ngry for power that she almost convinced me of ts growth but most of the time I just wanted to get out of that room and away from her eyes It wasn t until I knew Ghamma that I learned to relax and even at that I think we suited each other because neither of us had ever really been ch Idren Perhaps it was because of his deprived child hood that Farad n later spent so much time with his own children It was undeniably his mother s tutelage which shaped Farad n s earliest attitudes to ward his own House, as well as toward House Atreides A bitter vengeful woman, Wensicia told her son from his earliest years that he had been destined to become emperor and that the usurping Atreides had denied him his rightful place She was aided in this by members of her father s Imperial Sardaukar also exiled To the former prison planet who had felt the Comno defeat a& keenly as most of the Family s members Their combined influence however did not achte\e the results any of the participants expected Rather than igniting in the boy a rage against the Atreides the constant haranguing about their successful rebellion set the curiosity of Farad n-a distinguished schol dr from an early age-ablaze regarding House Atreides, and particularly regarding the em peror who had replaced his grandfather That he studied the history of his own House with only a fraction of the interest he showed in their enemy would have alerted a guardian of sensitivity But Wensicia had always been the least astute of the Comno daughters-which accounted for the Bene Gessent's pointed lack of interest in her-and she suspected nothing even when Farad n began to exhibit highly un Corrmo like attributes The Prince had taken his family s exhoruons to heart, but in his own way He had studied the Atreides code their history every record CORRINO, FARAD N 173 CORRINO FARAD N and snippet of information his aunt Irulan documented in her histories, contrasted their results with those obtained by his own House, and made what seemed to be his only logical decision to emulate the traits which had given the Atreides a clear-cut superiority over the House they had defeated By his seventeenth year, when the Lady Alia was in her eighth year as regent for the Atreides twins, Leto and Ghamma, Farad'n had already patterned himself as closely as possible after the man who had wrested the Impenum from Shaddam IV He conducted himself with his subordinates in the manner of Paul Atreides, developed an Atreides-style battle language with which he commanded his Sardaukar, even acquired many of the better-known manaenMiis of the emperor and of his father, Duke Leto Every avenue of training which his model had used, Farad'n used also-with one, much regretted exception The Corrmo youth lacked a teacher of the caliber of the Lady Jessica, Wemicia, despite her royal upbringing and early exposure to members of the B G Sisterhood, could not even be offered as a comparison, and her son, better than an