Children of Dune characters

Also known as Leto Atreides II

Appears from the start

The younger of Paul Atreides' prescient twins, about nine years old, born with the full memories and awareness of his ancestors like his aunt Alia before him. Heir to the empire his father built, he is watched over by guardians while Alia rules as Regent. Thoughtful and unnervingly mature, he shares visions of the future with his twin sister and feels the weight of a dangerous inheritance no child should carry.

Appears from the start

Paul's daughter and Leto's twin, likewise born with the ancestral awareness of the pre-born. Sharp, composed, and wise beyond her years, she shares her brother's secret councils and his prescient dreams, and stands with him against the schemes that surround the royal children.

Appears from the start

Paul's sister, who now rules the empire as Regent in the name of the twins. A Reverend Mother venerated as a holy figure and priestess of her brother's religion, she carries the perilous burden of the many ancestral lives within her, a strain that grows heavier as the pressures of power mount.

Appears from the start

Paul's mother, the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica, who returns from her home world of Caladan to assess her grandchildren and the state of the empire her son created. Caught between the demands of the sisterhood that trained her and her loyalty to her family, she brings the discipline and cunning of a lifetime to a court riddled with intrigue.

Appears from the start

The old Fremen naib, once leader of Paul's desert community, now guardian and protector of the royal twins. He holds to the hard, honest ways of the desert amid the corruption and ceremony of the imperial religion built around the dead Muad'Dib.

Appears from the start

The restored ghola of the Atreides swordmaster Duncan Idaho, now a mentat and husband to Alia. He serves the throne loyally, but he grows increasingly uneasy about the woman his wife is becoming under the strain of her rule.

Appears from the start

Paul's widow in name, a Bene Gesserit who has transferred her devotion to the Atreides children. She helps tutor and protect the twins, her loyalties now bound to the family she once married into only for politics.

Appears from the start

The loyal Atreides warrior and troubadour who was once Paul's mentor-at-arms. Steadfast and devoted to the House, he returns to serve Lady Jessica and the interests of the Atreides line as new dangers gather around the twins.

Appears from the start

A blind, ragged holy man who appears out of the desert and preaches against the corrupt religion that has grown up around Muad'Dib. His fierce sermons draw crowds and alarm the priesthood, and his true identity is a mystery that unsettles the whole empire.

Also known as Farad'n Corrino

First appears in chapter 2

The young heir of the fallen House Corrino, grandson of the deposed emperor, living in exile on the harsh prison world of Salusa Secundus. Studious and thoughtful, he becomes the focus of his family's plot to reclaim the imperial throne from the Atreides.

First appears in chapter 2

Farad'n's mother, a daughter of the deposed Emperor Shaddam IV, who drives a ruthless scheme to destroy the Atreides children and restore House Corrino to power. Ambitious and unscrupulous, she pushes her son toward a throne he is uncertain he wants.