- Herbert's son
Brian explained that "In
Children of Dune, Leto II
allowed sandtrout to
attach themselves to his body, and this was
based in part upon my father’s...
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planet are the
giant sandworms and
their immature forms of
sandtrout and sand plankton.
Sandtrout encyst any
water deposits;
predator fish are
placed in the...
- ****e, he
allows many
sandtrout to
cover his body, the
concentration of ****e in his
blood fooling the creatures: The
sandtrout squirmed on his hand,...
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seems to have the original's properties, it does not work properly. Test-
sandtrout explode when
exposed to it, and Fenring's test of its use by
Guild Navigators...
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deaths into the
river below. Leto's body
rends apart in the water; the
sandtrout which are part of his body
encyst the
water and
scurry off,
while the...
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humanity in
pursuit of the
Golden Path by
physically fusing with a
school of
sandtrout, the
larval form of sandworms, in the
process gaining superhuman strength...
- "
Touponce suggests that Herbert's
depiction of
larval sandworms (or
sandtrout),
which hold back
water in the
desert to
maintain the arid conditions...
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seems to be a physical-bonding (similar to what Leto II did with the
sandtrout) into
something of a human-machine hybrid.
Erasmus then
voluntarily "dies"...
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symbiont with the sandworm,
beginning the
transformation by
allowing sandtrout, the
larval stage of sandworms, to
cover his body. The oversaturation...
- Leto has
forced the
sandworms into extinction,
except for the
larval sandtrout with
which he had
forged a symbiosis,
transforming him into a human-sandworm...
