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Chaumas - Dune (board game) illustration
Chaumas, known as Aumas in some dialects, was a word which referred to to poison placed by in solid food.[1][2] Poison snoopers could detect most forms of chaumas.[3]
House Corrino Bashar Tyekanik was an adept of assassination techniques, including Chaumurky and Chaumas.[4]
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Chaumas - Dune (board game) illustration
Chaumas Poison - Dune Awakening
Appearances
- Dune (mentioned only)
- Children of Dune (mentioned only)
References
- ↑ Dune - Terminology of the Imperium: AUMAS: poison administered in food. (Specifically: poison in solid food.) In some dialects: Chaumas.
- ↑ Dune - Terminology of the Imperium: CHAUMAS (Aumas in some dialects): poison in solid food as distinguished from poison administered in some other way.
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 16: All of a pattern, he thought. You can plumb us by our language--the precise and delicate delineations for ways to administer treacherous death. Will someone try chaumurky tonight--poison in the drink? Or will it be chaumas--poison in the food?
- ↑ Children of Dune - Chapter 19: "Yes. Nothing he does is what it seems. And we must remember that his Bashar, Tyekanik, is an adept of chaumurky, chaumas, and all the other subtleties of royal assassination."