MORE EVER AFTER HIGH OC:S

In the midquel to my first EAH fic, new characters, both original and canonical, appear. Most of them interpose themselves between Christian "One-Eye" Drosselmeyer and Polly Poppins in the present and in their backstory, but there is also a sub-plot about a dangerous black widower and war profiter having broken prison and hidden on the EAH campus, entwining with that plot... In this post, I am going to introduce the OCs that have not debuted yet:

• Gilles d'Azur: descendant of the latest Counts of Bluebeard. Under the influence of the magic Mirror of Reason, he dismantled Legacy Day on his year, refusing to become a black widower, and was thus court-martialled and locked in Abacab (international state prison for the most depraved). During his captivity, he learnt astral projection from a book in the fortress library and embraced his destiny as a black widower (due to the painful Inquisition-style torture he was submitted to). Three decades later, a now adult d'Azur breaks prison and finds sanctuary in the hedge of thorns that protects EAH at night, projecting astrally as the thorns conceal his wounded frame. Gilles subsequently possesses an unconscious Rainer Leutnant, who becomes more confident and a true heartbreaker... romancing Miss Poppins among others, leading to a series of serial kidnappings! The Counts d'Azur actually drink maidens' blood to stay young and healthy... He has long blue hair and a goatee, and steel-blue eyes, and dresses in seventeenth-century clothes. REBEL TURNED ROYAL.
• Odile von Rothbart: A new dancing teacher and young prodigy (the class's age!), half-French half-German, and former Electoress of Bavaria (let her spouse remarry a clone of Odette that she had made and animated herself). Daughter of Friedrich von Rothbart (a Dark Mage, from Swan Lake) and an unknown Frenchwoman later revealed to be an Ella Stepsister (Charlotte von Rothbart, née Tremaigne-Ella, also related to the Myrthe clan). She has a past in common with veteran One-Eye and holds a grudge against him (One-Eye helped Siegfried and Odette kill her father, she wants revenge). This confident temptress was the one who opened the hedge to let Gilles in, lured by his promises, and she will remain his accomplice as long as Rainer is possessed... but will she allow to be controlled for longer and turn back against her foe? She also makes Katla jealous: both are equally confident, but Odile is more reserved and cooler, raven-haired with black eyes and pale skin, she dons a scarlet and black gown. Thekla von Wallenstein clone, down to the bun/ponytail. ROYAL TURNED REBEL.
• (Napo)Léon Botté: a Chartreux werecat armed with a rapier and dressed in seventeenth-century clothes, with a Thirty Years' War-era doublet and boots. He is a valet of the d'Azurs, but also a trickster and a free spirit, loyal to all and to none, but with a fickle crush on Kitty. Descendant (obviously) of Puss in Boots (Chat Botté in French). ROYAL.
• Aranyváry Katalin: Daughter of the Hungarian Princess from Swan Lake. She is red-haired, with dark blue eyes, and she wears a dress with elements of Magyar folk garb and Elizabethan court gown. A middling royal who wants to be part of Sophia's entourage and admires the Lilienstielian, she will become d'Azur's first victim... ROYAL.
• The Tweedles (Tweedle-wun and Tweedle-woo): identical twin girls with pink hair, dressed in overalls and somewhat pudgy. Descendants of the original Wonderland Tweedles. Both are odd-eyed, with symmetric colour scheme (Wun has an amber right eye and a blue left eye, while Woo's eyes are the other way round). Roomates with each other. ROYALS.
• Karla Rosenblad and Gerhard Ekelöf: children of Kay and Gerda, the bourgeois protagonists of The Snow Queen. They appear as minor characters, in the background. Both are blond and younger than the leading cast. Her eyes are green as leaves, while his are gray as steel. Both dress in middie (sailor) suits. Their families run a flower shop and a bookshop, respectively, in Helsingborg (southern Sweden). Gerhard has already been affected, like Bianca, by the mirror shard, that turns him into a Crownculus whiz smart enough to challenge Charles and harbour a grudge upon losing to him. While Karla is not sure of whether she could save Gerhard from the power of the shard, and also becoming jealous of Bianca (whom her beau and best friend is trying to help), becoming the third victim (Gerhard, however, winds up with Kyllikki, while Karla becomes an adventurer/explorer, renouncing to marriage...) Karla is roomates with Odile, while Gerhard is with Leon... BOTH REBELS
• Linda Upland of the North: Daughter of the Good Witch of the North (Glinda!), and thus Crown Princess of the Quadlings. Also related to the Snow Queen and the White Royals of Wonderland. Currently a member of the Wonderland regency. As a child, she was roomates with Polly and they were frequently paired, but Linda tended to fall into scrapes caused by Polly's schemes. Pays EAH a state visit and finds herself in even direr straits. She uses a bubble wand, and she is platinum blond with violet eyes, dressed in a white empire-style frock. As a teen, she wore a puffier gown. A prissy but kindly airhead, she was the "Vivian" in Polly's team, due to her skill in white magic and destiny as a mentor. 
