(urth) Resurrections

[Jeff Wilson]

On 8/1/2010 4:53 PM, 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?

For such a prominent feature of the book, there's so little said about 
the succession of Autarchs that any detail we can glean is important to 
solving any number of attendant mysteries, like how Sulpicius can be 
expected to return.

(third time attempting to submit this)

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