November DuneWiki article: Feyd

[Dunenewt]

The Dune Wiki article on Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen is November 2009's 'Improvement Drive of the Month', so get contributing your information on Sting's most famous acting role.

http://wiki.dune2k.com/Feyd-Rautha_Harkonnen

[Anathema]

The Feyd Rautha article is fine. I appreciate that it keeps information from the original Dune and the newer books seperate.

I stumpled on this though:

http://wiki.dune2k.com/Vladimir_Harkonnen

When he was killed by Alia, House Harkonnen passed to his na-Baron, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnon. He challenged Paul Atreides to a duel, which Paul won. After Paul defeated Feyd, House Harkonnen passed to the next living heir, the Lady Jessica, who declined the title. Paul then ruled that House Harkonnen passed to himself as the last living heir, and became subsumed into the throne.

This has got to be from the newer books- in one of the scenes of CoD it's hinted that Duncan, of all people, doesn't know the truth about the Harkonnen ancestry of Jessica and Paul.

(I'll edit the article myself when I have more time)

[Wolf]

Anathema, I think you are correct--it lists "Hunters of Dune" as a source, and I can't figure out to what else that might refer to.

[SandChigger]

I'll go through and check later, but I don't remember anything like that being mentioned in Hunters or Sandworms. (Of course, I could just be blocking the memory!) Sounds a bit more Dune-Encyclopedic to me. ? ? ?

[MrFlibble]

I have always assumed that after the events of Dune, House Harkonnen was ruled by some other members of the Harkonnen family, who were never mentioned in the books, until the House went in a complete decline in the times of Leto II.

[Mahdi]

I have always assumed that after the events of Dune, House Harkonnen was ruled by some other members of the Harkonnen family, who were never mentioned in the books, until the House went in a complete decline in the times of Leto II.

Yeah.  It's specifically mentioned a few times that House Harkonnen is still around, just vastly reduced in power and influence and tended to keep in the background (any Harkonnen who made a nuisance of himself lost his head).

[MrFlibble]

It is also doubtful that Paul was "the last living heir" to House Harkonnen, as during the scene when Paul reveals to Jessica their ancestry, Jessica first suggests that she comes from a family of a "distant cousin" of the Baron, meaning that there were many minor relatives of the ruling family who could take the Baron's place and title. Also, cousins and other relatives are mentioned in the episode where Feyd fights an Atreides gladiator.

[SandChigger]

I have always assumed that after the events of Dune, House Harkonnen was ruled by some other members of the Harkonnen family, who were never mentioned in the books, until the House went in a complete decline in the times of Leto II.

His letting them spend a fortune on building their "secret" no-globe no doubt a primary cause of that decline? ;)

[Dunenewt]

Hmm, this article could still do with some editing.