Margot Fenring
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Lady Margot Fenring, born Margot Reshino-Zea, was the Bene Gesserit wife of the Mentat Count Hasimir Fenring. Despite superficially falling under the influence of House Corrino, Margot fully served the Sisterhood to many ends. After the vast reduction of Bene Gesserit influence after the Ascension of House Atreides, Margot and her husband dedicated themselves to serving their own ends.
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[edit] Early Life and Missions
Margot was the product of the Bene Gesserit breeding program, and the subject of their extensive training. She was renowned for her extreme beauty, cunning, and resourcefulness. She had honey-blond hair and grey-green eyes. Fenring was a highly trained spy and assassin, and knew 63 ways to kill an individual with her fingers alone.
She was also extensively trained to connect mismatched data, so that it could be interpreted in the "big picture" in which it was concealed. As someone who was trained with this ability, Margot was selected by Anirul Sadow Tonkin to present herself as a new domestic servant in the household of Abulurd Rabban on Lankiveil. She stayed 2 days in his mansion cleaning and dusting and looking for any records. Eventually she found them etched on ridulian crystals, and using flash-memorization techniques absorbed columns of all information. The next night she fell into a deep trance, and reviewed all the information she absorbed.
Margot was unable to uncover a few Harkonnen family mistakes, and the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's financial indiscretions, which included serious underreporting of spice production to CHOAM and the Emperor. This information suggested that the Harkonnens were accumulating secret stockpiles of their own.
She booked passage on the next Heighliner in a cargo hauler filled with processed whale-fur, and returned to Wallach IX. Thus, the Bene Gesserit were able to acquire the blackmail weapon they needed, to advance their Kwisatz Haderach breeding program.
After Gaius Helen Mohiam did not borne well her offspring with the Baron, Margot was sent to Harkonnen Keep on Giedi Prime and try to persuade him to have a second intercourse with the Sister.
She also performed an investigation of an errant Missionaria Protectiva on Arrakis.
[edit] Marriage to Hasimir Fenring
The Sisterhood eventually allowed her to be married to Count Hasimir Fenring, the ruler of House Fenring, a House Minor long alligned to House Corrino. While present in the Padishah Emperor's court she persuaded Shaddam to marry Reverend Mother Anirul Sadow-Tonkin, whom the Sisterhood knew would not yield House Corrino any sons.
As the wife of Hasimir Fenring, Margot was resident on Arrakis during his temporary governorship. Prior to their departure, and the arrival of House Atreides, she left an encoded message for the Lady Jessica Atreides, warning her of House Harkonnen's planned treachery.
[edit] Marie Fenring
At the request of the Bene Gesserit, Margot seduced Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen and conceived his child. This action was insurance taken by the Sisterhood to preserve the bloodline of House Harkonnen within their breeding program.
