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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5988292" data-attributes="member: 4937">The main races of my campaign world are the seven 'free peoples':1) Fey - dryads, sidhe, brownies, pixies, sprites, changelings, atomies, selkies, etc.2) Humans 3) Goblins - goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears, great goblins4) Dwarves5) Elves6) Orine7) IdrethFey outnumber everything by about 10 to 1, but most of those are lesser fey so saying that fey outnumber humans is no more interesting than noting rats, cockroaches, and ants outnumber humans.   Still, if they fey were actually civilized, they'd rule the world.  As it is, they are effectively 'small gods' to the other six races.Humans in turn outnumber dwarves and elves by about 30 to 1, and they in turn outnumber Orine by about 5 to 1 and Idreth by nearly 10 to 1.  Since fey tend to be hidden and/or off in fairy country or the dream lands most of the time, humans are far and away the most visible race in the world.On Korrel (that is to say, the world), the most numerous race after that would be the Giants and assorted giant-kin, who are scarcely less rare than Idreth.  The various lesser servitor species - gnolls, merfolk, centaurs, sauhagin, kobolds, dark creepers, minotaurs, lizardfolk and so forth - are all really rare.   There are probably 1000 humans for each of those in the world.Currently, the campaign is set in the Decamarchy of Amalteen, a glorified city state ruling over about 24000 square miles of the surrounding territory and smaller towns.   Other than fey, which number in the millions if you count the dryads, meadow spirits, naiads, gnomes, sprites and atomies, there are about 225,000-230,000 free peoples in Amalteen, with about 220,000 of those being nominally tax paying citizens and the rest being more or less independent tribes - chiefly goblins and feral elves - and transient populations (mostly Tumesi (human) gypsies, but a few Orine and Idreth as well).   Of the citizenry, most are human but there are several thousand dwarves, several thousand goblins and half-goblins doing dirty jobs no one else wants, several hundred elves, a few score friendly giants mostly workign as stevedoers and log skidders, and a few score fey of the more lawful and sociable sort.  There are also hundred or so Orine mercenaries temporarily in the nation, and a handful of Idreth.   There are a couple thousand saughin living just off the coast (or were, as most are dead now), as well as a half dozen storm giants, and a few hundred sea elves. There are about a hundred centaurs roaming the wilder parts, tolerated so long as they agree to hunt less desirable vagrants.  There are infestations of kobolds numbering about 200 or so in various places.   The last adult dragons were killed off in Amalteen about 100 years ago, but there are always a number of juveniles killed each year after trying to settle and there is a young adult sea dragon currently off the coast making shipping hazardous (which in normal times would have gotten taken care of by now, but times aren't normal).</blockquote>

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