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|name = Alia Atreides
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|image = Alia.png
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|alias = St. Alia of the Knife, [[Abomination]]
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|title = [[Regent]]<br>[[Mahdinate]]
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|house = [[House Atreides]]
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|birth = [[10191 AG]]
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|death = [[10219 AG]]
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|eyes = Blue within blue
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|book name = ''[[Dune]]''
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'''Alia Atreides''', aka '''Saint Alia of the Knife''' ([[10191 AG]] - [[10219 AG]]), born in planet [[Arrakis]]. Posthumous daughter of Duke [[Leto Atreides I]] and his [[Bene Gesserit]] [[concubine]] [[Lady]] [[Jessica Atreides|Jessica]], was the younger sister of [[Paul Atreides]].
 
'''Alia Atreides''', aka '''Saint Alia of the Knife''' ([[10191 AG]] - [[10219 AG]]), born in planet [[Arrakis]]. Posthumous daughter of Duke [[Leto Atreides I]] and his [[Bene Gesserit]] [[concubine]] [[Lady]] [[Jessica Atreides|Jessica]], was the younger sister of [[Paul Atreides]].
   
[[Regent]] of the [[Atreides Empire]], she established an autocratic government based in the cult of her personality.
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[[Regent]] of the [[Atreides Empire]], she established an autocratic government based on the cult of her personality.
   
 
She leapt to her death in defiance of the possession by the spirit of a younger [[Vladimir Harkonnen]] retained in her [[Other Memory]].
 
She leapt to her death in defiance of the possession by the spirit of a younger [[Vladimir Harkonnen]] retained in her [[Other Memory]].
   
 
==Early Years==
 
==Early Years==
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Alia was still in the womb when Jessica took the [[Water of Life]]. Thus she was [[pre-born]], and highly susceptible to [[Abomination]] from before birth.
 
 
Alia was still in the womb when Jessica took the [[Water of Life]]. Thus she was [[pre-born]], and highly susceptible to [[Abomination]] from before birth. After living with the [[Fremen]] for several years, she was present in the palace on [[Arrakeen]] when her brother and his forces successfully conquered the combined forces of the [[Emperor|Emperor's]] [[Sardaukar]] and [[House Harkonnen]].
[[Image:AliciaWitt.jpg|right|thumb|Alicia Witt played Alia Atreides in the 1984 ''Dune'' movie]]
 
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After living with the [[Fremen]] for several years, she was present in the palace on [[Arrakeen]] when her brother and his forces successfully conquered the combined forces of the [[Emperor|Emperor's]] [[Sardaukar]] and [[House Harkonnen]]. During the invasion she poisoned Baron [[Vladimir Harkonnen]] with a [[Gom Jabbar]].
 
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During the invasion she poisoned Baron [[Vladimir Harkonnen]] with a [[Gom Jabbar]] and slew dying soldiers on the battle field for their water, earning her the name St. Alia of the Knife.
   
 
==The Regency==
 
==The Regency==
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[[Image:Alia01.jpg|left|thumb|Alia as Imperial Regent]]
 
 
===Establishing Her Rule===
 
===Establishing Her Rule===
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Later, upon the death of Paul, and with his children [[Leto Atreides II|Leto]] and [[Ghanima Atreides|Ghanima]] still too young to effectively rule, Alia went from being a Princess to being the Imperial [[Regent]] of the [[Atreides Empire]]. She was corrupted by power and established a cult of personality, using rich trappings and grandiose titles such as the [[Mahdinate]] to build considerable political weight.
 
Later, upon the death of Paul, and with his children [[Leto Atreides II|Leto]] and [[Ghanima Atreides|Ghanima]] still too young to effectively rule, Alia went from being a Princess to being the Imperial [[Regent]] of the [[Atreides Empire]]. She was corrupted by power and established a cult of personality, using rich trappings and grandiose titles such as the [[Mahdinate]] to build considerable political weight.
   
 
===Into Abomination===
 
===Into Abomination===
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Shortly thereafter, Alia fell fully into Abomination, and was secretly tormented by the living personalities of countless ancestors. Chief among these was the personality of Vladimir Harkonnen, who sought to use his granddaughter as a tool to reclaim power from beyond the grave.
 
