champ, on 21 March 2018 - 10:46 AM, said:
He is a Commander.
He commands many Divisions/Units other than the Bridgeburners.
Try not to get too caught up in it.
Macros, on 26 March 2018 - 12:42 PM, said:
Also remember, the timeline is not important.
And these events will be clarified in later books and you can retrofit the events then to make more sense of who and what is going on
Nevyn, on 26 March 2018 - 02:13 PM, said:
The commander in question is the commander of the 2nd army. He came up through the bridgeburners, who were an elite division within it, but he also commanded other divisions, including the mage cadre.
As for the statements being contradictory, not really. Imagine you had a bunch of untested soldiers with access to heavy artillery being assigned to sweep an area of light resistance. And in the first sign of resistance they overreact and basically flatten the whole neighbourhood. It is like that. The allegation is not that the mage cadre are unable to deal with the threat, it is they are panicking and overusing their powers to deal with a relatively small threat.
Thanks. Looked like a silly question...