Uxtal
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Uxtal is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is Lost Tleilaxu Elder Burah's assistant, and appears in Hunters of Dune.
Second-rank Uxtal's job was to serve as an assistant to Elder Burah, transcribing meetings and disseminating the information to other Elders of the Lost Tleilaxu. That is until his entire life changed when Khrone killed Burah.
With all the Elders replaced by Lost Tleilaxu Face Dancers, Uxtal was forced to travel to the Tleilaxu capitol city of Bandalong to create the orange adrenaline-based chemical spice substitute for the rogue Honored Matres leader Hellica, who now ruled Bandalong. He was soon tasked to create a ghola for Face Dancer Khrone from a partially damaged nullentropy tube found inside a partially charred Tleilaxu Master, and urged to create synthetic spice. [1]
About four years after the escape of the Ithaca from Chapterhouse, Uxtal was able to create a Baron Vladimir Harkonnen ghola for Khrone, and he was able to come up with a serviceable manufacturing method for producing the adrenaline-based spice substitute that was efficient enough to satisfy Matre Superior Hellica. [2]
About eleven years after the escape of the Ithaca from Chapterhouse, Khrone discovered the dagger that killed Muad'dib, preserved inside a nullentropy field in Dan along with Muad'dib's blood. Khrone ordered Uxtal to create a Paul Atreides ghola. [3]
Uxtal's first attempt at growing a Paul ghola failed because the axlotl tank was not properly tended over the years, and the ghola died. Uxtal finally succeeded in creating a Paul ghola, it was born thirteen years after the escape of the Ithaca from Chapterhouse, and was named Paolo. [4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hunters Of Dune pg. 49-59, 87
- ^ Ibid. pg. 140-143
- ^ Ibid. pg. 216-218
- ^ Ibid. pg. 257-263, 288, 313
