Clemenz Spitzaner

"Show him a battle and he will hurl men at it until it is won, regardless of the cost."

- Kaspar von Velten to Kurt Bremen.

Nicknamed "Killer Clemenz", the Empire General Clemenz Spitzaner was originally an officer under Kaspar von Velten during the Ambassador's time in the army, having been forced to keep him around due to Clemenz's family wealth. A competent enough soldier, the man lacks in humility, with no sense that he owes it to his men to try and bring back as many as he can alive. When Kaspar retired, Spitzaner assumed that, as ranking officer, he would take over, but Kaspar was adamant not to let him have it, instead promoting a more junior officer by the name of Hoffman. Elector Countess Emmanuel von Liebwitz' father, the reigning Count of Nuln at the time, agreed with Kaspar, and thus Spitzaner left, purchasing a commission in a Talabecland regiment, his money helping to grease his ascension up the promotions ladder.

By 2522 IC, Spitzaner was a man in his early forties, yet appeared much younger thanks to a life free of vice and loose living that so typified much of the Empire's nobility. His thin face was sallow and angular, described as being as though his bones pressed too tightly against his skin, whilst his eyes were a pale shade of green.

Clemenz' personal heraldry consists of a scarlet griffon rampant on a golden background, surrounded by a laurel wreath and decorated with numerous scrolls and trailing prayer pennants.

Source

 * : Ursun's Teeth (novel) by Graham McNeill
 * : Chapter 6

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