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<Snipped quote by Andreyich>

The area around Marienburg is called "the Wasteland" not because of its actual terrain but as an insult. Basically because Marienburg became somewhat independent (they're warhammer's netherlands more or less), everyone else in the Empire got salty and just started calling the area around the city "the Wasteland" as a sort of fuck you.
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Really? Interesting though I could have sworn that it really was a wasteland due to being more Northern mostly. Though, now that I come to think of it the parallel of it being Batavia wanting to leave the Holy Roman Empire and then being hated for it makes a lot of sense.