Honeric de Gonde
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Name: Honeric de Gonde
Alias(es): Huneric of the Gundlings
Age: 39
Sex: Male
Race: Human
Ethnicity: Annenfelder
Physical Information
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Gold
Skin Tone: Pale
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 190 lbs.
Afflictions: Melancholy
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Affiliation(s): Grafschaft of Obereisen (Fiefdom),Duchy of Annenfeld (Liege Lord), Holy Osterman Empire (Praise Be), Kingdom of Merelais (Historical Ties)
Ranks and Titles: Markgraf of Obereisen
Language(s): High Osterman, Langue d'Mereles
House: Gundling/de Gonde
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Graf Honeric of Obereisen, patriarch of the Gundlings, was born in the year 735, son of Graf Alberic, descendants of great Gundobad, or Gondebaud as he came to be known by the Mereles. Honeric was his father's 4th child, 3rd born son. He was never meant to rule a fiefdom by the divine right of Theos that favoured eldest sons, scions. And what a scion his eldest brother, Geiseric, was. A handsome, intelligent, sensitive young man at his peak. But praise drew ire from his brother, the second-born Walthar, black sheep of the family. Jealous of his elder brother, he would begin a years-long feud over some few slights, enmity between the brothers growing over compounding disagreements in temperament, Geiseric the ever-optimist, Walthar the combative naysayer. Eventually, Walthar would kill Geiseric in his sleep, staining his hands in fratricide, and forever forsaking his claim to the graf's throne. When his crime was discovered shortly thereafter, Walthar was banish to the mountains, never to be seen again.
The weight of losing his sons weakened Graf Alberic's heart, leading to a near decade long-regency helmed by Alberic's brother Anselm, who groomed the young Honeric to succeed his father on the inevitable day his sporadic illness finally claimed him. Honeric was 15 years old when that day came. He and his uncle ruled together for years to come, until Anselm too slowed down and sought less duties. The third man in their ruling cadre was the castellan of Obereisen, a smallholding sheep farmer by the name of Schmidt, who continued to serve as a steward for the young Graf.
Honeric would grow close with Schmidt's daughter Judith, his childhood friend. In Honeric's youth, Judith would follow her father to the castle, a small and waifish girl too feeble to ever work in the fields outside. Whilst her father and his uncle ran the grafschaft, Honeric and Judith grew very close. When the two were old enough, he asked for her hand in marriage, which both she and her father enthusiastically accepted.
When Graf Honeric took to ruling in his own right, he was quickly faced with challenges. His county of Obereisen had come a long way since the reign of his great-grandfather Gundobad, the chieftain who came down from the mountains to terrify the countryside desmesnes of the Merelings, and even win the heart of King Mavis' sister Clothilde. In the last century, Obereisen was a rugged wilderness. With the guidance of his forefathers, the county had become a pastoral idyll. High in the mountains with their prosperous herds the first Gundlings kept themselves aloft from Merevingian affairs even as the mountain tribesmen settled down as landed vassals of Parleaux. In these days they used the title of Comes, drawn from the history of the region as
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