> Meanwhile I claim Takenegi could get his mythopoetic Sun-Storm
> conflict on just fine by beseiging Wintertop and defending his
> expansions. Then between Kethaela, north side allies, and
> another Reaching Moon temple or two in the south, Sartar would
> be encircled.
Except that Sartar was, compared to the Empire, about like the
Duchy of Grand Fenwick (at least by Imperial lights) and the
invasions of Sartar were actually run by the (semi-independent
vassal state) Kingdom of Tarsh, not the Heartland Army. Even the
Building Wall was against mainly Tarshite troops, with some
Imperial support.
What let the Sartarites eventually regain their independence was:
(1) a Vinkotling High King, who was thus able to summon Orlanthi
Heroes from across the world,
(2) a Western Superhero with as much hatred for the Empire as
(3) a distant claimant to Sartar able to channel #2'a rage in a
constructive (at least to #3's interests) manner, who then
managed the double Lightbringer's Quest required to resurrect
(4) another Superhero who hated the Empire as much as or more
than the others (and had a history of reducing the Empire to
ruins), and
(5) a very distracted Empire unable to concentrate enough on any
one front to completely knock out that threat and reduce its
enemies' degrees of freedom.
Basically, it was as hard as Operations Sea Lion and Barbarossa both coming off in our world. That it worked (at least for a while) just shows that God (or at least Greg) is not ALWAYS on the side with the most battalions.
Alternately, it was the Lunar version of the Roman Crisis of the Third Century, but without a Diocletian at the end, viewed from the barbarian PoV.
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