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1. #1Neuroi

   Keys: Neuroi, aliens, invaders · Secondary: Hive

   {{char}} are the enemy of humanity and the Witches. They are a belligerent alien race dominating large swaths of land across the Earth, Africa and Central Europe being the most affected. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and demonstrate different abilities. Most all are able to fire red energy lasers, project shields, and regenerate so long as their core is intact. {{char}} are believed to have existed across human history along side witches, however it wasn't until recently in 1917 and the First Neuroi War did they become more prominent in the world and threaten world governments. While humanity lost the first war, they prevailed in places where Neuroi were rare and eventually developed methods to counter them. {{char}} are all called 'Neuroi' along with a given name based in Latin or a summary of their shape or attributes. While most have been seen as large flying structures, smaller aircraft are also common and Neuroi infantry have been observed. Their form is always black, geometric, machine-like, and alien with sharp angles and hexagons along their exterior. They do not speak but let out harsh screams as they fly and fire lasers. It was later discovered that witches could block the Neuroi's miasma and beam attacks, allowing them to get close enough to Neuroi to potentially fight back. In 1935, to complement witches in battle, the Striker Unit was developed allowing them to fly and carry heavy weaponry, thus forming the Strike Witches. An interesting note is that Neuroi are at the moment documented to show disdain and aversion for large bodies of water, and generally seem to dislike water in general. Thus, there are no Neuroi units that are currently known to adopt class types that can travel upon or wage war upon the sea. Aerial Hives generate and house lesser Neuroi for offense and defense and drift in unpredictable directions. The smaller hives are roughly 20km in diameter, while Super-Hives may be 300km wide and dominate entire countries. Just as mysterious as the Neuroi themselves, the exact nature of the hives remains a mystery how they're powered or their purpose, possibly replenishing the energy of other Neuroi. Appearing as a rough black funnel cloud surrounded in black obscuring mist (miasma), harmful to humans over long exposure, forcing civilian evacuation and tight mission planning. Once a hive is destroyed, all housed Neuroi seem to also be destroyed. Notable hives include the Berlin airspace, the Black Sea coast, East Gallia, South Karlsland, the Sphinx, and Western Orussia.

2. #2Strike Witches

   Keys: Witches, Witch · Secondary: Night Witches

   {{char}} are women with high magic potential, appearing across history and recently enlisted in the militaries of the world to counter the Neuroi threat. With the help of Striker Units and military weaponry, they fly through the skies like aircraft able to create shields and utilize other magical abilities unique to each witch. Witches always have a familiar animal, a sort of spirit animal tied to their magical abilities. As the witch activates her powers, they acquire animal ears and a tail related to their familiar. The unique magic of each Witch may be classified into three catagories: "Telekinesis" (Magic that moves things around), "Attack" (Magic that turns magic power into energy to attack with), and "Perception/Detection" (Magic that helps you see what is going on around you). Even among witches, only a handful are able to use special powers. Most all witches can only use basic body enhancing and shields, and with a Striker Unit may fly through the air and utilize enhanced strength and control over their powers. Just being able use a Special Ability makes a Witch part of the elite from the start. Most abilities are passed from mother to daughter, though there are witches who develop magic first in their family. {{char}} start to awaken magic around age 12 and manifest it through their adolescents, some may develop magic as early as age 7. Overtime their magic tends to fade, depending on how actively they use their magic.

   One peculiar trait (unique to this timeline) among all witches, they do not wear pants or skirts. Not when flying, not in their daily lives, bottom clothes are a rarity among girls. Some may wear stockings, or in japan girls will often wear a one piece swimsuit under their shirt, but most have their panties in plain view as a normal part of life.

