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Originally Posted by Arkeus
Well, Ixpelia was then post-homeworld?
Because it sounded like she was just 'one' of many kings of her era.
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Well, as she explains herself, she was never actually a ruler, despite her titles. It is possible that the Galeans invented the Mariage system, crowned Ixy their Dark King, started a rebellion, and rampaged around until the Belkans found a way to put Ixy to sleep. Such rebellions probably happened every few years within a sufficiently large empire.
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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh
Many? I thought there were a Big Three. And possibly countless warlords.
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Well, empires often have so-called "client kings", who remain sovereigns in their own lands as long as they submit to the metropoly. Though Invgalt probably wasn't one, since Shutra by the end of the Belkan era is described as an ally of Belka powerful enough to demand political hostages.
Also, it does confuse the hell out of me that Carim lists Ingvalt, Olivie, and Ixpellia in the same sentence. Einhart says in ViVid that Ingvalt (and Olivie, of course), lived about a hundred years before present (which roughly corresponds to the current length of the Mid-Childan calender). On the other hand, Ixy claims in SSX to be over 1000 years old (disc 2, track 19), which means that she first ruled Galea
before the Belkan Empire was established (before the time of the Kaisers and while Al-Hazard was still accessible, see disc 2, track 3). Unless she "ruled" continuously, or awakened sporadically during these thousand years (or awakened briefly during Olivie's lifetime), she couldn't have possibly occupied the same timeslot as the other two. And IF that were the case, you'd think that there would be more info on Ixpellia and Mariage than just a brief note in the Infinity Library, considering how the story of Olivie and Ingvalt is practically taught in schools...