Teddy Hairkonnen – Teddy the young child saved by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Lady Jessica Atreides from Dune
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Teddy_Hairkonnen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jessica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
https://archive.org/details/rikkitikkitavi_201701
Teddy Hairkonnen is the rightful heir of House Calixco. Her father the Baron has sent her to Tetrus Prison in Istanboa. Your wizard needs to rescue Teddy Hairkonnen from the Snakish prison, Nashkurgal sends your wizard to find the hidden entrance to Istanboa.
In the Dune novels Baron Harkonnen has no recognized heir, though Lady Jessica Adtreides is his daughter. Teddy is the name of the young boy rescued by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Hence, Teddy Hairkonnen is a combination of the two.
Lady Jessica is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. A main character in the 1965 novel Dune, Jessica also plays an important role in the later installment Children of Dune (1976). The events surrounding Jessica’s conception, her birth and her early years with Leto are chronicled in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy.
In the Prelude to Dune series, it is revealed that Jessica’s mother is in fact Reverend Mother Mohiam; according to the authors, this fact was pulled directly from Frank Herbert’s working notes for the original Dune series. In the storyline, Mohiam blackmails Baron Harkonnen into a sexual encounter; when the first daughter she conceives proves genetically undesirable, she is forced to return. At this point the Baron drugs and viciously rapes Mohiam, and in retribution she secretly infects him with the disease that will later leave him horribly obese. The daughter born of this second union is Jessica.
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is a short story in the 1894 short story collection The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. It has often been anthologized and published several times as a short book. Book 5 of Panchatantra, an ancient Indian collection, includes the mongoose and snake story, an inspiration for the “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” story.
After an intense seasonal thunderstorm, an Indian mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (from his chattering vocalizations) becomes the pet of an English family residing in India after they save him from drowning. He becomes friendly with some other creatures inhabiting their garden. However, the cobras, named Nag (the male) and Nagaina (the female), are angered by the human family’s presence in their territory and fear Rikki as a threat when they meet him for the first time. Scared at first, Rikki soon learns that a mongoose’s quest is to track down and slay any snake he or she can find, and fends them off after a short skirmish. That same day, a young dust-brown snake named Karait threatens to bite the family’s child, Teddy. This infuriates Rikki into challenging Karait, unaware the smaller snake is as venomous as a cobra and faster. Despite the risk, Rikki emerges victorious and kills the snake, saving the child, before presenting the slain foe to the father as proof of the mongoose’s victory.
Director Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya shot an animated short film of this story titled Рикки-Тикки-Тави (Rikki-Tikki-Tavi) in 1965 in the Soviet Union, at the film studio Soyuzmultfilm. In 1975 Chuck Jones adapted it for a half-hour television special in the United States, with Orson Welles narrating and providing the voice of Nag.
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