Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> wrote: >To: "Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net> >CC: Brust list <dragaera at dragaera.info> >Subject: Re: Soul destroying - Issola Spoiler >Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:37:46 -0500 > >On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:15:20PM -0500, Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > > > I'm thinking about Dragaeran vital statistics--we see no evidence > > that Dragaerans have more than a very few children (more closely > > approximating modern Western demographics than anything else, it > > would seem). Given their very long life, one would think that births > > and deaths are very rare occurrences. . . . > >IMHO this is an area where Dragaeran textev just doesn't hold up. Given >the apparent small family size, relative rarity of marriage, and amazingly >high number of people getting killed, textev inevitably leads one to the >conclusion that Dragaerans are in a steep population implosion. Yes, a high number of people being killed _among those we meet in the books_, but who are they? They're soldiers and criminals and for both of these occupations that's part of the job description. I assume that Chreotha tailors don't get killed left and right, unless they fall foul of an easterner with a moustach. ;)