So here is something, I’m curious as to what sort of population people think Duskwall has.
I get the feeling its suppose to be pretty crowed, with probably a surprising amount of verticality (since they can’t really expanded outwards), but I guess I’m not positive of the ‘scale’ of Duskwall to make a rough guess on numbers.
London had about a million people in it around 1800, that seems like the ‘most’ Duskwall would have, unless I’m underestimating how big the city is.
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Enough to feel crowded when you need to be, but not so many that it can’t seem empty when the story requires it.
I love thinking about scales of urban spaces. My home town in South London has about 400,000 residents – thats the same as the number of survivors at the start of Battlestar Galactica.
Going by the map, Duskvols’ about the same size, maybe a bit larger, and yeah, denser vertically you’d reckon. I’d guess 40-75k of people depending how crowded you want it to be (and by extension perhaps, how bad the living conditions would be.)
I believe John once said that the city had around 20k citizens, but I might be missremembering.