Water of Life

Item from Dune by Frank Herbert

The bile of a drowned sandworm — a lethal poison that a Reverend Mother can internally transmute into an awareness drug, unlocking ancestral memories and prescient vision at the risk of agonizing death.

Also known as: the Water, the poison of Shai-Hulud, the awareness drug

What They Know

• Produced by drowning a sandworm — its death-bile is the raw substance
• Lethal to anyone who has not been trained in Bene Gesserit internal body chemistry
• A Reverend Mother transmutes the poison internally, converting it to an awareness drug
• Unlocks Other Memory — ancestral genetic memories stretching back millennia
• Paul Atreides survived it as the Kwisatz Haderach — the first male to do so
• The ceremony that produces it is the most sacred Fremen ritual

Connections

• created_by — sandworm
• used_by — bene_gesserit
• used_by — paul_atreides

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