Ehre/Weisheit: Advisor

Hansel remembers his parents as kind and brave. His dad got Hansel and his sister, Gretel, out of the house to safety then went back for his wife.

Only to have them both tragically die for ‘worshipping’ Satan.

Hansel and Gretel, alone in the woods, wandered towards the big house that their parent always said was safe. While in the woods, they were confronted by the ‘big bad wolf’. Hansel protected his sister, who ran off and ended up finding William Tell, the Hunter who was looking for them.

He scared off the ‘wolf’ and took them to the Von Trapps.

They were raised with the knowledge of Vampires, and excelled in Georg and Maria’s care. As they got older, the two siblings became close, neither really interested in finding a husband or a wife. Georg trained Hansel in his business, teaching him to read and write. He traveled to other villages to check on families and their crops.

On the way back he ran into ‘the big bad wolf,’ and this time there was no Hunter. He held his own fighting him off, only to go down with one good blow. It was his sister’s yell that had the wolf run off.

Georg found him and he just smiled. Hansel always knew he would end up Turned.

Weisheit: Caretaker

Alp-Oehi always lived in the mountains.

He took care of the area, herded sheep, and worked the land for its resources.  His wife gave him two sons, and they lived a long life together.  She’s buried further up in the mountain always watching over him.

His sons moved away, making lives for themselves and never came back to see their father.

He had seen The Von Trapps travel through the passes many times, and when a snow storm came in early, he set out to make sure they got through.

It was the next winter he felt the cough settle in. When Georg invited him into the family home, he sensed the illness in Alp and asked him if he wanted to be Turned.

Ehre/Weisheit: Researcher

Wilhelm and Jacob were born exactly 2 years apart. Jacob still hates that he was the youngest. Their father ran a pub in the village, and their mother worked the bar. They grew up hearing tales of adventure and far distant lands.

They always knew when ‘Hansel and Gretel’ came through (Dilios Note: Later they discovered it was Wilhelm and Tamara), so it was a shock to see them come with two others. Especially one that looked like Wilhelm.

Wilhelm always good with dealing with the drunks and Jacob good with the gossip around town; they always provided good information.

When Wilhelm followed the Hunters, Jacob went with to keep his brother out of trouble. Only to end up on the wrong end of a Rogue’s sword. When Brandt asked if he wanted to be saved, he said only if his brother was to follow.

Ehre/Weisheit: Head of Security

Wilhelm and Jacob were born exactly 2 years apart. Jacob still hates that he was the youngest. Their father ran a pub in the village, and their mother worked the bar. They grew up hearing tales of adventure and far distant lands.

They always knew when ‘Hansel and Gretel’ came through (Dilios Note: Later they discovered it was Wilhelm and Tamara), so it was a shock to see them come with two others. Especially one that looked like Wilhelm.

Wilhelm always good with dealing with the drunks and Jacob good with the gossip around town; they always provided good information.

Curious that the new guy had to be a family member, he followed them, ending up in the middle of a Rogue nest. Surprisingly Wilhelm and Jacob held their own in the fight, and it was only to the end that Wilhelm was badly injured.

As he died he found his look alike was a Vampire! He was pissed he would die not hearing the greatest story ….

Ehre/Weisheit: Hunter

Trevor was born into an upper middle class family, and raised just outside San Francisco, California.   Had a good education, played baseball in high school, got a scholarship to attended Berkley.

It was from there he was recruited into IMF.

He was an exceptional agent, his knowledge and language skills made him an expert in Eastern Europe.

No one knows for sure when his relationship with Jane Carter started, but the two were an exceptional team despite being lovers.

It was a mission in Budapest, when everything went south.

As Trevor laid on the cold ground dying he regretted his fuck up was going to put his love in harms way.

When Benji offered him a chance to live, he took it.

Ehre/Weisheit: Hunter

Jane grew up in Seattle, Washington.   Her father was a chef who owned a small restaurant, while her mother worked the front of the house.  It was the local bbq place that everyone went to, she has found memories of coming home after school to a warm meal, doing her homework listening to the hustle and bustle of the community.

She went to school intent to become a lawyer, in her 3rd year of school she was called by the cops that someone had robbed the restaurant, and her parents had been killed.   She knew her parents would not want her to quit school, but she changed focus and ended up working for the FBI.   A few years in, she found herself stagnated and wasn’t sure what to do with her life, when she was approached by IMF.

