I ask because people seem to think the battle (Scarlet arrives in town to cleanup) took weeks-months, when this makes no sense at all considering we know for a fact the “Escape from LA” event happened ONCE, same with the battle event (because the Marionette event is stated to happen a single time and that was a win.)
It took a two or three days I’d say: the attack was really sudden, didn’t even took a full 24hrs. Let’s speculate: one day to prepare for the tactis, and according to Scholar Ela Makkay, the 14th Lionguard Security Force protected the city for a day.
They entered the city “to be the first squadron to establish a foothold in the battered, occupied Lion’s Arch”, they spent a night fighting, and by the morning Scarlet was dead.
The way I figure is Scarlet attacked and took the city within one day, deployed Miasma.
One-two days for the Miasma to clear.
One day for the good guys to retake the city and kill Scarlet, then several days for cleanup to happen to the point we see ingame. edit: Reading those security force blurbs, it could be the Security force held out against Aetherblades for the entire day while waiting for news, and Scarlet died during the night (the battle instance was during the night as I recall), or sometime during the second day Scarlet was killed.
Mainly because these styles of battle don’t take long at all, fires were still raging in the various buildings, the bank was completely emptied and Scarlet’s drill finished it’s 97m hole after she died… and that was a huge magical drill that I somehow doubt would take weeks to finish :P.
The real long part of the battle was the Miasma blowing away, but being a coastal port city I don’t see that taking long…
There was some miasma but it was quickly dissipated after survivors were evacuated. Then Scarlet wanted to deploy more miasma, but my guess is that the miasma deployment was stopped and rally locations were defended. Upon failure of miasma deployment, Scarlet sent her generals (Fire Shaman, Aetherblade Cannoneer, etc.) and they were defeated. Then Scarlet sent her knights to stop the Lionguards. The knights were destroyed and the Lionguards kept the city safe (or at least kept defending it) during the last battle on the Breachmaker and until her death.
Anyway, let’s say the full battle of Lion’s Arch does not logically take more than 4 days. So “weeks-months” is completely absurd
