scytale

Noun

Meaning

scytale (plural scytales)

A scytale
(historical) A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography in Ancient Greece.

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Later works At the end of Frank Herbert's sixth and last book in the Dune series, Chapterhouse: Dune (1985), a ghola of Scytale is seemingly the only Tleilaxu Master left alive. Source: Internet

Nearing death from advanced age, a desperate Scytale trades his precious cell samples for permission to grow his own ghola; Duncan and the Bene Gesserit group subsequently grow gholas of Paul, Chani, Jessica, and others. Source: Internet

Scytale offers to revive Chani as a ghola in return for all of Paul's CHOAM holdings. Source: Internet

Paul refuses to submit to the possibility that the Tleilaxu might program Chani in some diabolical way, and Scytale threatens the infants with a knife while he negotiates with Alia. Source: Internet

With a knife over the babies, the Tleilaxu Scytale offers to make a ghola of Chani and restore her to life, in exchange for all of Paul's CHOAM holdings and his effective abdication from the throne. Source: Internet

The Honored Matres have also destroyed the entire Bene Tleilax civilization, with Tleilaxu Master Scytale the only one of his kind left alive. Source: Internet

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