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Codex Alera Timeline
Kathleen Dante:
--- Quote from: bookivore on September 08, 2007, 04:16:30 AM ---I looked a the monument section and the next section with Amara, Tavi & Bernard walking to Bernardholt and found a time check - "The Marat had returned to the Calderon Valley, something that had not happened in nearly seventeen years." near the beginning of chapter 15.
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In further support of First Calderon and Tavi's birth being ~17 BFC, in ch.52 of AF, Fidelias takes Lady Aquitaine into a sitting room that was dim and quiet "since Gaius's first wife had died some twenty years before" and in ch.55, Gaius says his first wife took sick not long after she heard of Septimus's death.
Another item for the timeline:
~800 BFC Gaius Secundus arrests Lady Rhodes for treason, avoids civil war (from ch.32 of AF)
Gallowglass:
--- Quote from: novium on October 11, 2006, 05:11:03 PM ---Maybe a few women held the throne? Maybe a few of them went by other names. If they're like the roman emperors who had half a dozen names more than usual...for example:
Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, aka Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, aka Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus...
or Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (caligula, which was a nickname from when he was a kid)
or Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Augustus.
Of course, they are only known by one name, now....
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Of course, there could have been First Citizens without the Gaius name. The numbering of the Gaius's could have been an affectation started by Sextus as a political ploy and only been in real effect for the last 3 generations.
anwan7:
--- Quote from: Gallowglass on February 09, 2008, 03:17:57 AM ---Of course, there could have been First Citizens without the Gaius name. The numbering of the Gaius's could have been an affectation started by Sextus as a political ploy and only been in real effect for the last 3 generations.
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FoC, AF and CuF began with quotes from Gaius Primus, Gaius Secundus and Gaius Quartus respectively.
edited to correct spelling
Zaphodess:
I believe the master of this universe has commented on the Gaius question somewhere. Iirc, the house of Gaius has been First Lords for a thousand years and they always counted the rulers. But it has happened a couple of times that a First Lord had no direct descendant and the throne went to a different branch of the family. Whenever that happened, they started counting from scratch.
Gallowglass:
So what says that Gaius Tertius directly followed Gaius Secondus as first citizen? For a dynasty of 1,000 years, the first five Gaius's had to have lived 180+ years on average and since Gaius is supposedly old at 80ish, ah the math does not compute.
A second problem is that it is highly unlikely that the son named Gaius has always survived to become First Citizen, we know that Septimus didn't. It is very likely that at least one of the previous generations didn't survive to become First Citizen. Then the moment he didn't survive to become first citizen as part of his required 180 years, he essentially forced his descendents to live that much longer.
As such, it is most likely that maybe the last 3 Gaius's have been named such, doesn't automatically mean that all of the First Citizens have been named Gaius.
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