The Courts of the Morning · Character
General Lossberg
A German general whose guns once pounded Escrick's trenches in France, now advising Olifa and fated to inherit a city stripped of every ounce of flour.
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Also known as Lossberg, old Lossberg, General Alexander Lossberg
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As a supporting figure in The Courts of the Morning, General Lossberg is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Appointed to lead the Olifan expeditionary force against the rebels.
Lossberg belongs to the enemy camp in the Gran Seco, a professional soldier lent to Olifa's cause, yet the men he faces are the same ones who outwitted him on the Western Front. His reputation precedes him as a tactician, but the retreating commandos deliberately leave him nothing to feed the population of the city he captures — the bouches inutiles. That cold arithmetic of war, and the grudging respect between old adversaries, makes him a hinge on which the campaign's moral and logistical pressures turn.
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