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

Comments

[niniane]

Ah, that makes some sense. Although, again, if we see the Blight as this openly acknowledged threat that everyone is terrified (a point that I disagree with, incidentally. I'm inclined to think that there are a lot of people other than Loghain who see it as not that big a deal/really a legend/whatever, time being what is is), it's hard to see that none of them would be interested in offering assistance. I mean, even a small city state probably has a few troops that it can loan out if the attitude is "in the time of a Blight, it's all for one, and one for all!" (Again, I seriously doubt that this was the overall attitude...)