DUNE LORE - Origins of the Fremen (History Before Arrakis) 

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One thing I've always loved about Dune was the Reverend Mothers. Specifically, I love the fact that the Freman and the Bene Gesserit independently discovered a way to awaken the ancestral memories. It's rare in science fiction media that you get to see parallel development paths explored in any way, instead people trying to make a monolithic event spread across a galactic environment.

While some people criticize Dune for giving the idea that simply harsh environment made the Fremen super soldiers, things like this show it was much more than that. Their people's history was defined by conflict and oppression, and so they built their skills to be able to eventually resist even the Sardukaur.

Sources: "Dune" by Frank Herbert "The Dune Encyclopedia" by Frank Herbert and Willis E. McNelly MISSING: Anything by Pinky and the Brian. I wholeheartedly approve.

PLEASE make more Dune videos, this is incredible

Adds a whole new layer to Chani's line "this prophecy is how they enslave us"

One of the reasons Herbert wrote Dune was due to the distrust he had of charismatic leaders and how the people are fickle, manipulable and surrender their freedom (with the respective critical sense and necessary distrust to the government) to follow the various scoundrels that infest the global history. The sight of JFK and the charisma he exuded - just remember the romanticism of his government and person that emerged after his assassination. The best passage of the 6 books is in the dialogue with Stilgar in "Dune Messiah": Genghis Khan killed 4 million, Hitler killed 6 million, and I sterilized planets." What a magnificent "hero" Paul Atreides was. And how the followers of a leader expand the mistakes of their leadership (religious, political, etc).

So they were a mix between japanese zen Buddhists and sunni muslims thats actually really fucking interesting

The Fremen were originally Hobbits from the West Farthing.

Great retelling of the Fremen History. Can't wait for the next one.

This is awesome, really enjoy your Dune lore videos

I've followed your channel for a little while now and love the quality and variety of your content. Visuals are really important for how much I enjoy things. Dune is an incredibly deep universe. Having not read (or listened) to all the books this adds some detail and although I do enjoy it, it's far from my favourite universe to explore. There are issues with the writing which I won't spoil, some people might feel I am missing a trick with the detail. Whenever I think about Dune I can't help but think about the Homeworld game series, especially Deserts of Kharak.

Excellent work! Loving the Dune lore videos.

Great content. Clear explanation with star maps and pictures. The best video. 🙂

Frakin great content 🤘🏾fantastic art and editing!

Dune lore? A delightful surprise! High quality work as ever gentlemen.

So awesome, hope there will be more Dune content

Very well done I really enjoyed this!

Amazing video. Love your dune content

This is fascinating - and way cool! Please create more Dune-related content! I would watch the heck out of that :D

That is some deep lore you have gathered. Good job.

Thank you so much for this history of the Freman. Had no idea they endured so much. Look forward to your next video

If they took everyone from Poritrin who was left there to settle the planet? Did they just use the Zensunni to do all the hard work before settling it with other people?

I hope we’re getting more Units of Dune lore like we have with The Sardaukar

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What a great video ❤

The Fremen were already on Arrakis by 1AG. They found the spice that was used to establish the Guild, so AG age began.

I love how you guys did this, I think you'll love the Tron series, too.

Thank you!

Been waiting on your dune episodes since the sardakkar or however the hell you spell um keep them coming now that I’m thinking about you probably waited till the movie was close

Amazing video! Wondering if this is extracted from any books or developed by yourself. Either way it is great content!

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I only read the first book, and while it's not my favourite piece of literature I can definitely see why so many regard it as one of the best sci-fi novels ever 😊

Love this!!!!!!

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The Imperial State was rlly just moving the Zensunni around like they were playing Rise of Empires or smth😭

Amazing video.

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Any chance of a Dune playlist? You have 3 videos already. And I assume more are to come.

MORE DUNE VIDEOS PLEASE

God, Dune lore is amazing

Herbert had a great grasp on Civilizational change over great time. A Sci-fi genius. One can grasp this time scape just by looking into the changes of Judaism over the thousands of years.

Very nice video

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Hell YES!!!

The origins of the Dune universe are interesting!

Adore this video. Dune has such rich worldbuilding.

Would you guys ever release your music you use in these dune videos?

the ANderson/Herbedrt Jr books have a fascinating background, but there is the conflicts with that ENcyclopeida, but the Encyc. was never confirmed as 100% canon. The authors got rather creative.

it’s been a while since i have read the books, but if my memory is correct, the freman where slaves during the machine wars to some of the humans that were not subjects of the AI. they got their freedom and migrated to dune and settled there before the spacing guild where ever established. like i said it’s been a long time since i read the books, but im sure the name freman is a derivative of ‘free man’ harping back from their slave days.

