Angia Lachbaum

Name: Lieutenant Angia Lachbaum (callsign “Glasswing” among her unit) Age: 24 Rank: Lieutenant, 47th Provisional Reconnaissance Company, 2nd Piglian Riflemen Regiment Unit: Attached to the desperate defense of the Kilva Line, supporting the battered 143rd and local reserves.

Appearance

Angia is a sharp-featured young woman of average height with a slight, wiry build honed by months of scouting through rough terrain. She has shoulder-length, messy chestnut-brown hair often tucked under her helmet, fair skin dotted with freckles across her nose and cheeks (now smudged with mud and soot), and striking green eyes behind round, wire-rimmed spectacles. The glasses are slightly cracked on the left lens from a recent near-miss.

She wears the standard Piglian field uniform: a heavy dark-brown wool greatcoat (threadbare at the elbows and patched in places) over a padded tunic, with a battered steel helmet covered in burlap and netting for camouflage. A faint white winter dusting clings to her shoulders and helmet. Her expression in the field is focused and quietly intense — a mixture of youthful determination and the weariness of someone who has already seen too much.

Personality

Angia is intelligent, observant, and dryly sarcastic, with a sharp wit that surfaces even under fire. She’s a natural scout — quiet, patient, and methodical — but carries deep-seated anxiety about failing her people. The war has hardened her, yet she retains a core of idealism: she genuinely believes the remaining soldiers must hold, not just for strategy, but because the villages behind it are home to the families who raised her.

She’s protective of the younger conscripts and elders in the mixed units, often acting as their eyes and ears. While not overly emotional in the moment, she writes long letters home (many never sent) and sketches maps and enemy positions obsessively. Her greatest fear is becoming numb to the horror.

Equipment

• M986 “Kilva Carbine” (Bolt-action rifle): Shortened, lighter version of the standard Piglian service rifle, ideal for scouts. Equipped with a basic leather sling and rudimentary scope mount. She uses it for both self-defense and marking high-value targets for artillery.
• “Hornet” Flare Pistol (Single-shot signal pistol): Fires colored flares for emergency communication and calling in artillery or reinforcements. Also doubles as a close-range deterrent.
• M912 “Widowmaker” Revolver (Backup sidearm): Compact, reliable 6-shot revolver chambered for heavy stopping power. Kept loaded with one empty chamber for safety; used when the carbine is out of reach or in tight quarters.
• Utility Knife “Granny’s Tooth”: A sturdy, single-edged fighting/utility knife with a sawback spine. Named after the village elder who gave it to her — used for cutting wire, preparing hasty meals, or silent work.
• Observation Kit: High-quality binoculars (slightly fogged and dented), a waterproof notebook with charcoal pencils, a small brass compass, and a pocket watch synchronized with regimental time. She also carries a few sticks of “Blackroot” chewing tobacco (a mild stimulant) and basic medical supplies (bandages, morphine syrette).
• Personal Item: A small silver locket containing a faded photo of her younger sister, worn under her tunic.

Background & Relationships

Angia grew up in a small riverside village near Canomeziaga. Before the Great Marpian Invasion she was training as a cartographer and teacher. When Marpia’s offensive began, she volunteered immediately, leveraging her keen eyesight and map-reading skills into reconnaissance work.

Key Relationships:

• Captain Thorne (1st Recruit Regiment): Respected superior and father figure. She feeds him critical intelligence; he shields her from the worst of the desperate orders.
• Sergeant “Old Bear” Kael: Grizzled elder veteran in her company. They bicker constantly (he calls her “four-eyes”), but he trusts her judgment implicitly and has saved her life more than once.
• Private Mira Solen (younger scout, 19): Elara’s protégé and something of a little sister. Elara worries constantly about Mira’s safety and pushes her to stay sharp.
• What's left of the 2nd Riflemen Regiment: Deep loyalty mixed with sorrow. Many are wounded, elderly, or barely trained. She sees herself as their guardian angel — or their last pair of working eyes.

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It's the early year 987 in the Cerelel Island when the neighborging nations of Pigliania and Marpia begin their rapid reinforcement of the borders. Tensions were rising due to the threat Pigliania was becoming, not only to the Island itself, but to the whole continent and its residents.

It was a morning in March of the same year when Marpian troops crossed the Piglian border, not facing any significant resistance a considerable distance from where they first started. A regular 14th of March, the 2nd Piglian Riflemen Regiment surprised the Marpian 2nd Piante Regiment on the Colcari Ambush, firstly causing chaos amongst the confident troops.

However, in a turn of events, Marpia ended up winning the battle, resulting in a catastrophic loss of a total of 463 Piglian soldiers. They had underestimated their foes. Now on a hurried retreat, the 2nd Piglian Riflemen Regiment set camp on the other side of the Celleferra River, finally receiving barely trained reinforcements from Kilva, a town not so far away which had little to no proper troops stationed.

They had the next battle with Marpian forces on the 20th of March, and despite having the advantage of the river, Piglians still suffered heavy losses on the Battle of Antalfe, in which the Pigliant regiment suffered catastrophic losses, reducing its size to 47 soldiers, mainly woudned ones, or the lucky ones who got to be in the reserves.

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Date: 20-25th March, 987 Weather: Late winter, average temperatures of 5 to 14 °C