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“He is an excellent antagonist, cool as ice, silky voiced and soothing as one of your fashionable consultants, and poisonous as a cobra. He has breeding in him—a real aristocrat of crime, with a superficial suggestion of afternoon tea and all the cruelty of the grave behind it. Yes, I am glad to have had my attention called to Baron Adelbert Gruner.”
Adelbert Gruner was the villain in canon story The Adventure of the Illustrious Client.
"Have you ever heard of Baron Gruner?”
“You mean the Austrian murderer?”
Gruner was from Austria, which is officially known as the Republic of Austria.
Adelbert Gruner, Republic of Austria
AGRA
A loaf of bread made in the first century AD, which was discovered at Pompeii, preserved for centuries in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The markings visible on the top are made from a Roman bread stamp, which bakeries were required to use in order to mark the source of the loaves, and to prevent fraud. (via Ridiculously Interesting)
(sigh) I’ve seen these before, but this one’s particularly beautiful.
I feel like I’m supposed to be marveling over the fact that this is a loaf of bread that’s been preserved for thousands of years, and don’t get me wrong, that’s hella cool. But honestly, I’m mostly struck by the unexpected news that “bread fraud" was apparently once a serious concern.
This is Sebastian Moran. The only thing missing from Moriarty’s “Sherlock” scratchings is the “Get” part.
Gatiss was asked at one point if he could give us any hints on how Sebastian Moran will be portrayed since he hasn’t been in the series yet, to which he replied with his evil little smirk, “Hasn’t he?” – groovyhedgehog (x)
And
Someone asked about Sebastian Moran and how they intended to bring him into the series. Mark carefully quoted nothing but canon about his perception of the character, then continued, “I can’t say any more or it would spoil the surprise.” “Or the lack of it,” added Steven pointedly. –arianedevere (x)
It’s a lack of surprise because Moran’s already been introduced. Mycroft lets Moriarty and Moran think he doesn’t know that Moran’s “infiltrated” Mycroft’s operation. With Seb at his side, Mycroft can keep a close eye on him. (The added benefit is that Mycroft can watch Moran beat the crap out of Moriarty!) Mycroft can also feed Moriarty false information through Seb as long as Moriarty thinks he’s fooled Mycroft. It makes much more sense than the theory that the sniper at Bart’s is Moran. Moran’s not a mere sharp-shooting soldier. He’s Moriarty’s second in command- a high ranking military officer with an honorable record. Who better to employ him than Mycroft?
ACD says:
[Morarty’s] chief of staff is Colonel Sebastian Moran, as aloof and guarded and inaccessible to the law as himself.”
Mycroft shows John the sniper’s photo early in TRF along with all the assassins that Sherlock tells John are after the key code. The beauty of Mycroft’s duplicity is that if either the sniper or this guy surrounded by all the creepy “Sherlocks” is Moran, Mycroft knows him & what all his movements are.
Mycroft is smarter even than Sherlock, remember. (“It was the Li-Lo, Sherlock.”) He’s got this one under control.
Okay, this is very, very clever.
Lady Karasu 