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[callsignhornet]

I have an important question for the sake of organizing information about the group.

Feel free to message me directly if you don't feel comfortable sharing publicly.

In the world you are from, what year is it?

Edit: record of death for me should be 2186. Or 2187, though it would be very early in the year.

Comments

[spaghettimonster]

HMM...
IT MIGHT BE BUREAUCRATIC INERTIA.
IMAGINE THE COMPLICATIONS OF TAXES WHEN PEOPLE RESTART THEIR CALENDARS.

I'M SURE THEY DON'T ALL HAVE IMMORTAL RULERS.

[hasapoint]

If the bureaucracy's that well developed and doesn't devolve. But I'll take Velgarth's lack of constancy over immortal rulers. Those never seem to end well for us.

[spaghettimonster]

OH? NO AFFABLE FURRY KINGS IN 'VELGARTH'?

[hasapoint]

The opposite. Even someone who starts out meaning well devolves given enough time. It's too easy for the very long lived to fail to remember to regard normal people as important and with meaningful lives, and having institutional power makes it worse.

[spaghettimonster]

DEVOLVES...

I DON'T THINK MY IMMORTAL FLUFFY KING HAD THAT PROBLEM.
DOING HIS BEST TO GREET AND REMEMBER EVERYONE ON HIS WALKABOUTS...
BUT, MAYBE HE HAD SOME OTHER ISSUES.

[hasapoint]

Maybe he was lucky but rulers normally have to make decisions that benefit some of the ruled over others, or harm someone. The hope is that they take the long view of things in a way the subjects can't, but the problem with looking to the long view is, again, it's easy to forget the importance of people who come and go.

[spaghettimonster]

OH. HMM...
I SUPPOSE HARMING SOMEONES, WHO AREN'T THEIR SUBJECTS, COUNTS FOR THAT.

[King Fluffybuns was certainly clearly regretting his murderous approach to freedom by the time everyone gathered to promise their friendship to the human, after all, even with those other souls and corpses tucked away. Maybe it had all been some anomalous impulse followed out of ancient grief and rage, which he'd then been... too timid to walk back?]