Tleilaxu Faith
The closed, secretive religious philosophy that guides the Bene Tleilax.
A heterodox offshoot of older Zensunni belief underlies everything the Tleilaxu do, and the order guards it jealously. Outsiders rarely get more than fragments of the actual doctrine. The Tleilaxu treat secrecy itself as a spiritual principle, and a useful one, since it denies rivals any real window into what they actually want. Piety and calculation braid together so tightly that the order's biological work gets presented as devout craft rather than goods for sale. That framing has bought the Tleilaxu far more influence than their small homeworld and modest numbers would otherwise earn them. Rivals who wrote the whole thing off as cover for plain opportunism have more than once discovered, too late, how patient the planning underneath it runs.
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