Jester of the FoS wrote:
And to explain where her food comes from. Because that bugged the eff out of me...
Well, I am certainly adding the surrounding area in her domain, Chateaufaux. It exists in my version. With noble villas of baron Something and Lord Somethingelse that have like 300 peasants (so they are like knights and not barons) but put up airs and have to be very creative to be able to maintain a residence in both the City and the countryside. I am also certainly adding
bountiful sea and fishing.
And raiding Dementlieu's pantries. With fishing and good, fertile land (and a touch of magic from plant growth or spells to make farming easier), you need about 2 people in food production for 3 people in total with late middle ages / renaissance yields. Add a bit of pantry-raiding and a bit of trade with other domains and you could go half food production, half goods and services.
I would make the city about 1 square mile, 1.5 mile x 2/3 of a mile and have a surrounding country side large enough to support a city of that size (again, with fertile land, fishing, a touch of magic, trade and pantry-raiding). Similar to how the map shows it but more expanded.
100-150 square miles of land and 150-200 sq. miles for sea should be enough.
TL;DR: Fishing, Chateaufaux exists and it is fertile, trade and Dementlieu's / Borca's / Richemulot's granaries etc support the domain. Assuming that city would have like 30-35K people, 10K or so of which are involved in food production (fishing or working the farms close to the city) Chateaufaux has 15K people in villages and fishing towns.
A strip of land about 120 sq.miles (say 9 x 13 miles) and rich-in-fish sea about 180 sq. miles ( 14 x 13 miles) leaves a 'sustainable' domain of about 300 sq.miles where the land-bound villages are less than 10 miles from the city.
And going by "no Mongol hordes and clerics stop plagues" leaves the various threats (including Saidra) able to kill 400-500 people per year without depopulating the domain. Assuming half of these die in the balls we finally reach the main point of this post:
The main point of this post: Saidra can easily afford to disintegrate 1d6+1 poseurs per weekly ball if we add fishing and Chateaufax!
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