Editing Duncan Idaho (section)

==Description==
In ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' (1965), Duncan is described as a handsome man with "curling black hair" to whom women are easily attracted. [[Paul Atreides]] notes Duncan's "dark round face" and "feline movements, the swiftness of reflex that made him such a difficult weapons teacher to emulate." And in ''[[Dune Messiah]]'' (1969) he is described as having "high cheekbones" and "definite [[epicanthic folds]]."<ref name="Messiah">{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=[[Dune Messiah]] |year=1969}}</ref> [[Lady Jessica]] calls him "the admirable fighting man whose abilities at guarding and surveillance are so esteemed." Duncan is fiercely loyal to [[House Atreides]], a skilled pilot, and as a [[Swordmasters of the Ginaz|Swordmaster of the Ginaz]] is a gifted hand-to-hand fighter.<ref name="Dune">{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=[[Dune (novel)|Dune]] |year=1965 }}</ref> In the fight that ends with his death in ''Dune'', Duncan kills an unheard-of 19 [[Sardaukar]], the [[Padishah Emperor]]'s fearsome [[supersoldier]]s.<ref name="Duncan 19">{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=[[Children of Dune]] |year=1976 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/childrenofdune00fran/page/227 227] |isbn=0-575-07490-6 |quote=The Sardaukar who'd slain him reported his prowess: nineteen of their number dispatched by Idaho before he'd fallen. Nineteen Sardaukar! }}</ref> The Sardaukar sell his body to the [[Tleilaxu]]; subsequent [[ghola]]s of Duncan possess the rebellious streak of the original.

In 1976's ''[[Children of Dune]]'', [[Lady Jessica]] tells Duncan that he was drawn to her daughter [[Alia Atreides|Alia]] because "you wanted a girl you saw as a younger version of me."<ref name="Children">{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank  |title=Children of Dune  |url=https://archive.org/details/childrenofdune1976herb |url-access=registration |year=1976|isbn=9780425043837 }}</ref> In ''[[God Emperor of Dune]]'' (1981), the latest Duncan ghola discovers that one of his predecessors had fathered a child with a woman named Irti who closely resembles Jessica.<ref name="God Emperor">{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank  |title=[[God Emperor of Dune]] |year=1981 }}</ref>