: Excuse me, did you just pull this from your nether
: orifices? j/k, its prolly in GURPS, huh?
Uh, no. It's in the journal entries. It says that Mauriac was prince regent at the time--a regent is a substitute ruler when no member of the royal family is currently capable of ruling. So there must not have been a genuine king then.
: Again, where can you support this and how does it affect
: anything?
Um...Alric's family escaped from Covenant, so I think I can assume they were living there beforehand and not just vacationing or something.
: Are you admitting here that they WERE in Covenant?
: Otherwise this argument makes no sense. It basically
: supports me... right, they had no reason to move to
: Madrigal, that's why Alric and the rest of the royal
: family were still there during the first seige of
: Covenenat!
But that supports me. You said that they DID have a reason to move to Madrigal, therefore the fact that they DIDN'T move there before the war shows that Covenant must have had some special significance that outweighed that reason--it must have been the capital, in fact. I'm saying that they had no pressing reason to move to Madrigal yet, so it's not surprising that they didn't move there even though it was the capital.
: WTF? You just flat-out contradicted your earlier
: argument. You now seem to support the assertion that
: Covenant was the capital, where the royal family
: lived! Hey, works for me.
Ares, Ares, Ares. I said the royal family lived in Covenant. You are aware, are you not, that many royal families do not live in the capitals of their countries? I don't know enough about it to say that the *majority* of royal families don't, but I know that quite a few don't. For most members of the British royal family, for instance, London is not their primary place of residence. The royals in any country choose their capitals out of political and economic necessity, but they choose their family residence to be in a pleasant place to live. I'd imagine that Covenant, being on the southern coast, has a more hospitable climate than Madrigal--but I don't need to get into this. Capital != home of royal family, and so GURPS and the Myth games can be reconciled.
--SiliconDream
