Even casual fans of Dune—for example, people who watched the movies but never read the books—probably remember that Paul Atreides was never meant to be born. His mother, Lady Jessica, was intended to bear a baby girl to Duke Leo Atreides, but instead decided to give him a son as his heir.
Paul being a boy and not a girl threw a number of wrenches into the works of the shadowy Bene Gesserit—far too many to get into here. But what if Jessica had done as she was ordered to and gave birth to a girl instead?
Funcom's upcoming survival MMO Dune: Awakening will answer that question. We learned last year when creative director Joel Bylos spoke to PC Gamer that the MMO would represent an alt-history Dune, a "what if" scenario that at the time Bylos wouldn't fully elaborate on.
