The map on page five is, while heavily distorted, definitely a map of europe, on top of that the humans (or the one human nation we've seen thus far) appear to be based on modern day germany, plus that guy having a german name, and what was clearly a concentration/death camp makes the pararell...
@Taco-chan
I'm thinking that it's iris that's related to that guy, I feel like there's pararell in their dynamic as the human who tries to understand how magic works through the use of formulae and the primordial entity who just uses magic through natural instinct