Werner Bauer

Overview

Werner Bauer is one of twin brothers serving the Brotherhood as hired muscle and grave-robber. He and his brother Klaus procure bodies from morgues and cemeteries for use in Engine component acquisition. They are not ideological members of the Brotherhood — they are mercenaries willing to perform illegal and morally reprehensible work for payment (approximately 50 gulden per delivery).

Session 8 Update — Location Confirmed (August 8, 1814)

In the morning of 8 August 1814, Dr. Fischbein delivered confirmed intelligence to Freddy Cavendish establishing the Bauer brothers’ current location and the documentary chain that put them there:

• Klaus and Werner are quartered at the Black Bear Tavern on Taborstrasse, second floor.
• They were released from Geheimpolizei custody on a release order personally signed by Captain Vogel. Fischbein has the signature confirmed against three other Vogel signatures from prior cases.

This is the first time the party has had a hard, current address for Werner. He is now actionable.

Session 11 Update — Captured at the Black Bear (Evening, 10 August 1814)

Freddy, Adrien, and Thomas raided the Bauer brothers’ room at the Black Bear, Taborstraße. Thomas kicked the door in. Werner lunged for a pistol on the table. Freddy shot at him but missed, blowing a chunk out of a table leg. Werner threw himself to the floor, grabbed Thomas’s foot and yanked him off his feet. Adrien pistol-whipped Werner across the skull, dazing him. Werner was then knocked unconscious when the table collapsed on top of him during the struggle.

Werner was bound and dragged out past the conspicuously incurious landlady, loaded into the party’s carriage, and taken to Thaliastraße 12.

Session 12 Update — Interrogated at Thaliastraße 12 (Morning, 11 August 1814)

Werner was interrogated at Thaliastraße 12 by the investigators on the morning of 11 August. With his brother Klaus dead, he had no loyalty left to leverage and cooperated fully.

Intelligence Provided

• University interior layout: Medical wing on the south corridor, ground floor. Caroline Hartley is held in that wing. The anatomy theatre is accessed through the cellar, via a service corridor.
• Guard patterns: Five external guards on rotating shifts. Werner knows their faces, their routines, and how the shifts change.
• Herzfeld’s schedule: Herzfeld has not been sleeping. He is accelerating preparations and spending more time in the sealed theatre than his usual evening pattern.
• Timeline shift: Werner confirmed evidence that the ritual date has moved from August 15 to August 13.

Session 13 Update — Task Completed; Fled Vienna (Pre-dawn, 12 August 1814)

Werner carried out his assigned role in the University assault: he approached the rear exterior guards and successfully dismissed them with a cover story about changed orders. The rear guard was cleared without violence.

His task complete, Werner ran. He fled Vienna — abandoning the scene before the assault teams entered the building. His story arc with the party is concluded.