Count Falkynhorst

Wilhelm Maritz Ludwig Brugel von Falkynhorst, (991KF- ) commonly known as **Count Falkynhorst,**is a Zeori philosoper and political theorist. He became famous for championing his 'authentic' brand of *Zeoriaza*thought, and became a friend of Serenos Grym during the latters electioneering, despite the two sharing some tense disagreements.

He is considered "the first proper anti-modern thinker since the early agrarianists," for developing his philosophy concerning the decline of Panguillan nations. In particular, he argues that since the absolutist reign of Cyroth the Great, Kymuria has tended towards revolutionary, parliamentarian ideas rather than monarchical or aristocratic ones, and that it is correct for Panguillans who wish to maintain authentic traditions to do this.

His thinking is highly anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, anti-modern, anti-liberal and carries a sharp disdain for involving the masses politically. He was spurred into political action by the founding of democratic and liberal Zeor Republic, which he held to be farcical. In this time, he founded the Zeori-language journal DATZ HOLM (The Home) in which he vigorously attacked the nature of the state. He also published several books in Sra as well as in Zeoric, which, to his surprise, found a keen audience among Kymurian traditionalists and conservatives, even if many of them found his philosophizing 'obscure'. His most popular book so far has been *Datz Schumpter Crenne,* (The Soft Crown) which discusses why he thinks that modern monarchies have become detached from the 'muscular' monarchies of antiquity. He concludes that until traditional forms of spiritual absolutism have been re-established, then governance should be in the hands of small groups of military elites and intellectuals with autocratic, religious and aristocratic characters. He sees Serenos Grym and his movement as potentially capable of achieving this.

Although he seems to hold some admiration for the Early Agrarianists, and frequently reveals a nobleman's hatred for mercantilism and commerce in his own writings, Falkynhorst ultimately dismisses the modern agrarianists, trade unions and revolutionaries as 'shallow, fake, and idiotic forces, incapable of doing anything but exacerbate the problems of modernity to which we have declared ourselves against.'

Serenos Grym was inspired by the works of Count Falkynhorst to create a 'totalistic' political platform focused on ending the liberal nature of the republic, rather than simply utilising it.

He is one of the few noblemen to hold a title that definitively dates back to the pre-Huw era. His ancestral home is the mountain castle complex of Barbitz-am-datz-Grafpich, on the south-eastern edge of the Zeor mountains.

Falkynhorst is also notable for his openness to *avant-guard* ideas surrounding art and culture. For example, DATZ HOLM was typeset in a highly modernistic way, and featured content by stylistically transgressive writers and artists. He maintains that more traditional styles (discounting that made before the Imperial Era) have become bourgeois and hackneyed, thus necessitating the need for 'true' reactionaries to open their minds to the artistic *avant-guard.* In his own words, "As it stands, the most conservative thing one can to is to become a radical."