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Lady Margot Fenring is a fictional character from the ''Dune'' universe created by Frank Herbert. She is featured in Herbert's ''Dune'' (1965), and is a major character in the ''Prelude to Dune'' prequel trilogy (1999-2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson and the 2008 novel ''Paul of Dune''. The Bene Gesserit wife of Count Hasimir Fenring, Margot is first described in ''Dune'' through Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen's eyes: The non-canon ''Dune Encyclopedia'' (1984) by Willis E. McNelly invents an extensive, alternate biography for Margot. ==''Dune''== In ''Dune'', Count Fenring had been the Governor of Arrakis during the handover period between House Harkonnen and House Atreides.〔 Margot leaves behind a note for her Bene Gesserit sister Lady Jessica, concubine to Duke Leto Atreides, in the palace on Arrakis: Jessica's own training alerts her to the true nature of Margot's message: Unfortunately, Margot's warning is not enough to stop the Harkonnen plot against the Atreides. Duke Leto is killed, and Jessica and her son Paul are forced to flee into the desert of Arrakis.〔 Later in the events of ''Dune'', Margot is sent by the Bene Gesserit to seduce Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen and to "preserve the bloodline" by retrieving his genetic material (through conception) for their breeding program. She also intends to "plant deep in his deepest self the necessary prana-bindu phrases to bend him," which she later refers to as the "Hypno-ligation of that Feyd-Rautha's psyche." As she and her husband discuss what a shame it is that Paul Atreides is dead (as everyone thinks he is at that time), Margot prophetically recounts a Bene Gesserit saying: "Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake."〔 Near the end of the novel, it is made clear that Margot has shared some of her training with her husband: "The Count focused on Paul, seeing with eyes his Lady Margot had trained in the Bene Gesserit way, aware of the mystery and hidden grandeur about this Atreides youth." Hasimir subsequently refuses Emperor Shaddam IV's command that he kill Paul. Soon after, as Reverend Mother Mohiam watches Paul and Feyd-Rautha duel to the death, she comments on the existence of Margot's child by Feyd: "If both died here that would leave only Feyd-Rautha's bastard daughter, still a baby, an unknown, an unmeasured factor, and Alia."〔 Seizing control of Arrakis, Paul deposes Shaddam, who is exiled to Salusa Secundus;〔 Count Fenring willingly joins the former Emperor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margot Fenring」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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