By the time you complete the Trials of Aql in Dune Awakening Items for Sale, you’ve proven yourself worthy in the eyes of the desert.

But your journey doesn’t end there.

What comes next is a turning point—your class and faction alignment, which determines what kind of player (and person) you’ll become. This blog explores the four major class-aligned mission arcs currently in the game:

• Mentat Missions

• Bene Gesserit Archives

• Assassin's Handbook

• Planetologist's Path

These mission chains not only provide new abilities and gear—they dig into the heart of Dune’s philosophical themes: intelligence, manipulation, ecology, and control.

1. Mentat Missions: “Mind of the Machine”

The Mentat storyline centers on logic, surveillance, and high-level political gamesmanship. After declaring your intent to become a Mentat, you're assigned to a covert intelligence cell operating under the cover of a spice logistics outpost.

Key Missions Include:

• “The Probability Matrix”: Decode spice trade patterns to predict a smuggler ambush.

• “The Cold File”: Uncover a hidden Harkonnen saboteur inside your own ranks.

• “Visions in Data”: Use mentat juice to enter a computational trance and reconstruct a political assassination plot.

Gameplay Features:

• Puzzle-solving mechanics (deciphering encrypted communiques, code analysis)

• Surveillance drones and passive tracking tools

• Temporary buffs to logic- and insight-based decision trees

Narrative Themes:

• Post-Butlerian suspicion of AI

• Tension between logic and morality

• Mentats as the last human computers

You’ll be asked to make chillingly rational decisions—sometimes at the cost of lives.

2. Bene Gesserit Archives: “Sacred Records”

The Bene Gesserit path is as much psychological as physical. Operating from a hidden chapter house embedded in an abandoned sietch, the Sisterhood offers you access to their ancient records—and their dangerous training.

Key Missions Include:

• “Litany of Control”: Resist a deep spice trance while under emotional duress.

• “The Missionaria Protectiva”: Travel to a remote tribe and activate a seed myth.

• “Whispers in Water”: Interrogate a prisoner using Voice—without violence.

Gameplay Features:

• Dialogue manipulation with “Voice” ability (can change mission outcomes)

• Stealth missions with mental conditioning challenges

• New mobility moves based on advanced stillsuit agility

Narrative Themes:

• Eugenics, control through myth, feminine power structures

• Faith vs control

• Secrets within secrets

Players following this path often report the most powerful story revelations—especially around your character’s origins and genetic “gifts.”

3. Assassin’s Handbook: “The Silent Sand”

If your character leans into violence, stealth, and vengeance, this is your calling.

The Assassin mission chain takes place within the black market enclaves and hidden death guild cells operating outside sietch law. These missions are less about story—and more about method.

Key Missions Include:

• “Dust in the Eyes”: Perform a silent kill in a crowded spice market.

• “Voices Left Behind”: Eliminate a target while faking the attack as Fremen retaliation.

• “No Water for the Weak”: A moral test—kill a wounded child of a Harkonnen lord, or risk retaliation.

Gameplay Features:

• Focused on stealth, poisons, and kill mechanics

• Unlock “Dust Knife” tool and slow-time reflex triggers

• Unlocks bounty contracts and PvP assassination boards

Narrative Themes:

• The price of silence

• Justice, or vengeance?

• Guilt and the erasure of self

This path is brutal—but undeniably thrilling for players who favor a lethal, efficient playstyle.

4. Planetologist’s Path: “Echoes of Shai-Hulud”

If the soul of Dune is the sand, then Planetologists are its voice.

Taking inspiration from Liet-Kynes, this mission chain has you studying the desert ecosystem—and sometimes sabotaging spice extraction to protect long-term planetary balance.

Key Missions Include:

• “Wormsong”: Map a sandworm’s migration path and discover an ancient calling site.

• “The Blight”: Cure or exploit a spreading spice blight caused by rogue harvesting.

• “Dreams of Arrakis”: Inject a rare fungus to hallucinate the planet’s memory.

Gameplay Features:

• Terrain scanning, spice node mapping, weather event prediction

• Unlocks worm-summoning tools and desert-calling rituals

• Sand ecology tools let you reshape spice zones over time

Narrative Themes:

• Ecology as destiny

• Sacrifice for a sustainable future

• Choosing between profit and preservation

Planetologists often gain unexpected allies—Fremen elders, even rogue smugglers—who believe in Arrakis’s transformation beyond spice.

Choosing Your Legacy

Each class/faction mission arc in Dune: Awakening doesn’t just define your gameplay—it defines your legacy.

Each path can be blended to Buy Items a degree (via cross-training or gear choices), but your dominant class/faction alignment sets the tone for your late-game experience—including which factions will trust, fear, or hunt you.