I went ahead and found all that complicated math that tells us more about his age. This research was done by a user named silvermuse89, and clearly it took much patience.
"Eugenides would be ten when Eddis becomes queen. This is supported by MWT stating that Gen is ten in Thief! (at the beginning), and the line in QoA: "Her [Eddis'] two brothers had died of fever within the space of a few days and she had become the heir to Eddis. Within a few months, she had become queen..." (pg 39). Since the events in Thief! take place after Eddis' brothers have died, it makes sense to assume that Eugenides is ten at the time of her ascension to the throne.
His age when Eddis first becomes queen is also supported by the paragraph on page 38, where Eddis describes how she had to move him from the dormitories after his mother's death. Since Gen was ten when his mother died, it would make Eddis very young to be queen, considering that she is not much older than he is.
So how can one get Eugenides' age from that? On page 140 of QoA, the magus mention that: "Her [Eddis'] legal reforms have changed Eddis more in seven years than anyone would have thought possible when she took the throne." Thus, we know that Eddis has been ruling for at least seven years, possibly a little more than that since it would take time to implement her legal reforms. Therefore, Eugenides would be at least seventeen (probably closer to eighteen or nineteen) towards the end of QoA. This would make him around sixteen in the beginning of QoA and fifteen in The Thief."
This post was made quite some time ago. So now with the extra information provided in the Eddis short-story, we know that Helen is three to four years older than Eugendies. So she would have become queen when she was 14, and would be 21 by the times in "The Queen of Attolia" making Eugendies 18 in by the middles of "The Queen of Attolia". "The Queen of Attolia" covers two years so if it was about year or two between Thief and "The Queen of Attolia" we can safely infer that he was 15 or 16 in "The Thief". In "The King of Attolia" probably 19 or 20.
Sheesh, Mrs. Turner really makes us work for this stuff.
There is a whole search tag devoted to ages. So, you can look there for more information.
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Date: 5/9/09 08:06 pm (UTC)I went ahead and found all that complicated math that tells us more about his age. This research was done by a user named silvermuse89, and clearly it took much patience.
"Eugenides would be ten when Eddis becomes queen. This is supported by MWT stating that Gen is ten in Thief! (at the beginning), and the line in QoA: "Her [Eddis'] two brothers had died of fever within the space of a few days and she had become the heir to Eddis. Within a few months, she had become queen..." (pg 39). Since the events in Thief! take place after Eddis' brothers have died, it makes sense to assume that Eugenides is ten at the time of her ascension to the throne.
His age when Eddis first becomes queen is also supported by the paragraph on page 38, where Eddis describes how she had to move him from the dormitories after his mother's death. Since Gen was ten when his mother died, it would make Eddis very young to be queen, considering that she is not much older than he is.
So how can one get Eugenides' age from that? On page 140 of QoA, the magus mention that: "Her [Eddis'] legal reforms have changed Eddis more in seven years than anyone would have thought possible when she took the throne." Thus, we know that Eddis has been ruling for at least seven years, possibly a little more than that since it would take time to implement her legal reforms. Therefore, Eugenides would be at least seventeen (probably closer to eighteen or nineteen) towards the end of QoA. This would make him around sixteen in the beginning of QoA and fifteen in The Thief."
This post was made quite some time ago. So now with the extra information provided in the Eddis short-story, we know that Helen is three to four years older than Eugendies. So she would have become queen when she was 14, and would be 21 by the times in "The Queen of Attolia" making Eugendies 18 in by the middles of "The Queen of Attolia". "The Queen of Attolia" covers two years so if it was about year or two between Thief and "The Queen of Attolia" we can safely infer that he was 15 or 16 in "The Thief". In "The King of Attolia" probably 19 or 20.
Sheesh, Mrs. Turner really makes us work for this stuff.
There is a whole search tag devoted to ages. So, you can look there for more information.