• Edeltraut Gothel: Descendant of Gothel (the enchantress in Rapunzel), if not Gothel herself. Frau Gothel was Polly's and Christian's homeroom teacher, a rather harsh and stern raven-haired matron who punished rebel students. Still, she was quite the stunner.
• Joseph Botté: Leon's father and a Chartreux werecat dressed in the attire of the Catholic League. He was another classmate of Linda's and Polly's. Killed in battle during a mercenary campaign in Wonderland... during the Lilienstiel war of independence (on the repressing side), for having slain Karl von Lilienstiel, the Queen's consort and Sophia's father... His personality and moral code are a reference to Wallenstein. He is compared by Sophia to Rosi in her own team.
• Franz Ferdinand Kaiser: Another classmate of Polly's and a posh royal with metrosexual tendencies. Obviously queer. He is extremely vain, shallow and flashy, with platinum hair and dressed like an über-extravagant eighteenth-century fop. An Easter egg reveals that he has become the Evil Queen's weak-willed but lovable consort (like Louis XV or Adolphus Frederick...). Sophia thinks of him as the "Mireille" in Poppy's team.
• Marie "Marion" and Jeanne Crapaud: daughters of the kind sister in Diamonds and Toads. Fraternal twins with opposing personalities: brash and raven-haired "spirited" tomboy Marie is the one with the gems, while prissy and girly ingenue Jeanne, far more reserved and a mahogany shade of nutbrown, is the one cursed with the toads and adders (because she didn't know what to tell the undine). Both have freckles and green eyes. Jeanne becomes a member of the Literature Club, but her sister is soon attacked by d'Azur and disappears, putting Jeanne in an Achilles scenario until Charles is missing. Jeanne admires Sophia deeply, and she aspires to be as well-spoken as the Lilienstielian. Roomates with each other. BOTH REBELS.
• Bertha Holle: Frau Holle. She has been around the EAH campus for a while, and she was the one who encouraged Chris and Polly to follow their hearts. There have been lots of legends, most of them suspicious, around her. She lives in a run-down mansion at the edge of Wonderland, that can be accessed through the fountain in the woods around EAH. Historically, she was the fourth Snow Queen's daughter with a hiker called Rudi, her consort. She became an advisor at the court of Wonderland, but retired to the provinces upon seeing later rulers plan wars and spurn her advice. Bianca is revealed to be her niece, and so is Kyllikki. All three share a warm relationship. Frau Holle is one of the most powerful characters in-universe, next to the former headmaster of EAH... her archenemy, whose mirror she shattered.
• Hermann and Adelgunde von Brakel: Children of a Prussian courtier, the Count of Brakel (in the story Das fremde Kind). Fraternal twins, their generation's "rulers of campus", who teased Polly and Chris but were recruited into the Resistance. Both wear eighteenth-century clothes: he wears a military uniform (he is a cadet) reminiscent of a hussar's, while she wears a frilly court dress like Mireille's with a blue, crown-like tricorn. Both have hazel eyes and speak gratuitous French. Hermann is a whiz at military history, knowing all the details (lives of generals, strategies, number of men slain and taken prisoner) of several battles, and is thus regarded as a military otaku. While Adelgunde is a whiz at languages and over-interested in astrology. They may represent Sophia and Laurent, respectively, in the backstory. Of course the Literary Club members plus Laurent wish to know them better and interview them. In the end, they are revealed to be the least expected: their Literature teacher is Adelgunde, while one of Sophia's own tutors, a stern veteran general who married the widowed and destitute Lady Friederike von Wintergarten and sired her daughter Lilianne... is revealed to be her brother. Yes, they did appear in Series One, but in this one, they get their guns and help Chris and Polly against the foe that threatens their relationship... In this season, they are revealed to be Polly's and Chris's respective roomates.

