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''The Wolves of War'' is a [[WebOriginalFiction supernatural horror story]] by Scraggle and [=VineLight=][[note]]Formerly Lightysnake[[/note]], and officially the third entry in the crossover between ''Literature/TheNeverMythos'' and ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils,'' the ''Lonely Dreams Cycle.'' It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3338635/1/The-Wolves-of-War here]].

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''The Wolves of War'' is a [[WebOriginalFiction supernatural horror story]] by Scraggle [=lordoftheclowns=][[note]]Known here as Tropers/{{Scraggle}}[[/note]] and [=VineLight=][[note]]Formerly Lightysnake[[/note]], and officially the third entry in the crossover between ''Literature/TheNeverMythos'' and ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils,'' the ''Lonely Dreams Cycle.'' It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3338635/1/The-Wolves-of-War here]].
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Heydrich's tenure in Prague begins with his ''Einsatzgruppen'' having massacred people with corpses swinging from gallows.

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* TheDividual: Klaus von Richter and Manfred Eberhard are a pair of Nazi Seers who could almost be mistaken for twins for how close they are.



* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Klaus von Richter and Manfred Eberhard are a pair of Nazi Seers who could almost be mistaken for twins for how close they are.
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''The Wolves of War'' is a [[WebOriginalFiction supernatural horror story]] by Scraggle and Lightysnake, and officially the third entry in the crossover between ''Literature/TheNeverMythos'' and ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils,'' the ''Lonely Dreams Cycle.'' It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3338635/1/The-Wolves-of-War here]].

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''The Wolves of War'' is a [[WebOriginalFiction supernatural horror story]] by Scraggle and Lightysnake, [=VineLight=][[note]]Formerly Lightysnake[[/note]], and officially the third entry in the crossover between ''Literature/TheNeverMythos'' and ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils,'' the ''Lonely Dreams Cycle.'' It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3338635/1/The-Wolves-of-War here]].
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* CallForward: Sigfried Gunmarson from ''Literature/UnderTheColdMoon'' is mentioned a few times, being allied with the Nazis.

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* CallForward: Sigfried Gunmarson from ''Literature/UnderTheColdMoon'' is mentioned a few times, being allied with the Nazis. After there downfall, he goes to America with his daughter to begin there plans with Pine Creek.

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* CyanidePill: Himmler takes one, like in real life [[spoiler:but Hardstadt reveals that Heydrich replaced it with a pill that causes a much more painful death]].



** Himmler also

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** Himmler also has issues with Mengele's experiments because he finds them personally distasteful.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Some of the Nazis such as Himmler, Heydrich, Mueller, Mengele, and Dirlwenger. Other Nazis such a Helga and Dietrich Boehmer, Kurt Sindermann, Klaus von Richter. and Manfred Eberhard are fictitious creations.



** Josef Mengele is introduced as a creepy little bastard experimenting with humans and monsters alike.

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** Josef Mengele is introduced as a creepy little bastard experimenting with humans and monsters alike. He plans to create a network of Seer brains to [[spoiler:help Heydrich ascend to godhood]].



* PragmaticVillainy: Dietrich takes issue to the idea of wiping out the Jews, as he thinks they can be useful. He is annoyed by a Nazi abusing a Jew, only because he is ruining livestock, and kills them both. He later takes issue to a soldier about to shot a child, as using a gun on someone so helpless is wasting bullets.

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* PragmaticVillainy: PragmaticVillainy:
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Dietrich takes issue to the idea of wiping out the Jews, as he thinks they can be useful. He is annoyed by a Nazi abusing a Jew, only because he is ruining livestock, and kills them both. He later takes issue to a soldier about to shot a child, as using a gun on someone so helpless is wasting bullets.bullets.
** Himmler also


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Josef Mengele escapes Auschwitz after the [[spoiler:death of Heydrich]] and manages to find a life in South America. Dozens of years later, Adam tracks him down and sends him to Xi'Acerbia.
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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The final scene of ''Wolves'' mirrors the opening scene of ''The City Of Never'', with Michael Seer finding the Seer slab, its origins revealed as a lure cast by Eliza to escape where she had been languishing for decades.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: With the ''small'' exception of [[spoiler:Eliza not being quite as dead as she wants, the Shadows' Consultant gets everything she wants in the end, hopping off back to the City without a scratch on her after having raped Hardestadt and driven Eliza apart from both him and Aisling.]]


