Where shall I begin… First allow me to introduce myself. My name is Amadeus Himmelstein, and I am lord of castle Schwarzwald, which has been in my family for many generations. Not that it means much, considering the villagers despise my cursed estate for the sins of my forefathers. After many attempts to make peace with them, and being shunned at every gesture of good faith, I became reclusive to my crumbling stone abode. Once the fairest castle in all of Germany, now reduced to rubble in many sections of the once magnificent stronghold, I live out the rest of my days in solitude. My only human contact, long since deceased, was the family servant, last of his line, who had raised me after my father’s suicide in the very room where I lay my head to sleep.