Thar Shaddin

I looked in my Fodor's Guide to Thar Shaddin but I couldn't find the answer.

So, approximately how many people (er, humanoids) live in Marn and Shim?

Uh oh. This was sure to come up again...

The dictionary definition of a city says it's anything that's "of significant size and importance." That said, thar shaddin is pretty insignificant in its own right. I share some dim-wittedness with your character so I haven't written down a number and forget what it was last time. I'm also bad with this sort of thing. I will say Marn is something under 20,000 people, but if that number makes no sense, someone correct me. The map needs more houses, yes I know.

Shim is pitifully small, with not even a thousand permanent residents.

That's what I needed to know, Frug.

I was trying to get a feel for whether Marn was big enough for someone to "disappear" into. The answer seems like, and based on reading other areas of the forum, that it depends how hard you try and how low you lay

That said, I think I'll go try to find Naru a job. Big muscular wolfmen aren't the kind of folks who do well on the unemployment rolls

For an excellent overview of medieval european demographics, http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm. It's more oriented for tabletop RPGs, but it does explain population layout in the medieval world well.

For the time period this is akin to, 20,000 would be a pretty good-sized city, really. And 1000 would be a damn big village. For an insignifigant city, 10-12,000 would make more sense. And a typical village would be about 250 people. Your numbers are logical, but don't work with the "insignificant" description.

I was hesitant to go that low, but it does make sense and it does fit with the maps quite a bit more.

So change what I said above to read 12,000 and 150 people respectively.

Wooo, another wolfman on the site,