2778.205 -- The hegemon's middle name, "Marchand," is quite close to the surname of the red hegemons, "Marchant." Perhaps this is another data point, along with the renaming of Tiras as Riden, in favor of the theory of the red hegemony being set up by a shrewd person without any actual blood ties to the old hegemons. Certainly, the name "One True Hegemony," the building of the grand palace on Riden, and the way they have striven to maintain more of the trapping of the Old Hegemony are all consistent with such a theory.

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