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Thriving Ghost Town + Wainscot Society
Edited by Scorpion451
Both of those imply that there's a large population than what's actually shown. Is there anything about the writer not having a high enough population because they don't realize how many individuals would be needed for a population to actually be sustainable?
Sorta Writers Cannot Do Math?
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For supernatural population it can be problemless without particular explanation if they just mate in human and function like a small clan or something
In The Otherworld, there's a hidden supernatural population but it's absurdly small: there's a single werewolf pack in North America with 8 members and about half that many non-pack wolves. There's a single witch coven with maybe 30 members, plus a scattering of unaffiliated witches. There's maybe 20 vampires in total living in the US. There's possibly 1000 in total half-demons, and a couple hundred sorcerers. Is there a trope for having such absurdly low population numbers with no obvious reasons (the witches and werewolves being the biggest offenders here)?