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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 1988398" data-attributes="member: 24969"><p>Well, while medieval Europe didn't have many cities that large, there are plenty of examples of cities with equal tech or even lower sustaining more than that. Still, we're not in medieval Europe, we're in a fantasy world. If you can have a world with wizards and dragons, I don't think it will suspend disbelief much more to have large cities. In most typical fantasy worlds, disease and injury don't nearly present the problems they did in RL. Hell, currently this thread is serious considering feeding this large number all via magic. IMC, with access to actual divine wisdom, I figure they know about things like germ theory, nutrician, first aid, so that the general life span of the average person is much longer than it was in RL. Plus, I imagine that the reasons for smaller cities in RL were more complicated than they couldn't feed them all. Plus, IIRC, I think the 200,000 estimate is not only the cities inhabitants but also all the people from the surrounding countryside that are acting as refugees. If we consider the majority of these to be rural inhabitants, then the size of the city is much smaller.</p></blockquote><p></p>