Quote Originally Posted by Rydiro View Post
They should have been reasonably weak to a coordinated ambush to their mage lines,
Highlighted the part that the Drow, at that time, did not do. They were not a functioning society. There was no coordinated response to either Cat or the Dwarves. It is quite possible the Dwarves would have run into a nasty surprise when they started trying to advance on the center of the Drow territory where the real old monsters lived, but by that point the Dwarves would already be holding something like half of the area they wanted.. but then again, they might have just continued reducing the strongholds of individual Mighty one by one while the other Mighty looked on and laughed about how their rivals were too pathetic and worthless to fend off the Dwarves.
Neither Sve Noc nor the really powerful Mighty cared about the lives of 'lesser' Drow enough to respond. Although for Sve Noc, at least, it could be argued that they considered Catherine as the more valuable prize, and were willing to ignore the Dwarves in order to try to bait Catherine into a place where they could get at Winter - after all, once they consumed Winter and solidified their apotheosis, surely they would have power sufficient to deal with the Dwarves. (They probably were not wrong.)