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I would like to see about the units and structure of the Hunnic army

Of course, I understand that it is a desert planet and it is logical for people with dark skin and hair to live there, but if you read the books carefully, you will understand that Fremen, like all other people in the universe, have a European appearance. There are not many descriptions of the appearance of people in the books, but those that exist show that the Fremen had a European appearance, for example:Physical descriptions of characters Paul - black hair, green eyes, oval face ““Is he not small for his age, Jessica?” the old woman asked.” Reverend Mother Mohiam on Paul, from chapter 1 of Dune. “face oval like Jessica’s, but strong bones…hair: the Duke’s black-black but with browline of the maternal grandfather who cannot be named, and that thin, disdainful nose; shape of directly staring green eyes: like the old Duke, the paternal grandfather who is dead.” Reverend Mother Mohiam on Paul, from chapter 1 of Dune Jessica stared at her son, seeing the oval shape of face so like her own. But the hair was the Duke’s-coal-colored and tousled. Long lashes concealed the lime-toned eyes...her lines in eyes and facial outline, but sharp touches of the father peering through that outline like maturity emerging from childhood.” Jessica on Paul, from chapter 1 of Dune. Jessica - tall, slim, bronze hair, green eyes, small nose, full lips “...so many years ago. A skinny girl with hair the color of bronze...” A description of Jessica when she was younger, from chapter 1 of Dune. “She looked more regal than the Emperor’s own blood….there was no single and precise thing that brought her beauty to focus. The face was oval under a cap of hair the color of polished bronze. Her eyes were set wide, as green and clear as the morning skies of Caladan. The nose was small, the mouth wide and generous. Her figure was good but scant: tall and with its curves gone to slimness. He remembered that the lay sisters at the school had called her skinny, so his buyers had told him. But that description oversimplified. She had brought a regal beauty back into the Atreides line. He was glad that Paul favored her.” Leto describing Jessica, from chapter 1 of Dune. Leto I - tall, dark olive skin, angular face, gray eyes. Of Greek descent. “The Duke was tall, olive-skinned. His thin face held harsh angles warmed only by deep gray eyes.” From chapter 1 of Dune. “She looked at his tallness, at the dark skin that made her think of olive groves and golden sun on blue waters. There was woodsmoke in the gray of his eyes, but the face was predatory: thin, full of sharp angles and planes.” Jessica describing Leto. From chapter 1 of Dune.Wellington Yueh - slim, long black hair, square shaped head. “Paul...saw the man’s stick figure standing...took in at a glance the wrinkled black clothing, the square block of a head with purple lips and drooping mustache, the diamond tattoo of Imperial Conditioning on his forehead, the long black hair caught in the Suk School’s silver ring at the left shoulder. “From chapter 1 of Dune. Gurney Halleck - blond and balding, scarred mouth. “Halleck’s wispy blond hair trailed across barren spots on his head. His wide mouth was twisted into a pleasant sneer, and the scar of the inkvine whip slashed across his jawline seemed to move with a life of its own.” From chapter 1 of Dune. Duncan Idaho - dark skin, round face, black curly hair. “Idaho’s dark, round face was drawn into a frown. His hair, curling like the fur of a black goat...” From chapter 1 of Dune Stilgar - thin, black beard “...he raised a thin, darkly veined hand.” From chapter 1 of Dune. “...pulled aside his veil, revealing a thin nose and full-lipped mouth in a glistening black beard.” From chapter 1 of Dune. Chani Kynes - skinny redhead “…and a girl there-very skinny with big eyes. Her eyes are all blue, no whites in them.” Paul describing his dreams of Chani, from chapter 1 of Dune. “...he saw an elfin face, black pits of eyes.” Paul seeing Chani for the first time. From chapter 2 of Dune. Liet Kynes - tall, thin, sandy hair, thick eyebrows, patchy beard and mustache “...tall, thin...long sandy hair, a sparse beard. The eyes were that fathomless blue-within-blue under thick brows.” Leto on Liet Kynes, from chapter 1 of Dune. “His long hair and beard were mussed. The blue eyes without whites were a darkness under heavy brows.” From chapter 2 of Dune. “Wisps of sandy hair protruded from it, matched by a sparse beard and thick brows. Beneath the blue-within-blue eyes, remains of a dark stain spread down to his cheeks. A matted depression across mustache and beard showed where a stillsuit tube had marked out its path...” Description of Liet Kynes from chapter 2 of Dune.

A harsh land can breed deadly warriors.

Great video. How did the Guild navigate before the discovery of the spice?

I thought only in Arrakis can spice be found, so what did the spacing guild use before for interstellar travel?

Could you do a version from the Prequels?

What are his sources fot this? I've read most of the books and I don't remember the stuff at the beginning of the video.

Great video bro, I’d love to be a fremen

Anyone read the Wheel of Time? I feel like Robert Jordan got his inspiration for the Aiel from the Fremen.

Did some of the zensuni on Salusa Secundus become Sardukar?

