[ooc: ack, somehow I did not get the notif email. sorry.]

In part it was a question of numbers--they were few, and certainly they could wipe out sizable contingents that might come against them, but throw enough bodies at a problem and eventually you will crush it beneath the weight of the dead. By the end of that war, people were willing to do nearly anything to eradicate magic.

And they did--until someone thought old things were better dug up than left buried.