Dune Messiah

Paul is now the big boss king on the sandy planet Dune after winning a huge war, but bad dreams show him even worse fights coming that kill lots of people. Sneaky groups try to trick him with a robot clone of his old friend Duncan and magic babies, so Paul pretends to lose on purpose, goes blind, and walks into the desert like a true desert hero, leaving his kids to fix everything later.

Twelve years after his ascension as Emperor Muad'Dib, Paul Atreides rules a galaxy transformed by the Fremen jihad, which has claimed 61 billion lives in his name, yet his prescient visions reveal an even darker jihad ahead, compelling him to navigate a web of conspiracies orchestrated by the Bene Gesserit, Spacing Guild, Bene Tleilax, and his own sister Alia. Tormented by the 'Golden Path'—a future vision of humanity's survival—Paul grapples with political intrigue, including the gift of a Duncan Idaho ghola named Hayt by the Tleilaxu Master Scytale, and schemes involving Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam and Guild Navigator Edric, all aimed at breaking his hold on power and the spice melange. As Chani's fertility is manipulated by the conspirators, forcing her reliance on the Water of Death, Paul feigns vulnerability, loses his physical sight to a stone burner, and ultimately rejects his godhood by walking into the Arrakis desert, fulfilling Fremen tradition and entrusting his infant twins Leto II and Ghanima to Alia. This act severs his prescience's tyranny, averting immediate catastrophe while planting seeds for Alia's descent into Abomination and the long-term salvation of humanity through prescience's burdens.