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Message: <blockquote data-quote="storyguide3" data-source="post: 1647774" data-attributes="member: 8555">First off, who peed in your cereal today?Second, try these figures on for size.Khorvaire has an area of some 9.3 million square miles.It has an estimated population density of 1.6 per square mile.14th century England had a pop.density of about 42/Sq. MileLet us assume that before the war, Khorvaire was slightly less populated than England (even though England was the least populous namtion in Europe at the time. Let's set the density to 1/2 that of England, 21/sq. mile. That gives us a population of about 195,000,000. There are now about 16,000,000 people of all the counted races on Khorvaire. That means somewhere around 179,000,000 people died during the Last War. Some died of natural causes and accident, but then again others were born.That's one heck of a war. I should think that a war that could kill that many people would have left the place far more devastated than comes across in the book. Civiallization would be a total shambles. Less than 10% of the people survived. There is no reason given in the text as to why the prewar population should be any lower than that encountered in Europe during the late Middle Ages or early Reanaissance. In fact, given the amount of magic available and the fact that the Dragonmarked Houses had been around for centuries, there should be more people than I used above. The only reason we are given for the low poopulation is the war. Again, one heck of a war.Frankly, there probably shouldn't be any countries left after a war that devastating, let alone functioning rail lines, newspapers and people adventuring. The adventure of Eberron should be, "get the crops in so we don't starve".Now, if you like the population figures the way they are, fine. Whatever floats your boat is no problem with me. Just don't act like a jerk and tell people to "get a life" when they pose a very valid comment about a part of an otherwise excellent setting that just doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.By the way, I'd say the last time any major continent on Earth was that sparsely populated, we were inventing agriculture and cities, certainly not creating liiving machines and printing newspapers.</blockquote>

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