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LANCZ, Donar

- codenamed Baphomet; the Nazi who once wielded Mjolnir, the Hammer of Thor, as found in the Aesgardian Tantalus;

- born on or around January 1, 1900;

- on January 13, 1938, had a Mithraic Labarum, a P-shaped hammer with an X crossed over its handle, gouged into chest by Count Molech;

"When it comes to Donar Lancz, that is." Ryne was aware that Lancz was much closer to Hitler than the aristocrats; Stephen von Blut being a now extinct exception to the rule.

"Though he is a bastard, my late mother was his aunt, which unfortunately means his father was my uncle. As you might recall, his name was Wotan and Uncle Woe came to an woeful end, -- executed for 'raping' Lancz's mother Frigga before he was even born. Aunt Frigga was another who had a sadly misspent life, one full of high aspiration and bitterest disappointment. She strove for the stars and settled for little more than a pauper's grave."

It was a her-story, which was another word his wife used when she wanted to tease him, that Ryne knew well. The Baron however was not adverse to repeating it, especially since it lessened the light of Donar Lancz.

"Claiming to be of imperial stock from the last days of the Holy Roman Empire a century earlier, she was an endlessly annoying embarrassment to Kaiser Wilhelm's family. They disassociated themselves from her entirely when she had Donar against their royal wishes, but she persisted in her claims. Officially she killed herself when Donar was still a teenager. Officially, I say; just like Wotan Lancz had officially raped her. Beyond that, it would be inappropriate for me to comment, -- unless you care to tell me who murdered Stephen von Blut of course."

"Hohenzollern court gossip would only become interesting if Donar Lancz declared himself Kaiser," avoided the Great Man.

-- conversation between Loxus Abraham Ryne and Baron Tyrtod von Alptraum from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

"Not a particularly tall nor handsome man of thirty-eight, with thinning blond hair and even more pox-pocks than warts, he was nevertheless muscular, broad- shouldered and, to just about everyone's surprise, inordinately proud of his appearance. The hammer-crossed Mithraic Symbol on his chest was fast fading and, in some respects, he was sorry to see it go. He had only had the brand a few hours but was beginning to consider it in terms of a duelling scar, as a mark of respect. Respect was something he had obviously yet to earn, -- though that would soon change! "

from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

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RICHTER, Victor

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VOLSUNG, Hulga become Faust

- born & adopted in 1880; parents unknown, though mother may have died giving her birth; always considered herself a Volsung;

- stalked by Azrael Sangati in London 1895; was present in the London Shelter when Celestine D'Angelo managed to kill him on October the 31st of that year;

- married Baldwin Faust; by him had two children: Astrid become von Blut & Berchta become von Alptraum; had Valfreja ("Freya") by an unknown father (presumably Bleda Sangati); Freya was a Summoning Child born on exactly the same day (January 12, 1920) and at exactly the same time as her cousins, Berchta's Brunhild and Astrid's Tanith,

- evidently under a glamour; she was present on October 31, 1923 when Norma the Deadly Druidess (presumably Rhea Ararat aging again) killed Celestine D'Angelo with her moon-sickle at the Anthean Shelter near Pompeii, Italy; was in Rome the next day (Nov. 1, 1923) when Mnemosyne D'Angelo, age 14 and using the same weapon, manage to return the favour and decapitate Norma ;

- thought affiliation: Outer Earth Korant Sisterhood; by 1937 considered their Superior, Mater, or Grandmother even though she had no abilities of her own; as revealed during the course of the 1938 quintet of novels she was duped by Clymene Atreides, the Hecate-Hellions' likely Morrigan at the time;

"Mine is the only way you will ever become young again, crone. Or do you wish to receive my brother's kiss of immortality and live forever a sickly sixty?"

