- Jan 2, 2018
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My understanding of the situation is that the minotaurs abandon the defence of their outer territorries to hole up in KM, them to be able to effectivelly defend a way smaller zone especially with shieldwall in tunnel. So that for me is ok, where I lose the plot is the non existant effect of the loss of those territories especially for food but also other materials (such as metal) instead the city under siege is the one that has the merchant that sells metal parts.I'm going to be honest, this shouldn't be a thing.
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That said, let's be real. The logistics don't matter. The thing that sucks all the believability about the reality of this siege is the narrative impact. When I was in middle school a book released called Blue Moon Rising. In that we generally see the impact of the encroaching demon invasion. First the merchants stop, then the patrols do, diplomatic appeals to neighboring lands goes and fails, and everybody from the lowly band goblins to a mythical dragon group up, gender roles are abolished (because it's either fight or fall), and the people collectively get ready to take on a threat that's going to end their existence.
In Khorminos, patrols go through unobstructed, merchants are coming or going, almost all the citizenry is leading a normal life, people are still existing (relatively) unimpacted lives after their relocation, there are people who are living out in the thick of it who are none worse for wear, miners are still waltzing about, and the only reason we know there's a "siege" at all is because of a single skirmish the minotaurs were already winning.
Most of the work in helping with believability despite the impossibility comes from the reader.
More frustrating is the opportunity loss with the hobgoblin thieves, rather than having the first encounter where you get two pages of sociopolitics exposed by a thief, make us stumble upon an hobgoblin willage that was attacked and not protected by the army because of their second class citizenship (no nedd to tell it just imply it) then find the thieves that are at the beginning of the corruption stage and have to survive between the imps that raped them and the minotaur that refuse entry and try to kill them for being tainted.