Farad'n
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Farad'n is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. Farad'n is a major character in the science fiction novel Children of Dune by Frank Herbert.
Farad'n is given the name Harq al-Ada by Emperor Leto II.
Farad'n became the leader of House Corrino during the regency of Alia Atreides. Unlike his mother Wensicia and the other members of House Corrino before him, he prefers history and books to the idea of becoming an Emperor after the tragic death of his father, Count Dalak Kenola, who was killed in a suspicious ornithorpter accident in 10,204 when Farad'n was four years old.
In the books Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, Farad'n acts as the narrator figure for chapter headings in place of Princess Consort Irulan Corrino. He stands almost as an incarnation of the author, analyzing the situations that arise throughout the book.
Farad'n was aware of the plan his mother Wensicia had to assassinate Leto II and Ghanima using two trained and mechanically controlled Laza tigers. The tigers are later killed by Leto and Ghanima, and Leto uses the opportunity to escape from his aunt Alia, who has been co-opted by the ancestral memory-persona of her malevolent grandfather, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen by faking his own death. Ghanima uses self-hypnosis to actually believe Leto was killed to avoid discovery by Truthsayers. She therefore promptly declares kanly on Farad'n, believing that he had masterminded the death of her brother.
In the meantime Duncan Idaho and Lady Jessica Atreides are delivered to Wensicia on Salusa Secundus at the request of the mysterious Preacher, where Jessica teaches Farad'n the Prana-bindu training and the Weirding Way of the Bene Gesserit just as she and Irulan taught her grandchildren. In the end Jessica succeeds in making him the first male Bene Gesserit in history, which also causes a rift between Farad'n and his mother, resulting in Wensicia's banishment and Farad'n assuming the powers of the Imperial House Corrino.
Alia tried to use Ghanima's vow of kanly to kill Farad'n, by arranging for a marriage between the two when she knows that he will be killed by his would-be wife. Farad'n is saved by the reappearance of Leto II, clad in his new sand trout skin.
On coming to power, Leto proclaims Farad'n as his scribe and historian and renames him 'Harq al'Ada', or the 'breaker of habit'. Though Farad'n lost his chance to become an Emperor to Leto II; he was the sire of future generations of Atreides through his relationship with Ghanima; this bloodline is the one Leto will tend over the next three and a half millennia.
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