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Golden Path (Dune)
The Golden Path is a term in Frank Herbert's fictional ''Dune'' universe referring to Leto II Atreides's strategy to prevent humanity's ultimate destruction. The Golden Path is the main driving force in the Frank Herbert-written novels ''Children of Dune'' (1976), ''God Emperor of Dune'' (1981), ''Heretics of Dune'' (1984), and ''Chapterhouse: Dune'' (1985), and it is brought to a conclusion in the novels ''Hunters of Dune'' (2006) and ''Sandworms of Dune'' (2007) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, who sought to complete the series following the elder Herbert's death.
Leto named the necessities shown in his vision the "''Secher Nbiw''", which is "Golden Path" or "Golden Counsel" in an ancient language (ancient Egyptian)〔Faulkner, Raymond O. 'A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian.' Oxford, Griffith Institute, 1986. pp. 129 (nbw) 242, (shr)〕 known only by Leto II and his twin sister, Ghanima.〔Herbert, Frank. 1976. ''Children of Dune''.〕〔"By this time he knew that Ghanima had worked herself into the belief that he was dead. Only a tiny, isolated capsule of awareness would remain to her, a walled-off memory which could be recalled by words uttered in the ancient language shared only by the two of them in all of this universe. ''Secher Nbiw''. If she heard those words: Golden Path ... only then would she remember him. Until then, he was dead. — ''Children of Dune'', p. 212.〕
==Necessity of the Golden Path==
Through prescience, Paul Atreides and his son Leto II foresaw several threats to the human species. They saw the Imperium's dependency on melange and the superhuman tasks performed by specialized groups such as the Spacing Guild, Mentats, and the Bene Gesserit as threats to any species-wide evolution. Also, because spice could be produced only on Arrakis, human development was constrained by its dependence on the planet.
They interpret this lack of exploration and growth as stagnation and an eventual threat to the survival of humanity. A much more imposing threat, known of only through prescience, was Kralizec, the mythic battle at the end of the universe, which is first directly described in ''God Emperor of Dune''〔"() fell silent, gathering his strength, but he felt the energy flowing from him even as he tried to hold it. Once more, the clamor arose within him -- voices pleading and shouting. "Every historical reference to the Scattering and the Famine Times has to be taken out and reexamined! What have we to fear? No Ixian machine can do what we, the descendants of Duncan Idaho and Siona, have done. How many universes have we populated? None can guess. No one person will ever know. Does the Church fear the occasional prophet? We know that the visionaries cannot see us nor predict our decisions. No death can find all of humankind." No ancestral presences would remain in her consciousness, but she would carry with her forever afterward the clear sights and sounds and smells. The seeking machines would be there, the smell of blood and entrails, the cowering humans in their burrows aware only that they could not escape . . . while all the time the mechanical movement approached, nearer and nearer and nearer ...louder...louder! Everywhere she searched, it would be the same. No escape anywhere." — ''God Emperor of Dune''〕 but not fully revealed to the reader until later.
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