Sandtrout
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Image:Sandtrout.jpg Sandtrout are fictional creatures from Frank Herbert's Dune Series. They are described as resembling large freshwater leeches, amorphous blobs or slugs.
They are the premature (larval) form of a sandworm and if squeezed, they excrete an extremely potent form of spice which gives one an incredible energy boost. Also, children in Fremen sietches attach them to sticks and play games with them to entertain themselves.
Sandtrout have the ability to transform a whole terraformed planet into desert by encapsulating large bodies of water allowing the sandworm to survive since sandworm cannot survive in a water-logged environment.
Sandtrout were also used by Leto Atreides II to turn himself into a giant sandworm. He managed to accomplish this because his blood is spice-concentrated and lead the sandtrouts into thinking it was water. It formed a glove and a next one linked together by the cillia so on till most of his body is covered.
Later, sandworms could only sense the sandtrout and not him, so the sandworms drew back to ensure it doesn't eat its own kind.