Miles Teg

Miles Teg is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

In Heretics of Dune, Miles Teg is introduced as the former Supreme Bashar of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. He is charged with the weapons training of ghola Duncan Idaho by Taraza, the Mother Superior of the Bene Gesserit. His mother Janet Roxbrough, a Bene Gesserit, taught him some of the ways of the Sisterhood before he was sent to Lampadas to train as a Mentat.

Miles Teg was a military genius and became Supreme Bashar of the Bene Gesserit, winning many victories. He had a very strong sense of honor, loyalty, and had the many characteristics of House Atreides. He is well known for doing the unexpected.

Heretics of Dune

In Heretics of Dune, Miles Teg was ordered to take over the weapons training of the Bene Gesserit Duncan Idaho ghola after he retired for a long time. When the Bene Gesserit Keep was stormed by the Bene Tleilax, he, the Duncan Idaho ghola and Reverend Mother Lucilla went into hiding in a Harkonnen no-globe discovered by his aide, Patrin. He awoke Idaho's original memories, and made an appointment with his favorite student, Burmazali. They were intercepted, and Teg stayed behind, giving Lucilla and Idaho time to run for it. Teg was captured by the Honored Matres.

Teg was later tortured by the Honored Matres using a T-Probe. His mentat and latent Atreides abilities learned the T-probe before it could learn him, and this created a deadly reaction within Teg. He was able to move faster than the eye could see, at the cost of incredible energy expenditure; he had to consume huge amounts of carbohydrates to regain his energy. At the end of the book, he sacrificed himself on Rakis as the Honored Matres turn it into a charred ball.

Chapterhouse: Dune

At the beginning of Chapterhouse Dune, a ghola of Teg was birthed at his daughter, Darwi Odrade's orders. The Mother Superior Darwi Odrade wanted to use Teg's military abilities to defeat the upcoming threat of the Honored Matres. The Bene Gesserit later reawakened him to his full memories prematurely by using Reverend Mother Sheeana to imprint him. Under the intense stress caused by sexual imprinting to him because of the Bene Gesserit conditioning he received from his mother during his original life's childhood, Miles Teg's latent Atreides abilities awoken in Heretics of Dune were unlocked once more; he moved with blinding speed, had a unique form of prescience, could sense immediate danger from people, and also had the ability to see no-ships.

Miles Teg led the final assault upon the Honored Matres, but was captured when the Honored Matres pretended to surrender. After Murbella successfully succeeded to the position of Great Honored Matre and Mother Superior, he was released and joined Sheeana, Duncan Idaho on their trip on the Ithaca.

Miles Teg represents an exquisite product of the eugenic program of the Bene Gesserit and their meticulous training. Miles Teg is an Atreides and bears a striking resemblance to Duke Leto Atreides I not only in his appearance but in his strict sense of honor. Mother Superior Darwi Odrade is his daughter.