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* BittersweetEnding: ''Barely'' avoids becoming a DownerEnding. [[spoiler:While Heydrich and Dietrich are stopping from taking over world and Nazi Germany falls, this leads into the Consultant moving to take her revenge. In the space of two chapters, the Consultant destroys Eliza and Hardestadt's happiness by threatening to kill Aisling (and countless more people) should Eliza not abandon him, before raping Hardestadt and torturing Eliza almost to death. By the end, Eliza and Hardestadt's blooming happiness is ripped away from them and Eliza is left marooned in the space between dimensions. The only thing preventing it from becoming a DownerEnding is the ForegoneConclusion in play; Eliza manages to gather enough energy to send a Seer-seeking artifact back to Earth, setting up the events of ''Literature/TheCityOfNever'' and the Consultant's eventual defeat, and Eliza will eventually return to Earth to meet Hansel.]]


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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler:The final section of the story shows Eliza sending a psychic slab back to Earth, where it eventually finds its way into the hands of [[Literature/TheCityOfNever Michael Seer]].]]


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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:The ForegoneConclusion ensures [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty she can't outrun her fate forever]], but the Consultant suffers absolutely no repercussions by the end. She's outlived even Nyarlathotep, outlasted Heydrich and Dietrich both, and manages to accomplish her revenge against Hardestadt and Eliza while remaining completely undetected by even ''Adam''.]]
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* BedTrick: [[spoiler:Lucia, the Shadows Consultant, after ruining the happiness of Hardestadt and Eliza, takes Eliza's form to sleep with Hardestadt to rape him and seal her victory.]]


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* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:The fate of anyone Adam uses the full potential of his eyes upon, sending them to his home realm of Xi'Acerbia and the horrific tortures of his father and younger brother.]]

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** [[spoiler:The final fates of Dr. Sindermann and Dietrich; Adam claims them and sends them to Xi'Acerbia. Dietrich gets it especially bad as Adam decides to visit some ColdBloodedTorture on him first and tells him he'll ''never'' forget it even with the eternity ahead.]]

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** [[spoiler:The final fates of Dr. Sindermann and Dietrich; Adam several Nazis at Adam's hand (Sindermann, Dirlewanger, etc.) when he claims them their minds and sends them to Xi'Acerbia. Dietrich gets it especially bad as Xi'Acerbia, but most prominently Dietrich; Adam decides to visit some ColdBloodedTorture on him first and tells him he'll ''never'' forget it even with the eternity ahead.]]



* BigBadEnsemble: UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich is the DragonInChief and true mastermind behind the Nazi conspiracy, while [[spoiler:Helga Boehmer--in actuality the Shadows' Consultant--is patiently manipulating ''everyone'' in the conspiracy for her own ends while using her husband Dietrich as a figurehead.]]

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* BigBadEnsemble: UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich is the DragonInChief and true mastermind behind the Nazi conspiracy, while but [[spoiler:Helga Boehmer--in actuality the Shadows' Consultant--is patiently manipulating ''everyone'' in the conspiracy for her own ends while using her husband Dietrich as a figurehead.figurehead. The Consultant firmly secures her place as BigBad the second Heydrich is out of the picture.]]


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* RapeAsDrama: The single most dramatic and horrifying instance of it in the entire Neverkind Saga. [[spoiler:At the end of the story, when the war is won and Hardestadt has proposed marriage to Eliza, the Consultant takes it upon herself to force Eliza to abandon Hardestadt and destroy their happiness. When Eliza is gone, the Consultant completes her revenge against Hardestadt by [[BedTrick taking Eliza's form and tricking a drunken, despairing Hardestadt into sleeping with her]].]]


