Sev's common lineage

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 01 Jul 2008, 13:06 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:06:30 +1000
Subject: (urth) Sev's common lineage
Message-ID: <20080701130632.495A01A003A at mailserver8.hushmail.com>

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:01:06 +1000 b sharp 
<bsharporflat at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Thalassocrat wrote: 
>
>Yes,  having a man in his 80's father someone in their 20's-30's 
>is possible but a stretch. I was 
>only hinting that my ideas might help:  if Fechin is Dorcas' 
>husband instead of father and the 
>portrait of Rudesind is a self-portrait, then it rolls everyone's 
>age back about 15 years and the 
>ages fit nicely. That might mess up other aspects of your scenario 

>though, not sure.

Hmmm, I must be missing something. How does this roll people's ages 
back by 15 years? We have Rudesind a boy 70 years ago, so I guess 
he has to be around 80. We have Dorcas born 55-60 years ago (her 
hubby has been trawling for her for 40 years or so, he says, when 
he meets Sev, who I assume is 17-18). So if nobody's lying in any 
of that, Dorcas is 20+ years junior to Rudesind, and even if he's 
Fechin, that surely makes her too old to be the quiet girl of 
Casdoe's father's story.

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