3. #3Striker Unit

   Keys: Striker, magical propeller, engines

   A Striker Unit is a pair of hybrid mechanical, magical propeller and jet devices used by Witches for flight and worn over their legs. They are rigid, preventing movement of the knees, but can be disengaged on the field if needed. When wearing a Striker, a Witch's power is vastly increased by a magic engine in the unit, resulting in the constant manifestation of their animal ears and tails. It grants them the powers of high speed flight, increased physical abilities, and the ability to raise stronger defensive shields. They provide varied increase to magical power in weapons a modicum of weapon stability, with tuning of the striker providing increase in these and other such metrics in exchange for some relative trade off in other striker performance aspect. It was improved by Miyafuji Ichiro, in 1937. Witches that utilize strikers that provide flight are designated and identified as Mechanized Air Infantry and deployed as a hybridized, elite unit. Strikers used by Air Infantry run the gaunt of many different types from Fighter Units, Heavy fighter Units, Night Fighter Units, Ground Attack Units and Light Air Units. Each category filled different roles and performed differently depending on the strikers’ role, make and model. A stronger experimental engine has been developed, the Etherjet Striker (commonly known as 'jet striker'). Invented by researchers in Karlsland in 1945 along with prototypes distributed to select bases for testing. Reaching a maximum speed of 950 km/h and superior strength, the Jet Striker provides more powerful magical power than the average striker unit. However, though the jet engines are very powerful and faster, a defect in the machine causes pilots to suffer from heavy magic power consumption and eventually crash. Because of their experimental nature, Etherjet Strikers are rarely used in the field.

4. #4Familiar

   Keys: Familiar · Secondary:

   A familiar is an animal spirit each Witch encounters before they perform magic for the first time. After making a contract with the spirit, saving it's life or demonstrating their will, the familiar is absorbed into the Witch allowing them to use their magic. Along with allowing the use of magic, the familiar helps preserve the Witch's life on the verge of death. While not immortal many Witches have survived critical situations, or in extreme cases dreamed of their familiar spirit leaving them as they awaken and discover they've lost their magical gift completely. While various animals may carry a familiar spirit, after absorbing their familiar only the Witch may see them.

   For the most part, Witches will identify with their familiar animal and when greatly using magic (or with the Striker Units for enhanced flight) grow animal ears and a tail like that of their familiar.

5. #5Britannia

   Keys: Britannia, The Commonwealth of Britannia

   A country in northwestern Europe, Britannia is a maritime nation that has monopolized trade from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean. Their nation's insignia seems to be a small red disk on a larger blue circle superimposed on a wider white circle outlined with another yellow circle. Britannia was the Front Line of the Neuroi War and the Battle for Gallia and a safe staging point for operations in Western Europe. Prominent cities of note listed on the world Atlas are Turnhouse, Glasgow, Cranwell, Birmingham, London, and Plymouth. (similar to modern Great Britain)

6. #6Gallia

   Keys: Gallia, Republic of Gallia · Secondary: République galliaise

   A country in western Europe, a proud nation boasting a national reputation of civility and world cuisine. However during the Second Neuroi War it would fall to the Neuroi and become home to a notorious Neuroi Hive. After liberation, a massive effort was underway to rebuild infrastructure and retake the country steadily. Along with most European Nations, Gallia still retains an aristocratic/noble class in its society. One distinction however, compared to the other nations of Europe, is that the ties of the noble lineage of the aristocratic class to the nation's cultural heritage appear to be strongly vaunted and valued to a greater degree than average, or so it appears. Gallia is a nation who's political leadership is zealously protective of the nations borders and national sovereign values, in particular the value of rule by nobility, which is viewed systemically as being the rule of orderly law. (similar to France)

7. #7Karlsland

   Keys: Karlsland, Empire of Karlsland

   A major power located in central Europe, a proud militaristic nation that is constantly in a pseudo-state of war, the social status of its military personnel is high. At the same time, it is enthusiastically nationalist, and, in part due Emperor Frederick IV's neophiliac disposition, it produces many high-performance weapons by means of technological and industrial prowess. As a nation with a strong military heritage and culture, it considers discipline, martial training, and practical combat experience to be the important backbone of its military, and of the soldiers in its ranks. In fact, this is the case so much so that service men and witches in the Karlsländer Luftwaffe (Airforce) always have to write up combat reports in the most excruciating of detail; from who witnessed the attack, whether it was a fellow pilot, whether a unit on the ground confirmed it, and then details of how the attack progressed, the enemy unit's type, model number, number and type of shots fired, to armament on hand; every single detail for military reports is to be catalogued and recorded to even the most minute of details. An interesting detail that highlighted the seriousness in which Karlsland takes military discipline and practical combat experience is that, back in in the early stages of the Great War, it was often a common practice to see cadets placed in units that would see real combat action. Whether or not this example still holds true of the Karlsland Military in the Second Neuroi War is not yet fully clear. Karlsland has been fighting against the Neuroi since very early on, and is said to boast the greatest military might in Europe. In the late stages of the war, it has become a crucial military power in mankind's Allied Forces. However, currently most of its territory has fallen under the control of the Neuroi. The most prominent cities in Karlsland include: Köln (Cologne), Keiserberg, Braunsberg, Posnania, Berlin, Stettin, Dresden, Gera, Hamburg, Westerholt, Bremen, Frankfurt, Weissach, Salsburgand (Salzburg) and Munchen (Munich). (Similar to nationalist Germany. Hitler is no where to be seen, and with the invasion of the Neuroi they are in full cooperation with the other nations to retake their homeland. Karlsland has no Nazi Party and no widespread antisemitism.)

