Sigfried Arden

Sigfried Arden is the Duke of Lower Argony and the lord of Stag's Head. He is the richest man in Lordamere. He is the husband of Duchess Venyra Osgrey, and the father of Sigfried, Renault, and Corina.

Sigfried is an incredibly skilled businessman. When Sigfried become Duke of Lower Argony, his house was in dire financial straits. Under his leadership, his house has not only escaped their debts, but arisen to become Lordamere's richest house. This success was spearheaded by Sigfried's investment in merchant naval fleets.

Sigfried suffers from lung ailments, causing him to develop a cough.

## Personality

Sigfried is a posh and shrewd man. He has what could best be understated as a penchant for business. Sigfried understands the responsibilities of leadership, the nature of finances, and the power of wealth inside and out. Due to his upbringing in a household mismanaged and indebted due to his father's incompetence, Sigfried has an appreciation for power and luxury that few other nobles do. Labor activism, charity, protests, and poverty are sources of Sigfried's ire. While he typically remains level-headed, such topics can cause him to rant and fume.

Sigfried is incredibly skilled at reading others, which he thanks for his successes. He is a skilled liar and negotiator, but in his advancing age he has little patience for games of business and politics. He has a reputation as a sharp and calculating mind, but also as a blunt, impatient, and irritable figure. He has a firm no-nonsense attitude. Sigfried has a habit of leading his subordinates on with what is ostensibly praise, only to bluntly undermine them.

Sigfried's intelligence is balanced by his aloof and disapproving manner. He is rarely satisfied, not with his wealth and certainly not with his children. Sigfried has a habit of dispelling cryptic lessons and maxims. Sigfried has a taste for luxurious fineries, including haughty marble busts, rare cuts of meat, and ostentatious ships. He particularly has a fondness for drinking fortified wines in his signature red velvet chair while wearing his red smoking jacket.

Sigfried has a debaucherously side. His wealth attracts countless beautiful young women—a fact he is quite aware of—whom he comes onto. He makes no attempts to hide his promiscuity and perversions, even from his wife.

Sigfried seeks to immortalize his legacy, but he is unsure of how to capstone his long reign. His disapproval of his children adds to his doubt regarding his house's future.

## Appearance

Sigfried has a wide, stocky build. He has a permanent hunch, seemingly from constantly reclining in his red velvet chairs. He has a slicked back white hair, a neat mustache and beard, fierce eyebrows, a large nose, deep-set wrinkles, and sharp, quizzical eyes.

## Relationships

While has values his house as an institution above all else, Sigfried's relationship with his actual family is strained. He has a contemptuous and spiteful relationship with his wife, complete with constant bickering. Similarly, his elderly mother is a source of irritation for Sigfried, even though he loves her dearly. Sigfried is a difficult man to impress, and he typically treats his children as sources of constant disappointment.

## Trivia

* Sigfried Arden was inspired by *Success**ion**s Logan Roy,*** **KnivesOut**s Harlan Thromby, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Hugh Hefner.