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** The Kingdom of Lubon is the Kingdom of Italy but full of ''British Elves.''
** The Svechthan Union is...Russia. Again. But full of anime hobbits this time.
** The Empire of Hanwa is a pretty straight Empire of Japan. Kitan is probably China.
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*** Achim Lehner is a close counterpart to Hitler, but crossed with distinctly American elements such as criminal connections and a love of capitalism and technology.
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* [[ShoutOut Shout-Out]]: The Solstice War has quite a few Anime/Gundam Franchise/Gundam references, but what it has the most references to, of all things, are internet memes. Many of them are tumblr or 4chan memes.
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* [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Cruel and Unusual Death]] [[spoiler: One of Von Drachen's men]] has his skin slough off and his body emaciated alive when [[spoiler: he is turned into a Majini by Brass Face]].
* [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination]]: [[spoiler: Brass Face and the Majini.]]
* [[GenreBusting Genre-Busting]]: "Military Fiction" doesn't quite cut it on its own, when it also has the trappings of dieselpunk, epic fantasy, alternate history, period romance, and even anime.
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* [[GreatOffScreenWar Great Off-Screen War]]: There are a lot of these mentioned, including the Ayvartan Civil War, the Nocht Unification War, and some unnamed past conflict where Lubon lost all of its colonies. [[spoiler: As of Chapter 49, also add the ancient war between the "windborne" and the people of the "holy land."]]
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* [[MoodWhiplash Mood Whiplash]]: After Mansa's veritable filibuster of a speech concerning some incredibly disturbing revelations in Chapter 48, Von Drachen pauses the conversation to demand that he be addressed correctly (it is General *Von* Drachen, NOT General Drachen alone).
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**In Chapter 27, Naya avoids talking about her past to Farwah by referencing an Idolmaster song that became a 4chan meme, stating that she is "an average girl dreaming of love.”
**In Chapter 34, Reiniger bursts through a wall with the Dicker Max, shouting "OH YEAH."
**In Chapter 43, Madiha, in a stresssful and awkward moment within a large crowd of admirers, quotes 4chan meme Ivan Chesnokov by telling the crowd to "practice with many cartridges."
**In Chapter 47, Gulab mistakenly refers to Kali as a "dorge" instead of a drake or dragon. Kali then proceeds to strike a distressed-looking pose, like that of the popular Doge.
**In Chapter 27, Naya avoids talking about her past to Farwah by referencing an Idolmaster song that became a 4chan meme, stating that she is "an average girl dreaming of love.”
**In Chapter 34, Reiniger bursts through a wall with the Dicker Max, shouting "OH YEAH."
**In Chapter 43, Madiha, in a stresssful and awkward moment within a large crowd of admirers, quotes 4chan meme Ivan Chesnokov by telling the crowd to "practice with many cartridges."
**In Chapter 47, Gulab mistakenly refers to Kali as a "dorge" instead of a drake or dragon. Kali then proceeds to strike a distressed-looking pose, like that of the popular Doge.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Salvatrice has a few cliche Harsh Tsundere moments toward Byanca. Judging by the story's inspirations this is probably deliberate.
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* [[BoringButPractical Boring But Practical]]: The 76mm KnK-3 gun is by far the least impressive of the Raktapata's potential guns. But it gets the job done without any dangerous accidents.
* [[BreakTheCutie Break The Cutie]]: [[spoiler: Helga Fruehauf tries her best to make the hectic world of army communications as comfortable as she can for her subordinates and herself, but after Bada Aso, she can find comfort only in alcohol and cigarettes.]]
* [[BreakTheHaughty Break The Haughty]]: [[spoiler: Anton Von Sturm is introduced as a rising young star in the Nochtish military, full of confidence and bravado. Madiha then slowly slashes his army apart and later annihilates it completely before his eyes.]]
