COMIC UPDATE PROGRESSPage #46 is fully inked and scanned, and I am starting the colouring process as I type.
QUESTIONSDid you include people outside the borders of your map when you did the population count?
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not counting goblins, trolls, kobolds, wildmen, or any others who live in the Wilderness"
I wonder if there are any other civilizations of mankind out there, that crawled out of the ashes after The Empire fell..
there are definitely people living outside the borders of the map, a few who will become important later. There are probably not any very large populations adjacent to the "civilized world", though.... but in the far southern reaches of the continent, who knows?
Would the melting pot of Merchant City be considered the unofficial capital of the "civilized" world?
As of now the villages exist mostly as self-governed and autonomous, with no real capital. Ever since the events of the Age of War, people have been uneasy to rise to leadership, lest they compare unfavourably to the one who guided them previously. But rest assured, a time of great upheaval is at hand, and soon a new leader will fall into place.
Also, can I please have a name for it? How urban is Merchant City, specifically in comparison to its two neighbouring cities?
These questions will be answered in due time. Each region on the map will be given focus in the coming chapters.... chapter Two is mainly based in the Great wild for now, but the southern cities will become important in a short while...
All three cities including the Keep is within an area of one square kilometre. Are they considered as one great metropolis to people from, for example, Smithy?
In many ways the cities by the coast represent an ideal to the people of the villages and towns. One could go there and become successful and wealthy, but for every success story there are another hundred people who wind up in the crowded ghettos surrounding the city to the east. Maybe it's not worth the risk - you'd probably be better off to stay in your village, where you have a stable, if unglamourous life.
I'll assume that Mount Ba...kar isn't much of a melting pot, and can't really compare.
no, all of its permanent residents are dwarves. Or at least, the ones the census accounts for - there are accounts of stranger things wandering the catacombs in the bowels of the mountain.