MY EVER AFTER HIGH OC:S

Ever since I first came into contact with the Ever After High franchise, I created a few original characters, that I nowadays use in EAH fandom.

• Sophia Eleonora von Lilienstiel: ROYAL. Daughter of the Clever Princess from Andersen's tale The Snow Queen (Fourth Story) and her late consort. President of the EAH Literature Club, the Alliance of Late Bards, that she has founded herself à la Dead Poets Society. An only child with an impressive cultural level, whose Secret Heart's Desire is to espouse her intellectual equal, someone who would price her mind rather than her wealth or beauty. She is hetero and she only does bad at Grimm-nastics and Crownculus (she can't climb up trees, and she is prone to sign errors). Her greatest strengths are her kindness and gift of languages. The leading character. Sophia is tall and fragile, with nutbrown (auburn/mahogany) hair and hazel eyes. She dresses Regency/Empire style. She is considered "sexy" and popular (even among the girls), which embarrasses her. Her pet is a female crow, Muninn. Later on becomes roomate to her frenemy Lizzie Hearts, with whom there is some ship-tease.
• Vivian Seelie: ROYAL. Daughter of Merlin and Nimue, from Arthurian legend. Vivian is flat-chested and strawberry blond, with blue-green eyes, that shine violet when she does magic. She tends to speak her mind, and to be absent-minded and do wrong with magic and potions. She is roomates with Ivy Goodwill, the would-be Ghost of Christmas Future. Vivian dresses and acts in a New Agey manner, like a Wiccan. However, she might be more than just a cute and powerful ditz. Unlike Sophia, she does not want to be involved in any relationship. Her pet is a male Kelpie colt, Mee.
• Rainer Leutnant: REBEL. Nephew of the lieutenant in Putlitz's story Forget-Me-Not (knowledge of this story is significant to understand why he skipped the pledge on Legacy Day, so here it goes: A boy and girl of the gentry are childhood friends. He goes to university, while she is betrothed to a general. When he returns to the shire, the engagement ball is taking place. The student has fallen in love with his childhood friend, but she remains cold and indifferent. Thus, he joins the army as a lieutenant to seek death on the battlefield, and he dies with a bullet through his heart. As for the young lady, she realizes that she did love her childhood friend and regrets having scorned him). The typical feminine "sensitive guy" (though he is taller and more broad-shouldered than Charles), but still hetero. Rainer's hair is nutbrown and curly, while his eyes are light blue. He dresses in a nineteenth-century Prussian officer's uniform. A reserved young person who sees himself as an aesthete and an epicurean, in love with everything that is pleasant and beautiful. He dreads blood, pain, and conflict with all his heart. Roomates with Laurent, and member of the Literature Club. He hasn't got any pet. His betrothed, Lillianne von Wintergarten, left EAH three years ago, due to her state of health, to be homeschooled by her parents at the Wintergarten estate. She was cold and haughty towards him, but maybe he'll forget her during this course.
• Charles Liddell: ROYAL. Son/nephew of Alice Liddell, the titular heroine of Alice in Wonderland. Charles is both brave and sensible, in spite of his short stature and cuteness. His eyes are amber, and he keeps his dark blond hair tied in a ponytail with a black ribbon. He dresses in a preppy fashion, in white and blue. His curiosity and bravery lead to his betrothal with Sophia (both are hetero). His favourite subject is Crownculus, but he is a letters person at heart no matter for how long he denies it. A running gag involves him looking for Ruby. Charles suffers from middle child syndrome, which explains the personality he has developed to break with such a past. He is roomates with August. Like Vivian, Charles isn't afraid of speaking his mind, and he will never let an innocent suffer. He keeps a wounded male crow, that he found in the woods, called Huginn. Mid-series, he becomes roomates with Fitzwilliam Scarlet and aware of the young officer's agenda... though his addiction to a certain potion and the promise he was forced to make (not to betray Scarlet under death penalty) conflict and he finally speaks to Katla under the influence, leading to Scarlet's recruitment and a grudge between him and Charles... 
• April Hare: REBEL. Daughter of the March Hare, and sister of November and August. April is a tomboyish and sensible perfectionist. She does good at Grimm-nastics, constantly competing against Roswitha for higher marks. She tends to be brash, even dictatorial, to her roomate Ruby. April considers herself the only sane member of the Hare family, and she sure is right! She's neither a letters nor a numbers person, much like her frenemy Roswitha.
