lyonheart wrote:Hi Hanuman,
I'm curious to know the basis for your figure that the EoC [empire of Charis] has 20% of Safehold's population, if you can cite them.
That was also my impression, but RFC has since provided quite different and more detailed figures in a post entitled "Raw Meat for the Speculators" almost 3 and a half years ago on April 15, 2012; about three monthes before MTaT.
There's quite a bit of information on four subject areas, that you should read on your own, all very useful among many other RFC posts that illuminate the series' background.
Somebody should come up with a recommended searchable list of RFC's posts for Safehold, to help newbies.
Kinda like the FAQ.
Although a list within FAQ in a recommended reading order tied to the respective books might be helpful for the forum administrators to consider making in their copious free time.
Contrary to the previous textev in the first four books, Chisholm and Corisande both have populations of 15 million, while Charis has only 14, Tarot 11, Emerald 9 and Zebediah 8, for a combined 72 million out of a total Safehold population of just over a billion, with the RoS [Republic of Siddarmark] having a population of 129.5 million, which combined mean the allies might have 20% of Safehold's population if all of the RoS's were firmly opposed to to the Go4, which they certainly aren't by a darn sight, so the allies might more realistically be in the 16-18% range, if that helps emphasize the straits our heroes find themselves in.
Please enjoy HFaF, MTaT, LaMA, in the now less
than 5 weeks to HFQ.
I envy you.
But then you'll be desperately waiting for your next fix just like the rest of us.
L
I figured according to something I read in OAR, that Haven and Howard between them contained 80% of Safehold's population. Since Imperial Charis now includes virtually every non-mainland realm (with the exception of marginal areas such as Ravensland and Trellheim), it seemed like a reasonable assumption that the vast majority of the remaining 20% are now Charisian subjects.