The na-Baron [b]Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen[/b] is a character and antagonist in the [[science fiction]] novel [[dune (series)|Dune]] by Frank Herbert.

The younger nephew of the cruel, powerful and cunning Baron [[Vladimir Harkonnen]], the young Feyd is as lean and muscular as the Baron is morbidly obese. 

Feyd and his elder brother Glossu Rabban are the legal sons of Baron [[Harkonnen]]'s youngest demibrother, Abulurd Rabban, who had renounced the Harkonnen name and all rights to the title when given the subdistrict governorship of Rabban-Lankiveil.

As Dune begins, Feyd-Rautha figures heavily in the Baron's plans to gain power for [[House Harkonnen]]. The Baron favors the handsome and charismatic Feyd over Feyd's older brother Glossu Rabban ("The Beast") because of Feyd's extreme intelligence and his dedication to the Harkonnen culture of carefully planned and subtly executed sadism and cruelty, as opposed to Rabban's outright brutality.

In the "David Lynch":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch "1984 film adaptation of the novel":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(1984_film) the character was played by the famous musician and ex- "Police" music band member "Sting":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(musician) .
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