Character Application
Name: Gebhard Maximilian Trescher
Age: 52 Years Old
Personality description: Gebhard is a very complicated person with major emotional baggage as well as a history of ideological indoctrination. He’s difficult to describe by conventional terms, but regardless of how one would define the man, it’s clear he’s got his own objectives, as well as his preferred measures of fulfilling those objectives. To his officers and peers amongst the Warrior’s Band, he’s decisive, pious and unforgiving. For the men serving in his Schar, he’s strict and idealistic, whereas many Valanians view him, as well as his unit, as a product of madness and despair.
Faction (Either member of or sympathetic towards): National Patriotic Front (NPF)
Position in leadership (if any): Grand marshal of the Freidhomian Legion | Supreme Commander of the Greater Freidhomian Warriors’ Band “Wotan” (Oberster Feldherr der Freidhomschen Freiwilligenlegion | Oberkommandant der Großfreidhomschen Kriegersschar “Wotan”)
If Military or Militia leader, how many troops under command?: 317 men
Political Ideology: Despite the fact that Trescher’s exact ideology is difficult to pinpoint, the closest thing to any coherent belief system of his would be Ariosophy. Trescher’s political connections to Valanian politicians and officers are scant and shallow, but he’s managed to position himself, somewhat uncomfortably, in the more radical circles of the NPF, attempting to placate both the orthodox Polakists, as well as the racialists, whom Trescher perceives as his natural allies.
Goals: The end of the civil war through an NPF Victory, the implementation of Bellum Romanum against the Republicans and Communists, as well as the continuation of current hostilities with the King’s Loyal Army.
Biography (Minimum 2 paragraphs): Gebhard Maximilian Trescher was born into an upper-middle class Protestant household in one of the major metropolitans in the north of Freidholm. His father, a well-off entrepreneur and owner of a chemical plant, treated his family well, spoiling them with luxuries and garnering more affluence over time, profiting off of the social mobility that came about after the implementation of a parliamentary system in the nation. Gebhard was too young to remember those reforms, but he got his first taste of politics when a floodwave of economic collapse crippled the nation. His father’s firm was liquidated, and unemployment was rampant. The Treschers could no longer afford to live in their cozy city manor, and fled toworker’s quarter, living in what they would call abject poverty.
The boy’s father, afflicted and angered by the democratic parties’ inability to reform the economy to guarantee greater employment, was soon drawn to the nationalist mobs. They promised to re-open his plant, to bring back arbitrary notions like “tradition” and “family”. Thus, Trescher Sr. ended up joining the nationalist party, and promptly enrolled his son into the youth organization.
The major changes in his childhood, as well as the vivid indoctrination he endured as a young child, left a clear mark on Gebhard’s mental profile. As he grew to be adolescent, he garnered some reputation as one of the few young party members who had effectively spent most of their childhoods with the party. This familiarity, loyalty and trust made it so that the lad could move through the ranks fairly quickly, managing to get into honorary positions, and assisting his party with hosting events. He would eventually join the Storm Troops, the armed wing of the party, commonly getting into fights with local communists. His ruthlessness against the bolsheviks, as well as his anti-democratic agitation, made the youngster a rising star within the party.
One day, whilst Gebhard and his mates were disrupting a communist rally, a set of confrontations between the Storm Troops and the proles attending the rally turned into a violent clash between the two. Claiming to act in self defence, Gebhard shot and killed the main organizer of the event, a prominent revolutionary within the communist party. Outraged by this, the men and women around the relatively tiny contingent of Storm Troops now turned to a lynch mob, forcing the nationalists to flee for their lives.
Knowing that the communists would retaliate against Trescher, he went into hiding, covertly aiding the party behind closed doors. He hated the inactivity, and after some time of keeping himself from the prying eyes of left-wing mobs, he appealed to his superiors to set him free once more, so that he could advance their agenda on the streets, as suited him best. The party was very reluctant at first, but after some international political developments and a whole lot of lobbying, Trescher could prove to be useful someplace else: Valania. The civil war had broken out, and each side pleaded for international recognition. The Valanian government, no doubt too cowardly to commit to a struggle abroad, chose to remain neutral, whilst the nationalist party immediately sided with the NPF. After thorough planning, a volunteer group was organized, named “The Freidhomian Legion”. This would be the over-arching, big tent organization monitoring all volunteer work in Valania. The largest autonomous battle group, the Greater Freidhomian Warriors' Band "Wotan" would be commanded by Trescher.
Now effectively exiled as a stranger in an even stranger land, Gebhard Trescher and his ragged band of ill-trained, ill-equipped renegades, cutthroats and extremists, will attempt to bring the NPF to victory.
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