Forum:Regents

Regents
So we have Horthy, and I just learned that Franco was also officially a regent. Do we have any others, and is it worth creating a category for? TR 19:17, April 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * I can't think of any, not historical and not fantasy. There were several regets in the few chapters of Scepter of Mercy I read before losing interest, but that certainly won't help us any. Turtle Fan  19:59, April 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * I guess that idea is on hold, then. TR  20:12, April 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * There might be someone I'm missing. Or we might have a sudden discovery of another character as you did with Franco. Turtle Fan  20:41, April 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * I just found Petronas, but that still seems too small a number.  TR  21:10, April 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * Petronas wasn't really a regent. I see someone wrote him in as such, but it's not quite true--not in the sense that it was true for Horthy, certainly. Anthimos was avtokrator in his own right. He had the final authority, including the authority to dismiss Petronas, which he eventually did. Thing was, he had no interest in ruling the empire, so he kept asking other people to handle stuff for him. Turtle Fan  22:44, April 13, 2010 (UTC)

In reviewing, I think we've now have a good solid base to justify this category if we so choose. We have Franco, Horthy, and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, all regents in monarchies without a monarch. We have Richard III, who did go by "lord protector", but functioned as a regent in Edward V's reign.

I also did an amazon search on ToK, and Petronas was described as a regent by the other characters. So we have five if we are going by a the most basic defintion of regent as "guy who rules when the monarch is unable or unwilling to rule". TR 17:27, February 22, 2012 (UTC)