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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 1623460" data-attributes="member: 4090">I get the sense that it's like the Hundred Years' War, like you mention. It started when the successors all decided that they didn't want to relinquish control to any one person, but then all sorts of other factors played into things. The Valenar elves, for instance, deciding suddenly that they were going to carve out their own territory. Or the hobgoblins claiming their own lands, etc. So, I'd say it wasn't constant fighting all the time, or even fighting in one region, but spread out over the 100+ years in various locations for various reasons, with ever shifting alliances.Well, you can see one of the effects of that magic in the Mournlands. I don't get the sense that there is that much "Uber" magic, so much as there is a lot of little "hedge" magic sort of things going on. Also, bear in mind that the "big" stuff like skyships and the lightning rail are owned/operated by the dragonmarked Houses, which were more or less neutral in the war- they aren't politically affiliated, though they probably profited from the war as much as possible (and were probably hurt by it as well). I don't see the skyships being hired out for combat, per se.</blockquote>