Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4010415-20141223120240/@comment-14909251-20150610230909

73.Anon.52 wrote: Exactly what I was saying to DA before, we don't even know when the two races first encountered each other.

If the war lasted 100 years, "ashes" likely includes time to repair almost all of the damage caused... which could be quite a lot in a war lasting 1 century+.

If it was much shorter than that, it is likely it could make "ashes" a year or less is technically possible.

However, this was a race/species war. To put it in context slavery in America was abolished about 1862/65, yet we had a true civil rights revolution almost a hundred years later. Given how Oobleck describes it, the Faunus War sounds like a fairly conventional conflict that was not particularly long. I would say anywhere from five to ten years at most for the whole thing to happen, though I think a shorter timespan is more likely from his description. There would undoubtedly have been conflict prior to that war, but it would have been low-level or sporadic.