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peopleofthedas2010-11-20 03:26 pm
zute) wrote in peopleofthedas2010-11-20 03:26 pm
How big is a division?
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
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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Rivain is too far, and still hasn't recovered, population-wise, from the Blight 400 years ago. The Free Marches and Antiva lack any real central government, and Tevinter is too far and too weak to provide any help. The only place that might be able to provide troops are the Nevarrans, but we know almost nothing about them in canon except that they're the only Andrastean nation that buries rather than burns their dead.