Missing Children

From: mr happy <ajbehan_at_tcd.ie>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:12:50 +0000 (GMT)

Peter Metcalfe
> I've never understood the logic behind this and have junked it. The
> Real World didn't have healing magic and was pretty violent _yet_
> managed to have the death rates concentrated at birth and after the
> breeding age. Who in glorantha is going around killing all those
> children?

Trolls,ogres,cannibals & the Crimson Bat. Why eat mutton when you can have lamb?

Seriously, information about age distribution in RW societies comparable to Glorantha is too limited for hard and fast rules. The isoceles assumption obviously is not the whole truth (after all it implies that every society in Glorantha has the same population age pyramid) but it is a handy axiom.
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Andrew Behan

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