Asterisks indicate love-matches (as opposed to political alliances). Red [outline] means the character's dead, but is still aged proportionally. So even if someone died at 16, if they'd be 50 during the story, they're in the age-50 vertical bracket, just so I know proportionally the age-relationships as well as family relationships.
(I had a much rougher draft I was using for a long time, until I realized that it didn't tell me or remind me who's older or younger or by how much. And since I'm going on the assumption that women have some basic control over childbirth, children are spaced out anywhere from 3-7 years between each child, instead of bam-bam-bam of six kids by the age of twenty-two. That made it even harder to recall who's age-equal with whom, since it means Tsiu is only a few years older than his nieces, and his eldest sister is just a few years younger than their youngest aunt, and so on.)
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Date: 27 Oct 2012 05:09 am (UTC)Also that is an impressive amount of effort. :O
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Date: 27 Oct 2012 05:18 am (UTC)(I had a much rougher draft I was using for a long time, until I realized that it didn't tell me or remind me who's older or younger or by how much. And since I'm going on the assumption that women have some basic control over childbirth, children are spaced out anywhere from 3-7 years between each child, instead of bam-bam-bam of six kids by the age of twenty-two. That made it even harder to recall who's age-equal with whom, since it means Tsiu is only a few years older than his nieces, and his eldest sister is just a few years younger than their youngest aunt, and so on.)
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Date: 27 Oct 2012 05:29 am (UTC)