B6C11/B7C1 Ansel's Size

Ansel was a relatively large village, though still tiny by the standards of Vale. It had around five-hundred residents, split among a hundred or more buildings, some larger than others. There were fields outside with crops, and the occasional house outside the walls, but for the most part everything was enclosed.

–B6C11


As I made my way around the walls toward the southern side and Yang, I had a moment to look out over Ansel and get a feel for how it had changed. Where once it had been a small and mostly unremarkable village, it had now become something which was approaching a town, albeit one made mostly of wooden buildings and tents. The open pastures and meadows within the village's walls were filled with white tents made of linen, some from the village and others purchased from traders, Vale or even taken from fallen villages. It wasn't looting if we intended to use the supplies we found to help the survivors, or so we decided.

The refugee quarter – not so much a quarter but what we'd taken to call the large collection of tents that housed easily a hundred people – took up a good part of the village. Interspersed among the tents were campfires with pots boiling, along with troughs for washing surrounded by privacy screens.

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Ansel has almost doubled in population. That's going to have a knock-on effect, especially on birth rates." Yang spread her arms. "The village just isn't big enough."

–B7C1