helium3 said:Well, isn't the whole premise of the saga that Coaltounge used the torch to transport his armies before his untimely death? Perhaps Ragesia simply never bothered to build a navy and the time line involved makes a land assault faster than converting a bunch of cargo ships into troop transports.
Well, Gate Pass is a strategic point from which to launch land assaults. If an entire army was teleported into the middle of Shalesti, without supply routes and so forth, it wouldn't last long. A direct assult on the elves would never be a walkover, thus the current "stalemate" and the importance of Gate Pass.