[@Tominas], Good CS, but these parts:

[quote]Eventually, the war came. Her father a major commander in the emperor’s army, he and his loyal forces stood with Du Reich des Goldenen Grahles staunchly… at first. After a time, he was summoned to meet with Emperor Maximilian XV for war counsel. Emerging from his chambers, servants claimed that the noble looked as a ghost, deeply shaken. It came as a shock to the nation when his forces fled from their posts in the night, joining with the Rebellion. Clarimonde herself was surprised, but her father remained silent on the matter. He always just stood there, jaw locked, and said that he couldn’t support his liege anymore. The Empire had too many secrets.[/quote]

The Emperor himself isn't evil, per se, more like manipulated; even the Iron Decree came only when his eldest son and heir was murdered with shivs by noble prisoners who said son wanted to assure clemency to. Dubious circumstances, right?

	[quote]Naturally, as time went on, the war went poorly. Clarimonde, seeing her twin brother enlist himself at the bottom rung of the military, as was custom for their family, saw fit to do the same. Though her father would not allow her to fight in the infantry, she enlisted as a field medic, an arguably more dangerous job. Medics were not allowed to carry weapons, in exchange for clemency from enemy forces… supposedly. [b]After a time, she learned to remove the asclepius from her uniforms, as the spellsnipers would actively fire for those who tended to the wounded.[/b] She and the other medics secretly learned High magic to defend themselves, as knowledge of magic did not count as a carried weapon.[/quote]

Didn't happen.