A Brief Summation of pre-Imperial failures in Tactical Manoeuvres against the Fae
by Sesus Ketek & Cathak Yagu
A history book, researched by Sesus Ketek and completed by his son Cathak Yagu, which seeks to detail the reasons for the Shogunate’s losses against the Fair Folk during the Great Contagion. The voices of the two authors remain distinct throughout the work, Ketek beginning to assert that losses were due to establishing too wide a perimeter and political infighting, while Yagu criticizes reliance on Magitech and sorcery over boots-on-the-ground which left Shogunate forces few and far between when numbers were needed.
The text is massive, some two thousand pages totaling about 600,000 words, filled with maps and charts and lists of all kinds. It can be split into four broad sections: the state of Shogunate before the disaster, then effects of the Contagion, the defensive strategy against the Fae, then final analysis of why the effort failed. Each section is further divided into chapters detailing specific regions and events.
An academic critic of books would not hold the text up as an example of fine organization, a better book would simply take portions of material from the first three sections and use them as footnotes in the fourth. There is a great deal of data that isn't completely relevant, numerous incomplete listings of officer names and equipment stockpiles and supply delivery reports.
