[Dragaera] Dragaerans vs Easterners, relative population sizes

[Michael Wojcik]

Alexx Kay wrote:
> 
> Hm.  We know that the power of one's connection to the Orb is affected in
> some ways by distance.  Perhaps if one gets far enough from Adrilankha,
> life gets too hard for most Dragaerans to want to put up with it?

Perhaps, but we have multiple indications in _Jhegaala_ that sorcery
works just fine in Fenario, so the Empire doesn't appear to have
spread to the effective limit of the Orb's power, if that is a factor.

> This in turn raises the question of how the nature of this 'effective
> radius of Empire' was changed by the relocation of the Capitol after the
> Interregnum.  Bryan' Newell's map shows Adrilankha as being much further
> South than Dragaera City was.  Are the northern parts of the Empire less
> 'hospitable' than they were pre-Interregnum?  Northport is still a going
> concern in _Orca_, which is mild evidence against...

On the other hand, the Orb's power was substantially greater when the
Interregnum ended, which might extend its range such that the outlying
provinces saw no loss in sorcerous effectivity even with the
relocation of the capital.

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Micro Focus
Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University