[OOC] The Chat Box

[Kurokuwashu]

"Control the coinage and the courts -- let the rabble have the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advises you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?"

~ Muad'Dib's Secret Message to the Landsraad from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan

[Kurokuwashu]

You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.

~ from "Muad'Dib: The Religious Issues" by the Princess Irulan

[Kurokuwashu]

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

~ from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by Princess Irulan

[Kurokuwashu]

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

~ "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

[Kurokuwashu]

And it came to pass in the third year of the Desert War that Paul-Muad'Dib lay alone in the Cave of Birds beneath the kiswa hangings of an inner cell. And he lay as one dead, caught up in the revelation of the Water of Life, his being translated beyond the boundaries of time by the poison that gives life. Thus was the prophecy made true that the Lisan al-Gaib might be both dead and alive.

~ "Collected Legends of Arrakis" by the Princess Irulan

[Kurokuwashu]

And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.

~ from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan

[Kurokuwashu]

And Muad'Dib stood before them, and he said: "Though we deem the captive dead, yet does she live. For her seed is my seed and her voice is my voice. And she sees unto the farthest reaches of possibility. Yea, unto the vale of the unknowable does she see because of me."

~ from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan