Gurney Halleck

Gurney Halleck is a character of fiction of the cycle of Dune, of Frank Herbert.

It is the friend and the professor of Paul Atréides. Halleck is a “warrior-troubadour” known as Irulan in one of its books. Indeed, it is one of the best players of balisette than the Empire knew. Psychologically contrast between the man of war and the musician is striking. This warrior-poet could put of with dimensions his sensitivity to the combat, and its quarrelsome and strategic spirit disappeared when he played. It was rather disgracieux physically, a wine-color on the cheek and small scar of size. Its scar had been made by Rabban the Animal in a puit slaves Harkonnen on Giedi Prime. When it evokes his late sister, it is with infinite regrets: Its young face of elf was perfectly clear in his spirit. She had died. In a house of pleasure for soldiers Harkonnen. She liked the thoughts… Unless they were not the daisies. He did not manage to remember. And that disturbed it.

Its friendship for the Duc pushes it to enlist the Fremen and to try to create soldiers of elite with the assistance of Duncan Idaho. It is with the head of the last soldiers Atréides to resist the attack of the Sardaukars and the Maison Harkonnen, at the time of the plot of Arrakis.

Gurney Halleck misses killing Jessica, thinking that it betrayed the Duc Leto. Paul dissuades some in extremis. They forgive then in Gurney because they know it faithful to the Maison Atréides. It will always remain it. It will follow Jessica Atréides in her return on Caladan. It will follow it once again towards Arrakis, after the death of Paul, in order to help the twins. Its memory will perdurera in the thousand-year-old memory of the Empereur God Leto, and of the multiples Ghola of his/her friend Duncan Idaho.

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