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@jared-williams

The answer to that highly depends on how long your book is. If it’s a 90k word novel, than a battle that long would might seem gratuitous and drawn-out. If it’s a 200k+ word novel, it would be much more appropriate.

The next determining factor for me as the reader of said battle would be how many important events and PoV’s are happening the battle. If it’s just a long stretch of swords, bombardment, arrows, calvary charges, essence shooting, etc.. and all from what PoV, I would say 9k is probably too long. However, if you have several major events, showdowns, twists, or PoVs, then 9k could be the short end. A 15k+ battle is totally possible if one keeps those above mentioned elements in mind.

So your world and characters have supernatural elements to them?