: umm, I have to point something out. The King's (Alric's)
: family fled Covenant 12 years ago (from the first year
: of TFL), and Mauriac knows about this. (look up the
: journal entry after Homecoming) for the lines.
: There's really not many other ways someone could be your
: heir and not be your son without special
: circumstances.
: After all, Mauriac is Prince Regent, not King during
: Alric's adolessense, so its unlucky there could be any
: other peoples around to succed the throne besides the
: king's son.
unlucky or unlikely?
and even if all this talk about Caliban being king of Madrigal is accepted, Alric could easily have been a nephew, or a very young cousin, or some other such thing. When there's no direct heir, people find indirect ones.
: Seraph
Doom