Also again, conflict is highlighted further during the party's visit to the state of Two River. The inability of the states to find any common ground and aid each other when Highland was attacking is what, essentially, destroyed the union in the first place. Conflict is, when you get down to it, the main reason why Jowston was nearly destroyed by Highland. This is most clearly seen with the overall war between Highland and Jowston. Suikoden 2 is, when you get right down to it, a meditation on the meaning, and consequences, of conflict. The main theme of Suikoden 2 is conflict. Unfortunately for Jowy, Pilika had been taken to this signing (she had stayed with Riou due to circumstances), and Jowy, unable to expose Pilika to any more violence, allowed Riou to escape, prolonging the war. So, by getting Riou to surrender to him, Highland would be able to keep Muse and Greenhill, and the war would end, putting Jowston into a position where it could not possibly start a conflict with any hope of winning. Even with Muse and Greenhill under direct occupation, Matilda isolated from the rest of the States, and with Two River and South Window open to any attack, Jowy knew that Jowston could still put up a fight. What it really was, however, was a trap, to get Riou to surrender to Highland. He lured Riou and the one Jowston leader who had officially allied with him, Teresa Wisemail, into the territory Highland had occupied under the false pretense of signing a peace treaty. His idea was so simple, yet so brilliant, it was almost guaranteed to succeed. He knew a future conflict was unavoidable, so he came up with a new idea. Jowy also never forgot how fractured Jowston's leadership truly was. Furthermore, South Window got attacked and occupied thrice during the course of the game, and Two River was also attacked. Matilda was isolated, Muse had most of its population massacred, and Greenhill was under direct occupation. And yes, there was plenty of fuel for future conflict. Any peace Jowy could gain with Jowston would be little more than an armistice that lasted a decade or two at best, until another conflict arose. The Queen was brutally raped, right in front of the young prince, and from that rape came Jillia, the princess of Highland. This war was lost by Jowston, so Daryll had sent some of his soldiers to kidnap the visiting Queen of Highland and her son, Luca Blight. Twenty years before the game, the leader of Muse, Daryll, instigated a war between both countries in order to gain more land. This is not the first time Highland and Jowston have been at war.
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