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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[prisoner_24601]

I don't think we disagree, actually. Loghain for certain is his own undoing, and for certain his prejudice against Orlais influenced him. But I also think he had compelling reasons to make some of those decisions baised on the limited information he had, I think it's pretty clear, at least to me, that wasn't acting 100% out of crazy paranoia. It was probably a blend. And I'm not arguing for one second that he's not responsible for the results of his decisions - he screws up big time and the fallout is for sure on his shoulders.