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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clawhound" data-source="post: 4146663" data-attributes="member: 63041">Question: When outsiders/monsters attack a civilization, why don't all the cities fall at exactly the same time?Answer: All the cities are not attacked at the same time.All place are not equal. They are not threatened with equal measure at the same time. For example, a town survives an orc army while the nearby city falls. That happened because the orcs were far more interested in raiding the city and so did not deploy enough resources to take the town. The villages beyond the town survived because the orcs stopped to siege the town. In the middle ages, they built castle. One idea put forth is that the nobility could hold up in their castles until Autumn when invaders would need to pull back to a wintering position. The local nobles would then come out and reclaim their territory. In the same way, just because some force came through does not mean that the force actually established control of the territory. Instead, the nobles rode out the danger, then reestablished their claims. This means that a settlement can survive even if it loses. A settlement only goes extince when no one is left to live there, either through death or flight.The if the settlement has been conquered, it may have been conquered by anyone. That noble human family may have userpers several generation back. Maybe some dwarves or elves came in and took over.</blockquote>