User blog comment:The Usual Thinker/Which side did you choose and why?/@comment-3524429-20120225041546/@comment-80.216.219.11-20120225105054

No, the Concordat was not necessary. The AD was not powerful enough to press on the war, because if they could would never have stopped fighting. To stop fighting when the enemy is crushed like mede loyalists say the mede empire was at the Great Wars end makes no sense.