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In this world, the Salem witch trials ended with Sarah Alder breaking the covenant of secrecy of all witches by singing a storm into being to save herself from being hanged like her sister. The Salem Accords were drafted between the Massachusetts Bay Militia and Sarah Alder, which later would become part of the Constitution of the United States. This document spared witches from persecution but conscripted them and future generations into a military force.

This changed the world in some fundamental ways. The Revolutionary War took place decades earlier than our world, there were two Spanish-American Wars, the Civil War only lasted two years, and there was only one World War. Peace was made with the Natives of America and they control a wide swath of land called the Cession which covers everything West of the Appalachia mountains and East of the Mississippi river. (See the timeline below for more.)

Women are viewed as the stronger gender and much of the gender dynamics we are used to are flipped. In fact the 45th President of the United States is a black woman. And the dominate religion is matriarchal, though true details are vague the practices remind me somewhat of Wiccan practices.

Raelle comes from the South, near the Chippewa Cession (which I have yet to figure out as canon says it's near Carolina but Carolina is nowhere near the Cession on the map). Regardless, her family has been in the area of the Cession since before the Cession existed. The seem poor despite this history, though that could be a recent development as Raelle mother married her father who is a normal human, something looked down upon by tradition as witches are supposed to marry and mate with witches to produce stronger witches. Raelle's mother also died in the line of duty. The grief is fresh as the death occurred in the past year.

A timeline of major military conflicts in the world of Motherland Fort Salem:
1692: Salem Witch Trials
1735:   War for Independence
1800:   First Mexican War
1810-1812:   Second Mexican War
1840-1842:   Civil War
1908-1911:   World War
1940:   The Hague
1961-1964:   Chinese Civil War
1960-Present:   Proxy Wars
Present: Rise of the Spree

The Hague is a place where the witches from different countries can meet and settle differences without fighting each other.
The Spree are a terrorist organization that seems to want freedom for witches from serving in the military. The target non-witches in their attacks and seem to aim for the highest number they can kill.

Raelle has a problem with authority figures, at least when it comes to the military and federal government. She is suspicious of such august bodies as to her they don't see people, they see numbers. Having lost her mother to the military you can understand why she feels this way. Still she did not try and get out of her society's conscription on her eighteenth birthday and went off to basic training at Fort Salem.

She is a healer, despite having to take some of the wounds from those she heals, and a witch, which isn't so uncommon in her world. In fact witches are normal and mostly accepted, her ancestors having made a treaty with the powers that be long ago to defend what would become the United States from all threats.

She does have a chip on her shoulder as far as the military goes, convinced she is just going to become fodder like how she assumes her mother was. She has a lot of anger on this issue, but ends up coming around and supporting her unit, though she still doesn't trust the brass.

Key words:
Mistrustful
Rebellious
Wild
Independent
Conflicted
Tough
Caring
Lower class
Healer
Brave
Willing to risk death to help others