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The Legends of Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson explores the origins of House Harkonnen, and later their feud with the Atreides.

As the series begins, brave Xavier Harkonnen is just and honorable, and becomes close friends with Vorian Atreides.

Ultimately he destroys his own family's reputation by killing the evil and corrupt — but perceived as a holy martyr by the masses — Grand Patriarch Iblis Ginjo.

Ginjo's own political machine paints Xavier as a traitor, and the surname Harkonnen is abandoned by his immediate descendants.

When Vorian tells Xavier's grandson ( the first Abulurd Harkonnen ) the truth, he takes his grandfather's name with pride.

However, the close relationship between Abulurd and Vorian comes to an end at the Battle of Corrin, the battle that ends the Butlerian Jihad and founds the Imperium.

Abulurd refuses a direct order from his commander, Vorian, to kill a multitude of humans enslaved by the thinking machines.

Though he had only wanted to save innocent people, Abulurd is demonized by Vorian and labeled a coward and a traitor.

Abulurd's own brother Faykan Corrino exiles him from the League Worlds to the frosty planet of Lankiveil, where his descendants learn to believe they had been unjustly vilified by the Atreides family despite their noble deeds.

House Harkonnen ultimately works its way back into the graces of the Imperium.