The reason I brought up tree stumps and dogs is because besides the kings, there are no other life forms in the Green Isles. The only reference you have to indicate your theory is that there may have been ten kings in a hundred year span.
Again we are discussing humans and human age patterns (which btw only live on the island of the Crown, and Isle of the Beast at the most), tree stumps and dogs are irrelevent.
Also I never said anything about 10 kings a hundred year span... 4-6 at the most. If there were 10 kings in 100 year life span and they had all died of "old age", well that would all give them aprroximately 20 year lifespans... 10 years to grow and about 10 years to rule... Sorry that doesn't make any logical sense at all.
As I mentioned if if it was 4-5 kings the would each have about 25 year reigns and 25 years to grow up(with the 5th king's reign either overlapping with pre-100 years, or overlapping past 100 years), which would come out to be about 50-60 maybe 70 year life span give or take a few years. Which is very good considering average lifespan in the middle ages which is a bit less than modern norm. (50-70 is a bit equal to modern lifespan, which is considered exceptional by most people, compared to lifespans before hand).
If we consider that people in royalty tend to have better medical care and generally have the chance to eat healther, and often had longer lifespans than the average populace. Then that would mean that actual average human lifespan may actually be somewhat lower than 60-70 years, rather than longer, which is something petra brought up.
Ahh yes, maybe I should bring up Cleopatra(which is one of several other people from history mentioned in the games). Who is mentioned in the games. So we know that there is a tie to earth history, so earth lifespans have a tie to the games.
As petra said, that proves nothing either way. If you look in the middle ages, or at other times, there are many reasons besides death that would cause a king to lose his crown.
Well there is this little fact that Isle of the Crown had been quite peaceful previously. There had never been any coups or take overs until the foreigner Abdul Alhazred had come to the islands. The kingdom has been around for approximtely 400 years(if you count from when the castle of the crown was first built), and people knew all that history between that time, and not once had there been any coups, or uprisings, or wars.
2:Your referring to the middleages where people did not have the right living habits and conditions, but there was a time on earth where people actually lived longer, too. It's shown by several historical sources, the most obvious of which being the Bible.
Bible is considered Mythology by most historians if you didn't know.
So let's not bring religion into this. As I mentioned if people were living to around 60-70, that's already better than middle ages, when average life span was 30-50 years for most people.
I'd rather not go into evolutionary history either...and their discussion of average life span for primitive man...
Yes, but what other examples do we have of how long people live. Also, don't you find it odd that all the small races like elves, dwarves gnomes, and animals such as unicorns, have such greater life spans than man, and man's is the most fleeting of all? You would think if everyone around him is immortal, it would influence man just a bit.
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Again we were discussing humans, any other race is irrelevent, and completely off topic.
Well you have already said that you personally don't like the novels, but there are several examples in it. There are refrences in the games if you can find them as well (usually in the narration), and even refrences in some of the manuals.
"As far as TSL is concerned they are primary sources instead of just secondary." WHo was talking about the TSL timeline?
Well if you haven't realized you are in the TSL plot forum. Not the official canon forum.
WHat I was saying is that if any future official game is made, they will not have to worry if they want to add facts in their next story that would contradict things already said in the novels.
Not very likely since novels are all set before the games, and generally cover a period that has never been mentioned in the games or manuals, so there is nothing to contradict those eras. Plus the events were for the most part unimportant and side stories, and made no changes to Daventry or its characters, that would need to be brought up again. So the chances of them being contradicted in any way would be extremely low probability. There is more of a chance the games themselves being ignored.
Which btw happened with Mask of Eternity. Mask of Eternity has several elements that ignored previous games. Graham talks with an old english accent. The architecture of castle daventry and its locaiton does not fit the daventry and location seen in previous games. The layout of Daventry seen in MoE world map does not fit with the layout seen in previous games, etc.
And any new game would be set after the games most likely, so less likely to contradict anything that happened before.
2:The novel and KQ companion timeline, or the secondary timeline: since it does not as of yet interfere with the official timeline, it can be added to the official timeline, or left out of it altogether.
Novel and Companion timeline are in line with the timeline established in the manual and games. As I mentioned novels cover a very brief time in periods that have never been covered, and relatively unimportant events since they do nothing to drastically change the kingdom, and get resolved rather quickly. The manuals and spin off books literally share the same dates. There is literally nothing that could contradict them, unless the next game decided to ignore some of the earlier games.
Which as I've mentioned happened to a certain extent in MoE. (luckily the novels and companion have a few refrences that can be used to explain away a few of the problems with MoE oddly enough).
3:The Silver Lining timeline. Since it is unofficial I'll label it as a third time line, but in the eyes of most I'm sure it will become an extension of the secondary timeline, and be included in that timeline.
Its actually quite a bit different than the official timeline, and does not even follow the dates established in the manuals, and also interferes somewhat with certain aspects of the official timeline(not nearly to the extent of AGDI's however). Apparently in their timeline for example Graham is 25 in KQ1, making him about 52 in TSL.