Castle Wulfenbach

Castle Wulfenbach is really kind of a misnomer: it's no more a castle than a Boeing 747 is the Taj Mahal. The analogy works, because Castle Wulfenbach is the great-grandpappy of all airships. The Baron himself calls it home, using it to cruise around Europa doing his despotic thing.

We get a good look at Castle Wulfenbach, featuring full frontal tyranny, here. A few things are obvious from this view. First, calling it "huge" doesn't remotely begin to do it justice. It is incredibly far beyond merely "huge." Second, it's rather unwieldy. Many of those little airships hovering around it are for the purpose of ferrying people (and, to be sure, things) between Castle Wulfenbach and the ground. The Castle itself never lands; it just floats slowly and balefully above Europa, so some shuttle-airships are necessary. Third, check out those guns, some of which appear able to fire shells larger than some airships are. You do not want to mess with Castle Wulfenbach. Finally, the image on the front doesn't look much like Klaus, but it definitely shares with him the impression of someone that you really don't want to run into in a dark alley.

On the inside, Castle Wulfenbach features such things as a nursery, a dormitory, a prison or two, and of course, any number of laboratories -- Klaus is, after all, a world-class Spark, and Gilgamesh has some lab space of his own on board. Inexplicably and unwisely, a full-blown hive engine was brought to one of these labs, and when it germinated and started making slaver wasps, the resulting brouhaha very nearly brought the Castle down. Gil and Agatha Heterodyne, who'd been brought to the Castle (under somewhat mistaken assumptions), took care of the wasps, in the process giving Gil the idea that maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to, well, marry this girl. And thereby, of course, hangs a tale.

Inhabitants of Castle Wulfenbach

 * Baron Klaus Wulfenbach

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