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House Harkonnen

29 entries tagged House Harkonnen, 29 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at House Harkonnen: the Baron's Giedi Prime and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: the architect of the Atreides fall.

Why Is Paul Atreides a Harkonnen?Paul is a Harkonnen through his mother. Lady Jessica is the secret daughter of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, which makes the Baron Paul's grandfather. Here is why the Bene Gesserit arranged it, when Paul finds out and why he calls the Baron grandfather.
Chiara: the Harkonnen spy in Castle CaladanChiara Rash-Olin was an elderly lady in waiting from the Imperial Court of Kaitain who served Kailea Vernius on Caladan while secretly reporting to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Her whispered manipulations drove Kailea to bomb Duke Leto Atreides' skyclipper, a plot that killed young Victor Atreides, and when her treachery was exposed Kailea stabbed her through the heart.
Czigo: Harkonnen soldier and assassinCzigo was a soldier and assassin of House Harkonnen who fought in the Siege of Arrakeen in 10191 AG. Assigned by the Mentat Piter de Vries to carry Paul Atreides and the Lady Jessica into the deserts beyond the Shield Wall and kill them there, he died instead at the hands of his prisoners when the Lady Jessica turned the Voice upon him.
Evgeny Harkonnen: patriarch of a disgraced HouseEvgeny Harkonnen was the uncle of Griffin, Valya and Tula Harkonnen and the aging head of a family living in exile and disgrace. He never forgave Valya for the deaths her ambitions brought upon the House, and his final argument with her ended when she withheld the treatment that kept him breathing.
Gunseng Harkonnen: Siridar Baron of Giedi PrimeGunseng Harkonnen was the sole son that Baron Granuk Harkonnen allowed to live, a slight and musical heir whom the great families dismissed as weak. He secured his barony with deathbed executions, destroyed House Sarobella through market warfare and a fabricated conspiracy charge, and was beaten to death at his own victory banquet by his son Araskin.
Harrow Harkonnen: Baron of a fallen HouseBaron Harrow Harkonnen was a rising politician of House Harkonnen who longed to restore his House to its former glory. Drawn into the schemes of his aunt Valya Harkonnen, he petitioned the High Council to investigate Desmond Hart for murder, then bought the Bashar's forgiveness with an informant's bargain.
Hunter-seeker: the assassin's sliverThe hunter-seeker was a tiny remotely controlled assassination device, a poisoned needle carried inside a floating metal sliver no more than five centimetres long. House Harkonnen used one in a failed attempt on the life of Paul Atreides on Arrakis in 10191 AG.
Saudir III al-Harkonnen: the Harkonnen usurper of the Golden Lion ThroneDuke Saudir Harkonnen of Eluzai overthrew the regent Henli I al-Qair in 388 AG and ruled for a single year as Saudir III, eighteenth Emperor of the Known Universe. In that year he made Salusa Secundus a prison planet and recalled the exiled main branch of House Harkonnen, before the Sardaukar slaughtered him and his family in a palace revolt.
Tula Harkonnen: the Harkonnen who wed and slew an AtreidesTula Harkonnen was an early member of House Harkonnen and a sister of the Bene Gesserit. On the orders of her elder sister, Valya Harkonnen, she married Orry Atreides and murdered him on their wedding night to avenge their slain brother.
Abulurd HarkonnenAbulurd Harkonnen was a decorated commander of the Butlerian Jihad and the grandson of Xavier Harkonnen who, after refusing to cross the Bridge of Hrethgir at the Battle of Corrin, was branded a coward and exiled to Lankiveil, beginning the ten thousand year feud between the Harkonnen and Atreides.
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: the architect of the Atreides fallSiridar-Baron Vladimir Harkonnen was the penultimate ruler of House Harkonnen and the chief architect of the downfall of Duke Leto Atreides. A gluttonous and cruel schemer, he conspired to seize Arrakis and the Golden Lion Throne before his House was destroyed in the war for Arrakis.
Battle of Giedi PrimeThe Battle of Giedi Prime was a brief assault by Agamemnon's cymeks against the League planet Giedi Prime, launched in retaliation for the machine defeat at Zimia. A sacrificial cruiser shattered the planet's shield generators, allowing the Titans to seize the world and install a new Omnius incarnation.