Shortly thereafter, Alia fell fully into Abomination, and was secretly tormented by the living personalities of countless ancestors. Chief among these was the personality of Vladimir Harkonnen, who sought to use his granddaughter as a tool to reclaim power from beyond the grave.
   
 
===Relationships===
 
===Relationships===
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[[Image:Alia02.jpg|thumb|250px|As Abomination, Alia takes comfort in the metaphorical arms of Baron Harkonnen]]
 
 
Alia had few close, genuine relationships, largely due to her mentally and emotionally imbalanced state. Her relationship with her mother was strained at best, and simmered with deep resentment. And her interaction with [[Fremen]] was tarnished at an early age by their fear of her abilities and knowledge.
 
Alia had few close, genuine relationships, largely due to her mentally and emotionally imbalanced state. Her relationship with her mother was strained at best, and simmered with deep resentment. And her interaction with [[Fremen]] was tarnished at an early age by their fear of her abilities and knowledge.
   
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===Spiralling Downward===
 
===Spiralling Downward===
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During the same years in which she held herself aloof from family and friends, Alia indulged in massive doses of [[spice melange|melange]], ostensibly for the purpose of broadening her [[prescience|prescient]] vision. However, Alia lacked her brother's prescient ability, and the [[spice trance]] most often failed her. The same drug which had initially keyed her sensitivity to her ancestral voices could be depended upon to keep those same voices from becoming blurred or unavailable. As a result, Alia's heavy melange consumption became a means of maintaining contact with her internal advisors and gave them power.
 
During the same years in which she held herself aloof from family and friends, Alia indulged in massive doses of [[spice melange|melange]], ostensibly for the purpose of broadening her [[prescience|prescient]] vision. However, Alia lacked her brother's prescient ability, and the [[spice trance]] most often failed her. The same drug which had initially keyed her sensitivity to her ancestral voices could be depended upon to keep those same voices from becoming blurred or unavailable. As a result, Alia's heavy melange consumption became a means of maintaining contact with her internal advisors and gave them power.
   
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===Death===
 
===Death===
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[[File:Leto's Return|thumb|left|Leto's return and Alia's suicide. ]]
 
 
Alia ordered the assassination of [[The Preacher]], despite knowing it was her beloved brother. Upon Leto's return from the desert, he gave her a choice, Trial of Possession or suicide. Realising that she would not pass the Trial, Alia threw herself from a high window to her death, a death that was witnessed by her mother Jessica, the Atreides twins, and Farad'n Corrino.
 
Alia ordered the assassination of [[The Preacher]], despite knowing it was her beloved brother. Upon Leto's return from the desert, he gave her a choice, Trial of Possession or suicide. Realising that she would not pass the Trial, Alia threw herself from a high window to her death, a death that was witnessed by her mother Jessica, the Atreides twins, and Farad'n Corrino.
   
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==Legacy==
 
==Legacy==
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The impact of Alia's religious powerbase was long-lived. Many considered her a revered figure for several hundreds of years after her death. In the months prior to Leto II's death, a cult of Alia was discovered on [[Giedi Prime]] by Duncan Idaho's agents. Ultimately however, Alia's influence vanished after Leto's death, some three and a half thousand years after her own death.
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The impact of Alia's religious powerbase was long-lived. Many considered her a revered figure for several hundreds of years after her death. In the months prior to Leto II's death, a cult of Alia was discovered on [[Giedi Prime]] by Duncan Idaho's agents. Ultimately, Alia's influence vanished after Leto's death, some three and a half thousand years after her own death.
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==Images of Alia==
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<gallery>
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Alia.png|Laura Burton as Alia, in the 2000 Dune mini-series
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Alia.jpg
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Alia.StAlia.jpg|Alicia Witt as Alia in the 1984 Movie
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Alia.EyesofIbad.jpg|Alicia Witt as Alia in the 1984 Movie
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Dune alia1.jpg|Daniela Amavia as Alia
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Shaddam alia.jpg|Shaddam and Alia Illustration
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Alia01.jpg|Daniela Amavia as Alia
 
