(urth) Resurrections

[Jeff Wilson]

On 8/1/2010 1:36 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Some autarchs may have ruled for only a week.

That's not unusual for popes or kings either. John-Paul I reigned a 
month, Jane Grey for 9 days, and IIRC the Hawaiian Kamehameha dynasty 
ended with the last couple of heirs reigning for less than a day apiece. 
These rates can't be sustained with anything like stability, and are 
more than compensated for by the Victorias and Henrys, who come to the 
throne young and live on into vigorous old age.

Appian-Severian-Valeria cover a minimum of eight decades, I'd say, and 
Ymar could easily have been one of the child-Autarchs as well as 
reigning long enough to be credited with his various deeds and commands, 
even if he didn't actually do or complete all of them. This leaves about 
nine hundred years for all but one of the hundreds the Old Autarch spoke 
of, surely they can do better than that? In the 900 years following the 
Norman Conquest there were only 45 English monarchs.

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