Helga Mörder

**Helga Mörder**, is an ex-SS officer who once rose through the ranks of the SS by the one way she could, by embracing the cause. Her cunning intelligence is matched by her cruelty and ambition, which quickly helped her gain favor with Adolf Hitler himself, who elected her to be one of the top SS leaders. Her cruelty and brutality are well known and feared by even by other Nazis, which made her an enemy of Werner von Goldberg after he encountered her during the Fall of Berlin.

She was later recruited into the reformed Wehrmacht as a Colonel (German: *Oberst*) in order to make up for the many talented officers lost in the war. Despite swearing an oath, she still holds values to the ways of the German Reich and vows to find a way to make the Wehrmacht leaders pay.

She is a nemesis of Werner, whom she refers to as the "Mischling" on regular occasions, and a constant pain in the ass to the Heart and Mind campaign of the Germans in the Continent. She takes great pleasure in taking her anger out on the local population, often without any provocation, and laughs at Werner's attempts to make peace with the natives, showing just how ruthless she is.

## History

### Background

Helga is the only daughter and eldest child of a rich German tailor family in Berlin. She was raised in a privileged household. She is known for her great beauty. At a young age, she demonstrated a very cunning nature after managing to swindle money from her family members, also demonstrating cruelty for bullying her younger siblings, quickly gaining resentment from her mother and father. During the rise of Hitler, she was one of the first to voice her support in her family and later became an activist for the Nazi Party, which caused her family to ultimately disinherit her, forcing her to learn how to steal and fight on her own to survive.

At the age of twenty, she went to a Waffen-SS training barracks and joined without signing anything, where she was quickly harassed for being a woman. She managed to impress the trainees by beating down all the other men in her group, earning her a spot in the SS itself rather than the Waffen-SS. In the years to come, her cruelty and ambition made even Nazi leaders fear her, but Adolf Hitler himself was incredibly impressed by her features and promoted her to Oberst-Gruppenführer.

During the German Civil War she stayed loyal to the loyalist forces for the first phase of the rebellion, becoming known to actually join battles when she isn't supposed to, preferring to fight rather than be an "armchair general." But when the Wehrmacht army was closing around them in the Fall of Berlin, she traveled to Berlin to meet with SS leaders who were discussing terms for the Wehrmacht, where she personally brutally killed them all before a squad of Wehrmacht, led by Werner Goldberg, found her. She ultimately switched to the rebel's side during the war, clearly as a necessity rather than a shift in personality, where she helped map out SS holdouts.

After the war, she was imprisoned and later recruited to join the Wehrmacht Heer as an officer, where she saw little action and was mostly kept out of away from personal affairs due to her reputation.

### The Gate

Although she never witnessed the Attack on Berlin, instead she was training troops in Bavaria, she was assigned by the High Command of the Wehrmacht to be embedded into the Tor Korps, which was rumored by Erwin Rommel to be deliberate to harness her merciless techniques for the obvious war to come. She was assigned to command the Second Unit, which has become a haven for those who lost the Civil War and took liberty in recruiting many of her most loyal comrades; including Victor Meyer, a burnt-up Hessian lieutenant, and Michael Wittmann, the Black Baron, ensuring herself to be followed by people she can trust.

## Personality

Helga Mörder is known to be ruthless, cunning and sadistic, said to have displayed these characteristics during the German Civil War. She is a staunch supporter of Nazi ideals and propaganda, possessing an almost fanatic belief in what she believes to be the ultimate Germans, seeing as she enjoys referring to Lieutenant Colonel Werner as a "Mischling". She is also not above cold-blooded murder since during her campaign on the Continent, she had been mercilessly slaughtering the local population without provocation, justifying it by saying she was ordered to clear a path for Germany.

Despite her often seductive or cruel outside display, Michael Wittmann noted that she had an obsession over certain things, like Werner, who she perceives as the main reason the Nazis lost the civil war, and the Wehrmacht. Her malice towards Werner is often only shown by her mockery of his peaceful decisions and his half-Jewish ancestry.

Her greatest weakness and flaw is the fact that she invests too much power unto herself on a scale too large, shown when she blew up her own SS members for simply refusing to join her in creating a new German Reich beyond the Gate. While this is a strategic move to eliminate dissidence, this move prevents anyone from holding such influence over than herself, meaning if she was to die, with no clear heir, then her organisation would eventually fall to the warlord rivalries she tried to stop happening.