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Victoria Finn  

The Fantastical Mechanical Travails of Victoria Finn: An Arabesque in Six Parts

VICTORIA FINN, teen genius and renowned gunsmithy, is a 16 year old girl living in the industrious nation of WEXUMBERLAND where she dreams of building her own mercenary company and marrying her rakishly idle, fiancée DAMIAN SMYTHE-CARBOUROUGH. What she doesn’t know is that she is about to become the war-torn continent of NOVA EUROPA’s last hope against the sinister machinations of rival warmonger and weapons-manufactuerer LORD WINDHAM SINISTER. When Lord Sinister kidnaps Damian in an attempt to keep Victoria out of the industry, she embarks on a quest to rescue her kidnapped love and take her revenge on his kidnapper. During her travels she will play the various nations and kingdoms of Nova Europa off against one another in a mad dash for supremacy. Will she aide the frivolous republic of JEHANNE'AMER, the warlike REIKBLITZ PROTECTORATE, the religious BRAVA ROSTULO STATES, or the vaunted, decaying VAUXMACHT-CHERBOURGIAN EMPIRE?

As her mercenary band grows, deciding the fates of nations and their colonies, she uncovers the dark truth behind Lord Sinister's machinations and fights to save the world from his brass and mahogany fists.

Nova Europa is a world that very much mirrors our own Europe circa 1890-1915. A small, densely populated continent full of petty, warring nations, each devoted to their own idiosyncratic traditions. It is a world where steam engines, gunpowder and the internal combustion engine have taken off as emergent technologies, leading to a technological dystopia of brass-banded war zeppelins, giant, one-wheeled velocipedes and massive, armored land fortresses. But in the deep and forgotten places of the world, ancient magicks, tribal shamanism and spirits of nature have awakened and seek to reclaim the world that they long ago lost to man’s ingenuity. Though it is a losing battle for them, it is not uncommon to meet a fey and desperate invoker at the local pub.

Contentious Nations of Nova Europa: His Majesty’s Kingdom of Hartannia- Roughly equivalent to Great Britain, Hartannia is an island nation of rolling hills, and picturesque woods abutting vast cities of technological import, the smoke from whose factories has shrouded the island in a dark, perpetual haze. Believing themselves to be the most civilized and pragmatic of all Nova Europa, Hartannia has stayed out of the many conflicts on the continent, preferring to trade alternately with each of the beleaguered nations. Queen Phyllydia III and the Industrial Parliament rule with staid

The Republic of Jehanne’Amer- More or less the France of game, Jehanne’Amer is a cosmopolitan republic of aesthetically pleasing cities filled with wide boulevards, salons, museums and public monuments. Concerned, above all else with the pursuit of beauty, art and the frivolous indulgence of idle pleasures, Jehanne’Amer is still not a stranger to military tradition, being led, in times of war, by the charismatic dictator, Baulearon of Tuallaire. Having eschewed their noble class for a body politic of representative elctors, they believe in fraternity and equality almost as much as interior decorating. In winning this war, they will bring democracy to the hoi polloi of Nova Europa, that is if they can get Baulearon to relinquish control.

The Vauxmacht-Cherbourgian Empire- A land of ancient, traditions, overstuffed with inbred nobility and oozing social breakdown, the VC Empire is not unlike Austria-Hungary. With a thousand knightly orders serving hundreds of petty despots and minor lordlings, all related in some way or another to Imperial Ruling Family and their current patriarch, Leopold von Cherbourg, the VC Empire has been in decay and decline for centuries, collapsing under the weight of its own restrictive and archaic traditions. This war marks their last chance for renewed glory and Europan domination.

The Brava Rostulo States- Italian in flavor, the BR States are a loose confederation of flamboyant city-states held together by a baroque council of Cardinals, still clinging to the Old Church, that stresses ritual, prayer and obedience. While most of the other nations of Nova Europa have rebelled against their once great religion, forming splinter sects or abandoning it altogether, the Brava Rostulo states remain fervent in their commitment to the true gods and their avatar on earth. By winning this war, the BR states hope to fling wide the doors of the church once again and let every wayward soul of every nation back into the fold.

The Reikblitz Protectorate- A long way from its romantic past, the Reikblitz Protectorate (the pre-Weimar Prussia of our world), is a nation ready for all out war and conquest. Every bit as technologically savvy as Hartannia, the Reikblitz long ago abandoned petty morality in favor of the supremacy of their armed might. Led by the Adamant Chancellor, Siegfried von Totemkopf, more automaton than man after his various implants and enhancements, the Reikblitz seeks to bring all of Nova Europa under their steel-toed boots and create a world of machine powered cruelty and absolute loyalty.

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