History/Culture Setting sheet
Events and Entities Soldier WW2 (Total war setting) Military-related incidents Operation Barbarossa Battle of Stalingrad Battles of the Courland Bridgehead Siege of Breslau Operation Herbstnebel Friendly or belonged individual/group Wehrmacht Heer (army) Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (airforce) Volkssturm (militia) Russian Liberation Army (puppet rebel army) Adversary individual/group Soviet Armed Forces Red Army (army) Soviet Air Forces (airforce) Soviet partisans (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 Blue Police (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 Soviet Union 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