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Originally written by Tursing Slef:

What you've said is that boys are more likely than girls to be in the majority if there's only one family. That's true, because there's a 50% chance of only one boy and a 25% chance of one of each, so girls are only the majority 25% of the time. But majority is not the same as number, because in that 25% girl majority is 12.5% 2 girls, 6.25% 3 girls, 3.125% 4 girls, and so on.

Put another way, if a single family really did skew towards boys, then two single families should still be skewed towards boys because each family is independent, and a thousand families should be a thousand independently skewed, boy-heavy families.

—Alorael, who somehow thinks this relates to the batters. Boys can be in the majority most of the time without actually being more likely overall. This is, in fact, the question he first answered. You'll have more sisters than brothers and more families with excess males than families with excess females, but you will have one boy for every girl.

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Originally written by kaa:

The timescale could be different. It isn't a few hundred days - it takes many years to advance through unsettled lands and build cities.
Maybe the party starts to grow old - lose some strength, gain some wisdom.

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Originally written by The Story of Quid:

You have that backwards. No one in their right mind would move into a bunch of caves full of ravenous monsters. Fortunately, the Empire was quite willing to throw people in by force. Cities came somewhat later.

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