• November Hare: REBEL. Son of the March Hare, and a shotaro-type character shorter than his roomate Charles. A gothic dandy who rarely speaks, and who appears to suffer from compulsions (i.e. washing his hands in a special way before each and every class). A nutbrown bunny-boy with heterochromia (black right eye, amber left eye). He is more than BF4EA with William, who received from him their mutual pet Tick-Tock, a saltwater crocodile. Long story short, William and Nov are one true pairing, until Nov reurns to Wonderland due to health issues. 
• August Hare: ROYAL. Another son of the March Hare. Like his brother November, August is odd-eyed, but with inverted colour scheme. He is fond of inventing contraptions and coming up with Blackadderian schemes that nearly always fail. Auggy appears to have either mania or impulsive ADHD. He is merry and outspoken, unlike his more reserved roomate Jamie Hook. A Falstaffian waistline and impressive sideburns add to his eccentric appearance. He dresses in an outright eclectic and crazy style. 
• Ruby Rabbit: ROYAL. Daughter of the White Rabbit and of Mopsy Rabbit (the former from Carroll's Alice, the latter from Beatrix Potter's storybooks). An albino bunny-girl (with white fur and hair, and ruby eyes) who dresses preppy-style. Shy and reserved, and quite the perfectionist. She has to do everything on time. A running gag involves Hook stalking her to get a hold on either her pocket-watch or Rainer's, ever since Tick-Tock ate Hook's own watch. A more serious plot point involves Charles pursuing her to learn secrets of hers, which makes her think he is a stalker. Ruby might be a shrinking violet, but she is sure that she will make an excellent herald in Wonderland. She is slightly scared of Hook, but even more (terrified!) of Charles (considering how sternly he pursues her). Like Vivian, she doesn't like commitment.
• Mireille de Myrthe: NEUTRAL. Niece of the myrtle/marquis poet in J.J. Grandville's story The Myrtle and the Laurel (Some knowledge about this story is also necessary: A veteran colonel and a versifying courtier, both in their autumn years, live in the same shire and they are good friends, until both of them fall for the same younger woman. Their quarrels escalate, and they even challenge each other to a duel, but both old men suddenly die of internal bleeding -"a blood vessel broke in both their chests"- right before they draw their pistols). Roomates with Sophia at first, second-in-command of the Literature Club, and most truly bi. Mireille is an airheaded and prissy ditz, who starkly contrasts with her roomate. She has platinum blond hair, powdered to look white, and gray eyes. Mireille dresses in pastels and petticoats, like a French court lady, and she is rather concerned with her appearance (but, at heart, she's a closeted military otaku). When it comes to love, she is slightly less popular than Sophia, but nevertheless one of EAH's three resident belles alongside Sophia and Katla. Mireille is frenemies (both rivals and close friends) with Laurent, like Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing.
• Jean-Laurent des Lauriers: NEUTRAL. Nephew of the laurel/veteran colonel in The Myrtle and the Laurel (see above!). Most truly bi, and roomates with Rainer. Like his frenemy Mireille, he is platinum blond and gray-eyed. He wears an eighteenth-century French officer's uniform. Stalwart and broad-shouldered, dashing and cool, he's the blue ogre to Jamie Hook's red, and he starkly contrasts with his more feminine roomate as well (but, at heart, Laurent is also found of cute things!) He has, nevertheless, one fatal flaw: he can't hold his liquor.
• Fitz-James "Jamie" Hook: REBEL. Bastard son/nephew of Captain Hook (it is later on revealed that there is more than one Captain Hook!). Dark-skinned and amber-eyed, with cascading shoulder-length raven locks and some curly hair on his chest. He is the "red ogre" to Laurent's "blue ogre": literally, as described by temperamental Jamie's maroon and scarlet seventeenth-century coats versus the more reserved and refined young Frenchman's blue uniform jacket. Roomates with November. Ambidextrous. Has not lost a hand in action yet, but his clock was swallowed by Tick-Tock, leading to his attacks on Ruby and, less frequently, Rainer. Jamie likes releasing his wrath on Tick-Tock when contrariated. Though he is moody and brash, he is considered as dashing as Laurent, causing even war to be declared between their supporters of both genders. Partners in crime and more than BF4A with November.
