Could be, but I'd have to disagree. It could just be a form of vertigo but I could have sworn reading Wayrest was massive source of population and wealth. The Illiac Bay's situation as such a vital comercial entity and shear number of lives lost there and the ability for the region to bounce back so quickly and frequently implies a huge concentration of people to me. Hammerfell in paticualr is densely populated on the coast as well. Anyway, those are just my jabbs at it.