[Dragaera] Dragaerans vs Easterners, relative population sizes

[Jon%20Lincicum]

----- "Alexx Kay" <alexx at panix.com> wrote: 


In chapter 11 of Teckla, Vlad says that the Book of the Seven Wizards says 
that "there are more Easterners in the world" than Dragaerans. It could 
be wrong, of course, but Vlad's mention of it doesn't make it sound at all 
controversial. 

We spend most of the books in the Empire, where Easterners are 
(apparently) a minority, and where the Dragaerans appear to be the 
dominant species on the planet. But I guess there are a *lot* of small 
Eastern kingdoms, or maybe even some not-so-small ones. 

Alexx 

I guess I've always read this bit as saying there are "more Easterners *being born into* the world", based on the context that Vlad is talking about in this passage. (He's talking about the fact that there are fewer souls waiting for reincarnation at any one time.) 

I doubt that even most Dragaerans really know how many Easterners there are vs Dragaerans outside of the Empire itself. Nor how much of the habitable surface of the planet the Empire or the Eastern Kingdoms even takes up. 

Just seems like this analysis may be trying to make too much stew out of one oyster. 

Majikjon