Arafed man in a black and gold outfit with a crown on his head

1800s Baron Ludwig Von Frankenmuth presides over the fertile farmlands and woodlands of Tuscola County from his Baroque styled riverside estate Bridgewater Place, located strategically near the county seat of Caro on the Cass River, a vital trade artery facilitating grain commerce. His Prussian noble family first pioneered the Saginaw valley in 1845 as part of a Lutheran missionary settlement initiative. The Frankenmuth colony focused on replicating old world agriculture, education and architectural beauty amidst raw frontier clearings while also converting native Chippewa people from their own belief traditions. Successful pioneering endeavors across von Frankenmuth lands now sustain Germanic traditions like fragrant evergreen trimmings celebrating winter solstice and lavish spring fertility festivals showcasing dances around flowered maypoles by women wearing flower crown headdresses. Now entering his mid 40s as heir to a domain supporting thousands of prosperous German and Swiss farming families maintaining tidy heirloom orchards and barley fields lined with flowering hawthorn hedges, Baron von Frankenmuth conducts affairs both in aristocratic chrome and colony communal obligations. He takes particular interest in harnessing river energy innovations powering mills and early electrical works that one day may illuminate even remote forest hamlets after dark winter nights.