Three royal brothers wage mock wars against each other in order to deceive and decimate their own population, which is threatened by famine, so that the population, which has shrunk after the wars, continues to respect and revere its own ruler and blames the alleged foreign enemies for its misery. Character traits of the three royal brothers are described - in particular the moral decline of the youngest, Eberhard, who turns from a merry philanderer into a psychopath through drinking (later through hashish consumption and sexual debauchery). Only from the age of 18weiterlesen