It was her fifth mission she met Trevor Hanaway.   It took three more missions before the two became lovers.  They learned quickly to put their personal relationship to the side while working.

The one time it affected her work, was when he was shot by Sabine Moreau, then Turned by Benji.    For the rest of the mission she had a hard time focusing, but determined to finish the job.

She ended up recouping in Mumbai from a bullet wound by the end of the mission.  Hanaway appeared and told her they were Mates, she wasn’t that shocked as Ethan had hinted at it a few times.

Ehre/Weisheit: Hunter

Heidi doesn’t remember much of her family. She remembers her dad was tall and always made her laugh, while mom had a beautiful singing voice. After they died she was given to her grandpa Alp-Oehi.

He took her to the Von Trapps where she was raised with an education and all intents to be presented in court. Except she had no interest in court and was more interested in learning how to fight.

When she was old enough she went straight to her grandpa and asked to be Turned.

Ehre/Weisheit Kin Clan: Archivist/Librarian

Gutenberg was born in the German city of Mainz, the youngest son of the upper-class merchant Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, and his second wife, Else Wyrich, who was the daughter of a shopkeeper. It is assumed that he was baptized in the area close to his birthplace of St. Christoph. According to some accounts Friele was a goldsmith for the bishop at Mainz, but most likely, he was involved in the cloth trade Gutenberg’s year of birth is not precisely known but was most likely around 1398.

John Lienhard, technology historian, says “Most of Gutenberg’s early life is a mystery. His father worked with the ecclesiastic mint. Gutenberg grew up knowing the trade of goldsmithing.” This is supported by historian Heinrich Wallau, who adds, “In the 14th and 15th centuries his [descendants] claimed a hereditary position as …the master of the archiepiscopal mint. In this capacity they doubtless acquired considerable knowledge and technical skill in metal working. They supplied the mint with the metal to be coined, changed the various species of coins, and had a seat at the assizes in forgery cases.”

Wallau adds, “His surname was derived from the house inhabited by his father and his paternal ancestors ‘zu Laden, zu Gutenberg’. The house of Gänsfleisch was one of the patrician families of the town, tracing its lineage back to the thirteenth century.” Patricians (aristocrats) in Mainz were often named after houses they owned. Around 1427, the name zu Gutenberg, after the family house in Mainz, is documented to have been used for the first time.

In 1411, there was an uprising in Mainz against the patricians, and more than a hundred families were forced to leave. As a result, the Gutenbergs are thought to have moved to Eltville am Rhein (Alta Villa), where his mother had an inherited estate. According to historian Heinrich Wallau, “All that is known of his youth is that he was not in Mainz in 1430. It is presumed that he migrated for political reasons to Strasbourg, where the family probably had connections.” He is assumed to have studied at the University of Erfurt, where there is a record of the enrollment of a student called Johannes de Altavilla in 1418—Altavilla is the Latin form of Eltville am Rhein.

Nothing is now known of Gutenberg’s life for the next fifteen years, but in March 1434, a letter by him indicates that he was living in Strasbourg, where he had some relatives on his mother’s side. He also appears to have been a goldsmith member enrolled in the Strasbourg militia. In 1437, there is evidence that he was instructing a wealthy tradesman on polishing gems, but where he had acquired this knowledge is unknown. In 1436/37 his name also comes up in court in connection with a broken promise of marriage to a woman from Strasbourg, Ennelin. Whether the marriage actually took place is not recorded. Following his father’s death in 1419, he is mentioned in the inheritance proceedings.

Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a financial misadventure making polished metal mirrors (which were believed to capture holy light from religious relics) for sale to pilgrims to Aachen: in 1439 the city was planning to exhibit its collection of relics from Emperor Charlemagne but the event was delayed by one year due to a severe flood and the capital already spent could not be repaid. When the question of satisfying the investors came up, Gutenberg is said to have promised to share a “secret”. It has been widely speculated that this secret may have been the idea of printing with movable type. Also around 1439–1440, the Dutch Laurens Janszoon Coster came up with the idea of printing. Legend has it that the idea came to him “like a ray of light”.

