TEUTONIC TEMPLARS

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'

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"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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Big Max Maxwell, at the Houston Academy of Man in early December, 1980, tries to recall events forty years in the past. He's in the presence Moses Callion the Third, Professor Romaine Kinesis and his hated ex-wife, Doctor Aranyani Nightingale

The self-proclaimed Teutonic Templar, whose codename during the Supra Wars was Baphomet, often visited the still neutral USA right up until late ’41. That was true even though he kidnapped Saul Ryne from there in 1940. Got away with it, too; had to have since he was welcomed back stateside a few times over the course of the following year and a bit.

... from "Nuclear Dragons"

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RICHTER, Viktor

- OJ 'Big Max' Maxwell believes Viktor Richter was his given name and that he was a Summoning Child born of unknown parents;
- in reality Richter-Maxwell is a Callion Clone who wasn't taken out of his development take on the von Alptraum's Baltic Sea estate in what was then Prussia in 1937/8; Joli Blon was the intervening witch assisting the first Moses Callion; Gunther von Alptraum (Prince Peashooter, also Prince Nightmare) was born in the same way, as was (probably) Moses Callion the Second (Moe Two, the Monster Maker);
- Victor or Viktor was Baron Justice, who malleable face and body allowed him to become a master spy working for the Brits undercover in Nazi Germany;
- in all likelihood he is the father of Simon Lancz, not Donar (the Teutonic Terror) by Valfreja Volsung von Alptraum, who may have died having him;

Saul 'Psycho' Ryne "... had been there when Herr Richter, Baron Justice, shot off her [Berchta von Alptraum] nose after assassinating her brother-in-law [Donar Lancz] and making off with his recently born son by her much younger sister Valfreja.

... from "Outer Earthlings", an unpublished web-serial set in December 1980 intended to carry on from where 'Centauri Island' left off;

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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 initially 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 and having son Simon in 1943;
- may have died having Simon (probable actual father Viktor Richter);
- equally so, may have survived long enough to become the Volsung Valkyrie, one of Strife's hosts prior to return of Cybele St Synne from Inner Earth;
- after the war, Strife formed her so-called Sinister Sisterhood; one of its members was Sicko, aka Sister Succubus, who had something to do with Milady Malaise (Sickness) as well as, possibly, the Hulga Valfreja (could also have been the real Fat Fred Freya);

The fourth female Apocalyptic was Sickness, aka Milady Malaise, the Leper’s Lady according to the Devil’s Dictionary. Baaloch claimed her star was still in the night’s sky, but D-Brig 3 remembered the golden-haired Summoning Child cousin, not a triplet as some believed, born Valfreja Faust always Volsung. She was sometimes known as the Horrid Hag, even though she was actually quite beautiful.

Milady Malaise was her official codename on the Allied side; Sicko Succubus – as opposed to her even nastier associate, Succubus Doll – was another of her appellations during the Suprawar, when she was charter member of Strife’s Sinister Sisterhood. Among her knacks was sucking beauty, as opposed to vivacity, out of her victims and making it hers; loveliness as opposed to liveliness, as she put it, no vampire her.

... from "Destination Damnation", the 3rd excerpt taken from "Wilderwitch's Babies"

- 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 the real 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;

(Howsoever nominally, Simon [Lancz], who was born in 1943, was Donar’s child by wife Valfreja born Faust, but always Volsung. Even though Moe wouldn’t have been aware of this, Max had long suspected Simon – an inventive genius who, today, considered himself Signal System’s ‘Strategos’ – was his child, not Donar’s.

(As for Freya, as Max called her, she was born Faust even though Hulga’s husband, Baldwin Faust, another onetime Godling, died during the First World War. A golden-haired wonder in bed, he got to know her, in the Biblical sense, only after she recovered from a terrible wasting sickness that had plagued her up until her late teens.

