The elder generations

Lord Algernon Quackforth

The Other Son

He declined the succession before anyone offered it.

The younger son of Aurelius II and Celestine preferred the west garden to the council chamber. He married Petronella, fathered Clement and cultivated a reputation for being harmless. This let him overhear nearly everything. His nephew Aurelius III relied on his advice, though Algernon charged for it in uninterrupted afternoons. He maintained that most constitutional crises could be improved by moving them outdoors.

The mint waistcoat is the only political position he never revised.

Compare each duck at the same life stage, not the same calendar date. Dates and ages appear with each portrait. These are fictional calendar seasons, not published story seasons.

Hatched

105 before the Sun Crown

Final age

175 seasons

Died

Sun Crown 70