The Other

The Other seemingly came out of nowhere, attacked and half-destroyed Castle Heterodyne, ravaged Europa, destroyed forty-three major Sparky Houses, and harried the normal citizens with Slaver Wasps and the resulting shambling Revenants.

The Heterodyne Brothers did everything they could to destroy wasp infestations and foil The Other's destruction, but all that anybody knew is that one day, the devastation stopped and the Heterodynes had disappeared.

Baron Wulfenbach, fighting comrade of the brothers, returned from wherever he had himself vanished to and started to clean up the mess -- leaderless Wasps and Revenants still wandered the land.

For eighteen years, The Other remained history, fading into horrifying legend, until House Sturmvoraus and the Geisterdamen managed to capture Agatha Heterodyne when she passed through Sturmhalten, the Sturmvoraus seat. Using a machine rebuilt by Vrin, Geisterdame High Priestess, somehow The Other, the Geister's goddess, "downloaded" into Agatha's head -- Lucrezia Mongfish Heterodyne, returned to human form after nearly two decades of exile by stealing her daughter's existence.

Prince Tarvek Sturmvoraus duplicated Lucrezia into a high-level clank brain and appropriated his sister, Anevka's clank body to create two Lucrezias, two Others, at the same time. However, Lucrezia did not calculate the overwhelming military might and brilliant logistics of Baron Wulfenbach correctly, and her initial plans to reconquer Europa evaporated in light of a Slaver quarantine attack on Sturmhalten.

When last seen, the clank Lucrezia had escaped with the Geisterdamen, many Slaver engines and the Holy Machine. The Lucrezia inside Agatha's head, however, found herself thoroughly suppressed by the repaired locket orginally given to Agatha by her Uncle Barry, and returned to her by the Baron.