CH399 Barnsil Militia Massacre I
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Unlike Pangea—where nobles mostly hired talented Professionals for their armies—it seemed Verdantis operated differently.
Here, even local nobility supplemented their forces with ordinary humans.
This suggested one of two possibilities:
Either Verdantis experienced constant, large-scale conflicts that required vast numbers of bodies…
or the plane simply didn't have enough Ascension-talented individuals, making ordinary soldiers indispensable.
Whichever the truth was, it would affect Alex's long-term expedition strategy.
Unfortunately, Barnsil was a poor metric for determining which case was true.
Baron Leland Helton, by every account, was weak even by Baron standards. More a knight with a rented title than a true noble. His lands and rank were granted by the Luxen Duchy rather than inherited, and they weren't even recognised by the Empire proper.
