Other memory

[clooster]

Hi there. I was wondering about something, knowing full well noone has the right answer, or not so? it revolves around this: every reverend mother has a crowd inside her, which communicates out of their own volition with the 'owner'. This unless it's someone like Odrade, described in Heretics: she can 

access other memory at will (save for the male side); Murbella ended up having

Odrade in her Other memory, if Murbella asked and Odrade was willing, could she kinda consult Other memory like Odrade did, like Odrade? how about other

cases? in fact, could a reverend mother consult safely the male side thru someone on her Other memory, given that possibly that person in other memory wouldn't be affected?   

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Hi!

Every Reverend Mother could consult the Other Memory. But noone could consult the male line, except for Paul, Alia, Ghanima(?) and Leto II.

Murbella would not have to go through Odrade in order to consult Other Memory. Through Sharing, Murbella gained the whole female line from Odrade.

Hope this answered your question

[MrFlibble]

Reverend Mothers can control their Other Memory, and access it at will. There is a sort of symbiotic link between their psyche and the Other Memory. What you described as a "crowd" is the state of an Abomination, a person whose Other Memory was awakened without special training, and thus they cannot control it. The danger of the Abomination is that the personae in the Other memory may take control of their "host's" body, like what happened to Alia (ironically).