Until at least 1444 he lived in Strasbourg, most likely in the St. Arbogast parish. It was in Strasbourg in 1440 that Gutenberg is said to have perfected and unveiled the secret of printing based on his research, mysteriously entitled Kunst und Aventur (art and enterprise). It is not clear what work he was engaged in, or whether some early trials with printing from movable type may have been conducted there. After this, there is a gap of four years in the record. In 1448, he was back in Mainz, where he took out a loan from his brother-in-law Arnold Gelthus, quite possibly for a printing press or related paraphernalia. By this date, Gutenberg may have been familiar with intaglio printing; it is claimed that he had worked on copper engravings with an artist known as the Master of Playing Cards.

By 1450, the press was in operation, and a German poem had been printed, possibly the first item to be printed there. Gutenberg was able to convince the wealthy moneylender Johann Fust for a loan of 800 guilders. Peter Schöffer, who became Fust’s son-in-law, also joined the enterprise. Schöffer had worked as a scribe in Paris and is believed to have designed some of the first typefaces.

Gutenberg’s workshop was set up at Hof Humbrecht, a property belonging to a distant relative. It is not clear when Gutenberg conceived the Bible project, but for this he borrowed another 800 guilders from Fust, and work commenced in 1452. At the same time, the press was also printing other, more lucrative texts (possibly Latin grammars). There is also some speculation that there may have been two presses, one for the pedestrian texts, and one for the Bible. One of the profit-making enterprises of the new press was the printing of thousands of indulgences for the church, documented from 1454–55.

In 1455 Gutenberg completed his 42-line Bible, known as the Gutenberg Bible. About 180 copies were printed, most on paper and some on vellum.

Some time in 1456, there was a dispute between Gutenberg and Fust, and Fust demanded his money back, accusing Gutenberg of misusing the funds. Meanwhile the expenses of the Bible project had proliferated, and Gutenberg’s debt now exceeded 20,000 guilders. Fust sued at the archbishop’s court. A November 1455 legal document records that there was a partnership for a “project of the books,” the funds for which Gutenberg had used for other purposes, according to Fust. The court decided in favor of Fust, giving him control over the Bible printing workshop and half of all printed Bibles.

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It was after this that he ended up meeting Imenand, who was interested in his printed Bible as he wanted to print of it for a friend. When he heard the tale of financial difficulties, he was willing to offer more than financial help.

Ehre/Weishet: Member

Born in 1976, Christopher Beck was the only child of Marcus Beck, a US Marine Embassy Guard stationed at the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria, and Emily Beck, a nurse.  He was born in Vienna, Austria but at age six moved to Hartford, CT when his father was reassigned.

He knew from a young age that he wanted to go to space and wanted to be a doctor. His first chance came when he was thirteen years old and was able to go to Space Camp. He was placed in a special group for advanced students. The group named themselves “Newton’s Nerds” and he met his best friend –even if communication was first by letters and phone, and then later emails– Jacob. The trip to Space Camp only made his dream of becoming a doctor in space more real.

Chris finish high school at age 16 and started college at Yale. He graduated cum laude from the Yale School of Medicine where he was the recipient of the Norma Bailey Berniker Prize (which is awarded to graduating students that best exemplify the disciplines and precepts of the Hippocratic Oath). He also has a Master’s degree in biomedical science. Once he completed Medical School, Chris joined the US Air Force and became part of the 99th Medical Group to focus on becoming a flight surgeon with hopes of joining NASA.

He was stationed at Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center on Nellis Air Force Base when he met Captain Janet Fraiser and his life changed when she offered him a job. The job, well, he was a doctor in space, just not how he originally pictured it.

His promotion to Captain came with reassignment to Atlantis. Plus, he’s a natural gene carrier which comes in handy.

While in the Air Force he has received the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal. The how and why he received those medals are still classified. Though the record does state he was injured on a mission.

Ehre: Lead Hunter

Wilhelm was Cinderella’s Head Guard, and loyal to her, even to the point of his own death.

He had not hesitated pushing her away from a runaway carriage, taking the impact.   He knew there was no way he would survive his injuries and had requested she take care of his wife and daughter.

She Turned him instead.

