Sandworms - The Gods of Dune Explained | Dune Lore

[@jaythekid4728]

Only thing wrong here is its diet. They eat sand trout like whales eat krill. Sand trout burrow deep under the sand

[@TheLorebrarians]

Appreciate that, I forgot to include the "trout" in the script when I read it! But also, I believe they even eat the microscopic sand plankton

[@WernerKaffl]

@@TheLorebrarians according to the books, they eat the plankton. They couldn't go for the trouts since they are where water is and also containing water. They also don't "eat" the sand itself, but filter the sand for the plankton.

[@BoffaDeesSaltyHoHoHoez]

Wrong, sand trout are baby sandywirmses they eat a plankton like creature that lives in the sand

[@santos.l.halper1999]

​@@BoffaDeesSaltyHoHoHoez they actually do eat sand trout though as well as the sand plankton. Just another casualty of Arrakeen nature

[@Taygon094]

Aren't the sand trouts also sandworms? They turned Leto into a sandworm, no?

[@evanBryan1]

honestly incredible how dune as a whole has become such a cultural phenomenon in 2024 when the original book was written even before starwars. such a rich story

[@grayfae3]

‘star wars’ used a lot of the same elements, so yeah, dune was there first.

[@johnhalll5455]

Star wars "borrowed" a lot from dune

[@Xalashaska]

i remember talking with my best friend about 2015 or so, we wondered how a Dune movie could become a success since so many stories have taken inspirations from it. We thought it was something only in our dreams, yet here we are 9 years later with 2 great movies and a fanbase that keep growing. It feels like having read all the books back in the day was worth it. Maybe this timeline isn’t so cursed after all.

[@J12ulz]

It took the vision and the dedication of a true fan, committed to doing justice to this series at the risk of almost his career. The first dune had so many mixed reviews, and only the fans that read the book understood the gamble Villeneuve took, knowing that splitting the book is the only right way to do it.

[@jakobtarrasericsson4295]

It also inspired other Sci-Fi universes such as Warhammer 40k

[@leegibson5469]

The books were always about human evolution. How our environment causes us to adapt. The sand worms and spice are sort of a cheat. They helped speed up our evolution. Dune and the worms made our bodies adapt. Spice was for our minds. In the books the Fremen were almost physically perfect. Their blood congealed faster. They were tireless. Perfect warriors.

[@acarroll6842]

Bless the Maker and his water.

[@falaramal3979]

Bless the coming and going of him

[@jamesleonard2870]

Rad!

[@nicolebarfuss3067]

may his passing cleanse the world.

[@aidensindia8914]

May he keep the world for his people.

[@willempasterkamp862]

Wedding at Cana ; water is the spirit (life) the desert lacks

[@Milkra]

Fantasy has dragons, science fiction has giant desert worms.

[@SwampFeet678]

Wyrm = Dragon

[@Sometuy11A]

More dune content please!

[@TheLorebrarians]

More is on the way! What topics or characters are you most curious about?

[@Sometuy11A]

@@TheLorebrarians I would love to see more about the Titans and Omnius.

[@Uzotrups]

Never saw a video about the different weapons and war implements from dune.

[@ShawnChedda]

More on religion & politics of the Dune universe please

[@rhoxkillmor7475]

How about a video about Erasmus

[@NRG2]

They are Fungi. Mycelial networks are even made of tunes. It’s the Panspermia concept just adapted a bit.

[@NRG2]

They do all the same jobs

[@DJEylisium]

I've never heard them described as such in the books

[@themonolougist]

Amazing overview of these great divine beasts. Your voice is so soothing yet so informative!

[@TheLorebrarians]

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed!

[@PerfectDark0]

Please talk about the Bene Gesserit, The Voice, and more of Dune’s supernatural elements

[@adriansalas9032]

My brother in Shai Hulud, This video talks about GIANT SANDWORMS. How is that not supernatural enough?