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* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Helga Boehmer--or rather, the Shadows' Consultant--is this to the entire Nazi conspiracy. She's content leaving Heydrich and Dietrich mostly to their own affairs to disguise her own actions, funding the entire scheme out of her own pocket for her own convenience until the moment the conspiracy collapses, which results in the Consultant ''immediately'' pouncing on the new opening to destroy Eliza and Hardestadt's happiness forever.]]


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* TheUnsmile: Adam's attempt at a smile is a stiff bearing of his teeth while the corners of his mouth don't move whatsoever.
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* SanitySlippage: Dietrich's state of mind is [[BloodKnight loose to begin with]], but he starts becoming worse and worse the longer the war goes on. Dietrich's continued injuries result in Helga having to treat him, which degenerates to awful medical torture that leaves Dietrich a rotting, delirious shell of himself.

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* AndIMustScream: Heydrich has Mengele harvest the brains of Seers, keeping them alive to create his own mental web; alive, conscious and in agony.

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* AndIMustScream: AndIMustScream:
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Heydrich has Mengele harvest the brains of Seers, keeping them alive to create his own mental web; alive, conscious and in agony.agony.
** [[spoiler:The final fates of Dr. Sindermann and Dietrich; Adam claims them and sends them to Xi'Acerbia. Dietrich gets it especially bad as Adam decides to visit some ColdBloodedTorture on him first and tells him he'll ''never'' forget it even with the eternity ahead.]]


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* FriendlySniper: Elazar is an accomplished sniper and a humble NiceGuy when he's not in battle. [[spoiler:He even uses these skills in the ''Remeditary'', getting the final blow on Heydrich through a psychic bullet.]]
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* CrazyPrepare:

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* CrazyPrepare:CrazyPrepared:
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* CrazyPrepare:
** Heydrich planned for [[spoiler:even his death and how to remain underground.]]
** Elazar earns special props for [[spoiler:carrying a solution to stop even creatures from the City.]]
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* SupernaturalTeam: The heroes consist of multiple Seers, an eldritch being like Adam, a devil in Hardestadt and whatever Saviri is. Not to mention the supernatural eventually joining the allies against the Nazis.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Adam's reaction to catching Hardestadt and Eliza in bed while enjoying bondage is to believe it's ritual torture and Hardestadt has gone insane from eldritch forces.



* InterruptedIntimacy: Adam psychically announces his intentions to visit Hardstadt and Eliza, only to show up immediately before they can get dressed. Both of them are shocked even though they normally think little of privacy.

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* InterruptedIntimacy: Adam psychically announces his intentions to visit Hardstadt and Eliza, only to show up immediately before they can get dressed. Both of them are shocked even though they normally think little of privacy. [[spoiler:Happens again later during the war with Adam catching them engaging in bondage. He thinks it's ritual torture.]]
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* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Elazar fatally wounds Dietrich, but gets a huge chunk of debris thrown at him Subverted as Helga is able to save him, but is surprised how near death he got]].

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* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Elazar fatally wounds Dietrich, but gets a huge chunk of debris thrown at him him. Subverted as Helga is able to save him, but is surprised how near death he got]].

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* CainAndAbel: Xol Malig, one of the Ix-spawn, is a a brother to Adam, and like his father is sadistically obsessed with inflicting pain on others.



* {{Cult}}: Adam comes across one dedicated to the worship of Ix-Nagoth to Ending Eye. It consists of people savagely torturing each other and themselves and enjoying every minute of it.



* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Elazar fatally wounds Dietrich, but gets a huge chunk of debris thrown at him]].

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* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Elazar fatally wounds Dietrich, but gets a huge chunk of debris thrown at him]].him Subverted as Helga is able to save him, but is surprised how near death he got]].



* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Heydrich's tenure in Prague is begins with his ''Einsatzgruppen'' having massacred people with corpses swinging from gallows.

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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Heydrich's tenure in Prague is begins with his ''Einsatzgruppen'' having massacred people with corpses swinging from gallows.



