A New Journey [Second Update]

In the Trojan War, Toroi successfully held off the Greek allied forces and avoided the destruction it had suffered in its original fate.

But in truth, that did not mean Toroi had truly won.

Ultimately, both sides had suffered heavy losses.

Although Toroi had claimed victory, it was really only a victory without triumph. Greece had been the aggressor, and the entire war had been fought on Toroian soil. Thus, even in victory, the damage the war inflicted upon Toroi's territory was utterly irreversible.

During the early stages of the war, after the Greeks attacked Toroi three times without success, while the Toroians did not dare rashly leave the city to counterattack, the Greeks could only occupy the nearby city-states subordinate to Toroi. These included Tenedos, Lesbos, Pedasus, Lyrnessus, and others. Even mighty Thebes met with disaster. At the time, Thebes was ruled by Eetion, father of Hector's wife Andromache. In the end, that legendary city too fell beneath the Greeks' iron hooves.

But had the Greeks won?

No.

The ten-year expedition had been a tremendous drain on every Greek nation. Even plundering Toroian city-states could not compensate for such vast expenditure, much less the fact that, compared to the defenders, the attackers had suffered far heavier troop losses. Greek men had basically died in wave after wave beneath the walls of Toroi.

And at the end of the war, Greece had not gained victory despite those losses. On the contrary, they had failed, and they had also lost a great many heroes. Of the several commanders, only Odysseus ultimately returned to his homeland. They had lost both "the wife" — Paris, in this case — and their troops.

Having failed in the war and received insufficient compensation, the nations that had formed the Greek allied forces rapidly weakened. The