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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ramon26" data-source="post: 8648987" data-attributes="member: 7036392">two things : 1. when exactly are you talking about? Because the Roman empire at it's greatest had a populaion of nearly 70 million people, and that was in ancient times. Korvaire is a continent almost as big as north America that has thousands of years of history and has a technological developpment closer to early industrial europe, but the whole population of the continent is less than Frances population in the 1700'. 2. I really like the comparisone with the thirty years war because this is actually kind of similare in the scale of the conflict and the the fact that the two are devastating civil wars that divided and decimated the populations of the empires. The problem is that the Holy Roman empire was aproximatly 357,022 square kilometers (this is current germany but still) and Korvair is about 9,826,675 square kilometers (this is current  USA but still). During the 30 years war, the population of the Holy Roman empire was about 25 millions and it lost between 4 and 8 million people due to the war and the famies that ensued while Korvaire, that is more than 20 times bigger, has a population of 15 million with no one country having more than 4 million people. In a more technologically advanced world than the thrity years war, an equivalent territory to the Holy Roman empire during the war in Korvaire would have less than 600k people in it... that is almost nothing in a teritorry about the size of current day germany.Sorry if those are a lot of numbers but I think that these numbers explaine fairly well the problem with the population. I personally like to bump the population to a similare level of european countries in the early 1800, so Breland having 43 million people is pertty good if not on the low side concidering that Germany had a little over 20 million people in 1810 and that Breland is 3 times bigger than Germany. For Sharn, I just go on a whim and say it has between 2 and 2'500 million people which is enourmouse if you compare it to the most populouse city in the 1800 Europe which was London with a little less than 1 million inhabitants (followed by Paris with 500k). This emphasises the enourmity and importance of Sharn wihch is kind of like the London of Eberron, the largest city by far of the continent and the most prosporouse, while still being smaller than the enourmouse metropolises of the modern age.</blockquote>

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