[Dragaera] not really a spoiler, i don't think...

[Philip Hart]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Maximilian Wilson wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Alexx Kay <alexx at panix.com> wrote:
>> Quoting myself: "It seems likely that, in at least some cases, there is
>> more than one consecutive ruler from the same House. 4,913 years is longer
>> than the (natural) Dragaeran lifespan, and undead aren't allowed to hold
>> office."
>
> Ah, but "(natural)" is the key qualifier there. We simply don't know
> what forms of life extension are available to non-undead Dragaerans.

I've always been skeptical about 17^2 and 17^3 - it would be too easy for 
this to be a joke by Vlad, or an empirical observation on either end. 
And I feel strongly that there's only one emperor per Cycle segment, the 
Teckla perhaps excepted.