I’m just now getting into Dune, and it’s amazing. I will say I still love Lord of the Rings so much more but it’s fun to explore this new world

I truly love the Dune books, particularly the first 3. This history seems very contrived however, despite the FH authorship.

so are the fremen and Sardaukars related from a common ancestry?

so the sardukar and freman share a common ancestor?

Instant sub, if only for the fact that you used the Dune Encyclopedia as a source, and not anything from the BH/KJA universe.

I was always curious about where the worms came from. I've read the majority of dune series (admittedly long ago) and can't remember a definitive answer on where the worms came from.

"Legends of Dune" by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson was a fantastic trilogy in the Dune prequel series.

First of all, i love your work guys! But all of this seems odd. Kevin J. Andersson with Herbert's son, Brian wrote prequell series talking stories before the Guild was found (10 000yr in past). The books tell stories about the Butlerian Jihad, and during that time are already some zensunni setlements on Arrakis. Also during Butlerian Jihad, Terra was totally burnt to nuclear ember in a war against The Machines. All this is around 100 B.G. So how could the Empire sent the zensunni from Terra at 2800 A.G. if there should be no Terra by that time and zensunni shloud already be on Arrakis? I read that K.J. Anderson and B. Herbert found Frank's notes about Dune, dune's universe and his plans for the saga and according to that, they together finished the saga and wrote series of prequels. So i guess all of their work should be canon. Take care!

I still have my copy of the Dune Encyclopedia.

Where are your sources for this? In the books I've read so far many things are different

Why the animation doesn't look like the fremens described in the book?

Why does this sound so different from the books of brian herbert and kevin anderson, are they not cannon?

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I guess I don't understand the point of uprooting them, moving them so they'll colonize a new world, uprooting them, leaving the colony abandoned, planting them, uprooting them again....Why were they always the first option for forced resettlement?

I wonder if everyone on Arrakis gets low key high from all those spice particles in the air?.

11:54 So, all the Zensunni except for those on Hamonthep were eventually reunited. I wonder... if Frank Herbert had lived long enough, maybe he could have written a book on what happened to them. Maybe, it could have shown the descendants of the Hamonthep Zensunni reuniting with their Fremen cousins.

I always thought it was 'Harmonthep'?

Last time I was this early, George RR Martin still hadn’t finished the last book in a song of ice and fire.

What about the machine war that let to metats

If only you knew Arabic, you would understand the true meaning of those words. 💪🏻🔻

Isn't the Sardukar also descendants of the zensunni?

God created Arrakis to train the faithful. One cannot go against the word of god

Is it freemen but with one e taken away ? 😅

Unfortunately I never watched this but thanks for the video for people that do

Heighliner is pronounced “high-liner”; not “hay-liner.” 8:34

i don't recall the word mystery associated with the fremen religion, but i think i can certainly see it in practice. yes mystery of daily events that seems to be at the heart of the fremen. the word i associate them with is pragmatic. if it is good for the tribe to leave one behind in the sand then so be it. pragmatic rules above all. i can live with mystery and pragmatic in my religion. even lying when it is neccessary is covered in the pragmatic and it is a mystery why god would place such a decision before us.

Oh, that’s what he looks like.

I take it we aren't counting the Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert books? When did the fandom remove them from canon? It seems like a lot of people are only counting the resource book and the 6 originals.

Also due to the buttlerian jihad and other great events, the religion of the imperium included elements of collective human experiences , as they were of the belief that religion is a living entity that evolves as the people evolve, like in the orange catholic bible (thou shall not make a machine in the likness of the human mind) . and also ended all research in AI and robotics, except on a small scale (planet ix from example was more lax in this field and continued to produce inventions in those fields) which garnered anger from the planets of the imperium and banning all ixian manufactured products. the human race was then forced to evolve the human mind itself without any reliance on machines, this in my opinion is what's missing in our human evolution, its noticeable that our reliance of evolution resulted in people without adequate skills and lowering our intelligence. take a man and leave him without any technology and he will be as dependent as a child, cant navigate without GPS, cant calculate without a calculator, cant reason or be productive without a computer. also the ban on psychoactive substances continues to further this state, as psychoactive substances make you understand yourself better and develop the voice of wisdom inside, research was done on extrasensory perception and the effect of psychoactive plants,fungi and drugs ,such as mushrooms,cannabis, peyote,and lsd. and the results were in line with dune's findings. psychoactive compounds awaken extra sensory perception and the voice within, it helps one reason without attachment or bias and look at situations in a correct way. therefore contributing to the development and evolution of the human mind.

Where did you get your images from, Google AI? Did the Dune universe become "California"?

So. The "Dune Encyclopedia" exists.

It'll be cool if they ever try making another adaptation of this...The last one, in 1984, was pretty good, then they just stopped.

Thank you for Fremen Origin. Can you more videos of Star Wars especially origin of Je'daii or Sith either Legends or Canon?

They were originally called the Freemen of Dune.

The thelaxu were zennsuni where did they come from and did they still dance like the zennsuni on earth

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