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Mein name ist Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond Ormstein. I have come to see ze Great Exhibition all ze vay from my home in Bohemia. ...I'm very rich.

Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond Ormstein or Gotts was a Bohemian boy who was visiting the Great Exhibition in London. He saw Albert Harebrayne's experiment and was a witness during his trial.

A visiting prince[]

Main article: The Return of the Great Departed Soul

Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond Ormstein was part of a prep school that came to London for a sightseeing trip. The trip was in the middle of the Great Exhibition, so Gotts put a mask over his eyes so he could sneak off to see it.

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The photograph he took

Gotts got to ride on one of the hot air balloons alongside fellow passenger Gina Lestrade, constantly taking pictures with his camera. While aboard the balloon, he watched Albert Harebrayne's demonstration on his new instantaneous kinesis machine, which exploded when Harebrayne tested it on his volunteer. A rogue green balloon subsequently also exploded, with Gotts having taken a picture of it a split-second beforehand.

Gotts was then summoned as a witness to Harebrayne's trial, where he constantly bought small balloons from fellow witness Balthazar Lune, who was in charge of the very same hot air balloon Gotts and Gina were riding. He was visibly frustrated that his fellow witnesses never noticed the green balloon he saw, but when he was briefed on how evidence worked, he presented his earlier photograph to the court. The photograph ended up proving fundamental in establishing the whole truth behind the case.

Personality[]

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Mugshot.

Gotts came across as a bit of a spoiled brat. He would often try and use his status as royalty of a British ally nation to get out of issues with his testimony while in court, and would proclaim that any affront to him was tantamount to proclaiming war on Bohemia.

Gotts liked balloons, and would constantly keep buying them during the trial as a means of "restoring diplomatic relations" when he was getting upset.

Name[]

  • Gotts (Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond Ormstein) and his father Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein are based on the character of the same name from the Sherlock Holmes short story "A Scandal in Bohemia", by Arthur Conan Doyle. In said tale, the king of Bohemia, wearing a mask in an attempt to obscure his identity, seeks out Holmes to ask for his assistance in the retrieval of letters and photographs from his affair years prior with an opera singer and "well-known adventuress" called Irene Adler. However, in the end, Holmes is outwitted by Adler, and develops an admiration for her wit and cunning (as opposed to the general distain he has for von Ormstein). Holmes refers to Adler as the woman and asks for a portrait she left behind as his only reward from the king after resolving the case.

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