Marius Leitdorf, known most infamously as the Mad Count of Averland, is the late Elector Count of Averland and is counted one of the Empire's bravest if not most insane Generals within the Empire. Not many men can be said to have waged wars against forests, swarms of bees and half-imagined fishmen, so it is not without good reason that Marius Leitdorf is known as the Mad Count. Most knew Marius for his eccentrict and flamboyant nature; his bouts of screaming rage, his periods of melancholy and his mercurial conduct at court.[1b]