Re: Blood and Iron

Franz von Zehntner was the heir apparent to his family. The eldest child and official head of the family business. However, he was a hedonistic man who spent most of his free time gallivanting overseas with exotic women.

Maximilian, the wastrel of the von Zehntner family, was in the process of redemption. Though his exile from the house had yet to be revoked, his actions as an agent of the Crown, and a royal shit stirrer on behalf of the Kaiser had gone a long way towards gaining his father’s forgiveness.

Ludwig was a proud member of the Bundesrat and a leader among those within the Land Army and Fortresses committee, he was considered the man to succeed the head of their house as he entered his twilight years as a politician representing the interests of the junker coalition, the German Conservative Party, and of course the other right wing political parties which rallied behind their majority control of the Empire.

Kurt had gone on to become a doctor following his stint as a military medic within the Iron Division during the Russian Civil War. He was critical in helping Heidi setup her charitable foundations which provided much needed relief and services to those soldiers wounded during the war, and the burdens their family would ultimately have to bear because of it.

Excluding Bruno and Christoph, there were three other brothers, all of which were pursuing their own feats in life. With one of them becoming the world’s first Olympics gold medalist in both Boxing and freestyle wrestling, while another was a talented actor within the propaganda films that Bruno’s cinema corporation were producing to galvanize the German people against a world of enemies.

Recently the man had starred in a film about Waterloo where he interestingly enough played the role of his grandfather, a colonel in the Prussian Army as he courageously led his men to glory over the French and earned an Iron Cross First and Second Class because of it.

And finally, one of the brothers actually had moved to Vienna where he had become quite the well-renowned composer regularly performing within its legendary opera hall. Meanwhile, Bruno, the youngest of the siblings, was loyal to folk and fatherland. Because of this he was usually either found at his home protecting his family, or at war protecting the Reich from its enemies.

Out of all the brothers, each and every one of them played were at the peak of their own areas of expertise in life. And then there was Christoph. Who was Christoph? He was second in command at the family business.

Officially behind Franz, but in reality was the man keeping everything together. He was the secret hand that kept the family’s business functioning, and he was the socialite who maintained constant relations with the Aristocratic class within informal settings.

Perhaps because of this, he took the family’s reputation and honor far more seriously than anyone else. Any one of his siblings, except for Maximilian who had been cast out and exiled for his own scandalous behavior during his younger years, who would be slandered or defamed, Christoph would step forward to defend in the court of public opinion.