Kurt von Benno Baumeister

Kurt Baumeister was the eldest brother of Wendelin von Benno Baumeister. As the eldest son of the ruling noble, he was, until his death, the presumed heir to the elder Baumeister family estate and its hereditary knighthood.

Personality
Early on, Kurt was considered a kind and caring person. However, he held a deep jealousy toward his other siblings due to them being far more skilled and capable than him, and a fear that they would supplant him as the heir to the knighthood. After four of his brothers left the territory to start their own lives, and a fifth married into the branch family of the Junior Commander, his jealousy died down considerably, but with the consolidation of his eventual power he became arrogant and abusive.

When his youngest brother Wendelin gained a noble title higher than his own family's, his jealousy returned. When Wendelin (on order from the family's patron Margrave Breithilde) then returned to the territory to start development of monster-infested lands, he became convinced of a conspiracy by Wendelin and his other brother Hermann (the second brother, who married into the branch family) to usurp him and deny him his right to rule the territory.

Synopsis
Kurt has no real skills or personality to speak of. He also is almost completely illiterate. After he formally becomes the presumptive heir of the family estate, he starts to abuse his power to pressure the locals working in his territory to submit to him.

At some point, prior to Wendelin's marriages, the major nobles and the king started to maneuver Wend into taking over the elder Baumeister estate. Kurt was furious and attempted to assassinate Wend in order to inherit his assets and title, as Wend was the only member of his separate family line, at that point in time. The judicial law of the Helmut Kingdom, would have appointed Kurt as the sole proprietor of all assets left behind by Wend, if he were to suffer an untimely death. However, Kurt was so jealous and greedy, he was ignorant to the fact that the capital murder he attempted to commit would also place a bounty on his head as a result.

Due to his lack of physical skills, and the inability to see beyond himself, he had no power and ability to actually complete the task himself. This left Kurt to become vulnerable to manipulation from the Head Auditor of the Ministry of Finance, Baron Rückner. Baron Rückner, who was left out of the development of the Savage Land Projects, saw Kurt as his means to dig into the royal purse. Subsequently, he supplied Kurt with the means to kill off Wendelin with a "cursed" magical item known as the Flute of Grudges.

Wendelin and his party was able to defeat Kurt, due to his inability to the properly use the magical item, and he fled to the capital in order to kill Baron Rückner for manipulating him. With the power of the Flute of Grudges he rampaged through the city. In his final moments, he nearly succeeded in killing Wendelin, but the Flute of Grudges ultimately consumed him and Baron Rückner, along with Rückner's heirs, knights, retainers and factions, in one fell swoop.

With the demise of Baron Rückner's, all of his younger brothers Hermann, Paul and Helmut, were all awarded the title of Baronet. Erich was awarded the title of Baron, while Wendelin was awarded a title elevation to Earl.