* OrcusOnHisThrone: Helga taunts Heydrich for keeping himself hidden away [[spoiler:to keep up the image that he is dead. Of course he can still mentally communicate with Eliza, being a seer]].



* UnholyMatrimony: One of the main villains is Dietrich Boehmer, a high-ranking Nazi officer, who is married to an equally villainous woman named Helga who knows all about the City of Never.

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* UnholyMatrimony: One of the main villains is Dietrich Boehmer, a high-ranking Nazi officer, who is married to an equally villainous woman named Helga who knows all about the City of Never.Never [[spoiler:because she is the Shadow Consultant]].
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* PragmaticVillainy: Dietrich takes issue to the idea of wiping out the Jews, as he thinks they can be useful. He is annoyed by a Nazi abusing a Jew, only because he is ruining livestock, and kills them both. He later takes issue to a soldier about to shot a child, as using a gun on someone so helpless is wasteful.

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* PragmaticVillainy: Dietrich takes issue to the idea of wiping out the Jews, as he thinks they can be useful. He is annoyed by a Nazi abusing a Jew, only because he is ruining livestock, and kills them both. He later takes issue to a soldier about to shot a child, as using a gun on someone so helpless is wasteful.wasting bullets.

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** Helga Boehmer aka [[spoiler:the Shadow Consultant does not like hearing the name The Crawling Chaos aka Nyarlathotep]].

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** * BerserkButton: Helga Boehmer aka [[spoiler:the Shadow Consultant does not like hearing the name The Crawling Chaos aka Nyarlathotep]].



* DeathOFAChild: Dietrich oversees notorious Nazi Oskar Dirlewanger's slaughter of a Belarusian village, a crying infant catches his attention and a soldier moves to shoot it--but Dietrich snarls at them not to waste the bullet, turning away just as the man raises his boot.

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* DeathOFAChild: DeathOfAChild: Dietrich oversees notorious Nazi Oskar Dirlewanger's slaughter of a Belarusian village, a crying infant catches his attention and a soldier moves to shoot it--but Dietrich snarls at them not to waste the bullet, turning away just as the man raises his boot.



** Dietrich Boehmer's wife Helga [[spoilers:turns out to be the infamous Shadow Consultant]].

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** Dietrich Boehmer's wife Helga [[spoilers:turns [[spoiler:turns out to be the infamous Shadow Consultant]].



* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Heydrich's tenure in Prague is introed by his ''Einsatzgruppen'' having massacred people with corpses swinging from galows.

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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Heydrich's tenure in Prague is introed by begins with his ''Einsatzgruppen'' having massacred people with corpses swinging from galows.gallows.



* PragmaticVillainy: Dietrich takes issue to the idea of wiping out the Jews, as he thinks they can be useful. He is annoyed by a Nazi abusing a Jew, only because he is ruining livestock, and kills them both. He later takes issue to a soldier about to shot a child, as using a gun on someone so helpless is wasteful.



* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Both Dietrich and Heydrich are this to the greater Nazi conspiracy. Heydrich plans to use his Seer abilities to shatter the minds of Hitler and the Nazi High Command, and Dietrich intends to outright destroy Germany with his slag-brood to prevent the Final Solution from coming into place. Neither intends on sparing the other.]].

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* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Both Dietrich and Heydrich are this to the greater Nazi conspiracy. Heydrich conspiracy, and neither intends on sparing the other]].
** [[spoiler:Heydrich
plans to use his Seer abilities to shatter the minds of Hitler and the Nazi High Command, and Dietrich Command]].
** [[spoiler:Dietrich
intends to outright destroy Germany with his slag-brood to prevent the Final Solution from coming into place. Neither intends on sparing the other.]].place]].
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** Helga Boehmer aka [[spoiler:the Shadow Consultant does not like hearing the name The Crawling Chaos aka Nyarlathotep]].


