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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anonym" data-source="post: 9607468" data-attributes="member: 31951">first of all, I must say that this is a very vague question, and Im not sure how to describe it correctly.In a typical fantasy world (for example, the Faerun), there are all kinds of powerful beings such as dragons, liches, demons, or something even stranger and high-level characters (especially high-level spellcasters) whose power is beyond imagination or normal men and can massacre, destroy, or controll at least one city by themselves and by their own power, unless other similarly powerful beings intervene.because even in most of fantasy worlds, their average people are still just as weak and vulnerable as humans on Earth.and unlike on Earth, these powerful beings, whatever the source of their power, have an overwhelming advantage over ordinary people not from their power, armies, or wealth, but from themselves. (Although these powerful beings usually do have great power, armies, or wealth and actively use them)If your lord doesn't even need to call up his army, but can wipe out an entire squad with a fireball he throws, or can make you his slave with just his mind, and you, an ordinary person, have only a black powdered musket as the most powerful force you can get, then the situation you face is completely different from that of humans on Earth.if you want to rebel against your lord, you usually have to pledge youself to someone who as powerful as your lord.this means that these powerful beings have less social and economic dependencies. a powerful great wyrm's territory might only have a poor village that raises pigs and fish for it. but that dragon is really powerful enough to take on an entire army. whether a domain is rich or not is not an indication of how powerful its lord is.I'm not sure. but what I want to discuss is, in a world like Toril, like in the 3R era where spellcasters are almost omnipotent, how many powerful beings and high level characters are appropriate?there are also a lot of levels among these powerful beings and high-level characters, so, to what extent is it related to the total population? or should the number of these powerful beings be more arbitrary since their power is not actually based on the size of territory and population like the rulers on Earth.?for example, a barren and primitive world,just like Athas of the Darksun series, with a relatively sparse human population and harsh environment, but with a very large number of high-level characters above level 20, and the common people as a whole only outnumber them by 10 times or even less———— the ruler, and a ruler of a fairly high rank (at least a lord), only outnumbers their subjects by 10 times. this is completely impossible on Earth.in nature, carnivores must be 10 times less than their prey, and rulers within human societies need much much more subjects to serve them (this is the case on Earth). but in a world with magic and various supernatural powers, the situation may be pretty different.for such worlds, the source of rulers' power comes more from themselves, and less from their territories,army and subjects (although still important), which may mean more room for tyrants and Caligulas than the Earth.</blockquote>

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