[@LuigiaTV]

​@adriansalas9032 Giant sized lifeforms that survive off an incredibly vast resource which is readily available at all times is a lot less supernatural then The Voice and Bene Gesserit. Like one is Alien but believable enough and the other is supernatural. The ability to compel others with seemingly telepathic commands while also keeping the memories of all those who came before stored in the inner recesses of your mind. To be born an abomination and have the ego memories of ppl in your past try to take over your mind. That is supernatural.

[@papabird4425]

Alright, so you got these ladies called the Bene Gesserit who have trained themselves to the degree it appears they have supernatural powers, even being able to control others with their voice, which they call The Voice. I hope thus helped.

[@Xsiondu]

I've truly enjoyed your videos and greatly appreciate you breaking down this sand worm for me.

[@Flyboy245]

Awesome subject. I just watched the new one the other day. I’ve only read the first book, so I’m not as steeped with arrakis lore as I am others. But it’s no less fascinating

[@NRG2]

Right from the beginning of Messiah I realized the Worms came from Ascended Masters. Even if the Guild began their biochemical cultivation of “spice technology” with more archaic practices…. It’s pretty blatant that “we are worms” kinda ties into Panspermia idea of Fungi creating all life on Earth. He even made the Spice the method of traversing space… just like Fungi travel in comets

[@antoniehm87]

What you talkin bout Willis?

[@rahvinkeaves7871]

Can you elaborate?

[@terrellreeves6468]

Best video on this I've seen

[@TheLorebrarians]

Appreciate it!

[@jeffabodeely101]

Dude, you did great job explaining Dune

[@doctorrobz]

I would love to hear more about the religious part of Dune, the prophecy of the Fremen etc

[@kajtekmccranck9978]

Amazing video. I really enjoyed it! Pleas can you tell me what music piece did you use from the 12.20 minute? It's beautiful

[@aidangamalieltayao3297]

The toy of the 80s sandworm scares me to this day. The sarlacc and krayt dragons would literally head for the hills.

[@willempasterkamp862]

Basically the sandworm (a god ) = morky Crom, the desert variety of EL the sea-dragon or whale. Celestial it is Cetos or the great snake (serpent) handled by Ophiuchus (= Paul) .

[@misapheonix]

Oh damn. . . After looking into the full history, it had me expecting some time travel shenanigans, with the worm's origins lol It would explain why Villeneux made his worm stop right in front of Paul; their destinies are tied! They have waters of life as their blood vessels. They are aware of the future, more than sentient?

[@DxrkyJxnkoJRM]

Why in the movie they only explain the work stopping in front of paul bc of a thumper being turned on somewhere else. The fremen even says “he’s only alive bc of my thumper”

[@mencken8]

They would indeed need to be gods, as on a planet as arid as Arrakis / Dune, this large number of gigantic creatures would have no means of existing except as supernatural beings, or life beyond our definition.

[@TheTechDweller]

Why do sandworms go towards any form of vibrations if water is poison to them? Human beings are mostly water, isn't our blood poisonous to them?

[@noehonegger4624]

Its probably an amount thing firstly and secondly a lot of the h2o in our body is bound in some form or another

[@TheCorrodedMan]

The amount of water in our bodies is no where near enough to poison or kill a mature worm. It’s only in large quantities such as basins or bodies of water like oceans and seas that _really_ do them in. Hence why most of them began to die out during the age of Alia’s regency; the terraforming of Arrakis into a garden world had started to produce rain and small lakes, which sandworms couldn’t avoid swiftly enough. The moisture in the atmosphere began to affect their breeding cycle adversely, and the result was that within two hundred years, all save One was gone, and Arrakis had been changed into a planet that makes earth look downright dour.

