Character from Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The One Who Teaches — daughter of a cybrid poet and a detective, messiah of a new evolution, who gave humanity access to the Void through her blood and died on a cross of a different kind.
Aenea is the daughter of Brawne Lamia and the first Keats cybrid — a human-AI hybrid whose existence was orchestrated by the Lions and Tigers and Bears as a vector for evolutionary change. She carries the ability to share the 'DNA Sacrament' — a communion that rewrites human biology to allow access to the Void Which Binds, enabling freecasting (instantaneous travel without TechnoCore farcasters) and direct connection to the substrate of reality. She studied architecture under a Frank Lloyd Wright cybrid on Old Earth. She traveled the old River Tethys farcaster portals across the galaxy, spreading her sacrament to millions. She knew she would die. She chose it anyway. The Pax captured her on Pacem and tortured her to death. Her death triggered the Aenean Shared Moment — a galaxy-wide awakening where every human she had touched simultaneously experienced the Void. The cruciforms died. The Pax collapsed. A new era began. She is twelve when Endymion meets her. She is in her twenties when she dies. She loved Raul Endymion and bore him a son named Petyr. She is the Hyperion Cantos' Christ figure — a messiah who dies to transform humanity, not through faith but through biology. 'Choose again' is her philosophy. The universe offers infinite choices. Choose better.
Dark-haired, young — appears as a child when Endymion first meets her, grows into a young woman over the course of their journey. Her eyes carry an intelligence that borders on alien — she sees things in the Void Which Binds that no other human can perceive. She is beautiful in the way that people who are absolutely certain of their purpose become beautiful.
Also known as: Aenea, The One Who Teaches, Brawne's Daughter