(urth) Resurrections

[António Pedro Marques]

And isn't Typhon supposed to be *2* thousand years before Severian?

(Never mind that Typhon was up there in his mountain all the time. Did no 
one think of going there?)

David Stockhoff wrote:
> 200 autarchs could rule an average of 5 years each over 1000 years. If
> 20 of these autarchs ruled an average of 20 years, the remaining 180
> would each have to rule for about 3+1/3 years to maintain the average.
> It's possible. In such a system, the individuality of each autarch, all
> but the greatest, would be inconsequential and utterly lost. Which is
> exactly what has happened in imperial dynasties. England's monarch, by
> contrast, was much more robust even at its weakest.
>
> If we know only 3 names from the past 1000 years, perhaps that is why.
> If only these 3 ruled for 50 each and the remainder for still only about
> 4 years on average, that makes 200 in total. It's then slightly more
> plausible.
>
> But is this important?
>
>
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> 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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