(03-23-2018, 05:18 PM)Mamorien Wrote: (Deleted from the "Fanfic Recommendations" thread and reposted, in a less patronizing form, here, where it belongs.)

Mal continues to hold out on us. Subprime Directives has got to the Vale and House Arryn, in a chapter he could only call "Cat and Jade's Bogus Journey":

https://archiveofourown.org/works/119351...s/32391672
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12632190/13...Directives

(03-24-2018, 04:49 PM)M Fnord Wrote:

(03-23-2018, 05:18 PM)Mamorien Wrote: (Deleted from the "Fanfic Recommendations" thread and reposted, in a less patronizing form, here, where it belongs.)

Mal continues to hold out on us. Subprime Directives has got to the Vale and House Arryn, in a chapter he could only call "Cat and Jade's Bogus Journey":

https://archiveofourown.org/works/119351...s/32391672
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12632190/13...Directives

I. Have been. Busy.

(Oh my god so many people, so many badges not enough badge sleeves why weren't there enough badge sleeves where is Robert Muller when you need him?!?!?!?)

(03-24-2018, 04:49 PM)M Fnord Wrote: I. Have been. Busy.

(Oh my god so many people, so many badges not enough badge sleeves why weren't there enough badge sleeves where is Robert Muller when you need him?!?!?!?)

Origins Of The Grand Thing, Edinburgh Press, 1631 Wrote:The economic and demographic growth of Berk's territory can be tracked due to the tribal census records.  Begun in AD 950 under the auspices of Chief Hiccup II, the yearly census tracked a slow, steady and inexorable contraction over the next ninety-one years, with the first census recording a population of 1,373 people from eight clans and nearly 400 clanless freemen, dropping to 712 across five clans and 208 freemen in early AD 1041.  After the end of the Dragon War, however, the pattern reverses itself explosively, with the Eirish annexations and the tribe's own natural growth.  Child mortality drops in all of the tribe's holdings, and immigration begins in earnest.  At the start of AD 1042, according to the census for that year, the total population of the Hooligan holdings was recorded as 4,902 humans, and approximately 12,000 dragons…
…Vedrarfjord, as an Eirish city with room to expand that was unavailable to Berk on its small and hilly isle, is extremely illustrative of the growth that occurred.  Beginning with approximately 2,000 people in AD 1042, plus another 2,000 in the immediate hinterlands within walking distance, the city's population boomed over the next ten years to 31,826 permanent residents—after contracting from a refugee-boosted height of 56,105 in AD 1044, nearly all of whom ended up settling elsewhere in Berk's territory (see Chapter 23: The Eastern Massacres).
In that first census, the image revealed is of a small Viking trading port, primarily focused on agriculture, with the majority of the population involved in farming, herding or fishing and the other major industries being shipbuilding and other port-related activities.  Recorded in that first census, there were 8 shoemakers, 9 furriers, 10 tailors, 6 barbers, 3 jewelers, 4 tavernkeepers, 4 bakers, 9 carpenters, 12 weavers, 5 chandlers, 2 scabbard-makers, 3 brewers, 5 coopers, 2 butchers, 3 fishmongers, 6 smiths (specializations not noted), 8 healers, 3 millers, 8 ropemakers, 36 shipwrights and 2 tanners recorded. 
Ten years later, the portrait of Vedrarfjord is that of an industrial and educational center, featuring glassmakers (207), teachers (572), bookbinders (17), papermakers (98), ropemakers (453), weavers (429), tailors (168)…

(03-29-2018, 09:08 PM)M Fnord Wrote: So technically this isn't an update to Subprime Directives, but I think you might consider it interesting if you like worldbuilding. I have a huge timeline of major historical events in the Federal Worlds that I've been mucking about with sporadically, and it's available for public viewing right here. There's also some tidbits about this weird girl from Mars lurking about too, if you're into that sort of thing. Feel free to check it out!