Waalenberg family

The Waalenberg family is a wealthy family from South Africa.

They are highly wealthy, something that is higher than some GDP of countries.

Some known people were Issak and Ischike Waalenberg, the youngest heirs.

History
The Waalenbergs had first reached Africa by way of Algeria in 1617. They traced their ancestry to the infamous Barbary pirates along the North African coast. The first Waalenberg was a quartermaster for the pirate Sleyman Reis de Veenboer, who operated an entire Dutch fleet of corsairs and galleys out of Algiers. Rich with spoils from the slave trade, the Waalenbers moved south and settled in a Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. They had found gold on their land and it was a ton near the Witwatersrand Reef, a low mountain range near Johannesburg. It was the source of 40 percent of the gold supply for the world. It was upon such wealth that the family set up a dynasty that transcended the First and Second Boer Wars, and all the political machinations that became South Africa today. They were one of the richest families on the planet—though for the past generations, the Waalenbergs had grown ever more reclusive, especially under the auspices of their current patriarch, Sir Baldric Waalenberg. And as they disappeared from the public’s eye, rumors grew around the family: of atrocities, perversions, drug addictions, inbreeding. Yet still the Waalenbergs grew richer, with stakes in diamonds, oil, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals. They put the multi in multinational.

For some time, they had unusual transactions in purchases and sales. This attracted attention and thus, it brought MI5, the British intelligence, to monitor. Despite continuous surveillance, MI5 did not discern much due to the secrecy and privacy.

The Waalenbergs were major financial backers of the Ahnerbe Forschunge und Lehrgemeinshaft, the Naze' Ancestral Heritage and Teaching Society. It was a research group under Himmler and were conducting projects seeking out the roots of the Aryan race. They were were mad scientists with guns.

The patriarch Baldric Waalenberg disappeared into seclusion, taking his entire family with him, after the war was over. British intelligence had reached one place minutes late and was able to get some information before a scientist died. Something about the name of the substance and where the trail ended, the Waalenberg estate. It was Xerum 525. They had funded experiments and had gotten information from scientists about Anna Sporrenberg. He basically had his loyal scientists to siphon information and the [[Bell she had and later considered her to be redundant. During the events of Black Order,

Assets
The family owned a lot of land. Considered the Kennedys of South Africa, They owned an estate the size of Rhode Island outside Johannesburg. Though they owned vast tracts of land elsewhere, they seldom strayed far from their main estate. They are a family of Sonnekonige.

Estate
Gardens surround a six story manson of stacked field stone and exotic woods. It covered ten acres, rising in gables and tiers, balconies and balustrades. To the left, a glass-enclosed conservatory protruded, lit from within, blazing in the predawn darkness like a rising sun.

The estate is a castle locateed in a jungle called Afromontane forest, ancient woodlands. It was a few only remaining forests. It as chose for its remoteness and to use the gigantic forest for themselves. The forest has heights of forty meters high with layered into distinct strata and canopies. The biodiversity is denser than the rain forest or Congo jungle. This ensures privacy from satellite images.. The castle is the tip of the iceberg. A massive copex is underneath the estate. The construction of the site was marred with death. One mining engineer Bertrand Culbert was consulted with the construction of the manor's foundations, but had died shortly after. It was officially declared trampled by a water buffalo. The death was not the first nor the last assocaied with the Waalenbergs. Mmany rumours abound of people vanshing in the area.