User blog comment:Bato of the Heavy Iron Rock Hammer/What happens to the Alvarez Empire after FT's ending?/@comment-30230931-20170715185104/@comment-7418318-20170716171035

I doubt that Ishgar will be flooded by refugees.

This is a medieval setting. There are no human traffiker like in Africa of today and the ocean gap between the two continents is a whole lot wider and more dangerous than the mediteranean sea.

Besides, not every empire that falls apart does so through a bloody civil war. There are instances in history when countries managed to split mostly peacefully.

We know far too little about how the countries over there were before Zeref conquered them to make anything other than wild guesses as to what will happen now.

Sure there might be plenty of wannabe warlords trying to fatten their own purses by waging wars, but just as well it could happen that the countries peacefully split into their former terretories or even that a parliament is established to rule instead of the Emperor and Alvarez stays united.

That their entire massive army, their most powerful mages and their immortal emperor were all defeated by a couple of dozen mages is sure to frighten the citizens of Alvarez and frightened people have a tendency to band together. Nothing unites different people better than a common threat, whether real or imaginary.