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How Much Land is a Hide?

Posted on April 26, 2025

So in RQ, a “hide” is a unit of accounting and not really of area. It represents the amount of land sufficient to support a household or meet certain fiscal duties. The…

Farming in Pavis County

Posted on April 22, 2025

So I’ve been looking really carefully at agriculture and farm sizes (I’ve managed to find some much better classical world agricultural data that works better for me). Less than 50% of the…

Orlanth Initiation in New Pavis 1623

Posted on March 7, 2025

In New Pavis, if are a young adult man of the Orlanth cult (note that includes women of the Vinga subcult), you have already experienced danger and peril. In 1623, during the…

Cults of Pavis

Posted on December 31, 2024

This is an overview of the cults present in New Pavis and the Big Rubble, and the local environs (mainly Pavis County). Don’t bother over interpreting the categories or the number of…

The Lunar Religion in post-Liberation Prax

Posted on June 30, 2024

Following the liberation of Pavis by the White Bull, the Lunar Army was forced out of Prax, and all arrangements those dependent on the presence of the Lunar Army collapsed. The governor…

Kinship Groups in New Pavis

Posted on June 26, 2024

Outside of the Big Rubble, there are some 24,000 humans in Pavis County. About 2/3rds of them are Sartarite settlers or their descendants. The first settlers came with Dorasar in 1550. They…

Pavis County and Sun County

Posted on June 16, 2024

If we look at the settled population of Pavis County and Sun County together, we see that the six largest cults are: To me this explains how Sun Dome County manages to…

The Cult of Pavis I

Posted on May 31, 2024

The Pavis cult is really quite small, likely less than 2000 initiates in the world. Maybe 300 reside in New Pavis, 500 or so reside in the Big Rubble. As many as…

Population Movement in Dragon Pass

Posted on March 30, 2024

Apropos of my previous post – there’s a lot of interaction between the peoples of Dragon Pass, Prax, and the Holy Country. Many leading Sartarite families have married Esrolians, many Goldentongue merchants…

New Pavis Historical Stages

Posted on January 20, 2024

I posted this as a comment inside another post, but here it is on its own: Something else to think about – Old Pavis went through a couple of historical stages, we…

Cult sizes in New Pavis

Posted on January 20, 2024

As an aside, there are about 400 initiates of Pavis, and 7 Rune Priests (Daughters of Pavis). There might be as many as 2000 lay members on top of this. Now that…

Notes on New Pavis and the Big Rubble

Posted on January 14, 2024

There are over 25,000 human inhabitants of Pavis County – that’s the broad fertile valley in the northern River of Cradles. Most of them are farmers of Sartarite origins who settled between…

Zola Fel Valley

Posted on December 9, 2022

This is another one of those posts about scale. Pavis County and Sun Dome County are where New Pavis, the Big Rubble, and the Sun Dome Temple of Prax are located. It…

Pavis clan generator

The Pavis Clan Generator is based on the Sartar Clan Generator with the later questions replaced with locally specific questions and answers. The generator was created by Charles Corrigan.

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