Alia02.jpg|As Abomination, Alia takes comfort in the metaphorical arms of Baron Harkonnen
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5a400b2f9c05c715045922a5867ef546.jpg|Laura Burton as Alia in the 2000 TV miniseries
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</gallery>
   
 
==Behind the Scenes==
 
==Behind the Scenes==
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*In the ''[[Children of Dune]]'' TV mini-series, Alia kills herself with a [[crysknife]], instead of committing suicide by defenestration.
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*In the ''[[Children of Dune]]'' TV mini-series, Alia kills herself with a [[crysknife]], instead of committing suicide by autodefenestration.
 
*[[wikipedia:Alicia Witt|Alicia Witt]] portrayed Alia in the [[Dune (1984 movie)|1984 movie]].
 
*[[wikipedia:Alicia Witt|Alicia Witt]] portrayed Alia in the [[Dune (1984 movie)|1984 movie]].
 
*Laura Burton portrayed the child Alia in the [[Dune (2000 miniseries)|Dune 2000 miniseries]], while [[wikipedia:Daniela Amavia|Daniela Amavia]] took over the role of the teenaged and adult Alia in the [[Children of Dune (2003 miniseries)|2003 Children of Dune miniseries]].
 
*Laura Burton portrayed the child Alia in the [[Dune (2000 miniseries)|Dune 2000 miniseries]], while [[wikipedia:Daniela Amavia|Daniela Amavia]] took over the role of the teenaged and adult Alia in the [[Children of Dune (2003 miniseries)|2003 Children of Dune miniseries]].
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
The name Alia (also spelt Alya or Aaliyah) means "[http://www.behindthename.com/name/alya sky, heaven, loftiness]" in [[wikipedia:Arabic language|Arabic]]. In the [[Dune (1984 movie)|1984 film]], [[wikipedia:Alicia Witt|Alicia Witt]] portrays the character wearing a [[wikipedia:Hijab|Hijab]], a headscarf commonly worn by [[wikipedia:Arab people|Arab]] and [[wikipedia:Muslim|Muslim]] women.
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The name Alia (also spelt Alya or Aaliyah) means "[http://www.behindthename.com/name/alya sky, heaven, loftiness]" in [[wikipedia:Arabic language|Arabic]] and "other, another, else" in Latin. In the [[Dune (1984 movie)|1984 film]], [[wikipedia:Alicia Witt|Alicia Witt]] portrays the character wearing a [[wikipedia:Hijab|Hijab]], a headscarf commonly worn by [[wikipedia:Arab people|Arab]] and [[wikipedia:Muslim|Muslim]] women.
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Though it was not shown in the films, in the books Alia was stated to have begun to gain weight toward the end, A "plumpness which had begun to bulge her body", showing she might have been overindulging due to Harkonenes influence.
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==
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*''[[Dune Messiah (novel)|Dune Messiah]]''
 
*''[[Dune Messiah (novel)|Dune Messiah]]''
 
*''[[Children of Dune (novel)|Children of Dune]]''
 
*''[[Children of Dune (novel)|Children of Dune]]''
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[[ru:Алия Атрейдес]]
 
[[Category:Fremen|Atreides, Alia]]
 
[[Category:Fremen|Atreides, Alia]]
 
[[Category:House Atreides|Atreides, Alia]]
 
[[Category:House Atreides|Atreides, Alia]]
[[category:saints and martyrs]]
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[[Category:Saints and martyrs]]
 
[[Category:Females|Atreides, Alia]]
 
[[Category:Females|Atreides, Alia]]

Revision as of 07:31, 6 October 2019

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Alia Atreides, aka Saint Alia of the Knife (10191 AG - 10219 AG), born in planet Arrakis. Posthumous daughter of Duke Leto Atreides I and his Bene Gesserit concubine Lady Jessica, was the younger sister of Paul Atreides.

Regent of the Atreides Empire, she established an autocratic government based on the cult of her personality.

