Talk:Alonon/@comment-31763506-20170610134906

What's the citation for Alonon's age being 85? That seems VERY old given that he's only one generation older than Tyna, and Tyna seems not to be much older than 30, if that. If it's just a guesstimate, 65 or 75 seems more reasonable. Alonon must have succeeded sometime before the end of the war with the Arsehole based on in-game dialog, which would be 40-30 years before the events of TLS, and it wouldn't be all that unusual if he succeeded in relative youth (25-35) as a result of his predecessor dying in battle.

There being very big age gaps between siblings isn't totally unheard of in Medieval Royal Families, middle aged kings whose spouses predeceased them frequently married much younger women for diplomatic reasons. The biggest I know of in England would be between Edward II and his youngest brother Edmund, who was 17 years younger. If  one of   Edward II's three older brothers had survived childhood, the age gap between reigning king and youngest sibling could have been as much as 35 years, but that's about the limit a medieval king could be producing children.

Implicitly, Tyna's mother cannot have been born more than nine months after the beginning of Alonon's reign, since their father would have to have been alive, unless they are half siblings through their mother (which would at least explain Tyna's ambiguous place in the line of succession, but is incredibly unlikely given the age gap and the existence of menopause), and for the math to add up if we peg Tyna's age as closer to 20 or 25 in game then her mother has to have given birth in her 40s and been 20 years younger than Alonon, OR the age gap between her and Alonon must have been in excess of 30 years.

So even with TLS's surprisingly effective sanitation and infection suppression magic, Alonon being in his late 60s or early 70s looks a LOT more realistic.