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9 years ago
Did you know that there were 51,825 deaths in New York City in 2013, out of a population of (roughly) 8,405,837?
Probably not.
Do you care?
Again, probably not.
Why would I care? I was trying to come up with a rough estimate of how many Eternals live in and around the city where Nicky and her family live. As no size has been stated, I used New York City as a starting point. If an eternal consumes a soul once ever 3-5 years, that would put the number of Eternals in the 150k-250k range, or ~1.8-3% of the population. Put another way, this is roughly half the population of Staten Island, if you packed all the eternals into a single borough.
Percentage wise, this seems about right. If you had a neighborhood with 50 houses, one of them would be occupied by a family of eternals. In terms of raw numbers though, this is 1-2 orders of magnitude larger than I envisioned. However, if the population of eternals falls in the 1-2k range, this would necessitate feeding every 1-2 weeks. Put in prospective, this seems reasonable, but is much more frequent than I'd been thinking it would be.
I suppose one way to explain away the disconnect is to say that eternals don't need/draw on the energy from souls as much when they are younger, or unless they use their (magic) talents heavily. Another is to just ignore the math and not let it get in the way of a hopefully good story.
Probably not.
Do you care?
Again, probably not.
Why would I care? I was trying to come up with a rough estimate of how many Eternals live in and around the city where Nicky and her family live. As no size has been stated, I used New York City as a starting point. If an eternal consumes a soul once ever 3-5 years, that would put the number of Eternals in the 150k-250k range, or ~1.8-3% of the population. Put another way, this is roughly half the population of Staten Island, if you packed all the eternals into a single borough.
Percentage wise, this seems about right. If you had a neighborhood with 50 houses, one of them would be occupied by a family of eternals. In terms of raw numbers though, this is 1-2 orders of magnitude larger than I envisioned. However, if the population of eternals falls in the 1-2k range, this would necessitate feeding every 1-2 weeks. Put in prospective, this seems reasonable, but is much more frequent than I'd been thinking it would be.
I suppose one way to explain away the disconnect is to say that eternals don't need/draw on the energy from souls as much when they are younger, or unless they use their (magic) talents heavily. Another is to just ignore the math and not let it get in the way of a hopefully good story.
To me, it would make sense that Eternals need to feed a certain minimum, but the interval shrinks with use of their talents.
I was working on a story set in that continuity (Unfortunately, not one that's been on the board for years) and my muse decided to take a turn to Albuquerque. More specifically, I was looking at certain social institutions and was pondering if they were structured appropriately for the Eternal population in the setting.