The war in Ishval was the result of already-existing civil unrest; the Amestrian army had already occupied the territory in an attempt to quell it, but in actuality things were being further escalated by the Homunculi, and all of that came to a head when Envy (disguised as one of our soldiers) "accidentally" shot an Ishvalan civilian, a child. At that point the unrest quickly turned to rioting, and due to Ishval receiving assistance from Aerugo, that eventually turned into all-out war.
Philosopher's Stones weren't distributed to all of the State Alchemists involved; there was actually only one. Outside of the people who created the one used in that conflict in the first place, I was the only person who knew about it, because I was the one who received it.
I also knew about the Homunculi by that time; I was aware of them before I was sent to the battlefield. So it wasn't anything that I did in Ishval, given that I'd cast my lot in with them already.
I've told you about the sheer scale of what they were trying to pull off before. Obviously, with an operation that size, it's impossible to keep it a complete secret. Once in a while, the cracks would show. People would find out. Most of them were eliminated; at least one chose to try to act out against it and was killed by Bradley for his effort. There were some members of the high brass that were given an incomplete briefing of what exactly was going to happen - pawns, essentially, who would be sacrificed along with the rest. I was the exception for some reason; I knew everything, and they knew better than to expect me to be one of their sacrifices at the very end so it's not as though they wanted something in particular.
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Philosopher's Stones weren't distributed to all of the State Alchemists involved; there was actually only one. Outside of the people who created the one used in that conflict in the first place, I was the only person who knew about it, because I was the one who received it.
I also knew about the Homunculi by that time; I was aware of them before I was sent to the battlefield. So it wasn't anything that I did in Ishval, given that I'd cast my lot in with them already.
I've told you about the sheer scale of what they were trying to pull off before. Obviously, with an operation that size, it's impossible to keep it a complete secret. Once in a while, the cracks would show. People would find out. Most of them were eliminated; at least one chose to try to act out against it and was killed by Bradley for his effort. There were some members of the high brass that were given an incomplete briefing of what exactly was going to happen - pawns, essentially, who would be sacrificed along with the rest. I was the exception for some reason; I knew everything, and they knew better than to expect me to be one of their sacrifices at the very end so it's not as though they wanted something in particular.
This is going to irritate me, but I'll handle it.