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 ===== Statistics =====
+  * **Temporal:** [[lore:Age of Heroes]]
   * **Born:** Winter 399
-  * **Parents:** Julian (M, 372-416) and Lea (F, 382-402)
+  * **Parents:** Julian (M, 372-425) and Lea (F, 382-402)
   * **Knighted:** Summer 438
-  * **Spouse:** Hille (F, 415-), Married 439
+  * **Spouse:**
+    * Fenja (F, 399-425), Married 416-425
+    * Hille (F, 415-), Married 439-
   * **Issue:**
-    * Squire [[Eckerd Kaufmann|Eckerd]] (M, 439-)
+    * Fenja
-    * Helena (F, 441-), Married
+      * Leona (F, 418-425)
-    * Elif (F, 445-447)
+      * Selma (F, 420-425)
-    * Georg (M, 451-)
+      * Ensar (M, 423-425)
+    * Hille
+      * Squire [[people:Eckerd Kaufmann|Eckerd]] (M, 439-)
+      * Helena (F, 441-), Married
+      * Elif (F, 445-447)
+      * Georg (M, 451-)
   * **Holdings:** Manor, 6.5 km<sup>2</sup> (1600 acres)
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 ==== Early Life ====
-Veit grew up the son of a trapper who lived near a small mining camp. His father would sell meats and furs to the miners who rarely cared on whose lands he killed them. The local lord upon whose land the camp sat did not care either as long as the ore continued to flow. Veit spent a great deal of time running his father's wares into the camp and selling them. He became well known to the sons of the other miners who envied his "carefree" life. He was their recognized leader and on days off he would lead them through the woods hunting small game.
+Veit grew up the son of a trapper who lived near a small mining camp. His father would sell meats and furs to the miners who rarely cared upon whose lands he killed them. The local lord did not care either as long as the ore from the mines continued to flow. Veit spent a great deal of time running his father's wares into the camp and selling them. He became well known to the sons of the other miners who envied his "carefree" life. He was their recognized leader and on days off he would lead them through the woods hunting small game.
 During one of these excursions the gang of boys stumbled upon an goblin scouting party. Veit immediately sent the younger boys back to camp, while him and three others harried the goblins. Only Veit had a boy - but all of the boys had spears and slings. When the men from the village finally found them the four goblins were dead, but one of the boys was seriously injured. Veit led the miners back to the goblin encampment and carried himself well in the battle. Phillip, the young boy who was injured ended up losing his arm from that goblin dart, but he lived only because Veit knew how to clean and care for wounds.
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 So, he was surprised when Sir Tobias, along with several knights and their retainers, arrived at his house in the High Summer of 437. Sir Tobias simply stated that he was newly named the Baron of Ulrichstein and needed his services once again. There was nothing keeping him here but memories, so he packed up his things and left with the knights.
-Veit was very surprised when they reached Ulrichstein and Baron Ulrichstein knighted him. Veit had no difficulty swearing fealty to this man, but did not like the idea of holding lands and being responsible for the people of it. The Baron had already mapped out several locations along the [[atlas:Aland River]] that were defensible against the dangers of the [[atlas:Elfe Wald]]. He granted Sir Veit enough lands at the most northern reach of his barony to maintain himself as a knight.
+Veit was very surprised when they reached Ulrichstein and Baron Ulrichstein knighted him. Veit had no difficulty swearing fealty to this man, but did not like the idea of holding lands and being responsible for the people of it. The Baron had already mapped out several locations along the [[atlas:Aland River]] that were defensible against the dangers of the [[atlas:Elfenwald]]. He granted Sir Veit enough lands at the most northern reach of his barony to maintain himself as a knight.
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 In 453 several houses along the Aland River south of Sir Veit's lands was named the village of [[atlas:Luckau]] and Baron Ulrichstein named Sir Veit as the bailiff. In the first years, Sir Veit paid for a stout wall around the entire village and has held numerous tournaments to keep the steel of his men sharp. He continues to pay for several additional huntsmen from his privy purse to watch the woods to the north and east.
+===== Family =====
+==== Parents ====
+Veit knows nothing about his mother other than the stories told to him by his father as she died from fever when he was only three. His father said that she was a tough woman that could fight off a bear with nothing but a stick if it came rooting around the house.
+His father, Julian, lost his own parents when it was eight and lived the rest of his early life earning a living running errands. He ate what he could catch in the forest and what scraps other families gave him. For five years he worked in the mine, but in time he found that he could earn more selling furs. By the time he married Lea he already had a "cottage" in the woods where he lived year-round.
+Veit was their only child that survived into adulthood.
+Julian was killed defending Veit's family from goblin raiders in 425.
+==== Fenja ====
+Veit met Fenja when he would visit his friend Phillip's house to check on his recovery from injuries suffered from a goblin scouting party. In 416 she told him they were getting married and that was that. They had two daughters Leona (418) and Selma (420), and one son Ensar (423). Veit was very happy with his life and only rarely complained too loudly when Fenja would drag him out of the taverns in the evening.
+Fenja died defending her home from goblins in the same raid that killed his father. The three children were also killed.
+==== Hille ====
+Veit remarried not long after he was knighted. Hille is a stout woman whose husband died on the journey west to Ulrichstein. Their marriage is not one of passion or love, but instead is based upon mutual need and loss. Strangely enough they complement each other enough to knock sense into the other when they are being stubborn. Hille mostly stays at the manor and sees to the daily running the house and its lands, while Sir Kaufmann spends his time as the Bailiff of Luckau and in the woods with his huntsmen looking for trouble. Hille understands his need to kill any monsters that he finds.
+Together they have two sons, Eckerd (439) and Georg (451) along with a single daughter Helena (441). Another daughter Elif (445-447) died of sickness. Helena married Richard, one of her father's huntsmen, in 457 but she still lives in the manor with him.
+==== Eckerd ====
+//Main Article: [[people:Eckerd Kaufmann]]//
+Eckerd was accepted as a squire for Baron Ulrichstein and spends almost all of his time in the Baron's court. Veit is less happy with his son's behavior at court, but he very grudgingly admits that his son does get along better with most of the baron's knights that he does. He would prefer his son help him guard the northern border rather than spend time in town, but his son has managed to find some additional craftsmen willing to move to Luckau.
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