* [[BreakTheCutie Break The Cutie]]: [[spoiler: Helga Fruehauf tries her best to make the hectic world of army communications as comfortable as she can for her subordinates and herself, but after Bada Aso, she can find comfort only in alcohol and cigarettes.]]
* [[BreakTheHaughty Break The Haughty]]: [[spoiler: Anton Von Sturm is introduced as a rising young star in the Nochtish military, full of confidence and bravado. Madiha then slowly slashes his army apart and later annihilates it completely before his eyes.]]
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* [[CripplingOverspecialization Crippling Overspecialization]]: Madiha is an excellent military commander, a good fighter, and well-read in socialist politics. Outside of those things, she is prone to having no idea about very basic things, such as that a dragon is not a bird.
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* [[GreyAndGrayMorality Grey And Gray Morality]]: Ayvarta has a sordid past, and the destruction suffered during the Revolution and Civil War still haunts the continent. Many characters in Ayvarta wonder whether the price that was paid was worth it. Meanwhile, Nocht's expansion into the continent is coldly utilitarian, despite their claims to a righteous cause.
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* [[LadyAndKnight Lady And Knight]]: Byanca Geta dreamt of having this kind of relationship [[LesYay with a noble lady]] as a child. [[spoiler: It ends poorly, and she becomes a blackshirt legionnaire instead.]]
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* [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Tomboy And Girly Girl]]: Madiha wears the pants uniform, Parinita wears the skirt uniform. Madiha is more emotionally reserved and driven to (sometimes reckless) action, while Parinita is gregarious and charming and tends to take a supporting role behind Madiha.
* [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]: [[spoiler: At 8 or 9 years old Madiha joined the Zaidi, marxist revolutionaries, as a courier. It is implied she did much more than that, however, as she's shown in a flashback saving Daksha's life by killing a man with a gun. Due to her abilities, it is heavily implied that she carried the revolutionaries to victory.]]
* [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]: [[spoiler: At 8 or 9 years old Madiha joined the Zaidi, marxist revolutionaries, as a courier. It is implied she did much more than that, however, as she's shown in a flashback saving Daksha's life by killing a man with a gun. Due to her abilities, it is heavily implied that she carried the revolutionaries to victory.]]
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* [[TheStoic The Stoic]]: Ayvartan [[StateSec KVW agents, officers and soldiers]] are offered a form of conditioning that renders them this way. It appears to be a consensual process that dulls their emotions, protecting them from fear and anxiety in battle, but not every KVW member qualifies for it, and all those who do seem to get somewhat different effects.
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* [[LightningBruiser Lightning Bruiser]]: [[Spoiler: The Raktapata tank is as fast and maneuverable as any light tank but with firepower to take out almost anything it finds. It's also a very rare prototype.]]
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* [[HoldTheLine Hold The Line]]: Shown on several occasions. Ayvartans might be inept on the offensive, but give them a trench or a bunch of sandbags and they will ''make you bleed.''
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* [[AttackItsWeakPoint Attack Its Weak Point]]: Depending on the caliber of the gun, tanks can only be easily destroyed by shots from the side or rear, or shots that are delivered within a certain range of the target, or fired at a certain angle.
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* [[DoomedHometown Doomed Hometown]]: A lot, as the Nochtish army advances, but especially bitter for Leander. He becomes an Ayvartan citizen and within a few days has tanks rolling through his adopted hometown!
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* [[DarkAndTroubledPast Dark And Troubled Past]]: A lot of characters, but Madiha Nakar's is hinted from the get-go.
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* [[DrivesLikeCrazy Drives Like Crazy]]: Gulab manages to do this ''in a tank'', and she terrifies her squadron so much that her CO forbids her from attempting to drive a tank again.
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* [[CitadelCity Citadel City]]: The eponymous city of Solstice is an insanely hard target. Good luck, Nocht.
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* [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Every culture in the Solstice War is one.
