Oh, I don't blame him for making
that assumption. It's more the way he makes assumptions, and the other assumptions he's made. Like believing I spent 7 Essence to make a system that already existed.
Also, Andres...do you not understand population growth? I'm not saying this to be rude, I'm just wanting to point out that America got from 3 Million or so in the 1780 census to 50 million in the 1880. Yes I know quite a lot of this was immigration, but if that happened in 100 years, 1500 years? Easy.
Also, humans breed like fuckin' rabbits, and adapt really well, besides the whole tribe-society and capacity for violence and slash-and-burn we have going for us. Plus the bit about immortal races typically breeding rather slowly(not much reason to have kids if you're immortal anyway...).
We get less essence from immortal races because they're closer to being gods. It's about power, remember? There's a sweet spot, above 'wild beast' and below 'titan'.
Also, asking how numerous things are is a good way to get things badly wrong, since he usually does a logarithmic scale. I asked how many to the nearest 10 million; I'd thought the total pop of the world was about 50 million, rather approximately twice that(as in I think it's approximately that much, could probably be anywhere from 70-155 million total), so it's not like I got it right.
Our worlds are actually extremely low population. As a reference, the Earth hit 100 Million population around -600 BC(if I'm reading this graph right). But Keshan and Slytha have the pop split between them. 50 Million pop was around -1000 BC. And on it's own, this would be evidence of a fairly low population world. But it's not on it's own. Our technology level is around mid-late medieval, minus guns, and there's magic, which is/should be rather a major factor. There are, of course, plagues and the like, but...the Bubonic Plague made a fairly shallow dent in world population, and it killed a third of it's victims. The magical plagues, as far as I have been able to tell, have not killed nearly enough people to do reduce pop enough for that to be a viable cause.
Add on to this that there are such a multitude of races, capable of inhabiting so many different environments(flying races, races that can build in the sky, aquatic races, subterranean races), some races don't need food, and some races don't even need air(mostly thinking of the Golems), and it becomes yet more flagrant.
Which presents to me several options (sidenote real quick: KJP, I'm not trying to attack you. You're an awesome GM, and it doesn't really retract from the setting since it's rather arbitrary numbers in any case. Anyone can suffer from
[Warning: TVtropes ahead] lack of scale, after all. Just point out what I've observed.) to explain this.
A. Our worlds are extremely inhospitable to life.
B. Our races are rather shite at reproducing/growing in number on their own, which could be for any number of reasons.
C. Our worlds are rather small despite their gravity(We made the laws of physics how we wanted to after all) and so cannot support a large population.
D. Something is actively preventing the population from growing larger than the entity wants it to be
E. Some side-effect or similar scenario is in place such that the population has difficult growing for another reason, like Divinity particles interfering with conception. In other words the laws of physics say you can't have as many babies (survive).
F. Some other thing I haven't considered yet.