Nachtberg/secrets

• Longdead ancestor of the present baron was said to have been the Devil himself. When the baroness’ husband , manfred the Gentle, went to war with the saracens? Turks? She lay with the Prince of Darkness and sired a new line. The time of this seems vague. In one story he is fighting the saracens in the Holy Land in a chivalrous tale, in another riding in the defence of Vienna against the Turks hundreds of years later.
• unlike their idealistic ‘natural’ forebears the descendants thereafter were locally focused, against foreign adventure. Ruthless, successful in war.

• it seems to be a Robin Hood like legend created by 17c woodblock illustrators in Munich, who set the tale ‘somewhere’ in the Bavarian alps. There are also said to be Arabian arms in the baron’s blue tower , trophies of his victory. % these are Mameluke arms from napoleonic campaign in Egypt.

• this shows that Grandfather fought in a foreign adventure, quite idealistically for Nap’s Republic, giving the lie to their supposed selfishness .xxx secret is that this great grandfather was the cuckolded man, grandfather, father and son were children of the devil.

• mixed messages as to whether this is a confection. The coat of arms has a black dragon, said to be diabolical. There is a type of local beer called Devild Brew, ., and the clock in the local town hall has a devil chase a lady, then the lady chase the devil.

• monsters in the place have the asylum of Nachtberg. Invited by , it turns out, by the great-grandfather , said to be an ogre, perhaps a vampire who lives under the castle as vampire or other similar monster.

• xxx so gg was the D, gf his firstborn, f is present incumbent with two tearaway sons. One son is in England, two daughters married off elsewhere. His own sister was mad, obsessed with occult.