Talk:Warehouse 3/@comment-4273152-20151228072501/@comment-1674153-20151229062538

Well, the first few Warehouse were certainly "to the victor goes the spoils," but that pattern didn't last. Two to three, three to four, and four to five was essentially a ping-pong between who had the most power in the Euro-West Asia part of the world. But when the Warehouse had to move from Byzantium, they didn't head to Bulgaria, who was currently at war with the Byzantines - they went all the way to what is today Cambodia. That has always struck me as odd, especially for an empire that only started a few years prior to the move.

But that's probably WHY the Khmer empire was chosen - it was new, and flourishing. There wasn't any sort of major war going on, and the iconoclasm in Byzantine probably made the Hindu-Buddhist empire look like paradise. If the regents could get in a hold before the country became too big, they would be able to keep the Warehouse from moving again. Obviously it did, but the Warehouse never moved again from an empire that was under attack to the attacker. Napoleon's invasion didn't convince the Warehouse to move to France, after all, although I do concede the invasion was hardly succesful in any sense of the word.