How big is a division?

[zute]

I apologize for another lame-ass question, but in the story I'm writing now this actually has relevance. It's the difference between paranoia and reasonable concern.

When you rescue Riordan he tells you that Loghain had turned away 200 Grey Wardens and two dozen divisions of cavalry.  When I looked up division sizes I got utterly enormous numbers like 10,000 for single light infantry division, in the modern army. I'm sure that must be vastly larger than in middle ages terms.

Does anyone have a feel for how many actually people that would be? 

My thanks!

Zute

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[niniane]

This. Esp. as Orlais has Grey Wardens, an army, etc. I'd imagine that Celene is thinking "well, if the Blight kills everyone, we take out the arch demon with a thief turned Grey Warden and take over. If the Blight doesn't, we kill the few remaining". It's really win-win from a conqueror's stand point.