/lit/ - Literature

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Fine, here's a passage partially explaining his attraction to Hwi. She is not only raised to seduce him, she has been bred specifically to appeal to his tastes and presented to him at precisely the moment when he is beginning to falter along the Golden Path. There are many passages related to how this works and why Leto is vulnerable to it. It's partially luck on the Ixians' part, since his own downfall needed to be built into the Golden Path for it to succeed, so the eventual production of a specimen like Hwi was inevitable. Both he and Ix have been changing over the millenia in exactly the ways that would lead them to this outcome. It's not just "they taught her how to seduce him," it's the fact that Leto's prescience accounts for his own behaviorism. He's so prescient that his tyranny is effectively forced determinism down to practically robbing himself of his own free will.