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** Dietrich Boehmer's wife Helga [[spoilers:turns out to be the infamous Shadow Consultant]].
** Werewolf Sigfried Gunmarson is mentioned a few times to be allied with the Nazis.
** [[spoiler:Heydrich turns out to be a seer with plans to overthrow Hitler]].


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* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Elazar fatally wounds Dietrich, but gets a huge chunk of debris thrown at him]].

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* GambitPileup: The schemes of the Nazi conspiracy ends up being a tangle of three interlinking plots underneath the overarching FinalSolution plan: [[spoiler:Heydrich intends to use psychic Seer rituals to capture the energy of all those who die in the war to become like a god, Dietrich intends to destroy Germany and preserve those Heydrich seeks to kill to use them as slaves instead, and Helga seems to be content letting the two play against each other for her own gain.]]



* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler:Given the story takes supernatural liberties with history, it's seems unlikely that Heydrich would die just like his real life counterpart. Indeed his later shows about alive, being a seer]].



* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Heydrich plans to use his seer abilities to shatter the minds of Hitler and the Nazi High Command]].

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* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: [[spoiler:Both Dietrich and Heydrich are this to the greater Nazi conspiracy. Heydrich plans to use his seer Seer abilities to shatter the minds of Hitler and the Nazi High Command]].Command, and Dietrich intends to outright destroy Germany with his slag-brood to prevent the Final Solution from coming into place. Neither intends on sparing the other.]].
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* DeathOFAChild: Dietrich oversees notorious Nazi Oskar Dirlewanger's slaughter of a Belarusian village, a crying infant catches his attention and a soldier moves to shoot it--but Dietrich snarls at them not to waste the bullet.

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* DeathOFAChild: Dietrich oversees notorious Nazi Oskar Dirlewanger's slaughter of a Belarusian village, a crying infant catches his attention and a soldier moves to shoot it--but Dietrich snarls at them not to waste the bullet.bullet, turning away just as the man raises his boot.

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* DeathOFAChild: Dietrich oversees notorious Nazi Oskar Dirlewanger's slaughter of a Belarusian village, a crying infant catches his attention and a soldier moves to shoot it--but Dietrich snarls at them not to waste the bullet.



* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Helga Boehmer is a gorgeous woman with flawless face and figure. She's a willing participant in Dietrich's monstrous schemes and upon being rejected at an attempt to seduce Hardestadt, she eats a young guard alive, revealing she's far from human.

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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Helga Boehmer is a gorgeous woman with flawless face and figure. She's a willing participant in Dietrich's monstrous schemes and upon being rejected at an attempt to seduce Hardestadt, she eats a young guard alive, revealing she's far from human. In fact she is the [[spoiler:infamous Shadow Consultant]].


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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler:Given the story takes supernatural liberties with history, it's seems unlikely that Heydrich would die just like his real life counterpart. Indeed his later shows about alive, being a seer]].


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* SociopathicSoldier: Many Nazi soldiers are this, but especially the Dirlewanger brigade who slaughter there way through eastern Europe, not sparing children. Helga Boehmer describes his worst qualities with pride.


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* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Heydrich plans to use his seer abilities to shatter the minds of Hitler and the Nazi High Command]].


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** Chapter 9, when [[spoiler:Heydrich is revealed to be alive]].
-->'''Heydrich''': [[spoiler:You are like me. You are ubermensch. Beyond-Man. Like me, you are a seer]].

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* TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar: Just as in real life, the Nazis vehemently disregard anything resembled civilized warfare to slaughter wantonly in Poland Czechoslovokia.


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* RapePillageAndBurn: Just as in real life, the Nazis vehemently disregard anything resembled [[UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar civilized warfare]] to slaughter wantonly in occupied territories. Dietrich is shown carrying out most of this, overseeing the atrocities of the infamous Dirlewanger brigade.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Used when Dietrich oversees notorious Nazi Oskar Dirlewanger's slaughter of a Belarusian village. A crying infant catches his attention and a soldier moves to shoot it--but Dietrich snarls at them not to waste the bullet.
-->''Dietrich lost interest, turning as the man raised his boot. The crying stopped soon after.''

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