The war game was a large event, a grand tournament of power, but at its base, it was actually a religious festival.
The origin of the war games was to fight in order to venerate the goddess, however later people modified it to suit their own needs.
One of these people was Athor, the founder of the Aether Academy. He was a sage who thought it would be a good opportunity to have his students compete with the students of other sages.
Which may have been part of the reason the War of the Five Sages was fought, but that wasn't what Damon was thinking about. Even though the war was the cause of intense rivalries between the various academies today, especially the Aether Academy, which even after so many millennia had not lost.
Damon could have tried to ponder about the thousands who died in the war simply because five supposedly wise men had a little contest between their students and had caused some casualties.
Why did that have to involve thousands of others?
