Depend Fenring was a childhood buddy of the Emperor Shaddam IV, and served as an Imperial Agent on Arrakis all through the Harkonnen’s rule of the planet. Fenring’s essential declare to fame is that he is in a position to make himself invisible to prescient imaginative and prescient, to the purpose the place not even Paul (even after he drinks the Water of Life) can see him in his visions of the longer term. Within the scheming political panorama of “Dune,” this can be a deeply disconcerting ability. When characters like Paul and Jessica are making selections (and counter-decisions) based mostly on all of this, the existence of a man who cannot be predicted tends to complicate every part far past anybody’s consolation zone.
Fenring can be a eunuch, which is the results of him being an unwilling a part of the Bene Gesserit breeding program. He was a possible candidate for the Kwisatz Haderach, the long-prophesized determine whom the Bene Gesserit deliberate to make Emperor, however he was born a era too early. His spouse Margot Fenring, a Bene Gesserit witch, does seem in “Dune: Half Two,” performed by Léa Seydoux — however there is no point out of her husband.
Within the e book, Depend Fenring serves because the interim governor on Arrakis who helps formally transition the Atreides into energy. It isn’t clear precisely how a lot he did with this function to sabotage the Atreides’ transient reign, however given his allegiance to the Emperor it is sure that he was complicit (to no less than some extent) in Leto’s assassination and the bloodbath of Home Atreides. Bodily, Fenring is described as a small weasel-like man, one other duplicitous schemer in a sequence full of them. The character was portrayed by Miroslav Taborsky within the 2000 “Dune” miniseries; Tim Blake Nelson does not look precisely like Taborsky, however he is a great match for the novel’s description.