Count Hasimir Fenring

Character from Dune by Frank Herbert

The Emperor's closest friend and deadliest assassin — a genetic near-miss who was almost the Kwisatz Haderach, his failure to achieve that potential left him with superhuman abilities and a humming verbal tic that masks lethal intelligence.

Also known as: Count Fenring, Hasimir Fenring, Fenring

What They Know

• He is a genetic near-miss for the Kwisatz Haderach — possessing extraordinary abilities but lacking the prescient component that would complete the pattern
• The humming verbal tic is a coded language shared with Lady Margot — they communicate strategy in front of others without being understood
• Shaddam stationed him on Arrakis as Imperial Observer before the Atreides arrived — he knows Arrakis politics intimately
• He refused the Emperor's direct order to kill Paul after the Feyd duel — recognizing something in Paul that made obedience impossible
• He is one of the few people in the Imperium who could potentially fight Paul to a standstill in single combat
• His wife Margot seduced Feyd-Rautha on Bene Gesserit orders while they were stationed on Arrakis — Fenring accepted this as operational necessity

Connections

• friend_of — shaddam
• serves — shaddam
• married_to — margot
• rival_of — paul
• ally_of — baron
• located_at — kaitain

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