-- Medea Annulis, from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

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- financed the Galvin-Shekmet expedition to the Eastern Congo in a quest for Cleopatra's rejuvenating bath, which they believed was the fabled Fountain of Youth, in late 1937, only to become lost around Christmas of that year;

- a friend and major supporter of Adolph Hitler, though she did not approve of Donar Lancz and his Hermiones, preferring to maintain friendly relations with Abe Ryne and his father-in-law, Magister Joseph Mandam, via their mid-30s' fake-Korant surrogates, Mata the Korant Muse Avar and Medea the Korant Sybil Annulis; ironically she (very much transformed) ended up marrying Lancz;

- as per 'Coueranna's Curse', Hulga was possessed by Faceless Strife when she entered a spare tub full of Cathonic Fluid that the gnome, Moses Callion the First (Moe One) was using to clone the likes of himself, Charan Ryne and Tyrtod von Alptraum on the von Alptraum's Baltic Sea estate (Castle Nightmare); when she/they emerged from it, Strife was in complete control of their joint being, which looked exactly like Hulga had as a teenager (i.e., she transformed into a doppelganger of Valfreja):

Von Alp kept shooting at until his gun clicked empty. He was clearly in a state of shock because, even then, he kept pulling the trigger. The Magus would not fall and the Native American he found so attractive, so reminiscent of Louise St Synne, was shimmering into and out of sight. Valfreja gently took his Luger away from him and dropped it on the floor.

"Well done, Tyrtod. I really would have hated killing you."

"What, what," he fumble-mouthed, indicating Sorciere and the old man. "What are they?"

"Her [Solace 'Sorciere' Sunrise], she's just a child prodigy who's about to be torn apart by my Hounds of Hell. That old man, though, is an entirely different matter. Aren't you, my boy?"

"If you say so, Strife," responded old Joe in a chillingly calm voice. "Guess I should congratulate you on finally getting a body again. Did dear old Hulga know what you were doing?"

"Doesn't matter now, does it? We're fused, -- what's hers is mine. Which means your pet Trinondevs can't do anything about me. They are not the only ones in for a short, very short, reality check, though. So are your supras. In fact I'd say they're as good as dead already."

... from "Cry Chaos", the 7th chapter of 'Coueranna's Curse'

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VOLSUNG, Valfreja

The three girls, Valfreja Volsung, Tanith von Blut, and Brunhild von Alptraum, were all born on the same day, January 12, 1921; albeit by different mothers, though Hulga Faust always Volsung was Tanith and Brunhild's grandmother. They looked very similar as well, -- except Freya's hair was golden-blonde and Tanith's a platinum-blonde whereas Brunhild's hair was more a glistening auburn than red or brown. Hence the joke that they were the living embodiments of the Three Great Eras of Humankind: the Golden, Silver, and Bronze Ages;

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VON ALPTRAUM, Baron Tyrtod

KEPHREN, Seth

German-Egyptian who came to be called the Sphinx; long time associate of Hulga Volsung & Wolfgang Shekmet (The Emperor Mammalian); father of Horatio Kephren's, 1965's Sphinx;

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LANCZ, Sigurd

ostensibly the son of Donar Lancz and Berchta von Alptraum

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SCHROFF, Conrad

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SCHROFF, Hiliarti

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SCHROFF, Rethra born Avar

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SCHROFF, Richard

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SCHROFF, Skadi born von Blut

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SCHULER, Vele

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VON ALPTRAUM, Berchta (born Faust, always Volsung)

Mother of Brunhild by the Baron Tyrtod von Alptraum and Sigurd ostensibly by Donar Lancz

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VON ALPTRAUM, Brunhild (always Volsung)

Summoning Child, daughter of Baron Tyrtod and Berchta von Alptraum;

The three girls, Valfreja Volsung, Tanith von Blut, and Brunhild von Alptraum, were all born on the same day, January 12, 1921; albeit by different mothers, though Hulga Faust always Volsung was Tanith and Brunhild's grandmother. They looked very similar as well, -- except Freya's hair was golden-blonde and Tanith's a platinum-blonde whereas Brunhild's hair was more a glistening auburn than red or brown. Hence the joke that they were the living embodiments of the Three Great Eras of Humankind: the Golden, Silver, and Bronze Ages;

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VON ALPTRAUM, Baron Gunter

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VON BLUT, Astrid (born Faust, always Volsung)

- daughter of Baldwin Faust and Hulga Faust always Volsung; mother, by Tyrtod von Blut, of Tanith, the silver-haired Volsung Summoning Child)

Astrid von Blut had Freya's possessions; the Norse or Teutonic goddess Freya, not the Volsung Summoning Child named after her. These were the Brisingamen, the Falcon Cloak, and her curved, talon-shaped dagger, the little-known Falcalon ...

