chad powell wrote:
> After giving a history I would like to justify why I believe that Rhudyns
> population is lower than it should be. One reason given for Rhudyn having a
> lower population was that it is a mountain land. That is true for some
> part, but in our history we know that fertile mountains can support life
> fairly easily, besides when mages can manipulate the land for an advantage
> of producing food for communities it helps some. Also all of Rhudyn is not
> mountains, in fact a very large trade route runs right along side of almost
> all of its coast. This would cause the three main port cities to have a
> very high population. There is also a lot of land stretching from the coast
> to the mountain range, this land most certainly holds many farms, ranches,
> fields, mines, villages, and larger towns.
> The land has been united continuously even when under foreign control
> and have suffered only one major war,(not counting cedonia) losing their
> grip on the straight.
There have also been several wars with Tana where Tana gained territory
from Rhudyn.
> (might I add that when this piece of territory was held
> by rhudyn, this would have also greatly affected their population) Many
> patriots and loyalist would have fled to Rhudyn controlled soil, others
> would have stayed hoping to help their country gain control again some day.
> A long running well established and controlled government and society will
> always have a great effect on a population.
Except that Rhudyn is part of the Free Cities, which are not known for
effective governments.
> Its just a few thoughts, hope it backs up my reasoning.
Keeping in mind the above points, what do you think your population should
be instead of 250,000?
--
Jefferson
http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/
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