(urth) Resurrections

[David Stockhoff]

Presumably it was far from where anyone would normally go.

António Pedro Marques wrote:
> 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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