Shade said:Perhaps they don't count robots among the general population?
That raises a whole bunch of other questions. Unless warforged are von Neumann machines, which raises a bunch of questions all its own.
here's what I think. Everybody except for the PCs works for an entertainment company. When a party goes from one part of Khorvaire to another, everything at the old location is torn down and it and the population moves to the group's next destination. There they erect the set and people are made-up to fit their new roles. Thus the elves and halflings the PCs met in one location become the orcs and goblins they'll encounter in the next.
The question then arises; what if they get to their destination a bit early?