[@nathanhimmerich2]

1. The sandworm doesn't eat sand, it basically filters it. 2. The bits that it filters out and consumes aren't generally sandtrout, they burrow too deep. They eat their sandplankton among other microscopic things. It is interesting that, while they can eat other things, they are not only cannibals, but eat their own young. These are super-sentient creatures, so that's pretty intense. 3. You mention at the end that the sandworm showed up in Earth, did you mean Arrakis? Earth isn't relevant in the Dune series. I remember them returning to Arrakis. I'm not 100% sure though. 4. It would be worth mentioning that they are exported to other planets for spice production and to "desertify" said planets. In this era, even aquatic 'sand'worms are created and utilized. 5. Leto II was the first merger with Shai Hulud, but not the last. A ghola of Duncan Idaho merged with Shai Hulud as well, and is probably why Leto II kept so many Duncans. Of course Leto II could see this conclusion and potential in Duncan, there's something 'divine' (in the Bene Gessrit eugenics sort of way) about them both.

[@TheLorebrarians]

Great points 1. Yes, my script was inaccurate and others have pointed out the correct diet. 3. When I say "earth" here I just mean the earth as in the ground of Rakis. Appreciate it!

[@Merknilash]

A lot of what you’re calling out is some of the weird shit that came way later and tbh is best dismissed as bad writing

[@milseq]

Loved this!

[@Sealhunt]

SO...Sandworms are gigantic living plasma reactors? Damn, that is awesome! Hearing about the sandworm lifecycle conjured images of these creatures being designed, programmed somehow. Just a thought.

[@jmdesertadventures803]

My question is, how did humans discover the spice melange if we didn't have the spice to make navigators? Unless arrakis and spice were discovered before the butlerian jihad, there's no way.

[@lilyeves892]

It's not that ftl travel is impossible without spice it's just dangerous. I think before the discovery of spice 1 in 8 ships would be lost when making jumps

[@brentgauspohl9779]

It could be that they knew of the spice melange before the Butlerian Jihaad, and so once they lacked navigation thinking machines once it was over, at least knew it was a lead on a new solution: limited prescience-based navigation.

[@Dr_DRock]

Before the guild humans had faster than light travel, in the time of the Butlerian Jihad. It would take months to make a trip from earth to Selusa, or Arrakis. Arrakis was a sparsely colonized planet but definitely a member planet of the imperium. They knew about the properties of spice like prolonged life and clearer thinking, but the properties of seeing the future weren't discovered until after the thinking machines were conquered. Space folding, which the guild uses to travel instantly across space is risky if you can't see a safe path. Before it was called the guild space folding technology was owned by a company called Venkey industries. They got close to finding safe paths with machines but were attacked because of the recent Jihad and the prohibition against thinking machines. That's when the discoverer of space folding Norma Senva, not Tio Holtzman, figured out that spice in very high quantity, could help certain people predict the near future and see a safe path. Before navigators there was a 1:10 chance a space folding ship would vanish. The army of the Jihad only used space folding when absolutely necessary and knew it would lose 10% of its force each time. After Norma discovered the properties of spice that allowed navigators to do their thing it was a closely guarded secret by Venkey, but eventually they brokered a deal with early house Carino that let them keep their monopoly on navigators and become the guild. Space folding was never what the guilds monopoly was based on. There were other companies that had space folding ships, but their loss rate was 10%. The guild monopoly is based on the secrets of the navigators.

[@TheCorrodedMan]

It was discovered during the infant years of the Imperium shortly after the Jihad. At that time, the Guild existed but was no where as powerful or efficient as it would become, hence many planets deployed their own explorers who would make “Hail Mary” jumps to new stars in the hope that somewhere, they’d hit gold. One of the Imperial Family’s cartographers, one Tleilaxu Tuk Keedair, discovered Melange while he was scouting the Canopus system, and the trade in it just picked up from there. Eventually, the Guild got their grubby hands on some and became the all-powerful force it was in the books.

[@jelanicampbell1438]

Imagine those worm castings

[@LegionReQuiem]

Loving the dune content still!

[@TheLorebrarians]

Love to hear it, more is on the way

[@uknowbass]

Saleem was the first sand rider per recorded history but the tools he used already existed. Thus, no one really knows who the first sand rider really was. Discuss the Rosack drug (Bene Gesserit) versus water of life (Fremen).

