All 6 Uses of
mortal
in
Dune
- Thufir Hawat, his father's Master of Assassins, had explained it: their mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, had been on Arrakis eighty years, holding the planet in quasi-fief under a CHOAM Company contract to mine the geriatric spice, melange.†
Book 1
- =========================== To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood.†
Book 1
- But these Fremen were inexperienced youths and all they could see was that they owed this Imperial servant a mortal obligation.†
Book A1 -
- TAHADDI CHALLENGE: Fremen challenge to mortal combat, usually to test some primal issue.†
Book Term
- That which a deity demands of a mortal (and the fear provoked by the demand).†
Book Term
- WATER BURDEN: Fremen: a mortal obligation.†
Book Term *
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death