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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8327470" data-attributes="member: 7030132">Soft power is often overvalued as it requires a fairly globalization world where going to war is expensive because of the destructiveness of weapons and often invokes the ire of the rest of the world who you are dependent on.But as this is the world we live in many players project this state of things into the setting.Yet in a fantasy/medieval setting this does not apply and going to war has a lot less downsides than it has today. Trade is also a lot less influential so the disruption of this trade is not all that bad either. And being rich through trade only means people want your land even more.Mali, who resembles the country your describe, crumbled rather fast when Songhay attacked and the huge trading empires of the Netherlands didn't protect them from France.</blockquote>