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Sian

Ashlings' guildleader

Dreamscape Artist

14 years ago

Was working on some more estimates of characters' ages and also trying to come up with a time line when I developed these. I figured they could help act as a reference for people trying to figure things out. I'm fairly sure that they're accurate, but corrections are welcome.
Did anyone else miss the fact that Ranouf is Tarsin's father the first five times they read it?

Fulig's Family Tree
FuligsFamilyTree

Coralyn's Family Tree
CoralynsFamilyTree

Jurass's Family Tree
JurasssFamilyTree

The three tree's above could technically be joined together, but I figured they were simpler to understand like this. Poverin and Duran are still in the works.

Soulweaver

Guildmember

13 years ago

Thats really good, what does the broken line mean?

Sian

Ashlings' guildleader

Dreamscape Artist

13 years ago

Ooh, sorry, didn't see this post or I would have replied sooner. The broken line indicates an informal relationship from which no children were born. So, Coralyn shares an unbroken line with Ranouf because although they were never formally bonded, they had a child together and she shares an unbroken line with Orrim because even though they had no children, they were formally bonded.
The reason for the distinction is that formalised relationships and relationships resulting in children are important for real life family trees and these are the ones you would find in a hall of records on Keltor if they kept such records.
I decided to put in Alene's relationships because even though they don't technically belong, they have a big impact on the story, which is what we're interested in, and because it's interesting to see the way she connects all the trees together (connecting the Acanthan line to both Coralyn's and Fulig's).