Within the “Dune” ebook, two years lapse between Paul and Jessica’s escape into the deserts of Arrakis and the previous’s reemergence because the Lisan al Gaib. Throughout that point, Jessica provides start to her daughter, the eerie Alia Atreides (briefly performed by Anya Taylor-Pleasure in “Dune: Half Two”). In ebook and film alike, the kid is by chance impacted by Jessica’s imbibition of the Water of Life.
Within the ebook, we see the kid born and toddling round in what can solely be described as a terrifyingly creepy kind. She is briefly concerned within the first “Dune” story — and in some actually wild methods. As an illustration, she’s the one who kills Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) with a Gom Jabbar needle. She additionally earns the identify “St. Alia of the Knife” as she runs round slaughtering dying troopers on the battlefield.
Alia continues to issue into the story because it progresses from there to “Dune: Messiah” and past. In Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation, although, she solely makes a quick, grown-up look in a imaginative and prescient and is in any other case solely proven disturbingly chatting together with her mom in utero.