• Roswitha Törne: REBEL. Daughter of the Robber Girl from The Snow Queen (Fifth Story). A Roma tomboy with wild raven hair and black eyes. She can speak and comprehend animal languages fluently. Roswitha is best when it comes to Grimm-nastics, and a frequent partner to Jamie and Nov in their hijinks. She is petite and cute, but broad-shouldered and battle-scarred. Nearly all intellectual subjects fret her. Though she may be stubborn and moody, she is also brave leaning on reckless. Roomates with Katla. She keeps a male reindeer, Bae, as mount, and two homing pigeons, Frey and Freya, as pets.
• Katla von Feuersbrunst: REBEL. Daughter of the Dragon Princess in The Singing, Springing Lark (the Germanic version of East of the Sun and West of the Moon), a jilted villainess/false heroine. Like Sophia, she is the only child of a single mother, yearning for someone who understands her. On Legacy Day, Katla declared that she wouldn't follow in her mother's footsteps: her Secret Heart's Desire is to espouse her first love. Katla is confident and arrogant. She dresses in provocative, elegant style, along the lines of a belly dancer and of a flapper. She is a Drakharin or weredragon, her fully reptilian form being scarlet and orange with blue gleams. Her humanoid form, seen throughout most of the series, is that of a girl of Sophia's height and bearing, with strawberry blond (don't say it's red when she's near, or prepare to face her wrath!) hair, amber/chartreuse serpent eyes, and blue scales on some parts of her fair skin. Like Sophia, Katla is considered more than attractive by EAH students, and even staff, of both genders: she develops a rivalry (similar to that of Hook and Laurent) with Lizzie, Sophia, and Mireille. Katla falls at first sight for Charles, and she decides to separate him and Sophia, thus becoming the leading villainess in the stories, a clingy "female Iago" who won't stop at anything. But she will soon discover that Charles may not be the one she truly loves... As a pet, she keeps a chicken chick called Blondette, and a chestnut griffon called Blutaar is her steed. Katla herself is pretty hot-blooded, passionate, and aggressive when she snaps... but most usually sarcastic.
• Snowdrop, Holly, and Ivy Goodwill: NEUTRAL. Related to the ghosts in A Christmas Carol. They act as a Greek chorus of sorts. Currently, two of them (Snowdrop and Holly) share a room. They are lolitas all three (a sweet lolita, a naive-Bavarian lolita, and a gothic lolita). Snowdrop has got platinum hair and blue eyes, she is petite and cute. Holly has got a voluptous and imposing physique, nutbrown hair and green eyes to fit her Dirndlkleid. Ivy is pale and darkhaired, she wears a black hooded cloak with a silver bell, the masculine one of the three, and speech-impaired... yet she says a lot without words. Not much is known about them, except that they have the same personalities as their Dickensian ancestors. 
• Bianca Ivory: REBEL. Daughter of the White Queen and thus, related to Lizzie: her designated enemy. She is also related to the Snow Queen. She is platinum blond with violet eyes, and emotionally cold. Attractive in a nerdy sort of way, but she thinks she is ugly due to the magic mirror shard in her heart: a flaw that Katla will exploit. Lesbian, and fond of her soulmate Ruby. She likes austere, white clothes, and she wants to make peace with Lizzie in the future, which Liz disagrees with... In the end, she will become court prelate and Duchess of Wonderland, her Heart's Desire of stopping the feud within the Wonderland royal bloodline having become true.
• Herr Christian Drosselmeier: Related to Herr Drosselmeier in Hoffmann's stories, the most famous one being The Nutcracker. Christian Drosselmeier looks like Rainer, but three decades older and wearing eighteenth-century clothes. He seems to suffer from heterochromia, but his gray left eye is actually made of glass. He is the strict and harsh, slightly sadistic, Crown-culus teacher at EAH. He is nicknamed "Old One-Eye" by the least supportive students. Chris and Polly were classmates in EAH and he was her second-in-command. Will they or won't they, in the end?
• Miss Polly Poppins: Related to Mary Poppins. She is the eccentric guidance counsellor at EAH, and she tends to be less harsh than Herr Drosselmeier. Miss Poppins has nutbrown hair and violet eyes, and she can fly with her umbrella. As a young girl, she was spirited and eccentric, but kind at heart, and led a group like Sophia's as "the EAH Resistance".