Ehre/Weisheit: Clan Leader

Wenceslas was son of Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia from the Přemyslid dynasty. His father was raised in a Christian milieu through his own father, Borivoj I of Bohemia, who was purportedly converted by Saints Cyril and Methodius. His mother Drahomíra was the daughter of a pagan tribal chief of Havolans and was baptized at the time of her marriage.

In 921, when Wenceslas was thirteen, his father died and he was brought up by his grandmother, Saint Ludmila, who raised him as a Christian. A dispute between the fervently Christian regent and her daughter-in-law drove Ludmila to seek sanctuary at Tetín Castle near Beroun. Drahomíra, who was trying to garner support from the nobility, was furious about losing influence on her son and arranged to have Ludmila strangled at Tetín on September 15, 921. Wenceslas is usually described as exceptionally pious and humble, and a very educated and intelligent young man.

After the fall of Great Moravia, the rulers of the Bohemian duchy had to deal both with continuous raids by the Magyars and the forces of the Saxon duke and East Frankish king Henry the Fowler, who had started several eastern campaigns into the adjacent lands of the Polabian Slavs, homeland of Wenceslas’s mother. To withstand Saxon overlordship Wenceslas’s father Vratislaus had forged an alliance with the Bavarian duke Arnulf the Bad, then a fierce opponent of King Henry; however, it became worthless when Arnulf and Henry reconciled at Regensburg in 921.

In 924 or 925 Wenceslas assumed government for himself and had Drahomíra exiled. After gaining the throne at the age of eighteen, he defeated a rebellious duke of Kouřim named Radslav. He also founded a rotunda consecrated to St Vitus at Prague Castle in Prague, which exists as present-day St Vitus Cathedral.

Early in 929 the joint forces of Duke Arnulf of Bavaria and King Henry I the Fowler reached Prague in a sudden attack, which forced Wenceslas to resume the payment of a tribute which had been first imposed by the East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia in 895. Henry had been forced to pay a huge tribute to the Magyars in 926 and he therefore needed the Bohemian tribute which Wenceslas probably refused to pay any longer after the reconciliation between Arnulf and Henry. One of the possible reasons for Henry’s attack was also the formation of the anti-Saxon alliance between Bohemia, the Polabian Slavs and the Magyars.

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Wenceslaus had met Alexander when he was traveling through Europe. Though he didn’t know he was Alexander the Great, he admired and respected the man.

In September 935 a group of nobles—allied with Wenceslas’ younger brother Boleslav—plotted to kill the Duke. After Boleslav invited Wenceslas to the feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Stará Boleslav, three of Boleslav’s companions—Tira, Česta and Hněvsa—murdered Wenceslas on his way to church after a quarrel between him and his brother. As he fell down, Wenceslas murmured words of forgiveness for his brother. Boleslav thus succeeded him as the Duke of Bohemia.

Alexander set out his own Men to take out the assassins. While he himself Turned the young King.

Ehre/Weishet: Member

Born in 1976, Christopher Beck is the only child of Marcus Beck, a US Marine Embassy Guard stationed at the US Embassy in Vienna Austria, and Emily Beck, a nurse. He was born in Vienna, Austria but at age six moved to the Hartford, CT when his father was reassigned.

He knew from a young age that he wanted to go to space and wanted to be a doctor. His first chance came when he was thirteen years old and was able to go to Space Camp. He was placed in a special group for advanced students. The group named themselves “Newton’s Nerds” and he met his best friend –even if communication was first by letters and phone, and then later emails– Jacob. The trip to Space Camp only made his dream of becoming a doctor in space more real.

Chris finish high school at age 16 and started college at Yale. He graduated cum laude from the Yale School of Medicine where he was the recipient of the Norma Bailey Berniker Prize (which is awarded to graduating students that best exemplify the disciplines and precepts of the Hippocratic Oath). He also has a Master’s degree in biomedical science. Once he completed Medical School, Chris joined the US Air Force and became part of the 99th Medical Group to focus on becoming a flight surgeon with hopes of joining NASA.

He was stationed at Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center on Nellis Air Force Base when he meet Captain Janet Fraiser and his life changed when she offered him a job. The job, well, he was a doctor in space, just not how he originally pictured it.

His promotion to Captain came with reassignment to Atlantis. Plus, he’s a natural gene carrier which comes in handy.

While in the Air Force he has received the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal. The how and why he received those medals are still classified. Though the record does state he was injured on a mission.