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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9573788" data-attributes="member: 42856">As part of the nitpick, let's do a quick calculation. The island is 40 km wide and in the absence of map I'll assume it's roughly circular -- there is a central plateau overlooking the coastal area, and I don't think it would be appropriate to describe it as such if it was a long band of land, five times longer than wide.Its size is therefore 20*20*3.14 square km = 1,250 (roughly). Assuming its climate is comparable to the standard D&D faux medieval England setting, the population density of England, and the land's ability to sustain people was 2 to 5 persons per square km. It's a mountainous area, so we should be on the lower end, but let's assume that fishing is plentiful and they are on the higher end. Let's double that to account of the loot they get from their activity in pirate's way -- though a steady population couldn't rely on the hope that they'll find a grain-transporting ship to catch regularly enough. There might be 15, 000 people leaving on the various villages in the island. They had 15 years. That's 3 people to visit each day. They could have individually scouted the whole population to ask them if they are Landor's son, not even discounting the idea that someone might help them pinpoint its location, say, by asking in one of the hamlets, since basically everyone in Delmer seems to know about Marla and Carr.</blockquote>