Editing Quest:Heir of the Arends (section)

===Ancestors===
* Wolfgang Arend I (1200’s - 1708, aged 500s). Head of house for entire life. First patriarch of the Arend family. One of the most powerful mages ever. Originally a wild mage boy of no means from the Archdiocese of Bremen in northwest Germany, he entered the service of the house of Von Heust as a hunter of wild mages and a warrior. He grew powerful as a warrior and amassed a collection of diabolist tomes from wild mages and of other knowledge from other slain mages. Wolfgang defected to the Chere family and led an assault on the Von Heust estate, killing their patriarch with a bound demon and summoning many other beings from the Outside to steal the Von Heust lore. Wolfgang was judged by the European patriarchs, but by then he was an accomplished and powerful demon-hunter and was to be allied by marriage and childbirth to the Von Heust family. He was given the name Arnþórr, which later became Arend. Single-handedly responsible for the hiding of demonology as an art. He desired immortality -- at least of his own bloodline -- and was described as demanding, hard, merciless, but possessive and protective of that which he created and saw as his.
* Catherine Arend, one of the later wives of Wolfgang I. She bore him Elias.
* Elias V. Arend (1706 - 1739, aged 33). Head of house from 1708 until 1739 (31 years). Valia described him as very powerful but too naive. Elias left no record. Killed and usurped by his son James. While Wolfgang I said he was turning to "other methods" to sire an heir, Elias was born to him from Catherine, possibly mundanely.
* James Arend (1726 - 1898, aged 172). Head of house from 1739 until 1898 (159 years). Murdered Elias at the age of 13 in order to become patriarch. In his own record he claims to have had a hand in every major political event in the Americas, all the way from the American revolution to the lead-up to World War One. Valia described him as precise, methodical, mechanical. He mastered of mysticism, and used it on himself as well as others, cutting away anything he found to be unnecessary. He was not exceptionally powerful. He was the first to begin turning relatives out of the mansion, reversing Wolfgang’s practices in part, but he also used the exodus to help solidify the family’s waning power after Wolfgang’s death. His only real enjoyment seemed to be making others dance on the strings that he was pulling.
* Thaddeus Cain Arend (1858 - Feb 22 2015, aged 157). Head of house from 1898 to 2015 (117 years). Outlived five wives. Bowed out of the political scene to focus on magic. He was extremely devoted to his wife Sara who was killed as a result of James' involvement with European mages. Valia may have been involved, thus earning Thaddeus' hatred. After the death of Sara and upon his inheritance, he shut himself away from the world and turned out all of the mansion staff not bound to him, even the few relatives who still lived in the mansion in those days and were loyal. Those who he thought knew too much were hunted down and killed. Valia herself described Thaddeus as a coward and a bully who saw things in black and white, and anything he couldn’t control completely either had to be destroyed or avoided. He was more powerful than James, but shied away from Demonology, considering it too risky.
* Sara Arend. First wife of Thaddeus. Thaddeus claims she was killed by European mages. Valia corroborated the claim.
* Jack Arend (father). Deceased. Only one of that generation that had Power.
* Mrs. Arend (mother). Deceased.
* Wolfgang Richard Arend (Oct. 27, 1990 - now, aged 25). Fifth patriarch of the Arend family and [[player character]].