Waldemar Zinkgraven

Waldemar Zinkgraven

Full Name: Waldemar Zinkgraven

Alias The Collector

Physical Description

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Race: Batavian

Hair Color and Style: Fair, long and unkempt

Eye Color: Blue

Skin Color: White

Other: Pronounced frown lines

Biographical Information

Father: Norbert, Burggraaf van Zinkgraven

Mother: Felicia Corrie, Jonkvrouw van Bosch

Date of Birth: 1590 AN

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Nationality at Birth: Batavian

Current Allegiance(s): Imperial Government

Occupation: Director of the PGA Economic Directorate, count and accountant of the general tribute in Dietsland, Puritania and Voltrue

Born of noble but middling parentage, Waldemar received an education that reinforced in him the notion of the dignity of his rank as well as the bonds of obligation that would tie him to his estates for the rest of his life. To this end his tutors, and later the grammarians and academicians who supervised him through his higher education, were careful to teach him the skills of literacy, numeracy and attention to detail that would prove vital to any competent lord who had a care for his estates.

That the fates would decree that he would never come into his title and that he would have to witness the death of his parents, the ruin and confiscation of his estates and finally the destruction of his country through civil war and Jingdaoese occupation, would leave Waldemar with a lasting bitterness and hatred that would express itself subtly in a myriad of ways. He eventually gravitated towards a career in accounting.

From his years spent pouring over estate ledgers and learning by rote the art of mental computation, Waldemar had developed the calibre of mental faculties that would render him indispensable to the courts and civil services of the various monarchies of Benacia. For a time, after 1618, he served King Jean of Amokolia, but never felt any abiding bond of loyalty to the Amokolian people and thus, when that regime subsequently fell, he experienced little difficulty in transferring his allegiance to the Elwynnese Union. To the White Orchid Throne, whose elitist values mirrored his own, Waldemar proved a diligent servant, albeit one occasionally frustrated by the tendency of the Princess of Anun to grant overly generous tax-breaks to Bailiwicks that conducted certain rituals which appealed to her sensibilities.