... Astrid was no fool. She realized [Mesmer] Hent's secret. Had to be eye-contact. Can't have eye-contact if you can't see. The Brising necklace burst into brilliance, blinding him briefly. She also wore the Falcon Cloak, spread it like wings, and flew into the Grey intent upon finishing him off with a mercifully quick swipe of the Falcalon. Or a slow swipe, as the case may be. Either way he died. Too bad in a way. She’d sort of fancied him. Might make it a measured scratch, then.

... from "Cry Chaos", the 7th chapter of 'Coueranna's Curse'

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VON BLUT, Stephen

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VON BLUT, Tanith

The three girls, Valfreja Volsung, Tanith von Blut, and Brunhild von Alptraum, were all born on the same day, January 12, 1921; albeit by different mothers, though Hulga Faust always Volsung was Tanith and Brunhild's grandmother. They looked very similar as well, -- except Freya's hair was golden-blonde while Tanith's a platinum-blonde whereas Brunhild's hair was more a glistening auburn than red or brown. Hence the joke that they were the living embodiments of the Three Great Eras of Humankind: the Golden, Silver, and Bronze Ages;

primarily because of Hulga's machinations, all three of the cousins became targets of Count Molech in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres' ; there is some suggestion that the Blood Beast Prime impregnated Tanith on the full moon night of January 13, 1938; there is also a hint she went with Yehudi Cohen (prior to him becoming the Untouchable Diver) the night before (January 12, 1938) rather than risk becoming a Black Queen (meaning she would die having his child);

during 'Helioddity' and 'Coueranna's Curse', Tanith is most often seen on the Noah Two as it winds its way across the Mediterranean to Egypt and thence through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea, albeit before it passes into the Indian Ocean and hence to Italian Somaliland; Tanith is thought to have committed suicide before it reaches its destination but she was actually rescued by Fisherwoman and Delphi, her psychopomp;

while on the Noah Two, Jesus Mandam attempts to woo her, without success; some feel she tried to kill herself to get away from Jesse; others feel she tried to kill herself in order to avoid having Count Molech's child; after rescuing her, Fish recruits her as a member of what Tanith herself jokingly called the 'Society of Suicides'; as part of that group she assumes the codename of Tanith Silverhair;

as Cousin Constellation she is a major character in 'The Volsung Variations'; among the constellations she imitates include Libra, whose symbol is the Scales of Balance (Libra No-Eyes is one of Byron's Zodiacals; the Egyptian, Feathery Maat, may have been an earlier form of Libra, though in the PHANTACEA Mythos Maat is likely more correctly identified with Harmonia, the Unity of Balance and Panharmonium); some believe she is an incarnation of Pyrame Silverstar;

there are a large number of references to Tanith in the various synopses in which she appears; here's a lengthy list of lynx that might prove elucidating: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) and (10).

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VON BLUT, Tyrtod

A HAMMER-AMULET OF THOR'S MJOLNIR

SUMMONING-AGED VOLSUNGS

The three girls, Valfreja Volsung, Tanith von Blut, and Brunhild von Alptraum, were all born on the same day, January 12, 1921; albeit by different mothers; Hulga Faust always Volsung was Tanith and Brunhild's grandmother and Freya's mother. though she denied it. They looked very similar as well, -- except Freya's hair was golden-blonde and Tanith's a platinum-blonde whereas Brunhild's more bronze-brunette than a fiery redhead. Hence the joke that they were the living embodiments of the Three Great Eras of Humankind: The Golden, Silver, and Bronze Ages.

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