Editing Count Fenring (section)

==Description==
In ''Dune'', Shaddam's daughter [[Princess Irulan]] writes via [[epigraph (literature)|epigraph]], "My father had only one real friend, I think. That was Count Hasimir Fenring...one of the deadliest fighters in the Imperium." She goes on to describe him as "a dapper and ugly little man".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2017/02/14/rereading-frank-herberts-dune-dune-part-twelve/|title=Rereading Frank Herbert's ''Dune'': ''Dune'', Part Twelve|first=Emmet|last=Asher-Perrin|date=February 14, 2017|website=[[Tor.com]]|access-date=November 12, 2019}}</ref> [[Vladimir Harkonnen|Baron Vladimir Harkonnen]] calls Fenring "a killer with the manners of a rabbit...the most dangerous kind." The Baron's nephew [[Feyd-Rautha|Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen]] describes Fenring as "a small man, weak-looking. The face was weaselish with overlarge dark eyes. There was gray at the temples. And his movements—he moved a hand or turned his head one way, then he spoke another way. It was difficult to follow."<ref name="Dune">{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Herbert |title=[[Dune (novel)|Dune]] |date=1965}}</ref>

As Shaddam's chief counsellor, Fenring is described as "the Emperor's errand boy" in the novel.<ref name="Dune"/> He appears to suffer from a [[tic|verbal tic]], but his unusual speech pattern is actually a "humming" code employed to privately communicate with his Bene Gesserit wife Margot.<ref name="Tor Dune 14">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2017/02/28/rereading-frank-herberts-dune-dune-part-fourteen/|title=Rereading Frank Herbert's ''Dune'': ''Dune'', Part Fourteen|first=Emmet|last=Asher-Perrin|date=February 28, 2017|website=Tor.com|access-date=November 12, 2019}}</ref> Herbert writes that "Fenring seldom did anything he felt to be unnecessary, or used two words where one would do, or held himself to a single meaning in a single phrase."<ref name="Dune 329">{{cite book|last=Herbert|first=Frank|date=1965|title=Dune|page=329}}</ref> Baron Harkonnen refers to Fenring as "Ambassador to the Smugglers", indicating Shaddam IV's interest in [[melange (fictional drug)|spice]] smuggling operations on Arrakis.<ref name="Dune"/> Herbert also notes that Fenring had been trained by Margot in the Bene Gesserit method of acute observation.<ref>{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |title=Dune |date=1965 |quote=The Count focused on Paul, seeing with eyes his Lady Margot had trained in the Bene Gesserit way...}}</ref> [[Paul Atreides]] notes that "Fenring was one of the might-have-beens, an almost [[Kwisatz Haderach]], crippled by a flaw in the genetic pattern—a [[eunuch]], his talent concentrated into furtiveness and inner seclusion."<ref name="Dune"/>