THIS IS NOT A CHAPTER
but it is connected to BBT, so bear with me :p You don't have to read if you don't want, but in case you wanna know why Mus and I did a few things the way we did them, then here ya go *shrug*. And that's all there really is to it XP
Okay, I know there's a huge thing about who exactly those two really are in relation to the noble families and such, especially with the novels, drama cd, blah blah blah oh so confusing . But, since this is technically a bit of an AU (has to be), I'm going with my own version. Mus and I figured Navon to be a Kleist because the Kleists seem to have a similarity to them. Navon and Gunter even seem like they could be related, you know? If you think about it. Our au-Kleists even keep those similarities in powers, intelligence, and a couple personality traits (amount of scariness varies :p wait 'till we write something with Kain in it...). As for Arsenio...check out Celi. She's really our main inspiration for making Arsenio be mostly a Spitzweg (I know, I changed the spelling, but I got the first four DVDs and that's how they spell it, so I tried changing it and now I'm used to it. I'm sticking with the manga spelling of Kleist, though, since I like it). I know that the Bielefelds are also connected to him, so I'm going to say that there are many connections, both marriage and some blood that happens, between the Spitzwegs and Bielefelds, but it's all so complicated and such that it's not weird for Celi to have married Wolfram's father and had a child with him. There's 4000 years of changing relations, after all. Hence, it was really difficult for Gunter and other historians to track backwards and find out just who the Great One and Great Sage were, even though they have pictures to study. I'm sure they knew about the connection between the Spitzwegs and Bielefelds thanks to, apparently, the many Maohs the Bielefelds sired and other famous connections I'm sure happened (in the canon of this fic, that is). They even managed to know that there were Bielefeld Maohs up around Arsenio's time (as Valtrana tells us at the beginning of the 3rd season).
On another note, I'm sure there's much debate out there about Arsenio and Navon's siblingships. Well, I wanted Arsenio to have a big family because they're all incredibly fun to rp and that's the main reason. Also, I see him as having been in a big, loving family, but one that was too big for him to really have stood out much, especially as the youngest son (whose brothers were probably just entering about Conrart's-age-group-sorta-age when he was born). His never having had responsibility, but still having that personality of being caring, hardworking, noble, and loyal, fits in with how his main motivations seem to be boredom and nobility. I'm sure there was more to his motivation for building up his army, but we don't seem to know much about that (unless there's something in season 3, which I don't know), so I'm putting it across as everyone thinking it was an out-of-the-blue, random thing he decided to do. That may not be the true reason, and it probably isn't, but he says he's not going to talk about it to anyone, so that assumption stands. And as for Navon, I'm going by the personalities of his OC parents. His parents are, as you've seen, cold and calculating. The state over which they rule is small and nearly-impoverished, though they're not bad when it comes to ruling; it's just hard when they're on the edge of the country and isolated from it (Kleist is canonly by the ocean). Anyways, all noble families needed an heir (which is probably somewhat archaic in the present-GDK, since it's less of a big deal because of all the homosexual marriages, not to mention adoption is seen in a better light, as seen by the mass-acceptance of Yuri and Wolfram adopting Greta). Baldassare and Lamara needed an heir, so had a child just for state-stability's sake. And when he turned out to be a double-black thanks to a combination of paternal and maternal traits (I think), they stopped with children immediately so there would be no chance of another one. As you saw at the beginning, Baldassare takes great responsibility over creating such a horrible, evil curse-holder, so keeps him pretty much locked up and away from people (it wasn't mentioned, but he had guards stationed in certain areas that lined a inhabitant-less area, i.e. where Navon went by the woods to read, so Navon couldn't wander off into the town or run further). Hence: no siblings.
Okay, let's see, did I forget anything? I'll add to this if anyone out there has any questions! Just leave them in the comments/reviews or send me a PM and I'll do my best to clear up anything. This is a pretty big project, since Mus and I have put quite a lot of hours rping chunks of it and talking it over and figuring it out, so I'm sure there's much below the tip of the iceburg. Or, hey, if you just want me to address something, just go ahead and ask; I love to talk at times and would be glad to see any interest at all in my work :p.