Agree, I get confused as well so Im just acepting that its a paralel reality or another world, cuz it doesnt rlly makes sense (￣∇￣")
Not to mention the clothing is off in so many different ways. The dresses look like a combination of elements ranging from medieval to 20th century. Sometimes they look like they're an attempt at mid-victorian styles, other times they look very much like they drew inspiration from rococo clothing, in all cases they are completely lacking the structural undergarments that are supposed to form the silhuett of the times, and the lack of structured garments on the upper body and placement of the waistline is reminding me of medieval trends. Oh. And the plated armor. Goodness.
But in the end, I love this webtoon ╮(￣▽￣)╭ the relationship between the characters is lovely, the inclusion of LGBTQ characters makes me really happy, and the underlying feminism and power balance in their relationships, actions and thoughts restores my faith in romance literature. For that, I will overlook any historical discrepancies xD
Well yeah, don't expect ANY time period faithfulness. I study germanistic and like, nothing fits at all! First, the Prussian spoke German (which is why they waged war with Austria to get them ou of the Deutscher Bund), they became unified as a country in 1871 after they defeated Napoleon 3 in France so really.... Nothing fits.
Plus at the time, women did not go off to war (even wearing pants was too much) , there was no black plague, relationships before marriage were highly frowned upon, there was no LGBT openness at all... I mean I have no words to describe how much this is NOT set in actual Germany.
Indeed xD I will admit that after I heard they were "fighting the Prussians" I just stopped paying any attention to their war-jargon because I had already astablished that "yup no this is bullocks" xD as for LGBT... well it was certainly not like in the webtoon, but the concept of sexuality is a rather new one, only really established as we know it today in later victorian times, so I'm not entirely ruling out at least semi-openness around the topic, though it entirely depends on the time period and such. But we do have ample amounts of famous historical figures we now would define as LGBTQ+ so while i do not doubt that the webtoon's approach is inaccurate historically, I will allow myself to not be quite as critical of it as I am towards the costuming, and the other aspects of "German" political and social environments xD
The Black Death also had mini outbreaks over the years, so not just the "Dark Ages".
I don't think the author is trying to be historically accurate though, it's fantasy.
That's true but nothing in the last 2 centuries if I'm not mistaken and true that's fantasy and I love it to pieces but just saying...
I just imagine it's another world entirely with German like subculture I guess
is that you can't put it in any time frame. Someone who created this story really messed up with history background. From one side it is time when Prusia occupied Poland so late XVIII to 1918 from other side we have Leah, Noa and Brill who at that time would be closed at mental hospital ( from way they behave and are) not to mention plague which looks like taken from dark ages.