king's maker (s2): minister of financial affairs, closest confidant of the king wolfgang goldenleonard, favored one, acts also within diplomatic relations for the kingdom as needed among other things all in the interest of protecting and furthering the still new and vulnerable monarch he worked so hard to make.
king's maker (s1): one of the late king's "kept children", accomplice and mastermind behind the coup that culminated in said king's dethroning and beheading and the placing of wolfgang in the then vacated post.