. So far, everyone has been murdered. They suspect the tleilaxu themselves. Many in the fraternity fear this Ghola project. Mother Superior Taraza knows that there are heretics among them. The word “heretic” referred to a private joke within the fraternity. They were supposed to always follow the orders of the mother superior, with absolute dedication. The sisters of the Bene Gesserit did this, except when they disagreed.

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