Marty



Marty is an entity that appears in Duncan Idaho's visions. The character appears as a homely elderly woman alongside her companion Daniel, in an American Gothic setting.

Analysis
It was stated before by Brian Herbert that the characters Daniel and Marty created by Frank Herbert could be a metaphor for how he and Beverly Herbert had been watching the events in the Dune Universe unfold.

By the statements made by Marty and Daniel at the end of Chapterhouse: Dune it is implied that they were possibly Independent Face Dancers. However, in the later Dune sequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Marty and Daniel are revealed to be representations of ancient artificial intelligences Erasmus and Omnius. It is unknown whether or not Frank Herbert himself actually ever intended this, given that his final novel implies them to be advanced Tleilaxu creations.

Appearances

 * Chapterhouse: Dune