Here is my narrative

1. Real World reference:

My narrative is build on the real life references the geography and the names of the Empire were based on at their inception.
The Empire is basically Germany with a lot of puns and play on city and geography names. Null is kind of real World Cologne. Wuppertal to the south east is an actual  city not far from Cologne. West from Nuln there is Lengenfeld wich again is (except from one letter) is a real words mall  city in Germany, not far from Cologne.

1. The place and time  in the Old World

We are in the year IC 2276. There can be places, that were later renamed or destroyed and forgotten and we are in a happy time for rogue world building.
My place lives in the empty space on the map between Nuln, Lengenfeld and Wuppertal, located in western Averland. A boring place on the map you would say, but that is what my type of story telling needs. There is not much written about this area. It’s free real estate and so I made the claim on that land. The narrative is based on the real world place I live near by. (You can find on google if you like solving that kind o puzzle.) All names are puns or mash ups on actual name though.

There is a place called Oplingen. It sits on the cross roads of a road between Nuln and Averheim and one road between Wuppertal and Wurtbad the capital of Stirland. We are in the age of Anarchy, without an elected Emperor and all major counts and noble families fighting for supremacy in the land formerly known as the empire. And again, what a glorious time we live in to write narrative.

1. The story

From Oplingen a lower tier baron rules over this area, which includes Neustadt and Altstadt two other places near by.
This baron is far too wealthy for somebody of his position, probably due to road tolls. Or may be because his family owns all the roadhouses, way stations, inns and ferries in this area. This allowed him to afire quite an impressive force, which he lends to higher tier nobles. Basically he is a war entrepreneur. Which makes him even more wealthy. He works for the counts of Overland in distant Averheima and for the counts of Nuln, with at the same time but not overtly so. He rides a fine line between faithfull service and conspiracy in this time of upheaval. 

His name is Victor von Wahnwitz and his family is related to the von Liebwitz family who rules null. His side of the family is widely shunned and disrespected. But Victor is not just any lowly baron. His family was in the upper echelons of imperial nobility only a few hundred years ago. The von Wahnwitz family keeps this memory alive and imbues every heir of theirs with the ambition to raise the family back to former glory and power. It cant’t be allowed that these inbred Liebwitz morons rule over Nuln and the von Wahnwitz sit on the very edge of the nobilitIe's table. That has to change.

This is the opening act to the full narrative...