Errando Kinderwode

An evil scientist and sorcerer, leader of the Kinderwode cult, torture program, and research facility.

History
A prominent Lutheran pastor steeped in alchemy, hermeticism, and various pseudo sciences. An orphan, he reportedly spent his childhood wandering the world surviving on his own. At thirteen he settled in Austria. There he is taken as a patron to a German military family. They send him to medical school at a prominent military academy until he graduates at 21 and is placed in South Africa as an aide to a German attache with the Boers. Here he witnesses the horrible effectiveness of native shamanism and lore. He also learns how to brutally subdue a native population.

He effectively enslaves and secretly impregnates a native woman and gathers a small group of destructive and borderline followers among the local blacks. His actions are known by the Dean of his military academy and a few higher ups in the German military. The purpose is to destabilize the Boer government. During his second year in South Africa he organizes a massacre of a local village, builds a military hospital, and recruits new troops from the populace.

He is sent back to Germany. His Boer superior is killed soon after while fishing. He returns to the Academy, receives several degrees travels Europe for a time, is re-stationed to the Caribbean briefly then South America. Here he is attached to a Military barracks housed next to a small Lutheran university and missionary church. He becomes enamored with the religious institution as well as the growing influence of radio and various other technologies.

He finishes his tour with little incident spending most of his little free time traveling the area and interacting with locals, and others, as well as exploring the jungle. He is also known to have visited America twice during this time. After his tour he retires from military life and joins the Lutheran church It is fairly easy for him to rise through the ranks due to influence, having studied during military life and university accomplishments.

He sets up a church in Brazil for a short time before opening a satellite church in America which grew to become the Kinderwode facility.