>
> > Not only this, but Ernalda's various magics to help people live
> > through childhood will skew the figures further. War clans could
>
> Well, ahem, there is ambiguity as to whether these magics actually
> change the statistical chance of death in childbirth or from wounds
> from those one would expect of a bronze-age society, or is the way
> the bronze-age society explains and understands its rather
> ineffective means of treatment. IOW, the infant mortality rate
might
> be normal for such a RW culture AFTER Ernaldan magics are taken into
> account. This is unfortunately unclear.
>
Greg has stated as far back as the RQ II rulesset that magic reduces
deaths in old age and infancy. But the constant warfare makes a lot
of folks die in their youth.
Jeff