#ravka

[justaneedle]

Uh-huh…

“This is my war too,” I said. “I won’t hide like a lizard under a rock.”

But don't be confused: she's talking only about the civil war with the Darkling she caused herself, otherwise the country can burn and people can die, while she will be playing the dead lizard under a rock.

[elvars]

The population of Novokribirsk has to be around the population of Tbilisi in the 1897 census

Given that Ravka probably has population similary to Modern day Berlin or Sankt Petersburg and that I don’t think not even Os Kervo and Os Alta, have that big of populations(that being similar to Odessa and Warsaw in said census) is just doesn’t make sense Novokribirsk to have bigger population.

And before any comes "shouldn’t Novokribirsk have population similar Novosibirsk." Novosibirsk around the time of the census was just settlements and didn’t became what is today until Stalin’s industrialization which was 30 years later

[elvars]

Ravka’s police state must be as incompetent as the one of the late russian empire, ok they did kill but they also arrested the same person nearly a dozen times and not put an end to them.

[elvars]

Fjerda being based on Norway and Finland when neither of those countries were known for rivalry/wars with Russia, like Finland was a part of Sweden than Sweden lost the war and became part of russia(very simplified i know)

Like if you want germanic nation with rivalry/rocky relationship, Germany(Prussia) and Sweden are right there not Norway.

[elvars]

Cities, Ravka’s Cities (plus Ketterdam) are based on

Moscow-Os Alta, the capital despite Moscow not being russian capital before civil war

St.Petersburg-Os Kervo

Novosibirsk-Novokribirsk (which in the time s&b plays didn’t exist)

Amsterdam-Ketterdam

[elvars]

From Moscow to Volgograd

From Volgograd to Yekaterinburg

From Minsk to Nizhny Novogrod

In Ukraine(I made it a bit bigger)

In Europe

On Lenin’s forehead (I did not alter it)

In Stalin’s stache

Above Lenin and Stalin

I swear this was suppose to be serious criticism till it wasn’t

[stromuprisahat]

Ruin and Rising- Chapter 10 (Leigh Bardugo)

What a load of crap!

How long have you known the Darkling, Alina?! How far does your "always" reach? The only compulsion we've witnessed ON PAPER is Alina's drive to kill 'em all.

And it started quite well, only to go completely downhill after two sentences.

This isn't just about the blockade... Yes, because a good leader rarely does something for a single reason. He needs to close as many fronts as possible, regain access to western resources and unify the country he's supposed to rule, so he can defend it against its external enemies without worrying about getting stabbed while undressing.

He wants to use the Fold. It's not about some sort of need to prove himself something. The Darkling has exactly one (1) card to play. A single resource nobody else can access or turn against him. Unlike Alina, he doesn't have the luxury of being able to sit back and let others deal with the pesky reality. If he's to end the wars and drag Ravka out of the morass it currently resides in, he HAS TO work with what he has. And I've already listed how little that is.

Once again Alina judges him by herself. It's her own urges she projects on him, incapable to conceive someone might treat power as a tool, not a drug.

Sure. And how exactly did you come to these conclusions? The last time I checked Nikolai knew the Darkling even less than Alina, but because Alina just claimed something, the world's about to end by the hand of a megalomaniac.

One would think someone as clever as Nikolai would be familiar with the concept of NOT relying on a single biased source.

[stromuprisahat]

Ruin and Rising- Chapter 10 (Leigh Bardugo)

Massive desertions?

Deserters, possibly loyal to the Lantsovs to boot?! The Darkling really sucks as a ruthless dictator. Where are the public executions that would've been justifiable under "normal" circumstances, since Ravka's at active war?

These people are not just refusing obedience to the Darkling- by abandoning their posts near the borders, they're actively choosing to leave their country vulnerable to its permanent enemies, who are constantly raiding the areas. Whoever dares to live there is simply screwed, because the forces assigned to their protection decided they don't like the new guy on the top, so fuck their duty! But hey- we'll never see those affected by this occurrence, so don't worry about it, kitten! The "heroes" don't either.