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Originally Posted by Dencat
With camp followers and time you may end up having Siegetown surrounding the target. Add some melodrama by introducing young lovers born into siege on opposite sides.
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Interesting point. Mind you, the immediate comparison that popped into my head starts with 'Two households, both alike in dignity...' and doesn't have a happy ending, but that's far from the only result possible.
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Originally Posted by TGLS
Well if reality is any precedent, the besieged side slowly decays and refocuses its energies on spells of mass destruction, while the sieging side undergoes an economic boom, a mass increase in communication spells, and invents K-Pop. The siegers no longer have any desire to conquer the besieged (in part because conquest would be disastrous to both sides), but must maintain the siege out of fear of what the besieged would do.
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Well... um... I hadn't considered that comparison, but that's a good point. Mind you, what happened in the Korean Paeninsula depended a lot on factors that might not be present, but we can certainly say that it's a plausible result.