(12-24-2014, 01:09 PM)Coatleque Wrote: What a lot of people are conveniently forgetting (or perhaps overlooking) is that the refugees outside Ul'dah are NOT Ul'dahn citizens. If they chose to revolt, the Flames have a duty to kill every last one of them to protect national sovereignty.
If SE writes in that the refugees actually carry out a successful revolt on the city, that is not only abysmal writing but speaks volumes about just how effective the Blades, Flames, and Sworn are combined as a fighting force.
I wouldn't agree. Ul'dah has a full time military force. It's likely only a few percent of its population, anything else would be far to expensive. The refugees are a significant problem, so it's quite possible they outnumber the blades and flames (who are also busy fighting off the beastmen and Garleans.)
There might only be a few hundred blades, flames and sultansworn actually /in/ Ul'dah. If someone mobilized and armed a few thousand refugees, it's quite possible they could storm the palace and perform a coup before reinforcements were sent. It's basically what happened during the october revolution in russia.
