Hi all
I have been swerved back to my Empire ways and am gearing up to assemble an army around my Warhammer Quest Character. Now I would like to know where you guys think he should hail from judging by his background and why. I'm not as familiar with the provinces as I should be and am really struggling to decide. So I'm going to give you guys a quick overview of his background and you can tell me where you think he should be from and why
Wolfgang Eisenstien was born Wolfgang Eisenschmied, the son of a middleing merchant. Both parents died when he was young and he changed his name to Eisenstien (Iron Man) from Eisenschmied (Iron smith) to separate him from his merchant background.
He enlisted in the military and earned a reputation for being ruthless, a good duellist, conniving and underhanded. Basically he had all the makings of a great noble.
Once his time in the army was up he bummed about for a while earning monies variously as a writer for a news paper, a teacher and a small scale politician. That was until the Genealogy papers compiled by the colleges of mages where made partially public and Wolfgang traced his heritage all the way back to the last Elector count of Solland and a scullery maid.
Seeing an opportunity he lept at the chance by raising an army (on the cheap - his steam tank is barely serviceable and the knightly order he has under him fell on hard times and so where persuaded to sell their naming rights, hence the Trevor knights, once you buy Trevor, it's forever).
He has now started worming his way through the political structures of the Empire on the back of his dubious claims to Lordship and has even started to play on the people, claiming those that are herideterily from Solland are downtrodden and that either a change of leadership in the province, or indeed a reinstatement of said province would be a great thing. With Wolfgang at the helm, of course...
So as a character he is a bit of a weasel. Ruthless, happy to send men to their deaths, ambitious and manipulative. The obvious province for him to hail from is Wissenland what with his heritage, but I'm actually not fussed about that and think that it may add to his hypocrisy that he is all about the rights of 'his' people when he isn't even from the province! He is snooty and REALLY could care less for the lower classes, though this is partially artificial, he was brought up middle class at best.
What do we think guys??