FW Midgard - Help, my population is getting sucked dry!

[Max the Alcoholic Ferret]

I am playing in the FW Midgard scenario, and I have a city that has an entrance to the Underworld in it's boundries. It's population gets to a certain level, then starts going down by one per turn. I can't figure out what's causeing it. There's not really any pollution, And there are no enemies around, like diplomats or spies. Anyone have a clue about what is causing this, and what I need to do to stop it?

[Ken Hinds]

Probably it's just Hele collecting her dinner guests.

Ken

[Sieve Too]

Two possibilities:

1) Some Stygian beasties are clawing their way out from the underworld and attacking your city that doesn't (presumably) have walls. You lose one population for every lost defender. Solution: build walls.

2) You have a food shortage. Once the food storage is exhausted, you lose one population every turn until the shortage goes away. Solution: develop terrain that yields more food.

IIRC, some of the Stygians are really really nasty, esp. if it's early in the game. Perhaps it wasn't so wise to build your city there.