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What proportion of the population are adventurers?
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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 7611495" data-attributes="member: 6818233"><p>If people want to compare to real world populations of the late Middle Ages to early Renaissance, try to compare to pre-Great Plague populations, as the Black Death swept the world in the 1340s-1350s and killed as much as half the population of the known world. Or look at populations from about 1550 onward, as it took about 200 years for the world population to return to pre-plague numbers. Though some urban centers, such as London, still had more outbreaks that killed 20-25% of the population, making numbers from certain years not good to use.</p><p></p><p>But on the subject, the biggest creator of adventurers, mercenaries, etc, would be a just concluded major war. Thousands of now unemployed soldiers with nothing to do and nowhere to go could become mercenaries/adventurers or brigands/bandits. The end of the 100 Years War was a good example of that, with many of the former soldiers in the service of either England or France were suddenly on their own. It would be similar in a fantasy world. A long period of peace means less people out looking for their fortunes, while a recently ended period of war and turmoil would have many more people out there. And a peaceful fantasy world is a boring fantasy world, so this heightened number of unattached adventurers is normally common.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 7611495, member: 6818233"] If people want to compare to real world populations of the late Middle Ages to early Renaissance, try to compare to pre-Great Plague populations, as the Black Death swept the world in the 1340s-1350s and killed as much as half the population of the known world. Or look at populations from about 1550 onward, as it took about 200 years for the world population to return to pre-plague numbers. Though some urban centers, such as London, still had more outbreaks that killed 20-25% of the population, making numbers from certain years not good to use. But on the subject, the biggest creator of adventurers, mercenaries, etc, would be a just concluded major war. Thousands of now unemployed soldiers with nothing to do and nowhere to go could become mercenaries/adventurers or brigands/bandits. The end of the 100 Years War was a good example of that, with many of the former soldiers in the service of either England or France were suddenly on their own. It would be similar in a fantasy world. A long period of peace means less people out looking for their fortunes, while a recently ended period of war and turmoil would have many more people out there. And a peaceful fantasy world is a boring fantasy world, so this heightened number of unattached adventurers is normally common. [/QUOTE]
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