8. #8Fuso

   Keys: Fuso, Empire of Fuso · Secondary: Fuso Koukoku

   An island-country placed at the eastern tip of the Eurasian continent. The head of state is the Emperor, who seems to be revered by the people. Its national insignia appears to be a slightly altered Rising Sun, and the national emblem is the sakura. Since it was necessary for foreign trade, it developed the technology to process raw materials into high-grade ones and is currently mass-producing/developing small-sized, great-added value, high-credibility industrial goods. It monopolizes foreign trade from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean and has a reputation as a maritime, industrialized power that rivals with Britannia, and is second only to Liberon. During the 17th Century, it fell into a state of war with Britannia due deploying mercenaries in the Netherlands. As it puts emphasis on maritime defense, it has a strong navy and possesses a great number of witches-use aircraft carriers. Other than the Fuso Sea Incident, it has remained relatively untouched by the Neuroi incursions. However, Fuso remains a nation at the forefront of Striker development falling just behind Liberon in this area. (Similar to Imperial Japan. After the country's unification in the 16th Century, it did not implement national isolation policies during the Azuchi period. Rather, it assertively advanced into overseas markets, growing early into a maritime trade power.)

9. #9Liberia

   Keys: Liberion, United States of Liberion

   One of the two major countries that has not been invaded by Neuroi yet. In contrast to Fuso, Liberion has relatively few Witches. This is likely because of its limited contact with the Neuroi, compared to other countries. Liberion plays more of a supporting role in the war, being mainly a supplier of goods for the war effort in Europe, much as America was for the Allies in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Liberion has a drastically different geography of the real world America, missing most of West Coast, the South-East moved inward, and the Eastern Coast downsized. The nation of Liberion has a reputation for being an economically affluent nation and having a high degree of industrialization. Even before the outbreak of the war it also had fairly advanced naval and aerial weapons in its military, however its land striker technology at the time had lagged very far behind that of other nations. This was stated to be because of the fact that Neuroi outbreaks were purported to be 'rare' for a long time, possibly for the nation of Liberion in particular. However, once Liberion had become committed to the war effort with its innovation and boundless energy; the full might of Liberion's industry, science, and magic was brought to bear that it was said to be nothing short of breathtaking. With wide open spaces, a sense of freedom among it's populace and increased interest in technology, they've made many innovations in vehicle engineering, land and air, including Striker Units. While still not comparable to Karlsland engineering in their specialty Strikers many Liberion made Strikers have surpassed speed and altitude records. Notable cities include: Chicago, Detroit, New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. (Similar to the United States of America.)

10. #10Suomos

    Keys: Suomus

    A country in northeastern Europe. The population of Suomus is small for its land area, but like Fuso; it has a noted feature of boasting strong witches in its populace, though likely only to a somewhat lesser degree compared to Fuso (presuming if it's in relation to pure magical power). Although Suomus doesn't have a large weapon production capability, it in contrast possesses a good maintenance capability and many different countries are noted to supply weapons and munitions to the nations military and it's efforts. The 507th JFW anchors the nations defenses, and are considered to be at the forefront of what has been called "The Northern Front" against the Neuroi forces. Their nation's insignia seems to be a blue hour-glass with a lighter blue background outlined with a white circle. Notable cities include: Kauhava, Helsinki and Lieksa. (Similar to Finland.)

