EmperorSahlertz wrote...
They give events, implications and perspective. You chose to interpret them one way, and somehow in your head, you make it so that all other interpretations of the given data is wrong. NOTHING in the lore supports your claim that the Qunari armies and fleets were decimated and barely in fighting shape. That is all something YOU have conjrued up in your imagination. The lore very specifically even says that this was not the case, yet you continue to say that it was. Sorry, but people really shouldn't listen to you on this matter.
All we know is that the Qunari retreated yet their armies and fighting capabilities seemed intact, DESPITE the loses they had suffered. That is it.
Intact is a perspective you can glean i suppose, just not one i share considering that that we are talking about a series of conflicts that lasted a century, Military sustainablity becomes a key factor in any conflict and espeically so in a conflict that lasts anywhere near this long. Considering that sixty years before the war reached its conclusion you had the Imperium shoving the Qunari deep into their occupied territories after the Qunari failed in their conquest there, and thus with that defeat they were forced into the shifting front of Rivain, Antiva and the Freemarches.
From what can be gleaned of their war that continued within Tveinter while they conquerored quite a bit of it they continued losing control of it due to the skill and size of the armies the mage lords were able to continuiously assemble to assault them.(According to the world of Thedas page 120 the losses for both sides during the attempted seizure of tveinter were horrible) With that front going from active to closed as time pressed on, we can see why the White and Black Chantries worked together beyond mutual advantage, The Qunari had an enemy capable of besting them in their rearlines so to speak.
The Qunari were in retreat as of 7:84 Storm; And Four Years later an alliance of Raiders, Pirates and Thedosian Warships saw their navy defeated and the port of Est-Watch, Combine this with the Armada's success at plundering their supplylines and the repeated launching invasions of the Qunari Coastlands you can see a pattern emerging where their retreat can be seen as them abandoing other fronts to defend their homeland which was under repeat assault from said alliance.
With their failing lines at Rivain and the Freemarches holding or being retaken; To me its just one failure to many by the time the war ended with the signing of the Llomerryn accords.
It is i suppose a presumption given much of the war has not been dicussed and many details are absent thus far.
But's also confirmed from sources that the Qunari were losing the critical territories they had conquerored earlier in the war, I suppose the military strategist within me can connect details that would lead to the conclusion that had the war continued those losses would have eventually paved way for their defeat, although i suppose it isn't a certainity.
What is a certainity though is, Thedas was being retaken by the time the war ended; Qunari conqueroed territory by the time it ended was slim to nothing.
Retour en haut
Thedas wasn't the one fleeing back to where they came from in the end game of the last Qunari war.
