In Dune (1965), Alia is born a full Reverend Mother when she is exposed to the Water of Life (the bile of a drowned sandworm) in the womb as Lady Jessica undergoes the spice agony. Īlia is portrayed by Alicia Witt in David Lynch's 1984 film adaptation, by Laura Burton in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and by Daniela Amavia in its 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. Her features lay exposed - blue-in-blue " spice eyes," her mother's oval face beneath a cap of bronze hair, small nose, mouth wide and generous. Alia of the Knife, to the Bene Gesserit Alia is an Abomination because of the unique 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: During the events of Dune, Alia is born on the planet Arrakis in the year 10,191 A.G., eight months after her father's death.
She is the younger sister to Paul Atreides and, through their mother, a granddaughter to the wicked Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. She was the posthumous daughter of Duke Leto Atreides and his Bene Gesserit concubine, Lady Jessica. In the novels Alia, aka Saint Alia of the Knife (10,191 AG - 10,220 AG), was born in planet Arrakis.
Anderson conclusion to the original series, Sandworms of Dune (2007). The character is brought back as a ghola in the Brian Herbert/ Kevin J. Alia would next appear as a main character in both Dune Messiah (1969) and Children of Dune (1976). At the suggestion of Analog magazine editor John Campbell, Herbert kept her alive in the final draft. Introduced in the first novel of the series, 1965's Dune, the character was originally killed in Herbert's first version of the manuscript. Is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. Laura Burton in the Dune miniseries (2000)ĭaniela Amavia in the Children of Dune miniseries (2003)Īlia Atreides / ə ˈ l iː ə ə ˈ t r eɪ.
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