Talk:Noble Ranks/@comment-70.104.160.206-20200605194406/@comment-45880342-20200605231709

It was something else.

Klaus had a son and a daughter. His son died, in a suspicious incident that also killed his daughter's fiancee. After that, Artur (who Klaus suspected was behind the two men's deaths) took his daughter as a mistress, and four children resulted (two boys, two girls), who are therefore Klaus's grandkids.

After the events with Kurt, both grandsons and the husbands of both granddaughters were given fairly posh jobs, but the grandsons were not happy after having seen all their surviving half-brothers go on to get noble titles, and agitated for more. At the same time, there was a succession dispute in the nearby Browig territory (the Margrave who controls the Eastern territory), and the older son agitated for action against Margrave Breithilde in order to prove his military chops and gain an advantage in the succession dispute over his brother. One of the actions they did was to send a team of people to act subversive in the Baumeister territory, with the hopes of tying up part of Breithilde's forces that way. The team connected with Klaus's grandsons to urge on the revolt.

As it turns out, Klaus believed that his grandsons were acting foolishly, but decided to partner with them in the revolt because that way he could both sabotage it from within (making it more likely to fail) and have some influence on the resulting punishments his grandsons would receive (making it less likely they'd be executed). It's a stretch, since it relied on Kurt being able to explain away his support for the coup as actually being a sabotage of it, and relied on Hermann and Wend believing him, but that's the official plot. After the incident, Klaus voluntarily resigned his position as village chief (he likely would have been booted out if he hadn't), but he couldn't continue working in Hermann's territory either. Wend, sensing that he's a skilled person, decided to use him in his own territory, but inder close scrutiny.