Penso que os guerreiros Fremen deveriam ter dreads...O legal desse desenho é que foi colorido com pastel, então deixa a clara impressão de estar coberto de areia....Os dreads seriam inevitáveis num clima seco, árido, sem contar seria um sacrilégio monstro desperdiçar água pra lavar as madeixas....
A caracterização dos fremen no filme ficou muito boa, apesar de nessa foto eles parecerem uns índios mendigos...Essas lanças de pescador não tem nada a ver....Detalhe para o Zacarias pagando de chefe e o maluco que fez aquele filme "O Pianista" na esquerda. Isso levanta uma questão interessante -Seriam todos os fremen parecidos, como uma etnia? Ou não, devido a misturada de refugiados? Ao longo dos anos devido isolamento e inevitáveis casamentos entre primos....não teríamos uma homogeinização nas características físicas??
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Culture
The Fremen are organized into communities called
sietches. Each sietch has a
naib leader who decides what the people in the sietch will do (sending patrols, collecting
spice, moving to a new place, etc.) and leads the sietch men into battle. A naib can be challenged by another fremen for leadership, and every new naib makes a ceremony in which he swears he will never fall alive into the enemy's hands. The Fremen practice
polygamy, apparently as a means of pinpointing male infertility. Because their diet is rich with the spice melange, adult Fremen have blue-in-blue eyes.
Each sietch has a Sayyadina, a wise woman trained in the spiritual traditions of her people who frequently functions as an
acolyte to a Fremen Reverend Mother, comparable to a
Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. A Sayyadina can also function as a spiritual leader in her own right. There are hints in the novels that the Sayyadina rite preceded the adoption of the role and title of the Bene Gesserit equivalent.
[
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The Fremen system of
justice relies ultimately on
trial by combat. The naib of the tribe is the person who killed the previous naib in single combat. Any Fremen may challenge another to a
duel to the death over matters of
etiquette,
law, or
honour; the winner of the duel is responsible for the wife, children, and certain possessions of the loser, as well as the right of the circumstances leading to the duel. Because a duel is fought without the water-retaining
stillsuit, the victor is entitled to the
deathstill-reclaimed water to make up for the moisture sacrificed in the fight.
[
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Fremen are some of the best hand to hand combatants in the universe. Their difficult upbringing and spartan existence ensure that only the strongest survive.
In Dune, Herbert writes that "Paul recalled the stories of the Fremen — that their children fought as ferociously as the adults."
Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV later notes, "I only sent in five troop carriers with a light attack force to pick up prisoners for questioning. We barely got away with three prisoners and one carrier. Mind you,
Baron, my
Sardaukar were almost overwhelmed by a force composed mostly of women, children, and old men."
Due to the invention of the personal body shield, hand to hand combat has re-entered human conflict; all forms of projectile weapons have been made semi-obsolete. Energy weapons —
lasguns — react violently with a shield, creating an explosion comparable to sub-atomic
fusion, killing operator and shield wearer. Body shielding may be compromised, but only by moving an edged weapon at a speed slow enough to penetrate the tuning of a shield. Additionally, shields are known to drive the fiercely territorial sandworms of Arrakis into a killing frenzy. For this reason, shields are not used on Arrakis's open regions with any frequency and as a result of these plot devices, Fremen have an edge in hand to hand combat because they do not slow their weapons when attacking, unlike those used to attacking a shielded enemy. Fremen use different archaic weapons to great effect (firearms, crossbows), but the most deadly and prized possession of a Fremen warrior is the
crysknife — a personally tuned blade ground from the tooth of a
sandworm. An untreated crysknife will disintegrate soon upon the death of its owner unless it is close to human flesh. Fremen tradition also demands that a drawn crysknife must not be sheathed until it draws blood. In Dune,
Paul Atreides (in his role as
Muad'Dib) personally trains a force of Fremen "death commandos" (known as Fedaykin) in the use of the
Weirding Way.
[
edit] Water conservation
The most notable custom of the Fremen is their
water conservation. Living in the desert with no natural sources of water has spurred the Fremen to build their society around the collection, storage, and conservative use of water. The Fremen think about moisture conservation, not simply water conservation. Dune (Arrakis) is a desert planet parched to such a degree that no natural open water exists on the entire planet. Thus water conservation is of utmost importance for survival. The Fremen have also evolved an extended
large intestine for greater absorption of water
[4].
[
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Water is collected from the atmosphere in windtraps that condense the
humidity and add it to the underground water store. Water can also be collected from dead animals and people (especially outside wanderers) and processed in a
deathstill which removes the water from the
carcass for addition to the sietch water store. The Fremen who caused or discovered the death of the animal or person is then given a set of waterrings whose markings denote a volume of water equal to the amount of water collected.
These rings are used as a form of
currency, and are
backed by fixed volumes of water (analogous to the historical
gold standard). Water rings have a profound significance in matters of birth, death, and courtship ritual.
[
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Each sietch has its own water store underground. This store can hold millions of
decaliters of water and is accounted for literally to the last drop. This store is used as a
bank for all the water owned by members of the sietch through water rings, as well as for the sietch's own store of water for the eventual transformation of their planet into something other than desert.
[
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The Fremen spend all time out of their sietch in a
stillsuit, a special body-enclosing suit designed to collect and recycle all the moisture the body releases, from
urine,
feces and
sweat, to the exhalation of
water vapor in the
breath.
The special fabric is a micro-sandwich designed to dissipate heat and filter wastes while reclaiming moisture. The water is then held in catchpockets and made available to drink through a tube.
A Fremen in a well-kept suit can survive
weeks in the desert without any other source of water.
Because of their culture's focus on water conservation, it is generally considered a great sign of respect (though often interpreted otherwise) for a Fremen to
spit before a person.
Fremen, because of their conservation routine, also put a great cultural reverence on crying and tears. Tears shed for someone who has died are referred to as "Giving Water for The Dead."
[
edit] Language
The Fremen language is not actually given in the books, although
Chakobsa, the so-called magnetic language, is used by them for ritual purposes. The samples of this language given in the book are, in fact, a
Roma dialect. There are numerous items in the books which derive from
Arabic, a fact which leads people to suppose that Chakobsa is Arabic based. It has no similarity, either in phonetics, vocabulary or grammar. The Arabic terms in the books are not part of the Chakobsa language adopted by the Fremen, but derive from the even more ancient origins of the Fremen. This Arabic aspect is most likely derived from their origins as
Zensunni (a fictional
syncretic religious belief combining principles of
Zen Buddhism and
Sunni Islam).
[
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A significant part of the Fremen
mythology was created by the
Bene Gesserit Missionaria Protectiva, through the manifestation of a
Messiah legend. Diverse
fail-safes and Bene Gesserit beliefs were inserted into the Fremen culture, to allow a Bene Gesserit-trained adept to exploit them to her advantage.
[
edit] Population
In
Dune: House Atreides,
Pardot Kynes, the Imperial Planetologist to Arrakis conducted the first Fremen census, to determine the total population of Fremen there are on the planet. Until that time, Imperial and
Harkonnen estimates totalled the number of Fremen on Dune to be in the thousands, up to possibly a million. When news reached Kynes' ears (who was regarded as an "Umma", or Fremen Prophet by then) by a young Fremen Sandrider, however, there were well over 500 sietches on Arrakis, and 10 million Fremen inhabiting those sietches. Adding that to Kynes and Frieth's (his wife and
Stilgar's sister) newborn son,
Liet-Kynes, the Fremen now "number ten million and one".
