: Sorry about this, I posted it very hurredly and did not
: have time to check it over. I realize that your point
: is that Covenant is the residence and not the vacation
: home, BUT I was saying that they would GOVERN from the
: capital and not from their residence. Replace the word
: summer home with residence.
Sure, but I was saying that they weren't governing at the time--or rather that they had no member who was governing. Ordinarily, one guy reigns in Madrigal as the king while the rest of the family kicks it in Covenant; at the moment there was no king, so the whole of the family was in Covenant.
: Oh, and here's one argument that, if I can support it, I
: believe will shatter your assertion that Madrigal is
: the capital: I recall it said somewhere that Alric was
: king of the SOUTHERN provences. If I can find where it
: says this, all other argument will be irrelevant, as
: Madrigal is certainly not in the Southern Provence at
: all
Why would this injure the argument? There's the Free Cities of the North, and the Southern Provinces. Madrigal is the capital of the latter; the former have no capital.
Anyway, I'm about to give up arguing this--we aren't getting anywhere. My position is simply this: I cannot prove that Madrigal is the traditional capital of the Province, and I do not need to. The Bungie-approved text in GURPS says so. Therefore, the burden of proof is on anyone who wants to argue that Madrigal is *not* the traditional capital, and obviously no one has so far been able to prove that. They have produced various items of circumstantial evidence--some quite convincing--but nothing that trumps the flat-out statement in GURPS. So I continue to believe GURPS is correct. I know you feel differently.
And no, I don't know anyone in the Asylum who agrees with me. But I don't know the opinions of most Asylumers on this issue, anyway; I have no idea how the opinion percentages break down. Not that it affects the discussion.
--SiliconDuck (jumping on the bandwagon)
