Gray Wasting
Hearken, ye citizen-shareholders of the Empire of the Star, great and glorious beyond all greatness and glory, to this Harmonious Proclamation of Deliberate Wisdom and Thoughtful Contemplation, the seventeenth of this current session. Know that your Emperor, Calan Amanyr, First of His Name, by Right of Coronargyr and Chartered Mandate
worldbuilding
(Have a free snippet from a work in progress.) “Are you really in line for the throne?” “Oh, yes. House Vintar is neither most ancient nor particularly high, and we Vidutars are a collateral line, so I’m something like… three and a quarter billionth in line for the throne,
pattern identity
More from Specialist290, because it’s post-dinner: A few small questions regarding pattern identity and the metaphysics thereof: 1. Are there any possible scenarios where two forks of the same personality can diverge from one another significantly enough for them to be regarded as different persons, when the result of
worldbuilding
In a comment in the previous post, there is some curiosity as to how the Imperial Couple is selected. So, behold, I answer: It’s semi-hereditarian. The heir is notionally picked from among the members of the Imperial family, in an attempt to capture the hereditarian advantage of having someone