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What was the name of the God those returned from the Scattering worshipped?

    Dur. The name Dur was a shortened form of Guldur, which was one of many names given to the God-Emperor Leto II. A soldier Miles Teg captured on Gammu called on the Great God Dur to enrich his captors if they returned him to the Honored Matres.

How many Idaho gholas did the Bene Tleilax supply to the Bene Gesserit before the one whose memory was restored by Miles Teg?
    Eleven. The Bene Tleilax assassinated most of the gholas of Duncan Idaho that they had sent to the Bene Gesserit so that they could control the timing of the order's plan.

What was the name of the ghola Duncan Idaho's first chief instructor at Gammu?
    Luran Geasa. Luran Geasa was a failed Reverend Mother younger than Schwangyu who was the ghola Duncan Idaho's chief instructor when he was aged eight and first learned he was a ghola.

What was the full name of Mother Superior Taraza?
    Alma Mavis Taraza. Taraza was the Mother Superior of the Bene Tleilax at the time of the discovery of Sheena - a girl that could control sandworms - on Rakis, and was killed on planet.

Who changed the name of Giedi Prime to Gammu?
    Gurney Halleck. Giedi Prime, the home planet of House Harkonnen, was the homeworld of both Duncan Idaho and Miles Teg's lieutenant Patrin, as well as probably the site of the earliest known no-chamber.

Who was the ghola Duncan Idaho's second chief instructor at Gammu?
    Tamalane. Tamalane took over Duncan Idaho's teaching after the departure of Luran Geasa, while Schwangyu had been commander of Gammu Keep during the time of both of these instructors.

What was the name of the archaeologist who excavated Dar-es-Balat?
    Hadi Benotto. Hadi Benotto was the archaeologist who excavated the no-chamber constructed by Leto Atreides II at Dar-es-Balat but the reports were suppressed by the Rakian priesthood.

Which planet did Miles Teg retire to?
    Lernaeus. Miles Teg lived on Lernaeus, after retiring as the Supreme Bashar of the Bene Gesserit, with his eldest daughter, in the house where he had grown up as a child.

How many Standard Years old was Miles Teg when Taraza recruited him for the ghola project on Gammu?
    296. The Mentat Bashar Miles Teg was recruited by Taraza to restore the memory of the ghola Duncan Idaho, due to his similarity to Leto Atreides I.

What was the name of Dimela's husband?
    Firus. Dimela was the eldest daughter of the Mentat Bashar Miles Teg and it was to her and her husband Firus that Teg left his home on Lernaeus when he departed for Gammu.

What was the name of Miles Teg's father?
    Loschy. Loschy Teg was a functionary in CHOAM who married the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Janet Roxbrough and he was the father of the Mentat Bashar Miles Teg.

What was the Tleilaxu term for their ultimate revenge?
    Bodal. Tylwyth Waff often felt that he was on lashkar - a war party seeking Bodal - when he left the inner worlds of the Bene Tleilax, and it was Bodal that was the first thing reaffirmed in ghufran of kehl.

In which month of the old calendar was Sheena's eighth birthday?
    Igat. It was in the month of her eighth birthday that a sandworm of Rakis entered Sheena's village, attracted by spice blow, and killed all of the inhabitants except her.

Where was the Hedley Tuek's bench from, the one claimed to have once been used by Muad'Dib?
    Windgap Sietch. The stone bench, one leg bearing a carving of an Atreides hawk, was recovered from Windgap sietch and relocated to the Hall of Small Convocations where Tuek met with his priests.

What was the name of the messenger that told Tamalane of Sheeana's supposedly pre-emptory command to bring back a pair of manacled prisoners?
    Kipuna. The command was actually a frustrated cry for the sandworm to bring back the family they had taken from her, though this command by Sheeana was thought by some to refer to a passing ornithopter which held the two prisoners moments later.

On what planet did the Tireg nearly engage in a battle?
    Andioya. The attendant who guided Miles Teg from his lighter to meet Taraza onboard the Ixian ship that held her had been a Tireg commander at Andioya.

How long in Standard Years was a local Gammu year?
    2.6 SY. Gammu - formerly known in Harkonnen days as Giedi Prime - had a day of 31.27 standard hours and a local year more than twice a Standard Year in length.

Who restored and preserved the painting 'Cottages at Cordeville' that hung in Taraza's room?
    Martin Buro. 'Cottages at Cordeville' by Vincent Van Gogh was restored by the Ixian Martin Buro, and the painting was also adorned with a sense projector which was developped from the technology that produced the Ixian Probe.

What was the name of the aide of Sheeana who was in Tuek's private service?
    Baldik. Baldik was a young priest who sometimes conversed with Sheeana, Cania and Kipuna. He was likely killed along with Kipuna in the attempted assassination of Sheeana before she was taken into the care of the Bene Gesserit.

What was the name of one of the Tleilaxu envoys Tuek met on Rakis?
    Ledden Pook. Tuek had a strong dislike of the Tleilaxu that he had met - including Waff, Ledden Pook and Wose - that unexpectedly carried on in the face dancer that impersonated him.


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