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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 1648763" data-attributes="member: 7883">That's the point....that's part of what may be going on.  What if the population was 2 or 3 times what it is now, before the Last War?  Keith has mentioned before that when running a game, DMs can easily depict PCs travelling through multitudes of abandoned and burned out villages.With less people, the civilization might shrink.....which leaves more abandoned areas for bandits and monsters to infest, and more reasons for PCs to be going to the border to solve problems.I'm thinking that the Last War would have been far more devastating than Earth wars in the medieval ages....afterall.....European armies didn't have fireballs and meteor swarms and armies of warforged.  There were likely multiple population drops.  The destruction of Cyre may have been the largest one, but villages and towns were razed, water supplies probably poisoned, entire crops burned, starvation, possibly plague, etc.  And this would have gone on for 100 years.  IMO that could have a huge effect on a population.Perhaps Khorvaire is on the cusp of a huge population/baby boom, now that things are stabilizing.  It's 2 years after the war....soldiers will be going back to start families and businesses and such....business may be booming, as the process of rebuilding begins.Banshee</blockquote>