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Spoils of War is an epic style, feminist Nordic Larp in low fantasy disguise. The themes are family, the horrors of war, romance, broken expectations and abuse of power. It is a fantasy allegory and the main theme is what happens to people after a brutal world war. Everybody important in the world is present.

The core of this larp is to expereince epic drama on a personal level within the framework of a global catastrophe. Complex character relations are in the forefront of the messy aftermath of the war.

The larp takes place in the aftermath of a war and you play either on the losing or winning side and most play nobles, while there are also a few commoners and religious characters. We play in a world of low fertility, so every loss of life is devastating. Almost everybody follows "The Faith of Life", which is a dualistic non-diety religion based on Life and Death. There are religious figures for both. There are also two other very minor religious paths for a few houses.  There is a culture clash as well as tension between the majority of the population "The City Folk" and the "Woodlanders". "The Great Sin" happened 150 years ago. During this time, Woodlanders and City Folk lived mostly in peace. But some Woodlanders had grown more extreme and full of righteous hatred over the developments for City Folk, who had taken more and more of the forests for themselves. Leaders of different groves gathered and agreed to strike at the different principalities of the City Folk. A huge number of cities and villages were wrecked, and only the largest cities and stone castles and houses survived. Survivors were taken as working slaves for the groves. But for some houses, the two cultures are almost the same and intertwined.  There is no magic in the setting, and the level of technology is that there are no guns, and horses are the preferred means of transportation if you can afford it. There are no doctors but "healers". The know the use of herbs, amputations, leeches and mercury but nothing more advanced than that.

The human body has the potential to reach 200 years of age if you are nobility, whereas commoners who have worked hard are considered old at 60. Furthermore, you can become pregnant up until 80 years of age as a noble, so you just add more good years to your life. This means that there is a almost mythological respect for nobility among the commoners. You are considered young until you are either married or very accomplished, so e.g. a 45 year old unmarried person could still be considered young while a married 25 year old could be considered adult. In practice, this means that your offgame age matters less in this world and you have further alibi to experience all kinds of stories no matter your offgame appearance and preferences.

The winning and losing side start out by being separated and have taken prisoners of war from each others. We play the very end of the war including a prisoner inspection right after a frustration workshop to get everyones' blood boiling.

Structured trials and negotiations where the content of the cases and subjects are just alibi for what happens regarding drama, relations and communication.