Spice blow

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Eye of the Storm - Spice Blow — Spice Blow - *Dune: Eye of the Storm* card artwork by Mark Poole

Spice blows^[1] or Spiceblows^[2] were an event on Arrakis in which a carbon dioxide bubble was formed in the centre of a Pre-spice mass after it had accumulated enough water and organic matter from Sandtrouts. The bubble would heave upward and cause a massive explosion of Spice Melange above the surface.^[3] Sandworms were attracted to Spice blows.^[4]

Liet-Kynes died in a Spice blow in 10191 AG.^[5] Sheeana Brugh's village was destroyed in a Spice blow, which attracted Sandworms who consumed what was left of it.^[4]

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↑ Chapterhouse: Dune - Chapter 30: "Urgent from Sheeana!" Bellonda said. "The spice blow has occurred. Sandworms!"
↑ Dune - Chapter 43: Beyond the ridge, he could see a dark patch that might be a spiceblow, and he gave the signal to a hovering ornithopter that sent it to investigate.
↑ Dune - Chapter 30: Every Fremen knew the sound, could distinguish it immediately from the noises of worms or other desert life. Somewhere beneath him, the pre-spice mass had accumulated enough water and organic matter from the little makers, had reached the critical stage of wild growth. A gigantic bubble of carbon dioxide was forming deep in the sand, heaving upward in an enormous "blow" with a dust whirlpool at its center. It would exchange what had been formed deep in the sand for whatever lay on the surface.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Heretics of Dune - Chapter 5: The village had been sited disastrously atop a pre-spice blow. As the great hoard far under the sand came to fruition, expanding in an explosion of melange, Shaitan had come. Every child knew Shaitan could not resist a spiceblow.
↑ Dune - Chapter 30: He felt the bubble lift him, felt it break and the dust whirlpool engulf him, dragging him down into cool darkness. For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

[1] Chapterhouse: Dune - Chapter 30: "Urgent from Sheeana!" Bellonda said. "The spice blow has occurred. Sandworms!"

[2] Dune - Chapter 43: Beyond the ridge, he could see a dark patch that might be a spiceblow, and he gave the signal to a hovering ornithopter that sent it to investigate.

[3] Dune - Chapter 30: Every Fremen knew the sound, could distinguish it immediately from the noises of worms or other desert life. Somewhere beneath him, the pre-spice mass had accumulated enough water and organic matter from the little makers, had reached the critical stage of wild growth. A gigantic bubble of carbon dioxide was forming deep in the sand, heaving upward in an enormous "blow" with a dust whirlpool at its center. It would exchange what had been formed deep in the sand for whatever lay on the surface.

[Sheeana-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Heretics of Dune - Chapter 5: The village had been sited disastrously atop a pre-spice blow. As the great hoard far under the sand came to fruition, expanding in an explosion of melange, Shaitan had come. Every child knew Shaitan could not resist a spiceblow.

[5] Dune - Chapter 30: He felt the bubble lift him, felt it break and the dust whirlpool engulf him, dragging him down into cool darkness. For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

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