Tarvek Sturmvoraus
From Girl Genius
| Prince Tarvek Sturmvoraus | |
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| Name | Tarvek Sturmvoraus |
| Age | |
| Occupation | Prince, Political Schemer |
| Residence | Sturmhalten |
| First Appearance | Watching the play. |
| Death | Maybe. But then again... |
| Parents | Aaronev Wilhelm Sturmvoraus (father) |
| Relatives | Anevka Sturmvoraus (sister/creation), Andronicus Valois (distaff ancestor) |
| Children | |
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Tarvek Sturmvoraus is the son of Prince Aaronev VI of Sturmhalten and, on his mother's side, a secret descendant of the Storm King. He has a gift for constructing anthropoid clanks, is ostentatiously charming, and seems fond of attractive young women. He is also a Byzantine schemer, with a track record of complicated double and triple crosses.
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[edit] Maneuvers and Ambitions
While he expressed sadness at his sister's death, and initially appeared to help Agatha escape, he is also a gifted actor and able to shift smoothly from one role to the next as he finds it necessary, making his true motives almost as difficult to discern as his strategy du jour is to track.
As the descendant of Andronicus, he considers himself to be the Storm King and therefore rightfully entitled to rule Europa, Baron Wulfenbach a usurper to be eliminated, and marriage to a "Heterodyne Princess" a considerable potential asset. To this end, he has allied with the resurrected Lucrezia, an arrangement that may or may not still be in effect after she shot him for betrayal. (Okay, so it probably isn't.) However, recent allusions to the opera make his reappearance likely.
[edit] Creations
- Anevka's clank body, based on a Van Rijn prototype
- In particular, the voice mechanism which he was able to reprogram, using Agatha as a template, to counterfeit a command voice.
- A clank head for the Other's consciousness (identifying as Lucrezia Mongfish)
- Assisted with (and sabotaged) the construction of Agatha's holographic recorder/projector
[edit] See Also
Knights of Jove, The Council, Revenants, Fifty Families.
[edit] Questions and Theories
- Assuming he survived, where is he now?
- Does he have anything to do with the plot to install Zola "Heterodyne" in Mechanicsburg? And if he is, does that mean he's given up on Agatha? (Or was it to be vice-versa? Or likely whichever panned out.)
- Some fans have speculated about this page, which shows the prince producing a tune. The notes are drawn in the same way as Agatha's heterodyning. For discussion, see Tarvek's humming on the forum.
