Blue and his assistant did a slight bow and walked out also, indeed the war had started and then preparations for a march had also started and the Northern spies had to start running back to inform the North that the southern warriors were already coming far sooner than expected. The march had started and the grounds where shaking due to the galloping not horses.
The North had lots of small villages than fortresses. This was because everyone had to farm to survive. The food there was not much and it was very unlike the south that had almost everything they needed to survive. They had not had what they wanted all this while and had to adopt for it.