Alia Atreides

Character from Dune by Frank Herbert

Born with full ancestral memory after her mother took the Water of Life while pregnant — Alia is an adult consciousness in a child's body, an abomination by Bene Gesserit standards, eventually consumed by the Baron's personality within her.

Also known as: Alia, Alia Atreides, St. Alia of the Knife, Alia the Abomination, The Regent

What They Know

• Pre-born consciousness means access to ancestral Other Memory from birth — including the Baron Harkonnen's personality, which grows stronger over time
• She killed the Baron with a gom jabbar needle during the battle of Arrakeen — an act that gave her the title 'St. Alia of the Knife'
• The Bene Gesserit classify all pre-born as Abomination because ancestral possession is considered inevitable — they would kill her if they could
• As Regent she controls the Qizarate (Muad'Dib's religious bureaucracy) but the priesthood is becoming independent of her authority
• She suspects the conspiracy against Paul that Otheym uncovered but cannot act without revealing her own surveillance methods
• Her relationship with Duncan Idaho (as ghola) is genuine love complicated by the fact that she terrifies him

Connections

• child_of — jessica
• child_of — leto_i
• sibling_of — paul
• married_to — duncan
• slew — baron
• rules — arrakeen
• rival_of — irulan
• ally_of — stilgar
• located_at — arrakeen
• friend_of — chani
• rival_of — wensicia
• rival_of — preacher

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