Freuden

Freuden is an Ehrenfest mednoble, the eldest son of Viscount Sidonius Wiltord, and recently married Bettina of Ahrensbach.

The marriage between Bettina and Freuden had been blocked by Aub Ehrenfest refusing to give his permission on account of the strained political relationship between their respective home duchies. At the archduke conference following Rozemyne's first term at the Royal Academy however, Aub Ahrensbach managed to convince him to give his permission, allowing the marriage to go ahead.

Due to the highly unusual situation, instead of waiting for the next regular Starbind Ceremony Bettina and Freuden, as well as Aurelia and Lamprecht are wedded directly at the border gate between the two duchies, in the presence of both archdukal families, on account of Aurelia being Aub Ahrensbach's niece.

Following the ceremony and the move to her new home, Bettina quickly gets involved with members of the former Veronica faction.

The next year in winter Ehrenfest enacts a thorough purge of anyone associated with either the former Veronica faction or Georgine. The purge is unusually merciful by the standards of Yurgenschmidt nobility, forgoing the traditional guilt by association within families and reserving the death sentence only for particularly severe crimes and those name-sworn to Georgine. Despite this restraint Freuden, his wife Bettina and his parents are still among those executed. The only known member of his family who is spared the death sentence is his younger brother Laurenz, who was instead required to give his name to a member of the archducal family and chose to serve Lady Rozemyne.