Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140926004722/@comment-25399914-20140927234757

Boomerang diaz wrote: I'm fairly certain the academies are singular as has been noted in a livestream. The huntsman academies are closer to military/police academies than full blown universities which teach a variety.

This doesn't dissuade them from having curriculum similar to universities, as many military institutions have those as well.

Not like Harvard where it has a prestigious Law program.

If you go to beacon, you're going to be a huntsman. I have no problem with that view.

My argument has never really been about the type of institution and in my first post on the subject I put it down to fantasy world setting why compare. My point was about expecting the amount of students ~5000 to be similar to a universities and only teaching hunters.

University size intakes would an output of say 1000 hunters per year. Assuming an average lifespan of 71 years would mean.

50 years x 1000 students x 4 academies = 200,000 trained hunters alive at any one point in time.

If as people claim the worlds population is 5million there would probably be about 3million over 21

3,000,000 / 200000 = 15

University size output an academy which only teaches huntsmen skills would mean one in 15 adults attended this highly prestigious academy.

Personally I'd assume a far, far larger population something closer to 10 million in each city (40 million) and double that not living in the kingdoms (80 million)

A total population of 120 million with about 6000 trained hunters and 3000 active would mean on in 20,000 people attended an academy and on in 40,000 people is an active hunter. Far rarer and more prestigious.