Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26472215-20160414221052

So I was reading up on the great shinobi wars because I was curious to see if there was any information here that I didn't know about apart from just reading the manga or watching the anime. As I was reading, I constantly thought about something: where and what were the daimyo doing during all of those wars? I know that during the Fourth Great Shinobi War, the five daimyo were under the combined protection of the great nations, but that was only because Obito was targeting them; what were they doing during the other three wars? It seems like the only people starting and stopping the wars are the villages. Do they really have that much freedom, or did the daimyo hate each other so much that they allowed their villages to declare war on one another freely? And plus, those wars had to do with a valuable resource: land. The villages were capturing, losing, and expanding their land, so I would imagine the daimyo would HAVE to have had at least something to do with it, since they obviously don't want their nation's land to be lost during a war they didn't even give permission to be started. Unless of course they don't care 