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{{Erlcharacter|animal=Erlkönig|erl_image=[[Image:Erlkoenig.png|Erlkoenig.png]]|erl_position=Monarch of Erlgau}}

'''Erlkönig''' is the monarch of [[Erlgau]], because of his long rule he is only known by the name of his office and not by his personal name, which is forgotten. 

At the time of Erlkönigs birth, Erlgau was divided in three free tribes which inhabited the islands of Blumenstrand, Nebelstadt and Wolfgang. Like his father, Erlkönig worked as a weapon smith. One day Warner Barentsz, a messenger from Empress Sisera of Jingdao, visited the islands, he recruited Erlkönig to manufacture fine parts for the Empress' doomsday weapon, which were impossible for large human hands to produce. Erlkönig in turn requested from Sisera that she would help him to subjugate the people of the Erlgau, she accepted this request with the condition that a yearly festival would be held where humans would be sacrificed in her name. Two hundred drones swarmed the skies over Erlgau after Erlkönig issued a declaration which abolished the freedom of the goblins of Erlgau, some goblins rebelled but their houses were destroyed by the drones. After the demise of the Holy Empire of Jingdao, Erlkönig worked together with Barend Barentsz, Minister of the Military Affairs in Shireroth and Count of Te Gong Li to maintain his access to an air force. After Mordechai Kraut took over as Minister of Military Affairs and developed the RasmOS  defense operating system on Te Gong Li, that system got infected through a Jingdaoese terminal and renewed its alliance with Erlkönig. After the independence of Kildare through the Apollonian Republic, RasmOS and Erlkönig decided that they would keep the entire county of Te Gong Li independent from both Shireroth and the Apollonian Republic, unsure what to do with the remaining humans on the islands...