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In Dune, Alia is the daughter of Duke Leto Atreides and his official Bene Gesserit concubine, Lady Jessica. While still in her mother's womb, Alia's fetus suffers the agony of the Spice (when Jessica absorbs the Water of Life, a variant of the Spice, in a religious ceremony at the Sietch Tabr) along with his mother, being then awakened to consciousness prematurely.
She is a "pre-born" and has a Second Memory like the Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit, that is to say, she has access to the memory of her female ancestors who "live" in her, in her mind.