• Friedrich Albrecht von Nehmen: Son/descendant of the Baron von Nehmen, a brutal feudal lord in a story by Henry Morley. Looks like a teenage Wallenstein, and appears to provoke Rainer constantly. He is revealed to be Lilli's husband and Rainer's rival in the end.
• Hermann and Adelgunde von Brakel: Children of a Prussian courtier, the Count of Brakel (in the story Das fremde Kind). Fraternal twins, who teased Polly and Chris but were recruited into the Resistance. Both wear eighteenth-century clothes: he wears a military uniform (he is a cadet) reminiscent of a hussar's, while she wears a frilly court dress like Mireille's with a blue, crown-like tricorn. Both have hazel eyes and speak gratuitous French. Hermann is a whiz at military history, knowing all the details (lives of generals, strategies, number of men slain and taken prisoner) of several battles, and is thus regarded as a military otaku. While Adelgunde is a whiz at languages and over-interested in astrology. They may represent Sophia and Laurent, respectively, in the backstory. Of course the Literary Club members plus Laurent wish to know them better and interview them. In the end, they are revealed to be the least expected: their Literature teacher is Adelgunde, while one of Sophia's own tutors, a stern veteran general who married the widowed and destitute Lady Friederike von Wintergarten and sired her daughter Lillianne... is revealed to be her brother. Both have become international authorities, each in a different field, but they were already the most popular at class in EAH already...
• Lillianne von Wintergarten-Brakel: Rainer's betrothed and childhood friend, who left EAH three years ago, due to her state of health, to be homeschooled by her parents at the Wintergarten estate. She was cold and haughty towards him, and treated him more or less like a servant. This blond and blue-eyed mademoiselle is dressed and styled like Adelgunde or Mireille, but with less lace (being the daughter of gentry instead of courtiers). Still she speaks gratuitous French. For being so sickly and cool, she is quite the spirited lady. Her absent father is a tutor and a general at the Lilienstiel royal court. She is betrothed to von Nehmen, but then realizes that her heart belongs to Rainer when it is too late. Still she learns to love her abusive spouse and even to warm his heart.
• Fitzwilliam "Will" Scarlet: OSTENSIBLY ROYAL, REBEL WITHIN, RECENTLY REFORMED. Descendant of Will Scarlet, the Red Knight, and the Knave of Hearts. Lizzie's personal bodyguard/generalissimo, bent on revenge at first but later gives up on his agenda. After the Crown claimed his family estate (where he was born and raised) and royalists killed his parents when they stood up, he fled into the Dark Forests with his little sister Cerise, but they became separated. He joined a band of highwaymen and got to know Rosi's parents, before her father was killed. Later on, he was taken prisoner, but subsequently received the royal pardon and became the commanding officer of Wonderland's Royal Guard. He would use the position to get revenge on Lizzie and dethrone her, while developing a crush on his liege and getting stuck in a loyalty crisis... which Katla took advantage of. However, his agenda is, in the finale, discovered and he begs his liege for pardon once more. A mock execution before the hedge of thorns ensues, but he is pardoned and resumes his post. A brave and tall redhead in a scarlet doublet and landsknecht-like garb, something along the line of Wallenstein and Pappenheim, with a scar (from childhood) on his left eye and a sharp widow's peak. At first resented and psychologically scarred but ostensibly optimistic and extraverted to conceal his true agenda, he remains equally extraverted, but much more light-hearted, after having been branded as a traitor and nigh-executed. Jealous of Laurent for his higher success. Roomates with the more physically imposing and reserved von Nehmen, until his departure for the Lilienstiel court mid-series, at which point he becomes roomates with Charles Liddell, November having left for Wonderland due to health issues. But Katla's plans give fruit, and he soon finds himself a sworn enemy to his roomate, who betrayed him under the influence: Scarlet knows that Katla is one worthy opponent... In the end, he will find his missing little sister...

Besides, a day like today (7th of September 1631), 382 years ago, a dapper young Gustavus Adolphus crushed poor old Count Tilly at Breitenfeld. The battle was not fought just for Leipzig or Saxony, but for the Western world as a whole. The outnumbered and sunstruck Swedish ranks won a renowned landslide victory through more advanced weaponry and revolutionary tactics. Ever since, the North of Europe has had the upper hand over the South. Which is crystal clear in these troubled times.