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Princess Irulan is a fictional character and member of House Corrino in the ''Dune'' universe created by Frank Herbert. She first appears in 1965's ''Dune'', and is later featured in ''Dune Messiah'' (1969) and ''Children of Dune'' (1976). The character's birth and early childhood are touched upon in the ''Prelude to Dune'' prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and she is a principal character in the Herbert/Anderson series ''Heroes of Dune'' (2008-2009). Irulan has also appeared in all film and television adaptations of Herbert's ''Dune'' works. The character of Irulan serves as a ''de facto'' narrator in ''Dune'', with excerpts of her later writings used as epigraphs before each chapter of the novel. Within the storyline, Irulan is established as the eldest daughter of the 81st Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV and Anirul, a Bene Gesserit of Hidden Rank; she has four younger sisters named Chalice, Wensicia, Josifa and Rugi, and no brothers.〔The ''Prelude to Dune'' prequel trilogy (1999-2001) establishes that the former Anirul Sadow-Tonkin is a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother, Proctor Superior of the Hidden Noble Rank and Kwisatz Mother.〕 In ''Dune'', the character appears in person only near the end of the novel, but continues as a regular character in the sequels ''Dune Messiah'' and ''Children of Dune''.〔〔 Epigraphs attributed to Irulan also appear to a much lesser extent in these subsequent novels, and others in the extended series. The non-canon ''Dune Encyclopedia'' (1984) by Willis E. McNelly invents an extensive, alternate biography for Irulan. Irulan is portrayed by Virginia Madsen in the 1984 film ''Dune'', and by Julie Cox in the 2000 TV miniseries ''Frank Herbert's Dune'' and its 2003 sequel, ''Frank Herbert's Children of Dune''. ==Description== In ''Dune'', Irulan is described through Paul Atreides' eyes:
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen later notes that Irulan has eyes "that looked past and through him."〔 In ''Dune Messiah'', the Tleilaxu Face Dancer Scytale refers to Irulan as "a tall blonde beauty ... she carried herself with an aristocrat's hauteur, but something in the absorbed smoothness of her features betrayed the controls of her Bene Gesserit background." Though she is noted to have been "trained in the deepest of the Bene Gesserit ways, destined to be a Reverend Mother,"〔 in the series Irulan never undergoes the dangerous ritual spice agony to achieve this. In ''Dune Messiah'' she is noted to have been "well trained for a task at which she had failed, a flawed Bene Gesserit creation."〔 Of Irulan Lady Jessica says in ''Children of Dune'', "Irulan had never been the most accomplished adept in the Bene Gesserit — valuable more for the fact that she was a daughter of Shaddam IV than for any other reason; often too proud to exert herself in extending her capabilities." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Princess Irulan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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