** The Socialist Dominances of Solstice/Ayvarta is a Hindu-African Soviet Union.
** The Federation of Northern States is a German/France/Polish United States acting as WW2 Germany.
** The Kingdom of Lubon is the Kingdom of Italy but full of ''British Elves.''
** The Svechthan Union is...Russia. Again. But full of anime hobbits this time.
** The Empire of Hanwa is a pretty straight Empire of Japan. Kitan is probably China.
** The Socialist Dominances of Solstice/Ayvarta is a Hindu-African Soviet Union.
** The Federation of Northern States is a German/France/Polish United States acting as WW2 Germany.
** The Kingdom of Lubon is the Kingdom of Italy but full of ''British Elves.''
** The Svechthan Union is...Russia. Again. But full of anime hobbits this time.
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On the 18th of the Aster's Gloom in 2030 D.C.E, the continent of Ayvarta, ruled by the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Socialist Dominances of Solstice]], awakens to a surprise invasion by the [[TheRepublic Nocht Federation]] and its allies, who accuse the Ayvartan government of fomenting unrest in their nations, and who also just want to [[TakeOverTheWorld take out the commies once and for all and access Ayvarta's vast resources]]. Disorganized at first, the Ayvartans struggle to reequip themselves for battle, and to fight back against the grey tide. Now various characters on both sides of the conflict have some hard choices to make.
''The Solstice War'' is a {{Web Serial Novel}} about a low fantasy world going through its own version of World War II, with similar tactics, equipment, and historically parallel battles (for the most part...) It started in late 2013 as one of several other scattered pieces of fiction on author Dennis N. Santana's blog, but eventually came to dominate the page through 2014 and on. One "book" is now complete. Each update is between 10,000 and 15,000 words divided into 4-5 "scenes."
[[http://spiritsofeden.com/ You can read the story here.]] Updates come twice a month, usually around the end of the month and the middle. There are also side-stories that get posted with no set schedule.
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!!''The Solstice War'' contains examples of:
*[[ALighterShadeOfGrey A Lighter Shade of Grey]]: Both sides get a lot of screen time to air their views, and their characters are humanized, but it's clear that the story is more sympathetic to Ayvarta than to Nocht and its allies.
*[[CastFullOfGay Cast Full of Gay]]: A lot of the principal characters are either outright or ambiguously gay or at least bi.
*{{Eagleland}}: Nocht is actually more this than it is Nazi Germany despite all of the German and Panzers and etc.
*[[TheForties The Forties]]: Though there's not a lot recognizable "Forties culture" (no Swing dancing scene so far), the tech fits.
*[[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: There's a bit of Swahili, Hindi, German, Spanish, Russian and Italian around though the story's primary language is English (and the author's is Spanish).
*[[GreatOffScreenWar Great Off-Screen War]]: There are a lot of these mentioned, including the Ayvartan Civil War, the Nocht Unification War, and some unnamed past conflict where Lubon lost all of its colonies.
*[[TheHero The Hero]]: Madiha Nakar is a depressed lesbian suffering from PTSD who has to face down a whole army with inferior, disorganized forces and no cooperation from bickering regional authorities. She's also [[TheAce the Ace.]]
*[[LowFantasy Low Fantasy]]: ''The Solstice War'' takes place in its own version of the 40s, but the world is pretty different from our own. Magic and monsters are said to have existed, but don't seem to anymore (with a few notable exceptions); however some weird "animals" are mentioned, including Drakes. While the conflict is carried out with guns and tanks and planes and manpower, there is an undercurrent of the supernatural.
*[[MadeOfExplodium Made of Explodium]]: Almost all tanks hit by Ayvartan cannons burst into flames and explode. This is explained in that Ayvartans favor Armor-Piercing High Explosive (APHE) over other shell types.
*[[MilitariesAreUseless Militaries Are Useless]]: Averted ''hard''. Small heroic forces are at a brutal disadvantage against big formations and can only hope to stall for time until they can retreat with huge losses.
