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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1925849" data-attributes="member: 99">I guess nobody sent me the memo. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But I can see the point of saying that there was a good bit of depopulation after 100 years of war.Actually, just like every other aspect of Sharn, I can see taking this oddity and turning it into an adventure hook.  Think of it like this:The general loss of population due to warfare has caused a drop in the population of Sharn over the last hundred years.  Although many of the soldiers came from the countryside, that left fewer people to work the land and with food still in high demand there would have been some movement out of the cities.  A few wealthy merchants, particularly ones with access to magic, may have bought up vast tracts of land (on the cheap) for farming and been willing to hire workers to bring in the crops.The upper wards of Sharn still maintain similar populations because the rich largely avoided military service or else had the means to equip themselves to better survive combat.  But the middle wards saw a significant loss in population creating some residential vacancies.  Naturally the folk of the Lower Wards would move into these areas as prices dropped (they like to see the sunshine once in a while).This in turn left large sections of the lower wards vacant and ripe for expansion by the lowliest of all Sharn's denizens:  The Goblins.  With a high birthrate and short time to sexual maturity there is a virtual population explosion going on in the underbelly of Sharn.  And yet there is not a single Goblin present on the city council!  How long can this inequality last?  What can be done about it?  Is Sharn destined to become a Goblin City again?  Will Daask become the new ruling power of the city through sheer force of numbers?Hmmm...possibilities, possibilities <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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