Marie Ernst Gluck

Marie Ernst Gluck, during a school trip to a lake in the Carpathians.

Marie Ernst Gluck, of the Tribe of Antrim, is a Selkie-Jew, an assistant armorer for Razgriz Security, and a graduate of Our Lady of Częstochowa Catholic Academy(OLCCA), at Ochjno. She was adopted by two of her future teachers, Sister Anastazja Modrzewska and Izaak Joselewicz after the death of her parents, Marion and Konstanty Ernst Gluck.

She currently works alongside Freya Leyen and helps Razgriz Security to maintain it's firearms.

## Early Childhood

Marie was born in 2003 to a Selkie-Jewish couple and descends, on both sides of her family, from refugees fleeing Prussia-Poland during the Second World War. Both were relatively affluent; Marie's mother was a Professor of Literature at the University of Fortham, while her father was a mathematician.

### Meeting Sister Modrzewska

Though they were born in the Free Lands, Marie's parents both considered themselves, to an extent, Prussian-Poles. As soon as she was old enough, they began to take Marie back to the 'old country' when they could; generally during the summer months. It was on her first trip back to Prussia-Poland, in 2009, that Marie met Sister Modrzewska; a close friend of their parents, who he had met during a conference on mathematics education in 1994 and who had continued to correspond and swap notes since then.

Unbeknownst to Marie, her parents had named Sister Modrzewska as the executor of their will and had arranged for her to adopt Marie in case of their death.

## Death of parents and return to Prussia-Poland

(note: this section is awaiting Selkie's approval and comments)

The death of her parents in a car-crash in the winter of 2012 sparked a minor diplomatic incident between Prussia-Poland and the Free Lands when Sister Modrzewska was detained after attempting to pick up Marie. The incident was eventually resolved, with Sister Modrzewska being released and Marie in turn being released to her custody, and resulted in the establishment of formal diplomatic ties between Prussia-Poland and the Free Lands. The sole cavet of Modrzewska's legal guardianship of Marie that the government of the Free Lands imposed was a requirement to allow Marie to return to the Free Lands during the summer; something that Sister Modrzewska was planning on in any case.

Marie's return to Prussia-Poland and enrollment in OLCCA was rough, but she eventually found her footing.

### Relationship with Isaak Joselewicz and Sister Modrzewska

Though neither Isaak nor Sister Modrzewska could replace her parents, they both filled some of the void left by their absence, and eventually Marie began to refer to them as family; 'Uncle Isaak' and 'Auntie Ana'.

Though both, especially Isaak, were far stricter than her parents, they also loved her as they would their daughter, and attempted to support her as best as they could. Usually, it was enough.

Usually.

### 2012-2019 - Friendship with Rozmaryn Wisniewska

Marie first met Rozmaryn soon after her arrival to OLCCA, when she was reduced to tears by Rozmaryn's aggressive questioning of her analyses of their assigned reading.

Rozmaryn apologized to Marie after class, and the two became close friends, with Rozmaryn eventually coaching Marie on how to, if not hold her own in an argument, at least refuse to give the other party the satisfaction of driving her to tears. Likewise, Marie became Rozmaryn's ad-hoc tutor for most STEM-related subjects and was likely responsible for salvaging her grade at least once.

### 2016-2017 Exchange Program with Warsaw Artillery - Meeting Irene von Wittelsbach, Karl Stortebeker, and Celina Sloroimh

In 2016 Marie was selected, by lottery, to attend a semester at Warsaw Artillery.

### Summers of 2017 to 2019 - Meeting Yven Barriall

Marie met Yven through Celina. Their first meeting was cordial, and the two became close friends; and, eventually, something more than friends, though the two never offically admitted it. Between summers they kept up a lively correspondence.

### Last years at school

As soon as things seemed to be looking up for Marie, however, bad news began to roll in.

Rozmaryn died in December 2019. The news hit many of the faculty hard, especially Sister Modrzewska, but it utterly devestated Marie. She eventually fell out of contact with Yven and Celina, and barely kept contact with Karl and Irene. Her grades and health collapsed, her relationship with 'Uncle Isaak' and 'Auntie Ana' frayed, and one night, after she went truant, the two scolded her severely.

She disappeared the next morning.

Frantic attempts by Sister Modrzewska and Isaak Joselewicz to locate her failed, and after a week, the two were nearly at their wit's end when they were contacted by the Count Fredrick von Wittelsbach. He informed them that Marie had finally turned up at the doorsteps of his apartment in Warsaw, asking to see Irene. She was dehydrated and hungry, but thankfully still alive.

Marie returned to school soon after, although she remained morose and withdrawn.