User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Adelaide Study/@comment-30014014-20161013221712/@comment-28358106-20161014185950

Not just their own citizens, but whomever they happened to conscript. That included citizens from the old capital that Adelaide overthrew, sold into drafted servitude by the monarchy there. It took her leadership to unite the few free barons to stop them.

So yes, a war that has grown in scale and idiocy for far too long, as many of them do.