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Croaker
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Feb-09-17, 05:15 PM (EST) |
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9. "RE: (Gpedia) Our Witches at War geography"
In response to message #8
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>>Wasn't Minna supposed to be Austrian, not German? I could swear one of >>the three was... > >No, Minna is from Posen in eastern Karlsland (IRL, now Poznań in >Poland), but she does have an association with Ostmark, in that >planned to study music in Vienna or Salzburg before the war made those >places go away. > >The only canonical Ostmarker I can think of off the top of my head is >Laura Tóth in One-Winged Witches, who has one of the few truly >horrific backstories in a franchise that, even as a war story, usually >tends to skirt the straight-up Horror of War stuff. She's emotionally >disconnected and death-wish-level reckless, because she's the only >survivor of a rookie witch squadron that got slaughtered during the >fall of Ostmark. (And come to think of it, she's actually Hungarian, >not Austrian; Ostmark being the Austro-Hungarian Empire and all.) >Hmm, okay. I'll admit to being only passingly familiar with the story, aside from the occasional fanfic. Speaking of Austria-Hungary, though, I wonder if there's a counterpart to a certain fictional submarine captain, one Otto Prohaska... -- Croaker RCW #mc2 "When in doubt, shoot something. Preferably the enemy." |
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