While I don't actually give a single flying fuck if some place has 1 Luminary per 8,000 and another has 1 Luminary per 10,000, not one person has actually brought up a single location where such a declaration would actually be necessary. But sure, I'll grant one: Malta.
Malta has a population of 465,000 and is an island nation in the fucking water. There isn't a surrounding hinterland, there's just
water until you get to North Africa or Italy. If you wanted to have 50 supernatural creatures there, or 65, you'd have to play with the ratios slightly because simply adding more space isn't an option.
But for Grand Forks or East Texas or Knoxville, or any of the other locations in the US, you can just add rural territory until you hit whatever critical population threshold you happen to want. While you
could vary the Luminary population, there is absolutely no
need to do so, because the domain borders can be drawn arbitrarily to have the Prince be in charge of as much low population wilderness as required in order to bring the population numbers to whatever the fuck you wanted them to be at a fixed population ratio. It's not a problem. The Prince of Knoxville
does have jurisdiction of some amount of rural hinterland around Knoxville that is not controlled by the more powerful Prince of Nashville, and if you wanted to have that hinterland extend into Whitley County, Kentucky before it ran up into the mostly rural domain of Lexington that would be fine. Most of the domains in Kentucky spill into Ohio or Indiana, so if there's some slopover to the south as well that would be reasonable.
Thaluikhain wrote:Getting a bit off-topic, but where do those creatures come from? I mean, if you have 1 vampire, they can go round making new vampires and familiars and so on from the local population. That easy to explain.
But, do elves or goblins reproduce like humans do? Because then having 5 here and 10 there in isolated groups spread out across the country seems like it'd be a real demographic problem.
Mostly they get summoned from nightmare worlds. You don't have a Goblin immigrant community with grocery stores that cater to Goblins and special benevolent societies for Goblins that both protect and exploit the Goblins who would otherwise find it difficult to get jobs or own property in a society that discriminates against Goblins or whatever the fuck. Mister Gone is a fucking
wizard, and he has summoned a pack of Goblins that serve him.
Zombies show up because of evil magic or evil science or some sort of magical or science disaster. Other trash tier supernatural creatures are similar. The hell hound that works for the Master Vampire in Lost Boys aren't there because there's a thriving Hell Hound breeding community in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Master Vampire happens to own one, it's there because the Master Vampire did some magical ritual that summoned a Hound from Hell. It's the only one in Santa Carla.
The existence of minion-tier supernatural creatures is interesting from a demographics standpoint. While they have to be encountered in groups or along side Luminaries to be much of a threat, they also don't have any political power or meaningful political interests. When you face Zombies, you face a
pack of Zombies, but the Zombies
collectively might as well be an unaligned hostile Steve. You don't need to face Zombies again the next adventure or the one after that.
Whatever minion-tier monsters your domain has just need to be enough to do a couple monster of the week adventures where the monster of the week happens to be a handful of minion-tier monsters rather than a single boss monster monster. Zombies need to outnumber the player characters when they show up, but they don't need to show up very often. And they don't need to show up at all in the various social gatherings.
No one brings their minion-tier supernaturals to Kindred get togethers.
A typical domain needs as many Zombie packs as it needs any other particular Steve. So maybe you have a Zombie pack, but maybe you have the awakened cabal of the cancerous organs that inhabit the dead body of Henry Rollins instead. New Orleans in particular is very "on theme" for Zombies, so you probably have a few packs, but Zombies are still significantly outnumbered by actual Kindred.
New Orleans has 145 Luminary supernatural Kindred. But it only needs 60 or less Minion Tier Supernaturals.
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