[@GrunkyPeeep]

Good stuff 👍

[@gamiezion]

bless the coming and going of him

[@ievgeniagodynskyi1049]

Thank you so much!❤

[@TheLorebrarians]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@ZiGGi03]

I’ve always linked the spice as mushroom spores and blue juice as psilocybin with links to the blue juice and shaman like women . I’ve always thought this as someone who’s tripped hundreds of times in my life now you see worms eating stuff . Just a thought

[@circle-qs4ps]

i need more

[@CZpersi]

I thought that the sandworms did not survive the attack by Honored Matres, but were successfully replanted onto the Bene Gesserit's home planet, which became the new Dune.

[@TheLorebrarians]

You're correct in the original dune series. The expanded dune (sandworms of dune) reveals original sandworms had survived deep within Arrakis

[@AvoiceInYourheadd]

How many sand trout would it take to terraform a plant?

[@WarsmithHuggy]

Huh. Something tells me Robert Jordan was a fan of Dune. A lot of parallels 😅

[@lot2196]

Spice = Oil. Arakkis = Middle East.

[@briandain8432]

Not to be Confused with the Sandworms of Beetlejuice. Those are really weird by comparison on the Netherworld of Saturn...

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

I read a most of the novels about a hundred years ago.

[@RoloT007]

Dune! What does mine say? Sweet! What does mine say?

[@viniciusribeiro6451]

The worm is a living machine.

[@livechilllife]

A video about the voice pls😊

[@jamesleonard2870]

Shi halude! This was cool =]

[@СербияРоссияЭкспаты]

Just scratching the surface of storytelling and video experimentation. VideoGPT seamlessly integrated into my process, subtly refining my content with its magic touch.

[@lucioq87]

Good explanation of the lifecycle! But since you have got sideways with SPOILER ALERT why not citing the worms exported to other worlds from the benegesserit

[@Wiedadde]

So they are all snorting worm shit to travel between the stars...

[@TheChuckwagonLite]

Glorified earthworms

[@erik3371]

Worms

[@Kneedeepinstock]

How exactly does one dismount a sand worm after you start riding it? Or an entire army? And, once you get off dont they trying to kill you immediately? 😅 Is this explained in the books? PLOTHOLE?

[@adamsparks4020]

i think they turn it so theyre on the side then jump off? and I'm pretty sure in the books they say the worms skin is irritated by the hooks and it goes off and sulks for a while after they dismount

[@papabird4425]

Riding the worm exhausts it. If it is overridden, it just sort of flops over on the surface

[@MartinGasparini86]

my question is where did they come from...and their stage are kinda weird... they are not original of doom but they transform it in a desert... and they start eating water but then become a poison for their adult stage... look something man made to me... I mean look like they were made as weapons to put on planets make it deserted

[@jaquandrejones]

So, they were likely planted on dune the same way characters later plant worms on other plants. If you read the 7th and 8th books, they make hundreds of dunes. Even water sand worms. Yup.

[@MartinGasparini86]

@@jaquandrejones exactly...be a creature who first eat water and then become poisonous for them look like a made weakness... so they don't expand... is weird that on the beginning they can consume water and then just become poison... that not how evolution works...

[@CordeliaWagner1999]

Why destroy a liebte Planet? Not even the dumbest Religious would come up with that.

[@MartinGasparini86]

@@CordeliaWagner1999 my idea is that was some kind of biological weapons... you drop the sand trout and wait... the desertification is so fast...in 10 years they end up with a desert full of giant worms who will kill your enemies...then when they are gone you have a spice factory ready

[@demongo2007]

They don’t eat sand…🙄. They eat sand trout, like whales eating krill.

[@askani21]

They eat sand plankton, not trouts! (The plankton coalesces and eventually forms trouts, and the trouts become worms, so technically they're all the same species lol)

[@criticality2056]

Whales, eating smaller whales. The inevitable result of..cannibalism

[@dangerdan084]

Tremors

[@ATN2USN]

There are few signs of worms in Dune 2. You see the mouths and clouds of dust, but with CGI,. I would have expected more.

