Well, it doesn't actually matter if the Vidyadhara are serving active duty, because in a lot of the wars, the Xianzhou themselves can potentially become the battleground.
The last Abundance War destroyed 1/5 of the Fanghu's population, because the ship itself had become the battleground, and the enemy on the verge of winning. That the Vidyadhara's ship *only* lost 1/5 is from collateral damage resulting from calling down The Hunt's divine nuke *on themselves*.
(I'll also mention, Dan Shu turned on the Xianzhou because her friend, who was serving as a backline healer during that war, was also collateralled by the nuke. So yeah, being a support unit in these wars ain't exactly safe either.)
If that battle had gone in any other way, it's likely the Vidyadhara would've lost the majority of their total population among the Xianzhou (and the Xianzhou potentially lost at least another ship). So I'm sure living on the Fanghu after that point isn't going to give anyone a sense of security...
Like, from the other Xianzhou (higher ups) point of view, that war was probably a success, since it also seemed to have broken the back of the Denizens of Abundance as a faction. But for the Vidyadhara (higher ups), it's probably the stuff of nightmares.
(And really, I think the only reason Phantylia picked the Luofu to attack instead of the Fanghu is probably because she was lusting after the Ambrosial Arbor. Because otherwise, the Fanghu would've been a much more obvious target for her kind of machinations.)
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Date: 2024-08-10 00:36 (UTC)The last Abundance War destroyed 1/5 of the Fanghu's population, because the ship itself had become the battleground, and the enemy on the verge of winning. That the Vidyadhara's ship *only* lost 1/5 is from collateral damage resulting from calling down The Hunt's divine nuke *on themselves*.
(I'll also mention, Dan Shu turned on the Xianzhou because her friend, who was serving as a backline healer during that war, was also collateralled by the nuke. So yeah, being a support unit in these wars ain't exactly safe either.)
If that battle had gone in any other way, it's likely the Vidyadhara would've lost the majority of their total population among the Xianzhou (and the Xianzhou potentially lost at least another ship). So I'm sure living on the Fanghu after that point isn't going to give anyone a sense of security...
Like, from the other Xianzhou (higher ups) point of view, that war was probably a success, since it also seemed to have broken the back of the Denizens of Abundance as a faction. But for the Vidyadhara (higher ups), it's probably the stuff of nightmares.
(And really, I think the only reason Phantylia picked the Luofu to attack instead of the Fanghu is probably because she was lusting after the Ambrosial Arbor. Because otherwise, the Fanghu would've been a much more obvious target for her kind of machinations.)