Alia Atreides is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. She appears in the first three novels in the series: Dune (1965), Dune Messiah (1969) and Children of Dune (1976). The character is brought back as a ghola in the Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson conclusion to the original series, Sandworms of Dune (2007).
In Dune, Alia is born in year 10,191 A.G. on the planet Arrakis to the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica; her fath...
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Alia Atreides is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. She appears in the first three novels in the series: Dune (1965), Dune Messiah (1969) and Children of Dune (1976). The character is brought back as a ghola in the Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson conclusion to the original series, Sandworms of Dune (2007).
In Dune, Alia is born in year 10,191 A.G. on the planet Arrakis to the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica; her father Duke Leto Atreides had died eight months earlier. She is younger sister to Paul Atreides, and through their mother, a granddaughter to the wicked Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
Known to her followers as St. Alia of the Knife, to the Bene Gesserit Alia is an Abomination because of the nature of her birth; in the later years of her regency, her enemies and victims among the Fremen call her Coan-Teen, "the female death spirit who walks without feet." An adult Alia is described by Herbert in Dune Messiah:
Her features lay exposed — blue-in-blue ...
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