[@xxcridonxx7614]

There are few signs as they aren’t a threat anymore. Paul has mastered the desert ways. The two scenes the worms were in however were stunning

[@sweepyourspeech8350]

Funny we call that castings...😅

[@westerling8436]

The real mandingo

[@stephenshanebeaty]

If the sand worms feed on essentially their own young they would die out quickly. That part of the story is just bad writing.

[@Aroo_0]

Those things even for a phantasy creature are the most stupidly absurd of all.

[@eztvlight1202]

😂 How dare you. I think Frank Herbert did great. A free thinker

[@papabird4425]

What's the coolest creature you've invented?

[@Da_bear-ij9gm]

Phantasy? Like a phantom fantasy? 😂

[@papabird4425]

@Da_bear-ij9gm both spellings are acceptable, though one is archaic.

[@baahcusegamer4530]

Big. They are really big.

[@HappyHighwayman]

The internet says they eat sand plankton not sand

[@JWRame]

All I know is they shit out spice

[@cacogenicist]

If you take a wet, Earth-like world and make it a planet-wide desert, that isn't _terraforming_ -- to terraform is to make something more _like_ Earth. The meaning is right there in the word's morphemes: terra + form "Terraform" does not mean _radically change a planet._

[@luckyowl6432]

It's almost like words and they way they are used evolve over time. It may not have started that way but " terraformimg" definitely means to " radically change a planet". I think your caught up in the semantics.

[@mcul3474]

💯 correct

[@jaquandrejones]

Well, if we're gonna get SUPER needy, then terraforming is almost 100% of the time specific to creating a habitable atmosphere in how its actually used.

[@trumpsextratesticle8590]

Good thing Earth doesnt have any deserts then...

[@Sometuy11A]

Semantics. It's used a lot now to just mean changing an environment into a more hospitable one for whatever species is orchestrating the change, be it humans, demons from an alternate dimension, or sandworms.

[@luckyowl6432]

Good video.... but I got the impression that you got all this information from a wiki before making this video.

[@CordeliaWagner1999]

"Religion is pretty notsmart" That were my thoughts as a kid about the 1980s movie. Hasn't changed much. Religion is something humanity has to overcome. Asap. Looking at the atracities done by a real life desert Religion....

[@Milkra]

Shut up

[@kennethgreene7139]

God's poop ?

[@Matticus898]

I think its alien organism that took over humanity

[@jennabronson4704]

They ate sand plankton.

[@Khultan]

Unrealistic. No other lifeforms.

[@walterbrooks2329]

There are other lifeforms on Arrakis. The books mention mice, rabbits, lizards, birds and insects.

[@drugsmcsnortington]

Looks like someone hasn't read any of the books...

[@Khultan]

@@drugsmcsnortington I never did.

[@drugsmcsnortington]

@@Khultan you should

[@Khultan]

@@drugsmcsnortington Maybe one of these days.

[@monkeytron5061]

It is impossible physically for an animal to get that large. A worm is particularly incapable of this. Sorry to piss on your chips but… no way, not ever.

[@Itsjust_vic]

You realize this isn’t real right

[@monkeytron5061]

@@Itsjust_vic haha yes. But yer know. It’s fun to take fiction seriously and see what happens.

[@trevorD1156]

A poorly written trope of a creature, that makes no sense and is justification an epic shot that is epically stupid. WTF why would any living creature eat a giant metal machine? They wouldn't, this was an epically filmed turd of a story with horrendous audio mixing, and genuinely the most overrated film in film history.

[@flavorcontextualized6985]

Or you’ve spent your whole life learning about biology and you’re best friends with philosophy icon Alan Watts and you write a book so prolific that it causes other people to create a Pulitzer for people who come after you and emulate your work and finally society is in a place where you could read the six books and understand the picture he was painting god rest his soul. All so some shithead know it all on the internet can give his two cents at the bottom of a KZbin video comment section.

[@MootRed]

Your so edgy. I bet you're so fun at parties

[@alkalel14]

Tell us how you REALLY feel trevor 😂

[@CordeliaWagner1999]

I try to like Dune. I don't get why people like it. So much religious nonsense.

[@chadiverson3796]

Ok fed....