She leapt to her death in defiance of the possession by the spirit of a younger Vladimir Harkonnen retained in her Other Memory.

Early Years

Alia was still in the womb when Jessica took the Water of Life. Thus she was pre-born, and highly susceptible to Abomination from before birth. After living with the Fremen for several years, she was present in the palace on Arrakeen when her brother and his forces successfully conquered the combined forces of the Emperor's Sardaukar and House Harkonnen.

During the invasion she poisoned Baron Vladimir Harkonnen with a Gom Jabbar and slew dying soldiers on the battle field for their water, earning her the name St. Alia of the Knife.

The Regency

Establishing Her Rule

Later, upon the death of Paul, and with his children Leto and Ghanima still too young to effectively rule, Alia went from being a Princess to being the Imperial Regent of the Atreides Empire. She was corrupted by power and established a cult of personality, using rich trappings and grandiose titles such as the Mahdinate to build considerable political weight.

Into Abomination

Shortly thereafter, Alia fell fully into Abomination, and was secretly tormented by the living personalities of countless ancestors. Chief among these was the personality of Vladimir Harkonnen, who sought to use his granddaughter as a tool to reclaim power from beyond the grave.

Relationships

Alia had few close, genuine relationships, largely due to her mentally and emotionally imbalanced state. Her relationship with her mother was strained at best, and simmered with deep resentment. And her interaction with Fremen was tarnished at an early age by their fear of her abilities and knowledge.

Though she loved and admired Paul, her brother, she also partly resented his influence. And her love for the original Duncan Idaho ghola was ultimately destroyed by a casual affair with Javid, one of her priests who secretly served the Fremen insurgents who plotted against her.

Spiralling Downward

During the same years in which she held herself aloof from family and friends, Alia indulged in massive doses of melange, ostensibly for the purpose of broadening her prescient vision. However, Alia lacked her brother's prescient ability, and the spice trance most often failed her. The same drug which had initially keyed her sensitivity to her ancestral voices could be depended upon to keep those same voices from becoming blurred or unavailable. As a result, Alia's heavy melange consumption became a means of maintaining contact with her internal advisors and gave them power.

Alia's actions during her Regency were those of a power-hungry woman aided by the memories of generations of ambitious rulers and princelings. Her people began to mistrust and fear her, calling her, by the time of Children of Dune, Coan-Teen, the "female death-spirit who walks without feet." Her every maneuver including her marriage to the first Duncan Idaho ghola, was seen as having been performed in order to solidify her own position, and her manipulation of the children in whose names she ruled was also considered a devious maneuver. Not content with having destroyed herself, she set about to lead her niece and nephew into similarly destructive ways. Since the most direct way of achieving this goal involved the children's becoming enmeshed in their ancestral memories, Alia continually tried to interest them in the spice trance.

Death

Alia ordered the assassination of The Preacher, despite knowing it was her beloved brother. Upon Leto's return from the desert, he gave her a choice, Trial of Possession or suicide. Realising that she would not pass the Trial, Alia threw herself from a high window to her death, a death that was witnessed by her mother Jessica, the Atreides twins, and Farad'n Corrino.

Had it not been for her death, Alia could have continued to rule for several centuries by regenerating her cellular structure. According to Fremen tradition, as with all Abominations the only cure was death.

Legacy

The impact of Alia's religious powerbase was long-lived. Many considered her a revered figure for several hundreds of years after her death. In the months prior to Leto II's death, a cult of Alia was discovered on Giedi Prime by Duncan Idaho's agents. Ultimately, Alia's influence vanished after Leto's death, some three and a half thousand years after her own death.

Images of Alia

Behind the Scenes

Trivia

The name Alia (also spelt Alya or Aaliyah) means "sky, heaven, loftiness" in Arabic and "other, another, else" in Latin. In the 1984 filmAlicia Witt portrays the character wearing a Hijab, a headscarf commonly worn by Arab and Muslim women.

Though it was not shown in the films, in the books Alia was stated to have begun to gain weight toward the end, A "plumpness which had begun to bulge her body", showing she might have been overindulging due to Harkonenes influence.

Appearances