(Her recovery bordered on the miraculous since her illness, eventually if evidently wrongly, was diagnosed as ovarian cancer.)

... taken out of "Nuclear Dragons"

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VON ALPTRAUM, Tyrtod, the "old" Baron, the Nazi Nightmare

- an industrialist and Prussian nobleman born around the turn of the 20th Century;
- a Xuthrodite and member of both the Godling Guild and then the Alliance of Man prior to WWII; as such, a close friend and colleague of the Great Man, Loxus Abraham Ryne up until the Declaration of War;
- appears mostly in the Heliodyssey web-serials;
- married to Berchta Faust always Volsung; father by her of Brunhild (Burning Hell); claims also to be the father of the young Baron Günter (who's actually a Callion Clone, albeit with Tyrtod as his template);
- connected to the Teutonic Knights and the Hermiones of Donar Lancz;
- called the Nazi Nightmare in part because, after exposure to Satan St Synne's devil-ray (devaray), he acquired the Phantast-like ability to cast dreams;
- ostensibly killed on Crete during WWII by Agenor Heliopolis, the first Olympian;
- thereafter somehow became the regenerative horror commonly known as Steltsar, whose regenerations showed up on the Inner Earth as well as beyond the Dome off and on for the next 35 years;
- see here for a Steltsar at the tail-end of the Godbadian Civil War in Vanalal/Azky 5960;
- throughout "Nuclear Dragons" and again, howsoever briefly, in "Helios on the Moon", another regeneration goes by Sharkczar;

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The young Baron von Alptraum admittedly sought to kill Kadmon Heliopolis in May of 1960 in part because he'd threatened to do to him what (he believed) von Alp's creature, Steltsar, did to Kad's Olympian of a father in 1944. The voice's von Alp is referring to (in 1965) were purportedly coming from his father, using his Phantast-like abilities from beyond the grave. Mandam's material refers to the mostly indecipherable notes left in the Soviet Supracity after Jesus Mandam, the Conquering Christ, was killed on Salvation Island on Xmas Day 1953.

“Heliopolis threatened me,” protested von Alp. “Put everything I’d worked toward at risk. Remember, at the time I was the only one making progress with Mandam’s material — but that was only because of the voices I kept hearing. Heliopolis had to be eliminated.” Both blamed the other for the death of his father in 1944. Although, due to an absence of reliable witnesses, there was a great deal of confusion as to the exact timeline, it was generally accepted that Agenor Heliopolis, Europa and Kadmon’s father, killed Tyrtod von Alptraum whereupon, albeit as Steltsar, the old Baron returned the favour.

... from 'Ringleader's Revenge', an unpublished web-serial set in 1964/65

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He was a ‘trinary’, a tripartite being: part machine, part mantel, part man: a cyborg with the still-functioning brain of the Nazi Nightmare and a body Tariqartha replicated in Temporis that he, long Steltsar, had artificially reinforced with robotics, some of which were his own design, but most of which were leftovers from the anonymous Conqueror when he dwelled in the Soviet Supra City.

... from "Helios on the Moon", the third entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle

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[Phantast Thanatos, the devic Dream Weaver,] was still languishing in the Sedon Sphere when, thirty-seven years prior to his escape, his attributes were extracted from Cathonia. With Strife’s collusion, Satan St Synne imparted them to Tyrtod von Alptraum via his devaray. As a result, the original Nazi Nightmare could thereafter transmit dreams.

... from "Helios on the Moon", the third entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle

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Phantast-Dream was the Mithradite firstborn Tyrtod von Alptraum – today’s Sharkczar, yesterday’s Steltsar – apparently acquired after exposure to Satan St Synne’s devaray in 1943. Somewhat beside the point, as the Legendarian himself had noted on the night of the 30th of Maruta, Phantast’s star was no longer in the Sedon Sphere. If Dream had made it back to the Inner Earth, no one had bothered to inform him.

... from "Helios on the Moon", the third entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle

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