Talk:Human/@comment-14.169.240.147-20160607110723/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180605035102

Heavily fortified cities can't survive without control of significant agricultural land or a very high level of magic ability to use [Create Food and Drink] (or equivalent) to avoid starvation.

Thus humans could probably only survive as property of more powerful species if not for access to Tier magic. However, humans are not an efficient food source, those demi-humans who regard them as such are taking advantage of large populations which are independently sustaining themselves.

Dragons seem to have uses for humans, who have superior innate craftsman/agriculture abilities compared to most demi-humans. This should be true of other species which are willing/eager to make use of products of human labor. It's possible that, prior to the advent of 6GG and 8GK, it was more common for humans to live as slave races to powerful heteromorphic races, rather than demi-humans.