FARADT1 {10200-10419, also known as Harq Hi-Ada) Bom Farad'n Fennng to the Princess Wensicia (Comno) and her consort Count Dalak Fencing, Farad'n was the onl> grandchild of deposed Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV After the death of her husband m 10208 the Princess replaced her son's surname with that of her late lather, giving as reason her desire mat the Comno line, however reduced in fortune, be preserved Farad'n Comno was, m later years, Leto II s chief scnbe and was known thus as Harq al Ada, all of the completed works of history and analysis attributed to Harq al-Ada are by Comno As explained in Comno s unfinished autobiography, Notes to My Life, his court name, meaning "Breaking of the Habit" m Fremefl, was given to him by Leto, as a reminder to them both of the differences between past empires and that which Leto wished to establish Farad'n s childhood on Salusa Secundus was isolated and lonely His father left his mother when Farad'n was only two years old, having never married her When the boy was three his devoted grandfather Shaddam IV died A year later Dalak Fennng returned to Salusa Secundus only to claim his daugh ter Jeunne (Farad'n's sister) and take her to live with him on Giedi Prune Thus, Farad n was raised by his mother and his tutors, never knowing the company of others his own age Farad'n recorded his feelings about his early years in a particularly poignant passage m Notes I must have been an intolerably solemn child alwa>s with mv nose in a book or ray body working on self defense exercises Mother de sired my companv only at the raid day meal (lunch for me and breakfast for her1) How I used to dread those hours-she d stretch out on her lounge chair and question me about my lessons always reminding me about my duties as the future emperor She was so hu