![]() ![]() But Alera was ruled by the House of Gaius for a long time–and that House was a big complicated chart, not a simple, direct family tree. It doesn’t really have an effect on the story at all, so I never really dug into it on the page. We would have had to average political lifespans of a couple of centuries for Tavi to be the 8th First Lord. Think I can clear up some of the confusion-by way of Jim. ![]() ![]() But the Aleran state is obviously much, much more than seven generations old. The current First Lord is Gaius Sextus and his late son was Gaius Septimus. And as far as anyone knows they have always had a First Lord (who has so much to do in controlling the continental furies that any interregnum definitely would be remembered as an age of disaster), and always of the same dynasty (the family with the strongest hereditary furycrafting power of all the Citizen families), and the numerical naming convention never varies. In the Codex Alera universe, the Alerans have been in the world of Carna for thousands of years – time out of mind, anyway. ![]()
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