The Big Rubble is about 15 square km or 1500 hectares. That’s basically the Upper Westside of Manhattan or little bigger than Kensington plus Chelsea in London. Another way of thinking about…
Tag: Population demographics
The Size of Sartar
At the time Argrath is acclaimed Prince in 1627, Sartar covers some 16,000 to 20,000 km2 (kind of depends on what you want to measure). Pavis is an allied/associated city-state, and is…
Lunar Resettlement of Tarsh after 1460 ST
After 1460, large sections of Peloria (especially east of the Oslir River) were depopulated grasslands. To resettle and repopulate, land was assigned to nobles and temples with low initial taxes (who then…
The Spread of the Lunar Way
In the Lunar Provinces, about 26% of the total population follows the Lunar Way. The Lunar Way was introduced to the Provinces between 1330 and 1350 with the campaigns of the Conquering…
Farming in the Big Rubble
There are some 1600 humans in the Big Rubble, with 500 in the Real City, 300 in Zebra Fort, and 300 in Mani’s Fort. The remaining 500 are scattered around Zebraside, the…
Farming in Pavis County
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…
Nochet – Sailing and Oceanic Trade
One thing I think is easy to underestimate is just how much the impact of sailing and oceanic trade is on Nochet. Probably about 40% of ALL Gloranthan maritime traffic passes through…
Trolltown in The Big Rubble II
We often forget that the Big Rubble can actually be viewed as a troll city with a human minority. First some comparisons of size. New Pavis is 28 hectares, and I think…
Biggest Sartarite Cities
The biggest Sartarite city – as described in the Dragon Pass book – is Boldhome, with over 10,000 residents. It is twice the population of the other cities around the Quivin Mountains…
Population demographics of New Pavis and the Big Rubble
If we look at Pavis and the Big Rubble as a whole, there are some 7400 humans, 2500 trolls, 1000 aldryami, 200 dwarfs, 150 dragonewts, and 750 other sentients (including broo &…
Trolltown in The Big Rubble I
Some 2000 trolls now reside in Trolltown. Powerful troll kinship groups have taken over the intact villas, which may be the home of 50-120 dark trolls, trollkin, and great trolls. The largest…
Badside – Outside Pavis & the Big Rubble
About 1490 there was a new settlement started outside of the walls of Pavis. It was called the City of Thieves (now called Badside), and it was permitted both as a favour…
Trolls of The Big Rubble
There are some 2500 trolls in the Big Rubble, making them the single most numerous community. There are some 500 adult dark trolls, over 1600 trollkin, and at least 100 great trolls,…
A Few Notes on Adari, Northern Prax
Adari is a frontier town between Shadows Dance and Prax. It was first settled in the Dawn Age and is also the birthplace of Pavis, but since has been razed and rebuilt…
The Dragonewt Temple in The Rubble
In 1539, the unusual event called the Dragonewts’ Dream took place. At that time all of the living dragonewts of Dragon Pass crawled into their ancient cities, sealed and booby trapped them,…
Manside, Big Rubble
Let’s think about Manside in the Big Rubble for a few minutes. About 1,500 humans live in the Big Rubble. Of that number, about 500 live in the Real City, about 350…
Why was Old Pavis so big?
Now I don’t mean why were the walls so big – that was Paragua‘s doing. He smashed the little settlement of Robcradle (which was probably around 3 hectares or a little bigger…
How Big is the Big Rubble?
The Big Rubble covers about 1900 hectares of area. To put that in comparison, New Pavis covers only 28 hectares, and even Nochet covers only 600 hectares. For real world comparisons, Ancient…
Boldhome 1622
In early 1622, Boldhome is an occupied city, the center of Lunar administration for Sartar, Prax, and Heortland. Malkonwal and the Hendriki have been defeated, but there are still some 20,000 Lunar…
Social Classes in the Lunar Empire
A few notes on social classes in the Lunar Empire (with some specific notes on slavery in Dara Happa). Dara Happa – that belt of intensive agriculture along the Oslira river –…
Population Movement in Dragon Pass
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…
Werewolves in Sartar
Sartar has one of the – if not the – highest percentages of werewolves of any civilized kingdom. Some 2% of the population are werewolves! The Prince is defended by werewolves and…
The Hungry Plateau
The Hungry Plateau is some 1350 meters high, and the plateau itself rises some 700 meters above the surrounding foothills. It is smaller than the Grand Mesa in Colorado (although not that…
Common Knowledge – Dragonewts
Dragonewts are both familiar and extremely mysterious in Dragon Pass. They are of course familiar to most inhabitants – there are some 20,000 dragonewts in Dragon Pass. Dragonewt Roads cross much of…
New Pavis Historical Stages
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…