CarthagCarthag was the capital of Arrakis during the rule of House Harkonnen, the larger and more populous of the planet's two great cities. When House Atreides took the fief in 10,191 AG, Duke Leto moved the capital to the more defensible Arrakeen.
Danvis HarkonnenBaron Danvis Harkonnen was an early member of House Harkonnen who served as its third representative in the Landsraad League under Emperor Roderick Corrino, and whose rivalry with Willem Atreides nearly destroyed him.
Desert War: the fall of the Corrino EmpireThe Desert War is the fight for Arrakis told in Frank Herbert's Dune. It destroyed House Harkonnen, ended the Corrino Empire, and put Paul Atreides on the Golden Lion Throne.
Dmitri HarkonnenBaron Dmitri Harkonnen ruled House Harkonnen and the planet Giedi Prime. Father of the future Baron Vladimir by his first wife and of Abulurd by his second, he was a hard man softened in later life, content to let the feud with House Atreides lie dormant.
Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen: the na-Baron who died on Paul's bladeFeyd-Rautha Harkonnen was the na-Baron and heir of Vladimir Harkonnen. Charismatic, cunning, and vicious, he was groomed to inherit House Harkonnen and to win the Imperial throne, but was killed in a duel with Paul Atreides shortly after the Battle of Arrakeen.
Giedi PrimeGiedi Prime, later renamed Gammu, was the industrial homeworld of House Harkonnen, orbiting the star Ophiuchi B. A planet of factories, arenas, and an oppressed populace, it later passed to Atreides administration and eventually became a Bene Gesserit base.
Glossu RabbanGlossu Rabban, called the Beast, was the brutish eldest nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. As Count of Lankiveil and Governor of Arrakis, his merciless oppression of the population earned him the Fremen name Mudir Nahya and helped ignite the Desert War that destroyed his House.
House Harkonnen: the Baron's Giedi PrimeSeated on industrial Giedi Prime and ruled by a Siridar-Baron, the Harkonnens had hated House Atreides since Corrin. Arrakeen finished them off.
Iakin NefudIakin Nefud was the captain of the House Harkonnen guard, raised from corporal to that rank after his quick thinking saved Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from the poison gas that killed Duke Leto Atreides' captors. A Semuta addict, he served the Baron throughout the occupation of Arrakis.
LankiveilLankiveil was a cold maritime world of the Corrino Empire whose chief export was whale fur. Held by House Harkonnen, it was governed for a time by Abulurd, who renounced the Harkonnen name in favour of his wife's family name, Rabban.
Liberation of Giedi PrimeThe Liberation of Giedi Prime was the battle that returned the planet to the League of Nobles after its occupation by the thinking machines, won by a combined assault and the sacrifice of a Sorceress of Rossak.
Marie FenringMarie Fenring was the daughter of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen and Lady Margot Fenring, raised by the Fenrings as both assassin and Bene Gesserit and intended to seize the Imperial throne from Paul Atreides. Her assassination attempt at age six was cut short by Alia Atreides.
Piter de VriesPiter de Vries was a Twisted Mentat developed by the Bene Tleilax who served Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. An ambitious and impatient sadist, he devised the conspiracy that destroyed House Atreides before dying in the trap left by Duke Leto's poisoned tooth.
Siege of ArrakeenThe Siege of Arrakeen was the night assault in 10191 AG in which House Harkonnen, backed by Imperial Sardaukar disguised as Harkonnen troops, destroyed House Atreides on Arrakis. Duke Leto Atreides was killed and his heir Paul fled into the desert.
Soo-Soo: the Harkonnen agent at Arrakeen"Soo-Soo" was a Harkonnen agent and Guild bank representative who attended the banquet House Atreides held for the Houses Minor of Arrakis. His nickname came from his role as financial advisor to the Water Peddlers Union.
Valya HarkonnenValya Harkonnen of Lankiveil rose from a promising student of Raquella Berto-Anirul to become the second Reverend Mother Superior of the order she renamed the Bene Gesserit. Consumed by a vendetta against House Atreides, she developed the technique of Voice and used it to seize sole leadership.
Xavier HarkonnenXavier Harkonnen was a respected military commander of the Butlerian Jihad whose killing of the corrupt Grand Patriarch Iblis Ginjo tainted his family name for centuries, even as his bloodline went on to found House Corrino.