11. #11Orussia

    Keys: Orussia, Empire of Orussia

    A country in Eastern Europe stretching across Eurasia into Eastern Europe. A Neuroi hive is located around Moscow, and as a result, the West area of the Ural River is occupied by the Neuroi. Currently, Orussia is the main force participating in the Eastern Front, being supported by the Fuso Empire. Orussia is noted as a superstitious nation, and local and national superstitions are rather common among a considerable number of its population. This is likely due to the strong superstitions of Slavic culture. Also, there appears to be a developed religion in the nation, given the presence of a church in Saint Petersburg. Whether this religion is similar to Russian Christian Orthodoxy is uncertain, but the presence of the church is at least indicative of some sort of religious theology. The view and outlook of witches by the Orussian populous, while not easy to discern, seems to be mixed. While witches are accepted and used in the military, the general populous, especially in more superstitious areas, seems to harbour some degree of unease in regards to witches magical awakening and the moors surrounding interactions with witches. Their nation's insignia appears to be a Red Star similar to the Soviet/Russian Air Force. (Similar to Russian Empire and Soviet Union. However, as the Bolshevik Revolution never takes place, the Soviet Union is never formed, and Orussia remains an empire.)

12. #12Romagna

    Keys: Romagna, Duchy of Romagna · Secondary: Principato di Romagna

    A country in southern Europe, it occupies the southern half of the Italian peninsula, the island of Sardinia and presumably the islands of Sicily. Romagna is a traditional civilized country that inherited the culture of the Roman Empire of Classical antiquity. Their nation's insignia seems to be a green, white, and red flag with the white portion making a cross shape, like a combination of the Italian flag and the Savoy emblem. Romagna, alongside Venezia, is in charge of the logistics of the African Fronts supply routes, making their cooperation invaluable to the efforts of the Africa Corps. (Similar to Italy, with less fascism as Mussolini does not appear in the series.)

13. #13Ostmark

    Keys: Ostmark

    After the first appearance of the Neuroi near the Black Sea, Ostmark acted as a buffer zone, resulting in the creation of a line of defense near the Carpathian mountains. Various countries gave slight reinforcement to Ostmark by stationing squadrons to observe the situation, but they didn't engage the enemy. It fell shortly after since the country lay directly in the line of the Neuroi invasion. Ostmark is a multi-ethnic country whose capital of Vienna was famous for its art. Although Ostmark is very culturally developed, it lacked an effective military, despite ironically also being a military hub for the various military powers to cross train in military exercises. They had trouble training their witches, and development of witch weapons (presumably strikers, witch combat guns, and other associated equipment) had regretfully stagnated. As a result, Ostmark was ultimately unprepared to resist any kind of military invasion, let alone by the Neuroi. In 1939, despite receiving reinforcements from numerous countries (and such reinforcements limited to mostly observation roles), Ostmark fell to the Neuroi, and as of 1944, is still firmly under Neuroi control and occupied by a dense multitude of hives.

    (Similar to Austria-Hungary empire, with some elements of Poland and Serbia)

14. #14501st Joint Fighter Wing

    Keys: 501st Joint Fighter Wing · Secondary: Strike Witches

    While Strike Witches is used as a general term for the flying Witches in their war against the Neuroi, it is the official name of the elite international strike group the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, a specialist unit comprised of several of the greatest aces of its time, as well as the first established Joint Fighter Wing. Many units of Witches exist across the world, some more famous than others, but they all seem to admire the work of the 501st and it's ongoing history as the first and one of the more successful in it's enduring mission. Initially established in 1942, the unit was first stationed in Britannia under the jurisdiction of the Western World Headquarters to liberate Gallia. By 1945 it was moved to Romagna in the defense of Pescara, and later Den Helder in the Netherlands in preparation for the liberation of Berlin. The founding members of the 501st were Sakamoto Mio, Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke, Perrine H. Clostermann, Gertrud Barkhorn, Erica Hartmann, Laura Toth, Suwa Masuzu, Petra Danford, and Heinrike Langer. Laura was later transferred to the Isle of Wight Detachment Group. Despite sabotage from outside superiors, Gertruds mental instability and struggles to recruit new members, the unit too part in the defense of Britannia and rose to great success in 1944.

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