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Sandro Andreatta
Historian, storyteller, and co-creator of SandRhoman History.
Based in Switzerland · History & English · Late medieval to early modern warfare
Sandro Andreatta studied history and English and is fascinated by how stories hold civilizations together — and what happens when they stop working. He co-created SandRhoman History, a YouTube channel on military history from the late medieval to the early modern period, and lives in Switzerland.
On YouTube: SandRhoman History (English) · SandRhoman Geschichte (Deutsch)
The Witch Field — Acceptable Loss
Book I of The Witch Field Trilogy · Coming 2027
"All things tend toward a center. History reveals where it was."
— Cadrin Sol, The Architecture of Collapse
Witch-Major Irena Vahn has failed as a mentor. She let her student die—the chosen one who was supposed to save the Covenant. The witch field collapsed above him, destroying the city, the enemy, and the surrounding countryside. Irena survived, scarred and unable to forgive herself. The Covenant rewrote the history, carved their names into stone, and called it victory.
Four years later, Irena has become inconvenient evidence of a failure the Covenant wants erased. Exiled to a fort on the eastern frontier, she discovers the same magical pattern that killed her student. She recognizes the beginnings of another catastrophe.
Her search for answers draws her into a military system prepared to sacrifice the people it exists to protect. Having spent her career deciding which battles are worth her soldiers' lives, she understands its reasoning all too well. Now Irena must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice for the next victory—and find a way to live with the loss she cannot undo. She counts her own life among the acceptable losses. Her friends, who have spent four years trying to keep her alive, do not.
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