Age of characters

[madclairvoyant.livejournal.com]

This has been debated for a long time, but I thought that there is some evidence i should type out before I forget it all in my scatterbrain-es. (That is probably not a word) Anyway, from the short story Eddis, she is 9, and Gen is 4. Therefore, we know that she is 5 years older than him. Next, Eddis has been queen for five years, if my memory serves me correctly, so she should have taken the throne when she was 15, I think. Also, in Thief!, Gen is 10, and she would be 14, and her brothers and father was dying or dead already. Now, we know that Irene is not much older than Helen, but ruled longer than her, so I think that it is safe to say that she was probably 16 in her first marriage. And since she was engaged and married younger than Gen, that means Gen is only 14-16 in QoA.

???

Okay, I give up; it is too late on my side for my brain to be functioning. Your thoughts?

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[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I can definitely see her tombstone saying that! Yeah, I've read several interviews and enough Sounis posts to know her status on the whole thing, and I'm happy with the ages I have envisioned for each character. But still, it's one thing to wonder and another thing to know.

While on the topic of ages, I want to add that I have a much bigger beef with Sophos's age. Not exactly sure where to place him. My natural instinct is to make him the same age as Eugenides, because if I make him a few years younger (as specified in The Thief), then he's REALLY young....buuut since Megan so kindly has given us the freedom, I'll make him Gen's age, and count that detail from The Thief as unreliable narration.