Giebe Kirnberger

Giebe Kirnberger is the Giebe of Kirnberger and father of Alexis.

Giebe Kirnberger is tall and muscular, and carries himself with the bearing of a knight.

Giebe Kirnberger is unusually direct in his speech and shows his emotions quite openly, unlike most other nobles who prefer to obfuscate their true intent behind euphemisms and keep up an emotionless facade at all times.

When it comes to politics, Giebe Kirnberger takes an entirely neutral stance, preferring to stay as far away from faction politics as he possibly can, while still keeping a vigilant eye on the squabbling of the other nobles and the goings-on in the castle.

He often personally patrols his duchy, leading to his office usually being quite busy with the backlog, whenever he is home.

Giebe Kirnberger's father was quite fond of Bonifatius and openly wished that Bonifatius would have become the sixth Aub Ehrenfest, in place of his younger brother Adelbert. This respect for and inspiration by Bonifatius seems to be something that is shared by Giebe Kirnberger as well.

His second wife is a former Leisegang noble, who was severely abused by Veronica. At the advice from Bonifatius' first wife, she tried to marry into a far away province to escape her fate and eventually managed to marry into Kirnberger, where she gave birth to a son, Alexis.

When their son became old enough to visit the castle, Giebe Kirnberger made sure he stay close to him and his first wife, rather than his mother, so he would not suffer the mistreatment that Veronica and her faction heaped upon anyone associated with the Leisegangs.

Several years later Lord Wilfried lost many of his retainers, giving Alexis the chance to become his guard knight, at Lamprecht's invitation. Upon learning this, Giebe Kirnberger assigned one of his veteran knights to give Alexis extra lessons and training, so he would be a worthy retainer to a member of the archducal family.

In the spring after her third year at the Royal Academy, Lady Rozemyne visits Kirnberger for Spring Prayer, and to have her Gutenbergs help the province in establishing printing, paper-making and ink workshops. At the occasion Giebe Kirnberger shows Rozemyne the country gate and tells her the history of the province back to the days of Eisenreich. At Rozemyne's prompting, he explains that while written records do exist, the history is passed down mostly orally, since barely anyone is able, or willing to read the texts written in the ancient dialect. As an expert in ancient language and an avid lover of anything written down, Rozemyne eagerly requests access to those texts, so she can transcribe them and compare them with both the local oral history and what she was taught as a member of the archducal family, with the Giebe gives.

At the occasion Giebe Kirnberger also has a talk with Rozemyne, telling her that he would prefer her to be the next Aub, but the girl refutes many of his points and makes it clear that she has no intention of taking the seat from her fiancé.

Soon after Giebe Kirnberger is visited by his son Alexis, who comes to his old home on official business, gathering intelligence for his lord.