# Girl Genius: I have a theory about Gilgamesh von Wulfenbach **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 13, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-genius-i-have-a-theory-about-gilgamesh-von-wulfenbach/840138 "2019-09-13T00:21:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kirkrapine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@kirkrapine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirkrapine)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-genius-i-have-a-theory-about-gilgamesh-von-wulfenbach/840138/1 "2019-09-13T00:21:38Z")
His mother – the “wife” to whom the Baron sometimes wistfully refers – is the Queen of Skifander, and Zeetha his his sister or half-sister. When the Baron got time-sealed in Mechanicsburg, one of Gil’s minions addressed him as “Your Royal Highness.” When the Baron was in the hospital, he warned Gil to watch out for a green-haired woman who might try to kill him. “Me?! But what did I do?!” “Nothing!” :dubious: “Father . . . what did **you** do?!” "Heh-heh . . . I kept you **alive!"** We often hear of Skifandrian warrior queens and warrior princesses, but never of kings or princes. My guess is, to maintain the traditional matriarchy, Skifandrian law or custom requires that all royal males be killed at birth. Klaus circumvented that by taking Gil and fleeing the country. After all, nobody knows where he was during all those years when he was absent from Europa. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-genius-i-have-a-theory-about-gilgamesh-von-wulfenbach/840138/2 "2019-09-13T02:24:47Z")
I’ve been thinking this for a while now, yeah. I think that when Lucrezia drugged him, she sent him to Skifander somehow. Later on, when she hears that he is still on the scene, she says, astonished, “He came _back_?! Heh…that man.” (Or something like that.) So she thought it would be impossible to return. (This might have something to do with that it is apparently pretty difficult to get to and from Skifander.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-genius-i-have-a-theory-about-gilgamesh-von-wulfenbach/840138/3 "2019-09-13T02:26:27Z")
We (though not most of the folks in the strip) already know that Zeetha and Gil are at least half-siblings. “Chump” (as in, “Zeetha, Daughter of”) is the Skifrandan name for Klaus. ---
**Author:** ![kirkrapine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@kirkrapine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirkrapine)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-genius-i-have-a-theory-about-gilgamesh-von-wulfenbach/840138/4 "2019-09-17T00:24:30Z")
Oh, and Higgs the Unstoppable is the hidden Jaeger general. He’s as tough as a Jaegar, not of all them look inhuman, and he does have those pointy ears. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-genius-i-have-a-theory-about-gilgamesh-von-wulfenbach/840138/5 "2019-09-17T20:20:38Z")
I don’t think there’s been any doubt about that one for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![kirkrapine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@kirkrapine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirkrapine)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-genius-i-have-a-theory-about-gilgamesh-von-wulfenbach/840138/6 "2019-09-17T21:06:01Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > (This might have something to do with that it is apparently pretty difficult to get to and from Skifander.) Or America. You’d think global travel would be easy, with Europa’s level of technology. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-genius-i-have-a-theory-about-gilgamesh-von-wulfenbach/840138/7 "2019-09-17T21:32:08Z")
> [@kirkrapine](#): > > His mother – the “wife” to whom the Baron sometimes wistfully refers – is the Queen of Skifander, and Zeetha his his sister or half-sister. > > When the Baron got time-sealed in Mechanicsburg, one of Gil’s minions addressed him as “Your Royal Highness.” > > When the Baron was in the hospital, he warned Gil to watch out for a green-haired woman who might try to kill him. > > “Me?! But what did I do?!” > > “Nothing!” > > :dubious: “Father . . . what did **you** do?!” > > "Heh-heh . . . I kept you **alive!"** > > We often hear of Skifandrian warrior queens and warrior princesses, but never of kings or princes. My guess is, to maintain the traditional matriarchy, Skifandrian law or custom requires that all royal males be killed at birth. Klaus circumvented that by taking Gil and fleeing the country. After all, nobody knows where he was during all those years when he was absent from Europa. That’s been the popular theory for a while now. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-genius-i-have-a-theory-about-gilgamesh-von-wulfenbach/840138/8 "2019-09-17T21:55:30Z")
The existence of America, and a few basic facts about it, are known to the inhabitants of Europa, but colonization never happened. So far as I can gather, in this universe, the Native Americans have something comparable to sparks among them (though not necessarily manifesting as “mad scientists”; possibly something more “magical”, and possibly related to the power wielded by the Great Queens of Old), of sufficient power to hold off the combined might of Europa (at least, on their own turf).