· v2.4.0
Every ruler in every line, and Compare cases in plain words
- Investigate
- Rulers and reigns
- Design and reading
Lines of rulers are now whole and shared between the forms of one state: Babylonia has its kings, the Old and Middle Kingdom of Egypt their pharaohs, the Roman Republic its consuls, and Ancient Rome its kings, consuls and emperors together. A ruler's own page shows the line they belonged to, with their place in it ringed in gold and how their reign began and ended. Compare cases now reads as plain questions answered in words, under the names of the cases, and Pastlas wears its own mark.
- Lines are no longer cut short: all 516 pharaohs Wikidata records are in Ancient Egypt's line where 120 were, and every hetman of the Zaporizhian Host is in the line of the Sich he led - Sahaidachny, Kosynsky, Nalyvaiko - while the Cossack Hetmanate's line starts with its own hetmans in 1648.
- A ruler appears under every form of the state they ruled: Romulus in the Roman Kingdom and in Ancient Rome, a pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and in its Old Kingdom, the kings of Babylon in Babylonia. A line read from another form of the state says so.
- Ancient Carthage keeps its kings, and the Roman Republic's consuls, two a year, are shown together and never counted as rival claimants; the same goes for San Marino's Captains Regent, the Swiss Federal Council and Andorra's co-princes.
- A ruler's page shows each line they held, their own place ringed in gold among the rulers before and after them, and how they came to power and how their reign ended, each as a coloured label with where the atlas read it.
- Cases side by side asks plain questions - wars under way, risings in the years before, drought, eruptions, ground gained or lost - and answers each in words; the columns carry the cases' names, an i beside each question names its source and the theories that read it, and a search box adds any entry as a case, offering the closest like cases first.
- Pastlas has its own mark: the header, the site's pages, the About panel and the browser tab now carry it, in the colours of whichever theme you read in.