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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 1629853" data-attributes="member: 205">No, Khorvaire is quite a bit bigger than that.  Europe (excluding Russia) has a land area of 1.94 million sq. miles.  Khorvaire is very roughly 4000 miles by 2500 miles, which is about 10 million sq. miles, and it doesn't have a lot of inland water.  For comparison, North America is about 8.2 million sq. miles, not counting inland water.  Considering its size, temperate climate, and technological advances, only supporting a population of 25 million is a little ridiculous.  There was a big war, true, but before that there was 850 years of peace and prosperity.  The population would have exploded in that time.  In the 14th century, temperate farmland such as France could support a population density of almost 100 people per sq. mi.  Harsher areas typically supported much less (The British Isles only supported 42 people/sq. mi.), but that's counting all the land area, not merely the arable land.  A typical sq. mi. of farmland, at medieval technology, will support 180 people.  So, Khorvaire has a lot of rough areas, mountainous areas, etc.  Non-humans are probably not as prolific as humanity, and the goblinoids probably don't farm very well.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   So, let's assume Galifarian Khorvaire only supported 40 people per sq. mi, a number less than 14th century England. That means the population of pre-war Khorvaire should have numbered 400 million people.  So, the Last War must have wiped out about 370 million people, or 92% of the entire population.  Maybe it's just me, but I believe the designers didn't factor in a whole lot of real demographics.  Not surprising, because I'm one of like 7 people who really get a kick out of analyzing population patterns.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   As for me, I'm just going to increase the population about 10-fold, the cities by about 4-5 fold, and feel happy.All data from <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com" target="_blank">Nation Master</a> and <a href="http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm" target="_blank">Medieval Demographics made Easy.</a></blockquote>

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