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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