User blog comment:Mea v4/Who is Gil's father?/@comment-1298786-20101018054646/@comment-1298786-20101018225015

Hi Mea, you may be right. There is the whole Horton hatches a who thing available. Still a lot of the drama comes from Gil actually being the Baron's son; not knowing about it until after Gil and Tarvek explore the records. Then Gil having to do a bitter 180 on his friend to protect the secret.

As for the Baron's being a construct it is barely alluded to in the story itself but it is either in the background material like the secret blue prints or Kaja has mentioned it. It is not quite canonical fact yet.