Guderian Manstein

Guderian Manstein is the disinherited son of the renowned elder statesman, Erich Gottfried Manstein and rogue of no small regard. A thorough drunkard, carouser, and womanizer, Guderian a man who stands in stark contrast with his rigid upbringing.

Background
Guderian was born the first son of Erich and Wilhelmina Manstein shortly after the start of the Second War. At any early age Guderian was considered a highly intelligent and quick witted boy whose intellectual capacity often got him into more trouble than not with his tutors and elders.

Although his father wished him to be groomed to one day take his place as the head of the House of Manstein, Guderian harbored a rebellious and free loving nature that often put him at odds with his parents.

At fifteen years of age Guderian left his mother's home in Northdale, a small town in northern Lordaeron. Eloping to Southshore with a young peasant girl with whom he had become infatuated, Guderian soon was forced to provide for himself through various criminal means. Gambling, petty theft, and other con-schemes became the profession of the young would-be nobleman.

Disappointed with his inability to adequately provide for her, the young woman with whom Guderian had eloped returned home. Soon after, Guderian turned to heavy drinking and womanizing and lived the life of a low level criminal for many years before eventually returning to his father after hearing of his recent monetary gains.

Return
Pitying his son, yet unwilling to take the risk of allowing the volitile and unreliable Guderian hold any responsibility or jeopardize his own political ambitions, Manstein began to search for a way for his son to become gainfully employed. It was in this way that Manstein came to an arrangement with Lord-Chancellor Asuryan Caernough of the Kingdom of Lordaeron Restored under Queen Madelynne I to install Guderian in a low level bureaucratic post within the Chancery of the Queen's government, thus exiling his son to the dark skies of Blackmarsh.

At first Guderian performed well in his post, applying his great intelligence and education to draft a report on the economic output of the Dread. His report, however, was met with little enthusiasm from the Chancery and soon Guderian fell once more into a vicious cycle of drinking and carousing in houses of ill-repute. For many months he remained in this state, receiving a small pension from his father and what little he earned at the Chancery to fuel his habits.

Currently
On August 28, 623 K.C. Guderian was forced to flee the Dread when news reached him that his father had chastised and insulted the Queen, thus falling out of favor with the sovereign some weeks before his ultimate demise at Death's Door.

Now, Guderian wanders Blackmarsh under the several different aliases, using several seals and other bureaucratic implements stolen from the Chancery office to masquerade as a low level tax collecter and royal official.