- "Mohandis was exactly the kind of man her Duke would have chosen to have by his side in troubled times: one who acted with confidence of his own judgment, but accepted whatever befell, even death, without berating his fate."
- ―Lady Jessica Atreides' opinion of Mohandis[src]
Tagir Mohandis was a Kadeshian troubadour descended from ancient merchant engineers, who was proud of his ancestry and himself. While in Arrakeen on Hajj, his pockets were emptied by mercenaries, so he professed to play before Regent Alia Atreides to seek the gift of transport money, allegedly to bring him to the court of Farad'n Corrino on Salusa Secundus, as Farad'n sought troubadours and minstrels, supporting the arts and building a great renaissance of cultivated life around him.However, Mohandis deliberately offended Alia publicly with his verses. In the end, the troubador was hidden in the Suks of the city by the rebels against the Atreides Empire, before moving on to Farad'n's Salusan court.
Possessions[]
- Baliset: As a troubador, Mohandis owned a nine-string baliset for his songs, which he claimed to play as well as the great Gurney Halleck himself.
- Ring: Mohandis kept a ring in the shape of a tortoise due to the events with the rebels. He was given the password by a man who died in the dungeons of Arrakeen in the suk outside the city when he was hidden by the rebels. The password was "Persistence" and the countersign was "Tortoise", and this got Mohandis out of there alive. Thereafter, Tagir bought the ring as a reminder of this.