Bill Berg @webjr1981@TheEdVerse
How's Luiren doing these days? If it was around 840,000 before the spellplague, what was it after the flooding?— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 2, 2019
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Largely recovered, though the flooding and poor harvests that followed (salt-ruined farmland) cut the population to just over 600,000. The hin rebounded fast, because if there’s one thing they know how to do, it’s farm/garden 2)
…(i.e. they know what crops to plant to bind and absorb salt, and return the land to arable state as fast as possible). The other thing that’s ingrained in their nature is to work together, generously, when faced with…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 2, 2019
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…adversity, so they flourish where other races might more often fight over the scraps. As before the Spellplague, Luiren is a rural land, as hin will happily live in human cities, but don’t see the need to build new ones 4)
…themselves, when market towns will serve their purposes just fine. What they have done to ‘improve’ Luiren is build wider, better-in-wet-weather roads, with much better bridges.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 2, 2019