Quote Originally Posted by Squire Doodad View Post
Dwarves appear to be much more heavily concentrated in the north than anywhere else, and there are not only easily a dozen ethnic groups, there's also dozens of sentient species contributing to the total.
Think about how many trolls and goblins and squidy things there are.
If anything, 500 million seems like lowballing it.
Very few of them seems to have big civilizations though.

On the other hand, if we divide this half a billion into three equal parts, assuming three continents have similar number of people in it, we'll get 166 million as the total population of the northern continent. This makes them like 16 percent of the northern continent, which is a decent number.