Feyd-Rautha
| Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen | |
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| First appearance | Dune (1965) |
| Last appearance | Dune: House Corrino (2001) |
| Created by | Frank Herbert |
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| Affiliation | House Harkonnen |
| Title | na-Baron |
| Children | Marie Fenring |
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The na-Baron Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen is a fictional character in the 1965 science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
The younger nephew of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the dark-haired, 16-year-old Feyd is as cruel, ruthless and cunning as his uncle. He is as lean and muscular as the Baron is morbidly obese; the Baron also notes that the "full and pouting look" of Feyd's lips is "the Harkonnen genetic marker". Feyd and his elder brother Glossu Rabban are the legal sons of Baron Harkonnen's youngest demibrother, Abulurd Rabban, who had "renounced the Harkonnen name and all rights to the title when given the subdistrict governorship of Rabban-Lankiveil".
Feyd is portrayed by Sting in the 1984 film Dune, and by Matt Keeslar in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune.
As Dune begins, Feyd-Rautha figures heavily in the Baron's plans to gain power for House Harkonnen. The Baron favors the handsome and charismatic Feyd over Feyd's older brother Glossu Rabban ("The Beast") because of Feyd's intelligence and his dedication to the Harkonnen culture of carefully planned and subtly executed sadism and cruelty, as opposed to Rabban's outright brutality.
The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But Rabban's younger brother, young Feyd-Rautha. There was a sharpness to the boy that the Baron enjoyed ... a ferocity ... A year or two more — say, by the time he's seventeen, I'll know for certain whether he's the tool that House Harkonnen requires to gain the throne.
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