The Shield Wall

Location from Dune by Frank Herbert

A massive natural rock barrier that protects Arrakeen's basin from coriolis storms — and whose breach by Paul's atomics changed the course of the Imperium.

Also known as: the Wall, Shield Wall mountains

What They Know

• The natural rock barrier deflects coriolis storms away from the Arrakeen basin
• Gaps in the wall are strategic chokepoints — whoever controls them controls access to Arrakeen
• Paul used family atomics to blast a new passage through the wall during his assault on Arrakeen
• The legal argument was that atomics targeted geography, not people — technically permitted under the Great Convention

Connections

• guards — arrakeen
• borders — deep_desert

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