*[[MultiTrackDrifting Multi-Track Drifting]]: Tanks tend to be written a lot more intensely than their real life speed and maneuverability would suggest is possible.
*[[PyrrhicVictory Pyrrhic Victory]]: And how.
*[[RousingSpeech Rousing Speech]]: A few in some dire situations.
*[[ShownTheirWork Shown Their Work]]: There's a lot of war nerdery to behold (see if you can identify all the tanks), though the author has said that the story is not meant to be 100% realistic to the period.
*[[WordOfGod Word of God]]: The author answers a lot of questions about the story on his tumblr blog but avoids spoilers and is often cryptic (or at times replies only with appropriate animated gifs).
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''The Solstice War'' is a {{Web Serial Novel}} about a low fantasy world going through its own version of World War II, with similar tactics, equipment, and historically parallel battles (for the most part...) It started in late 2013 as one of several other scattered pieces of fiction on author Dennis N. Santana's blog, but eventually came to dominate the page through 2014 and on. One "book" is now complete. Each update is between 10,000 and 15,000 words divided into 4-5 "scenes."
[[http://spiritsofeden.com/ You can read the story here.]] Updates come twice a month, usually around the end of the month and the middle. There are also side-stories that get posted with no set schedule.
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!!''The Solstice War'' contains examples of:
*[[ALighterShadeOfGrey A Lighter Shade of Grey]]: Both sides get a lot of screen time to air their views, and their characters are humanized, but it's clear that the story is more sympathetic to Ayvarta than to Nocht and its allies.
*[[CastFullOfGay Cast Full of Gay]]: A lot of the principal characters are either outright or ambiguously gay or at least bi.
*{{Eagleland}}: Nocht is actually more this than it is Nazi Germany despite all of the German and Panzers and etc.
*[[TheForties The Forties]]: Though there's not a lot recognizable "Forties culture" (no Swing dancing scene so far), the tech fits.
*[[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: There's a bit of Swahili, Hindi, German, Spanish, Russian and Italian around though the story's primary language is English (and the author's is Spanish).
*[[GreatOffScreenWar Great Off-Screen War]]: There are a lot of these mentioned, including the Ayvartan Civil War, the Nocht Unification War, and some unnamed past conflict where Lubon lost all of its colonies.
*[[TheHero The Hero]]: Madiha Nakar is a depressed lesbian suffering from PTSD who has to face down a whole army with inferior, disorganized forces and no cooperation from bickering regional authorities. She's also [[TheAce the Ace.]]
*[[LowFantasy Low Fantasy]]: ''The Solstice War'' takes place in its own version of the 40s, but the world is pretty different from our own. Magic and monsters are said to have existed, but don't seem to anymore (with a few notable exceptions); however some weird "animals" are mentioned, including Drakes. While the conflict is carried out with guns and tanks and planes and manpower, there is an undercurrent of the supernatural.
*[[MadeOfExplodium Made of Explodium]]: Almost all tanks hit by Ayvartan cannons burst into flames and explode. This is explained in that Ayvartans favor Armor-Piercing High Explosive (APHE) over other shell types.
*[[MilitariesAreUseless Militaries Are Useless]]: Averted ''hard''. Small heroic forces are at a brutal disadvantage against big formations and can only hope to stall for time until they can retreat with huge losses.
*[[MultiTrackDrifting Multi-Track Drifting]]: Tanks tend to be written a lot more intensely than their real life speed and maneuverability would suggest is possible.
*[[PyrrhicVictory Pyrrhic Victory]]: And how.
*[[RousingSpeech Rousing Speech]]: A few in some dire situations.
*[[ShownTheirWork Shown Their Work]]: There's a lot of war nerdery to behold (see if you can identify all the tanks), though the author has said that the story is not meant to be 100% realistic to the period.
*[[WordOfGod Word of God]]: The author answers a lot of questions about the story on his tumblr blog but avoids spoilers and is often cryptic (or at times replies only with appropriate animated gifs).
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