History/Culture Setting sheet

Events and Entities Soldier  WW2 (Total war setting)  Military-related incidents  Operation Barbarossa   Battles of the Courland Bridgehead  Siege of Breslau  Operation Herbstnebel  Friendly or belonged individual/group  Wehrmacht Heer (army)  Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (airforce)  (militia)  Russian Army (puppet rebel army)  Adversary individual/group  Soviet Armed Forces (army)  Soviet Air Forces (airforce)  (militia)  Polish resistance (militia)

Civilian Inspiration:  WW2:  Military-related incidents  Battle of Stalingrad  Siege of Leningrad  German Occupation of Poland  German Occupation of Ukraine  Friendly or belonged individual/group  Soviet Armed Forces Red Army (army)  Soviet partisans (militia)  Polish resistance (militia)  Adversary individual/group  Wehrmacht Heer (army)  Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (police)  Polish (police)  Bosnian War  Military-related incidents  Siege of Sarajevo  Massacre of Srebrenica  Adversary individual/group  Army of Republika Srpska (army)  Arkan’s Tigers (militia)

Background Information Nation and Ethnicity

Note: No nation consists of “pure” racial group, due to past exchanges with other ethnic groups. All settings, especially geological motifs are temporary and are likely to be changed.

Zrdanian Empire (Zrdania) / Zrdanian - Appearances slightly resemble elves in fantasy settings. - Slightly longer and pointier ears compared to others. Amount varies - Federal parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy under military dictatorship - Geological motif:  Rough land resemblance: Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire  Smaller than Ottoman Empire  Larger than Holy Roman Empire  Climate: Eastern Europe, Central Asia  Urban areas focused around capital city and large cities dispersed among land. Rest of the areas are mostly rural.  Smaller land & better road management compared to 1940s  Large forests and fields facing towards Mervia.  Sea access to Northwestern territory

Mervian Republic (Mervia) / Mervian - Appearances resemble default humans, like “humans” in fantasy settings. - Fascist one-party totalitarian dictatorship - Geological motif:  Rough land resemblance: Austria-Hungarian Empire  Smaller than Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth  Larger than Austria-Hungarian Empire  Climate: Central, Western Europe  Farmlands and fields towards Zrdania  Urban areas clustered around central cities  Outskirts of land are rural with occasional fortified strategic points.\  Sea access to Southwest

Protagonist Information Any names may change in future to reduce resemblance to existing countries/nations Soldier - Name: Erich Anton Krüger  (temporarily given Germanic name while nation name motif is Slavic) - Age: Mid-late 20s - Ethnicity/nationality: Zrdan/Zrdania (Zrdanskie/Zrdaniya) - Profession: Corporal (WW2 German Unteroffizier) in army  Leader of 10-men infantry squad - Personality traits  Serious  Persistent  By-the-book  Impartial

Civilian - Name: Odessa Georgiyevna Polnova  (temporarily given Slavic name while nation name motif is Germanic) - Age: Early-mid 30s - Ethnicity/nationality: Mervian/Mervland (Mervische/Mervland) - Profession: Surgeon - Personality traits  Calm  Intellectual  Diplomatic  Adaptable