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Re: Rangers of the North
How about we just say no more than about 300 altogether?
The proportion of how many went to war / how many didn't would depend a lot on their communication systems, how far apart they were distributed, how many were sick/injured, etc etc. Would I be right in assuming that they were spread out over a fairly large area, and they could only communicate over these distances by sending a runner? If so, then the number who stayed could be almost equal to the number who went. It all depends.
I think that perhaps 200 in total is a pretty decent figure. It's not as high as 300, but if it were much less than that, the Rangers of the North would end up all being inbred fairly quickly. (Or did they regularly marry with non-Ranger people? I wouldn't know.)
Yes, I did just pull all of this reasoning out of thin air. <img src=wink.gif ALT="
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