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9. "RE: (Gpedia) Our Witches at War geography"
In response to message #8
 
   >>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...

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   RE: (Gpedia) Our Witches at War geography Croaker Feb-09-17 7
      RE: (Gpedia) Our Witches at War geography Gryphonadmin Feb-09-17 8
         RE: (Gpedia) Our Witches at War geography Croaker Feb-09-17 9
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