Reverend Mother Darwi Odrade, also known as Odrade or Dar is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. She is a significant character in both Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune.
Odrade is an elite Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. The name "Odrade" is derived from the Atreides, whose bloodline she possesses thanks to the Bene Gesserit breeding program. Though trained by the Bene Gesserit from a young age, in Heretics ...
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Reverend Mother Darwi Odrade, also known as Odrade or Dar is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. She is a significant character in both Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune.
Odrade is an elite Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. The name "Odrade" is derived from the Atreides, whose bloodline she possesses thanks to the Bene Gesserit breeding program. Though trained by the Bene Gesserit from a young age, in Heretics of Dune it is revealed that for the first few years of her life she was raised in secret on the seacoast of Gammu by a couple she called "Mama Sibia and Papa." Odrade recalls this childhood fondly and treasures the lessons of love learned there, which she must keep forever secret from the Bene Gesserit, a "society where any form of love was suspect." Odrade refers to herself in these days before the Sisterhood as "Sea Child", an image that appears in many of her visions and embodies her Atreides "wild talents," which the Bene Gesserit have...
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