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-[[Image:AnirulCorrino.jpg|thumb|right|350px|'''Lady Anirul Corrino''', as featured in the cover art from ''[[Dune: House Corrino]]'']]
-'''Lady Anirul Sadow-Tonkin Corrino''' is a [[fictional character]] and member of [[House Corrino]] in the [[Dune universe|''Dune'' universe]] created by [[Frank Herbert]].
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-A [[Bene Gesserit]] of Hidden Rank and wife of the 81st [[Padishah Emperor]] [[Shaddam Corrino IV]], Anirul is the mother of [[Irulan Corrino|Princess Irulan]] and [[Wensicia Corrino|Princess Wensicia]] and the grandmother of [[Farad'n Corrino]]. Anirul is referred to only twice in the 1965 novel ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'',<ref>The entry for Shaddam in ''Appendix IV: The Almanak en-Ashraf (Selected Excerpts of the Noble Houses)'' in ''Dune'' notes that "His wife, Anirul, a Bene Gesserit of Hidden Rank, died in 10,176."</ref> <ref>In ''Count Fenring: A Profile'' (referenced via epigraph in ''Dune'', Book Three, THE PROPHET), Princess Irulan writes: "The measure of Count Fenring's friendship may be seen first in a positive thing: he allayed the Landsraad's suspicions after the [[Arrakis]] Affair. It cost more than a billion solaris in [[melange|spice]] bribes, so my mother said, and there were other gifts as well: slave women, royal honors, and tokens of rank." This passage suggests that Irulan's mother Anirul was alive after the Arrakis Affair, which of course took place in 10,196 when Paul Atreides was a young man; this contradicts the statement in ''Appendix IV'' that Anirul died in 10,176 (the year of Paul's birth). This date of death is supported in the [[prequel]] novel ''[[Dune: House Corrino]]'' when Anirul is murdered while trying to save a newborn Paul.</ref> but is a major character in the ''[[Prelude to Dune]]'' [[prequel]] [[trilogy]] (1999-2001) by [[Brian Herbert]] and [[Kevin J. Anderson]].
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-In ''[[Dune: House Atreides]]'', she is described as having "short bronze-brown hair," <ref>Herbert, B. and Anderson, K.J. ''[[Dune: House Atreides]]'', [[5 October]] [[1999]], pg. 76, ISBN 0-553-11061-6.</ref> and it is said that her "features were long and narrow, giving her a doelike face, but her large eyes had a depth of millennia in them."<ref>Ibid., pg. 77.</ref> She had taken her name from the first Bene Gesserit Mother Superior, [[List of Dune Bene Gesserit#Raquella|Raquella Berto-Anirul]].
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-In her [[epigraph (literature)|epigraph]]s in ''Dune'', Irulan reveals that her mother had been instructed by her Bene Gesserit superiors to produce only daughters for Shaddam, therefore leaving him no male heir. Anirul had complied with the Sisterhood's orders, giving birth to five daughters: Irulan, [[Chalice Corrino|Chalice]], Wensicia, [[Josifa Corrino|Josifa]], and [[Rugi Corrino|Rugi]].
-''[[The Dune Encyclopedia]]'' (1984) by Dr. Willis McNelly provides an extensive, alternate biography for Anirul in which she was born out of a liaison between Count Mauris Paluna and Zhaivee Elstun. <ref>McNelly, Willis E. ''[[The Dune Encyclopedia]]'', [[1 June]] [[1984]], pg. 169, ISBN 0-425-06813-7 (US edition)</ref> The ''Encyclopedia'' also notes that Anirul had been compelled to comply with the Sisterhood's [[Bene Gesserit#Breeding program|breeding program]] by way of a [[residual poison]] administered by [[Gaius Helen Mohiam]], and refers to Anirul's distant, icy relationship with daughter Irulan and revulsion for the "malicious" Wensicia. Of her five daughters she is said only to have loved Chalice.<ref>Ibid., pg.171</ref>
-==''Prelude to Dune''==
-===''Dune: House Atreides''===
-In ''[[Dune: House Atreides]]'', Anirul is the Bene Gesserit [[Kwisatz Mother]], the [[Reverend Mother (Dune)|Reverend Mother]] chosen every generation to guide the Sisterhood's [[Bene Gesserit#Breeding program|breeding program]]. The youngest Kwisatz Mother ever, Anirul had been the most qualified since the Reverend Mothers in [[Bene Gesserit#Other Memory|Other Memory]] had revealed everything to her, while keeping the details of the program hidden from most Bene Gesserit. Anirul soon determines that the goal of the program, a male superbeing called the [[Kwisatz Haderach]], is no more than three generations away. She calculates that a daughter of [[Vladimir Harkonnen|Baron Vladimir Harkonnen]] must produce a daughter by an [[House Atreides|Atreides]]; this daughter will then be bred with another [[House Harkonnen|Harkonnen]] heir, to produce the male Kwisatz Haderach.
-Anirul hand-selects [[Margot Fenring|Margot Rashino-Zea]], one of the Bene Gesserit's best commandos, to infiltrate the household of [[Abulurd Harkonnen]] on [[Lankiveil]]. The Sisterhood hopes to find incriminating evidence, perhaps hidden there by the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, which they can use to coerce the Baron into participating in their breeding program.
-Later, Margot convinces Emperor Shaddam IV to marry Anirul:
-<blockquote>The Sisterhood can help you secure your power base &mdash; more than an alliance with any single Great House of the [[Landsraad]] ... in these difficult times, we believe you would gain the greatest advantage by allying your throne with the power and resources of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood ... The Bene Gesserit are quite influential, you know.  We can work behind the scenes to smooth over any difficulties you currently have with the Landsraad.  This would free you to perform the work of being Emperor and secure your place in history.  A number of your grandfathers have done this, to good effect ... You are now the most powerful man in the universe, Sire, but your political rule is balanced between yourself, the Landsraad Council, and the powerful forces of the [[Spacing Guild]] and the Bene Gesserit.  Your marriage to one of my Sisters would be ... mutually beneficial.{{Fact|date=July 2007}}</blockquote>
-Margot's future husband [[Hasimir Fenring|Count Hasimir Fenring]] adds:
-<blockquote>Besides, Sire ... an alliance with any other Great House would bring with it certain ... baggage.  You would join with one family at the risk of spurning another.  We don't want to trigger another rebellion.{{Fact|date=July 2007}}</blockquote>
-Anirul marries the newly installed Emperor, Shaddam IV, in 10,156 A.G.; through this arrangement the Bene Gesserit seek influence over the Imperial throne by ensuring that Shaddam will never have a son.
-===''Dune: House Corrino''===
-Anirul dies in 10,176 A.G., during the events of ''[[Dune: House Corrino]]'', murdered by the Harkonnen [[Mentat]] [[Piter De Vries]] while trying to save the young Paul Atreides from being kidnapped. This is quite a mystery for the other Bene Gesserit, who regard Paul as a failure in the scheme to create the Kwisatz Haderach. They cannot understand why the Kwisatz Mother takes such a course of action, although it is revealed that the Empress' Other Memory had been deeply concerned on the realization that the Kwisatz Haderach might be born a generation earlier.
-==Notes and references==
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-[[Category:Dune characters|Corrino, Anirul]]