Country Stories presents: Chaos (LEGACY)

This is a story pertaining to the "Legacy" continuity of Country Stories and CS Presents, and as such, is not canon to the current path of the project. Still, feel free to enjoy it!

17 million dead, a devastated continent and a completely broken order, all because of a conflict that, despite its scale, did little more than create suffering and demonstrate the cruelty of man, this is how the First World War is remembered.
If a conflict on such a scale was felt so personally by so many humans, then how personal would it have been to those who look like humans, but are in fact the personifications of the nations of the world themselves? What did the devastating war that marked the end of the past mean for them, and how did these events lead to the present they live in today?

First installment of the CS Presents saga, narrating World War I