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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 3037502" data-attributes="member: 5203">Well, she would say she's an 'opportunist' - of course, the kinds of opportunities she seeks...Lanara's rather uninhibited, but I wouldn't go so far as to call her sleazy.  She knows what attracts attention, and since her whole profession revolves around getting attention, she's not afraid to use the tools she was given.  I'd call her more of a flirt than anything.  Her 'exploits' most likely come off sounding worse than they are, because she receives a lot of good-natured ribbing both in and out of character.Well, I'll let our GM talk specifics about numbers, should he happen to see this question.  I don't think he goes by strict DMG population guidelines, recognizing that in a world with arcane and divine magic and psionics, especially one like Aelfenn where they are very prevalent, there are just going to be more people, cities will be bigger, and so on (I'd make the same argument about the Realms).However, I will admit that I was rather surprised by the population figures we started getting.    I don't think we really challenged it, because when it comes down to it we were focused on the concept of the invasion rather than the versimillitude (when one is running in a campaign world still very much in development, one learns to accept that some details will be fuzzy, or change over time).As far as getting all those Taurics over, bear in mind that they probably loaded up anything that could float, and packed people in like sardines (the bulk of their population are humanoid slaves, so who cares if they have no room to move?)  And, there's no guarantee that all 360 milllion people made it over; I could easily see a few hundred thousand slaves being left behind to die when the ships filled up.  There is also the possibility that there really aren't that many Taurics; the population figure we have was a guess based on what little information there was about the Empire available.But yes, I can see where the concept of loading up the population of the US onto boats to invade Australia might stretch credulity a bit.  Like I said, I'll let the DM answer this if he sees it.  Who knows?  I could end up editing those numbers down.</blockquote>

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