(urth) Merger

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Andrew Mason" <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com>
Gerry Quinn wrote: >
> > The whole business as explained by Malrubius's aquastor doesn't make a 
> > whole
> > lot of sense.
> >
> > (1) Why be concerned that the particular autarchs who undertook and 
> > failed
> > the trial might found a dynasty? I don't see why a dynasty founded by 
> > them
> > should be worse than a dynasty founded by some autarch who never 
> > undertook
> > it.
>
> As far as I can see, it isn't Malrubius who says the bit about
> founding a dynasty; it's someone - perhaps Apheta - in _Urth_, after
> the 'test' has taken place.

It's definitely Malrubius's aquastor, in Chapter 31 of Citadel:
"If you fail, your manhood will be taken from you, so that you  cannot 
bequeath the Phoenix Throne to your descendants. Your predecessor also 
accepted the challenge."

- Gerry Quinn